I see... so there is certainly some sort of magical phenomenon warping space. Or something in that vein.

[He sighs in frustration because that ain't his field! he used to have people tell him how that worked and now he doesn't even have the thaumaturge who's going to kill him someday.

and this whole thing smacks of ascians anyway which makes things even more complicated.]

I do hesitate to linger here because of the carnage, but it does seem as though it is the best candidate for a base of operations at the moment.