Uusoae moves outside of time. It is orderly, endless, unchanging— everything she is not. For one such as her, it is a simple thing to spot the event that will cause her downfall years before it happens, and a simple thing to reach out and do something about it, even acting against her meddlesome siblings. But she is a goddess of creation as well as destruction, and of changes, and of new ideas. So when she has the chance to stop Alanna of Trebond at that fateful moment, that crossroad in time, she decides that she will stay her hand.