[Norfleet]

Ritual of Returning will work in the home province: You'll just teleport out of the fight, and go, well, nowhere, because your return spot is the same. That's what makes Ritual of Returning so helpful.

You probably shouldn't have risked Cthugul getting killed until you could put up ritual of returning: Script him also to cast the regular "Returning", and hand him a few astrals, to save him the ritual. The ritual just keeps him alive in case he goes off to the funny farm at the same time.