"The bathhouse wasn't familiar," Amberdrake points out, "it was just there and useful. And in need of a Chosen caretaker after Haku vanished." And his office inside, which had begun as its own building, hadn't been familiar either!

"We're not going to stumble across any white ocean cliffs here, ke'chara, and even if we did, it wouldn't be useful." And he's certainly not working out of a tent, here.