I guess I can see that. As befitting his position, he *knows* about the envoy and whatnot and I suppose they might not bothered to do a 'passing of the torch, here meet the new guy' kind of thing when he took over the position so if there hadn't really been a reason to call for him then they might not have met.

(I still think it's a bit of a reach but one of those eh, I'll just accept it and not think about it too hard kind of things)