Where did the village prisoner go and how?

[jwsstuff1]

I find this to be a slight flaw but when you first arrive at the village prison and look into the cell you see a prisoner "sleeping" and when you open the door you can see the door opening but he does not come out the front. When you go in the cell he is gone. So how did he escape? If not through the front door which we could see then it must have been through a secret passage from inside the cell but if that was the case then he would have done that long before we got there.

[Hellish Fiend]

Good observations. Keep on exploring!

Minor spoiler:
The reason he had not done so up until that point is because he was serving as a scout/observer, and once you had made your way there, he had no further reason to stay at that particular post.

Major spoiler:
He indeed escapes through a secret passage inside the cell. This was a clever way of tricking Gehn into thinking that prisoners were being broken out of the cell somehow, when they were actually breaking further in, to get to the linking book to Tay. In order to sell this lie, sometimes prisoners would have to stay in there for a while, to give the appearance of legitimately being trapped.

Solution:
You need to use the Moeity device to reveal the button to open the secret passage.

[jwsstuff1]

I've completed the game so I know what to do next. I'm just commenting on the logic of the "prisoner" that disappears without us seeing him leave. I like the idea of calling him a scout since he looks a lot like the guy in Tay that is rowing the boat. I'll have to look again to see if his clothes are the same. If not, he had time to change. lol

[Hellish Fiend]

I see. When I typed up my response, I forgot that you had mentioned in other threads that you had played the original game. Indeed, he is serving primarily as a scout. It's possible that he had not even been captured by Gehn's forces willingly, but rather went into the prison cell from the inside on purpose so he could report on your movements.

In the original, I think the guy who tells the Moeity guard to dart you is indeed the same guy who was posted up as a scout in the cell. It's probably the same in the remake.