NPC in the Fire mage tower did not spawn on my entry to the mage tower so now im sitting in the instance with nothing happening. She did not appear and I never saw her usual dialog just the empty cavern
I also in the time i had while standing around in there waiting for anything to happen found out you can actually mount up and leave the cave into the world lol… <—original poster
edit: You can do this in the start of the fight as well to escape the room and it brings you completely out of combat.