If the sorcerer had discovered all this in a single step it’s likely he would have been driven mad. The truth was so far from what he’d always believed in, the implications so devastating, that it would have ripped his world into pieces.
But he came to it slowly, seeing small pieces of the jigsaw puzzle as he slowly translated the words but not knowing how they all fit together. By the time he had to deal with the larger shocks he’d already become acclimatised to the smaller ones.
Once the Sorcerer had the entire picture he knew he couldn’t tell anyone. If Balaneth even suspected that the Sorcerer knew the truth of the gods’ origins he would wipe the Sorcerer from existence. Keeping the secret was most difficult when he was in Balaneth’s presence. He was terrified he would give hims
