Eventually the Sorcerer left the cave and started to travel the lands. He posed as a wondering hermit, a madman that even the gods tended to leave alone, which allowed him to travel far and wide without anyone paying him any real attention.
He gained access to far more sites in this guise than he had as Balaneth’s champion. No one made much effort to stop a filthy hermit, other than making sure he hadn’t stolen anything, whereas even those gods allied to Balaneth were suspicious when his champion was poking away at things.
As he travelled the Sorcerer sought out details to confirm what he had learnt from the inscriptions in the chamber. Now that he knew what to look for he started to find them, and far more often than he’d expected to.
Within a year he was convinced that the tale was
