The Outsider must behave as his stage prescribes, until the power becomes part of him. Until the potion is digested, the bearer is vulnerable: the power is already there, but there is no control over it yet.
The roles of the path of scholars: The Priest of Mysteries keeps and passes on the hidden, the Mysticologist breaks down rituals into parts, the Sage answers those who came for an answer.
The method remained the knowledge of the few for a long time: the hierarchs of the churches were in no hurry to reveal it, and many outsiders rose blindly, paying for it with their sanity.
