The method must behave as its level prescribes, until the power becomes part of itself. 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 are learned: The Priest of Secrets preserves and passes on the hidden, the Mysticologist breaks down rituals piece by piece, the Sage answers those who have come for answers.
The method long remained the knowledge of the few: the church hierarchies were in no hurry to reveal it, and many beyonders rose blindly, paying for it with their sanity.
