wbcooper

It's less about learning something new, and more about identifying what the other party knows. The MC just described the first three sequences of two different, non-adjacent pathways and gave the name of the hidden organization for one of those two pathways. This information could lead Mr. Eye of Wisdom to several deductions to grasp the identity or background of the MC.

Would it be better to seek out Mr. A's gathering for the artifact instead? It likely that the author will give the MC the opportunity to receive the artifact the MC's looking for at Stanton's gathering, but I think he would have better luck at find such an artifact at Mr. A's gathering.

After becoming a Seer, this problem should solve itself via dream divination.

This means he makes roughly 6 pounds a month, definitely not bad.

With how much the church values knowledge, I would expect them to payout a pound per week.

If you change it the church from the God of Knowledge and Wisdom to the Church of Steam and Machinery, it fixes the plot hole somewhat.

It's a response of the body as a last ditch effort to preserve one's life. The body would start to boil itself to ensure that the important organs like the heart remain warm enough to continue functioning while in the cold environment; however, this severely injures the body as you are boiling yourself. People begin to take off their clothes as a response to the heating sensation as they try to cool themselves.

*Author

Agalito's bounty was for 100,000 in 1350 (going by the wiki page), does the authit mean for Silas to have a bounty of 120,000?

Author....why must you do this.....