[Research] Unusual Births and Sorcerers
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[Balthus starts researching any information regarding strange circumstances around the births of Sorcerers. Including, but not limited to, the following.]
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Sorcerers being born from animals
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The presence of the divine or the infernal
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Reports of child disappearances.
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He discovers plenty of myths and conjecture which states that animals sometimes give birth to humans or aid humans in who become sorcerers, including several references to a fairy tale called The Good Smith's Son, that angels or demons sometimes appear or secretly even raise people to become sorcerers, and many stories of fairies or elves who kidnap human children and replace them with their own magical offspring. He finds no concrete evidence of any of these things being true though either.