[quantum_mechani]

I do maybe 80% of my searching with site search spells cast by national, summoned or independent mages. In the early game I use my pretender and mages to search manually just enough to get a trickle of all the gems I can cast search spells for. I can almost always count on nature, death and astral searching regardless of nation, and the other paths are not too hard to open up once you get rolling. I don't normally pay much attention to blood, holy or unholy sites. Blood sites are too rare and very often non-useful and holy/unholy are usually not worth the effort to systematically search for.