You could also definately find them on some of the created maps that have hard-coded magic sites. I remember one of them in Dom2 had Pythium's capitol site sitting on the map, allowing whomever got it to recruit Pythium's top mages. Another, I started on top of what I _knew_ was an A2S2 income site (or something like that) and had no way to find the site until I casted Akashic Record on my capitol.
