Acashic records vs. separate spells

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Akashic Record is a gamble.... much like all site searching. It's stupidly expensive, but when you are looking at a Mountain/Forest province that has been searched by the four paths you can scrape together you know there must be something there. Now, that may be a few supply sites or something even more lame like Arenas, but it can also be something awesome like a site making Wizards.

At the end of the day, you need to choose when the gamble is worth it and when is is not. Some sites produce signs that they are there like unrest, heat, cold, order, turmoil, etc..... and those are places you might want to search.

So use it to search key provinces..... or search when you have provinces that should have sites but don't.