A way to give your players access to a sage without the travel and payments or the cost of hiring one permanently, which of course may be the opposite of what you want. For my purposes, the players are entering a land where it doesn't make much sense for sages to exist, but one of these might have been left behind to fill that gap.
https://mindweaverpg.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/biweekly-item-philosopher-mirror/
The party ended up getting a little sidetracked by a whole nest of ogres.
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https://mindweaverpg.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/play-report-kotb-barrier-march-session-52-surprise-ogres/
Searching for more information about the lay of the land around the bugbear crag, the party ends up ambushing a patrol, but when the ambush doesn't get surprise, the battle is far more even than intended.
