Just to keep you in the loop: I'm working on backstory involving Erevain and his prentice-master, Niccano. What caused Niccano to pull up shop from a world near the center of sorcerous commerce and move to the sticks of the sticks, with his apprentice in tow? He had long habit and skill snooping into the secrets around him so that he could avoid stepping into them openly and accidentally? When he stumbled into a danger he could never have imagined, in a secret that could look back at him, what did he tell Erevain to justify the move yet conceal his knowledge?
Did he die, or just fake his death and disappear into a non-sorcerous world, beyond the eye, if not the reach, of the worst danger the Worlds ever faced? (This question I don't answer now, but I have to know what Erevain sees and believes.)
Whom does Niccano trust as a courier and business front to bring commissions to Erevain, and completed work back?
Once I have some answers here, I can flesh out his role in the next few chapters.