By Dave Coleman
Upon the long trek from Altaruk to Balic, I traveled an old secret path known only to those within the Order, who sometimes choose to travel this way in order to conserve their mental energies, or new little of the places that they desired to visit. There are several of these pathways scattered across the Tablelands and maybe, according to idle talk, within the mountains which surround them also.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.athas.org/articles/markstones