Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-16047389-20140618150648/@comment-16047389-20140619023845

The Path of Transcendence documents how a Necromancer had worked tirelessly to finding the secrets to becoming a Lich, to no avail. He decided instead to turn his focus into praying to the God of Worms for the knowledge, and he was rewarded with knowledge of the exact preparations and rituals needed during a dream in which Mannimarco spoke to him.

It was not a simple matter of overlooking a small detail that he only realized later, it was in fact an entire process that he had never heard of before, and was never written down or recorded. It would be like Albert Einstein coming into your dream and teaching you how to build a time machine, and actually being 100% correct.