Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26210095-20160404001701/@comment-26210095-20160404004253

Exactly! Gandalf journeyed into the far south (seeing as he acquires a special name there, "Incanus"), and Aragorn journeyed into far Rhun and Harad "where the stars are strange". This allowed them to "know thy enemy", and therefore be better prepared against them... And non-Istari Maia would have extremely large amounts of knowlege... But somehow now they use magic and martial prowess...