I just thought of a reason to think that the Hedgewise might not know much about Waystones. I don't know if it has already been brought up, but all the Colleges with special Waystone knowledge have said knowledge from their ancient precursor organizations. And the Grey College, with significant roots in the Hedgewise communities, knows abysmally little, especially when one considers that they are the intelligence apparatus among the Colleges. That's very strong evidence in favor of the Hedgewise also not knowing anything special, at least not across the board. Of course there could be one or two Hedgewise communities that know significantly more, but we would be guessing in the dark as we recruit any one given Hedgewise community.
The only saving grace is that the Grey College hasn't really kept much in the way of Hedgewise practices or culture alive at all. That gives hope that the original Hedgewise-derived recruits of Teclis were just a significant part of the first Grey Order congregation and not its entrenched founders like the Alchemists, Druids and Shamans were of their respective Teclisian Orders. Which would mean that the reformed Hedgewise were much more leery of spreading the teachings of their non-reformed brethren among their new colleagues while also not having found a way to consistently keep a secret in-group of Hedgewise alive within the confines of the Order, thus quickly losing most Hedgewise secrets after a couple generations.
Still, I now lean more and more towards only recruiting Hedgewise if we have evidence of the Father Coin working on them. A relatively loyal group of covert practitioners at very low cost is always useful. But paying through the nose for them when they are more and more likely not to know anything is not. And even Kurtis either doesn't know or isn't willing to share any hint of their potential expertise.
