Quote Originally Posted by ryu
You do realize we can use spells or even inexpensive magic items to create food and water right? Or that that are any of several ways of simply creating an area it's literally impossible for the pathetic earthlings to access? Or that for all your talk of far advanced we are we somehow manage to teach children to live in it actively in just over a decade of active teaching? Oh or that those same children didn't have the advantage of being provably smarter than any human in recorded history by orders of magnitude and divinations to work with?
What inexpensive magic item that creates food and water? You do realize this seems like an awfully convenient plot armor bone you've thrown this theoretical wizard to justify the scenario working out right?

What area that's impossible to access and doesn't throw up the huge red flag that something strange is in this location? There's no way to escape notice. Even people of average to below average intelligence will quickly figure out that something odd is going on and investigate further. You do realize the jig will be up before even a week passes by right?

It still takes time to read and the Wizard has to actually get the information. You do realize a wizard can't scry if they have no connection and no knowledge of the people in question right? And even when scrying that doesn't give a close up on any materials, so they won't be reading diddly squat unless the subject happens to be reading it (close up) as well.

You do realize that the Wizard has no means at all of learning anything about the world through scrying, and to gain the ability to scry they'd have to deliberately expose themselves to risk right?