DAO important tip: READ ALL CODEX ENTRIES! [dao spoilers]

I have played through DAO twice up until now (on my third currently) and in both those playthroughs I NEVER read a single codex entry, and would usually just read the quest log, and oh boy was that a mistake! I am still in the korcari wilds https://100001.onl/ , yet I have already found multiple things that I never even saw in my previous playthroughs! I had never completed rigbys will and testament because I never bothered finding his body, I never found the hidden chasing barbarian cache, and MOST NOTABLY, I never found GAZARATH the shade, If you loot the corpse of one of the soldiers, they will have a note and pinches of ash https://1921681254.mx/ , and if you read the codex entry, you'd know that you can summon a shade if you sprinkle the ashes on a certain rock, and if you do, you are meant to ask for a wish (but in the end you just have to kill that sonovabitch) and he even drops some cool mage boots! (That will probably never be used) and will give you a crap load of XP