Yea it was a sad game; playing mage and time back did not load and canoner were only visible after doing that quest that provides the special weapon (which is why i missed them - they were the only stack in the game). In my current impossible paladin game there is something like 8 stacks of them. In fact I was able to complete this very quest by level 20. Compared to the mage game this game has been very rich (though I have to admit it is weak in royal griffons (only one stack of a 100; where as the mage game had something like 4 stacks for a total of 800)