Security
The wizard responsible for security was known at the time to be ... paranoid. That behavior was reflected in the level of security applied to protecting the ritual.
The wizard knew from their counterpart how many parts the ritual would be broken down to.
Thus the wizard started by creating several sets of parchment for each part of the ritual. That way, in the event 1 parchment was lost, other copies would still exist.
Next, a cipher was created for each part of the ritual. Only certain mages within the Tower would have access to each cipher. With each cipher being unique that a certain parchment, no one person could know the rest.
The next stages of security were more mundane.
Each parchment, and their copies, would be stored in different locations. Thus it would be difficult for any one person to gain a full copy of the ritual, and each copy would add redundancy.
Finally, each wizard who learned the ritual would be prevented from having combat based duties. Usually, the wizards selected for learning the ritual were more scholarly and introverted than their counterparts, but still had great potential. These had the ideal mindset for being able to perform repetitive spells over a great deal of time. Then by quietly assigning the wizards to libraries or long term, and well protected, research projects, the current wizard's who knew the spells could be quietly isolated from leaking information and still be well guarded.
For each wizard who learned this ritual, in time they realized that it would be a duty they carried out for life.
Should a wizard who knew part of the ritual pass, another acolyte would simply be picked to take their place.
The final stage of security was one even considered extreme by the Tower, the two wizards who created the protection and the ritual agreed to have their memories erased. Other senior wizards were taught the general theory behind their respective aspects.
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