With regards to tracking the old god, if the creature actually was one, Elred was right. They didn't need Seren's advice. The hunters had never had an easier time to follow the pray. Maybe it was a flea-type insect, or maybe not – either way it did move by jumping. It's humongous size had left a line of craters on the way, and now some were filled with water and had turned into ponds.
The old god's ability to jump clearly wasn't proportional to it's size. The craters it left behind were around hundred yards wide, but the distance between them were three hundred yards at most. Also, it looked like after every five to six jumps it had to rest.
Hunters were fired up even after they had followed the thing for twelve days. On the way they had to fight waves of all kinds of insects. Apparently, after it was awakened from slumber, the old god was set on feasting to its fullest and traveled from one insect nest to the next, destroying everything on its way.
