[Alneyan]

Caelum starts the game with the Wind Guide spell (rather nice), and does not need to do any research to use this spell.

I believe Liga's manual addendum has the full list of starting spells; notable examples (where starting spells are already of high level) are Niefelheim's Illwinter or Machaka's Blidness.

Three of us posting virtually the same thing in the same minute. Hmm... There seems to be some Astral mages in the place.