I was just wondering why, at least as Man (and perhaps the other land types?), I can pick a pretender that starts at magic level 3 in every magic type other than Water. It's not exactly an overpowering magic type; other than the blessing I see no reason to ever have more than 2 points in it, or 4 for the low blessing, but to get to a Water9 blessing is extremely point-heavy without a Water3 starter, and forget about Water10. Why should every other magic school (most if not all of which have better spells for picking more levels) have a pretender that starts with level 3 magic but not Water?
I've thought about modding the Oracle to Water3 instead of Astral3 just so I can play with it, but I'd really prefer to stick to pretender types I can use in MP; my game certainly is going to need a bit of fine-tuning practice
