thank you so much for clearing that up for me. Me and one of my players actually had a discussion about that today and i said well lets wait and see what the creators have to say, and good sir i am happy to say you did not dissapoint.

my friend's hero is marcone so she is playing a pure mortal stylized from him and its quite an impressive set up. She on average has at least twice usually more like three times as many fate points as everyone else. so she can totally lay the smack down when nessacary.

i came up with one that was a little tough to do a while back basicly

fire-mostly damage dealing things but also invigoration
ice-mostly heat manipulation in the reverse good for area manuvers.
earth-mostly ground effects but also allows many buff type spells.
wind-largely wind manipulation but also allows things like cellular work.
lightning-Mostly molecular effects dealing with charges(like magnetism and what not.) also allows some types of teleportation deals.
water-mostly water manipulation and healing effects.

I came up with this idea forever ago so if i was gonna put it into a game i would likely need to update it or upgrade it somehow.

The requirement to joining the white council is being able to preform magic to a certain standard and variety. Largely focused practioners cant join simply because they lack versitility. A powerful focused practioner might have a wizard's constitution or a soulgaze ability though that would be more of a personal preference on wether or not the gm would allow it(i would). And my take on why they cant use refienment is because they are already refiened if you will, again though you might house rules to allow something like that.

Edit enchanted item: I think your basicly right on those accounts and maybe if you specificly only wanted it to affect metal i think that would be a more story line thing than actually costing more, like maybe if someone shoots a stone arrow at you no bonus or something like that.

okay so i have a character who wants to play a wizard with hellfire from the shadow of a denarian(sound familar?  ) But this idea has caused me to come up with three questions.

First So okay in the sponsored magic descripition it say sponsored magic can be combined with any evocation bonus's from specialization for a supercharged effect. So would this be like if the wizard has a +2 to fire evocation power and he casts a blast of fire with hellfire in it he would also get the +1 from hellfire for dealing stress equaling a total of +3 to the power?

Second does having the shadow of a denarian cost refresh(like demonic co-pilot)?

Third does hellfire and other sponsored magic's work automatically or does the character have to draw on them specificly for a spell?

okay i am an avid dnd fan and have played several other pen papers rpg(was years ago and cant remember the names) i literally have over 30 dungeons and dragons books and having just finished reading your story... i would say that all of those books cant stand up to the amazingness. I really am almost ridiculously impressed. Great work. truly.

If we sell out of 3000 copies of the game on the first day... I'll get more printed.

I think it could happen, no, i think it will  and i hope it does. I just want one of them lol

i will largely attempt to refrain from gushing but your my hero!! im tempted to put you in my campaign as the gandalfy character that just randomly appears and gives awesome news or advice lol.
seriously on a less joking note that is totally amazing. Thanks