[ He makes a thoughtful noise. Of course the other sorcerers had had some predilections back home, greater or lesser levels of ease, some people had a better flair for defensive wards over offensive spellwork, but there hadn’t been specialties or schools the same way he’s heard them discussed here. So it does seem relevant for Thedas, where everything comes a little harder, reaching for his magic feeling like trying to run through water. ]

I believe so. We have a perhaps-related saying: ‘jack of all trades, master of none’. So you’re saying that— mastery might come more easily if I stayed focused on one school above the others? A narrower focus rather than broad?

[ —which might sound self-evident to most, but Doctor Strange had always bitten off more than he could chew, and never had to limit himself about it until now. ]