>>96498859
Crazy expensive. Puppet magic seems neat but it is a support skill that requires support skills to make good, or seems like. Hell you need mutiple magic boosts just to make the range increased. And the battlemage link ability seems like 'hey here's puppet magic but better in range and utility'.

I considered taking the Jack of All Trades option (+100, +2 roots) to get Blue Magic, Puppet magic, Enchanting and something else (Black Magic maybe) and still be able to easily pay for them all.

Out of all of them the only capstone i care about is Blue Magic's 'True Shapeshifting/Immortality' option, but that's a seriously good option I really want. The Blue Magic also has the Machine one, but I actually don't think that is needed given Puppet magic is stated to be able to make prosthetic limbs.
That'd make it so I could make a real puppet army as well as interesting prosthesis for myself. I could change out option 4 depending on the build: black mage is the default, but battlemage's link spell opens up even more options.

But losing out on true shapeshifting! That is my dream power, and it's basically immortality. Makes me wonder if that's something I could reasonably just learn by myself.

>>96498878
I completely believe you in that probably is what is going on but is also totally not what is actually written, which is just weird.