I will stick to the sequential and no master NPC's, but I'm not sure yet about restricting magic to one each - don't know if I can live without all my fire magic - going without light and dark will be quite a challenge in itself. As noted I never played a druid before and I realize now that it's been years since I played a game without skipping a lot of stuff early on (or even altogether). I just finished clearing everything in New Sorpigal - geez, there are a lot more spiders and snakes in the abandoned temple than I remembered and that took a long time. Headed to Mist next I think.