The Circle of Magic (Spoilers all books incl City of Dragons)

[Farseer]

It does go on to say more re fire magic and water-finding skills, which I want to talk about later

Just re-reading the passage I first quoted from GF (at the beginning of Chapter Eight, Ambitions, by the way), it does also say,"As illustrated by the chart, each of these lesser arcs of magic are adjacent to the greater magics, and thus a mage can expand his powers to include these minor skills as well."

In this it seems that it's perfectly okay to have one of the greater magics and some of the lesser ones as well however having an ability in more than one of the greater magics (the Skill AND the Wit), is deemed detrimental to the one wielding the magics, and is also condemned.

Will we see a true RotE 'mage' emerge , if we haven't already?

The passage continues on,"But to have larger ambitions than these is a great error. For one who augurs through a crystal to attempt to master the bringing of fire is a mistake."

This instantly makes me think of the crystal walls within Time's Labyrinth/Time's Rainbow, and also makes me wonder if someone, such as a White Prophet of old, had augured via these crystals to try and highlight/prevent the future destruction of the realm via the mastering of the volcanic eruptions, "the bringing of fire"? Even further, possibly these eruptions were initially somehow controlled by ones who weilded 'fire magic'?

I just don't know...