Thanks ZonerZ.  I think that's a copy-paste error that didn't get corrected for whatever reason.  I'll fix it when I get home tonight.

@skinnyghost: "Secrets Man was not Meant To Know: When you cast a spell on a 7-9 you may also choose: ..."
Also that corruption and aberrant reality (shadows that bear extra appendages and tend to do horrible things to other people's shadows, eyes randomly oppening on surfaces about you ... watching, nightmares to all that sleep within 100 yards, all cats in the town stop and stare at you as you walk by, always) ... yes.  Just yes.

@sage: Depends on your genre/setting.

Most of the Cthulhu genre assumes that wizards have more 'sanity' because they need to train themselves to stay sane (compartmentalize) in order to bind, channel energies that are from beyond the stars.  However this higher-influx of the Dark and Deep Dreaming, this study of the maleficent, maddening and abhorrent knowledges has it's cost.  Most spells bound, are bound into your very mind.

So you might start with more sanity, but for you to be special, for you to be useful, for all the horrors you witness to have meaning - you have to learn the spells.  Which more often than not means permanent loss of sanity as you learn things, and temporary loss as you cast, or bind energies into your mind.

Also you could just stop.  You really could.  If you wanted to.  Really. But once you see them, they see you.  And they come for you.  And now you're without spells ...

Literally the reason wizards run around wide eyed and wild haired is because they are holding words that darken the sun, and make the ears of all present bleed black inside their mind only inches away from their own consciousness.

So maybe it costs you permanent sanity to learn certain spells, or temporary sanity to study them every morning.

Frequently, in fiction, it's not the casting that breaks you, it's seeing the effects.  Or maybe you just need something to bleed "most of" the corruption into that doesn't have sanity to shatter.  How do you guys feel about familiars?

Follow up question (this was asked last time):

If the wizard takes 'Prodigy' and selects a first level spell (say: Detect Magic, or Magic Missile) does the spell then become a Rote and automatically get added to prep? (I rule yes since adding a 0th level spell doesn't increase cost).

And follow to the followup - is there any point in taking that on a Cantrip? (I rule no for one because cantrips have no level, but the question pertains to an elf and detect magic - which by the by is an awesome racial)

Did you just make a WoW combo point rogue Compendium Class?  Yep. You did just make a combat rogue (pvp killing spree) build!

I think Adam just wrote our next Event right there.

I wish I could plus one that comment harder.

Hmm, I see why you'd think that, but it's not how I read it, the previous section talks about class based weapon attacks, then attacks in general.  May need a clarification here (you may be right).

No.  But there is a rule that states that magic bypasses armor. Keep that in mind.  Also Dispel Magic, and any fictional positioning (like 'armor' being useless when drowning, being set on fire etc).

Plus a number of weapons and moves give armor piercing (like a rogue backstab).

So if at first you don't succeed ... run away and come back with a different plan.