Er, the last post in this thread...
Right, I'll edit it to Biomancy>Mending then.
Since we're at the subject of magic, do the different schools have any actual similarity IC or are they just a way to make the descriptions more intuitive OOC?
Would studying another branch on a school we already have a more developed level be cheaper? As an example, let's say that I had Biomancy>Mending 2; would learning to actually reshape living flesh and bone with Biomancy>Transformation 1 be still Very Hard, or could the higher previous knowledge in biomancy lower the difficulty to just Hard?
What about transitioning between Arcanism and Occultism and vice-versa; would having Arcanism>Biomancy>Mending 2 give any kind of basis to develop Occultism>Biomancy>Mending 1?
Am awake now!
Icly they're pretty drastically different. Any given school>discipline is drastically different from one another.
For example.
Biomancy>Mending deals in conceptual restoration, which
Technically could 'restore' someone to childhood or to an ancestral animal at higher tiers. A more direct application however is healing. One could even Restore dead lands to life or 'Mend' structureal damage in towns, towns are just basically giant organisms after all.
Biomancy>Transformation on the other hand deals in conceptual alteration. Which although focused on organic creatures
could be applied to inorganics due to how nature 'grows' mountaons and so on. It could even be applied to the abstract concept of an organism such as a populated town at higher tiers.
To summarize. No. You wouldn't get a discount. You're dealing with completely different conceptualizations of the parent school each discipline. If you have similar schools you might notice the spells being easier to control, less prone to backlash, and occasionally clearly stronger.