Specifically, requirements in other elemental Arts.
I was planning on using the errata'ed version of Elemental Magic:
Elemental Magic (p. 41): Replace as follows:
You have been trained in the ability to manipulate raw elemental Forms (Aquam, Auram, Ignem, and Terram), and view them as a connected whole rather than four separate Arts. Whenever you gain experience from a source dedicated to one of these Arts, you gain half the Source Quality in experience points in each of the other three Arts. For example, if you studied Ignem from a book with a Source Quality of 13, you would gain 7 experience points in each of Aquam, Auram, and Terram.
During character creation, assign all your experience points in Arts. Then assign half the experience points assigned to each of the elemental Forms to each of the other elemental Forms. Do not actually add these experience points to the Form in question until you have finished calculating all the bonus experience points. For example, if you assign 10 experience points to each of the Aquam, Auram, and Terram, and 21 experience points to Ignem, then you should assign 15 bonus experience points to Ignem (5 from each of Aquam, Auram, and Terram), and 21 bonus experience points to Aquam, Auram, and Terram (11 from Ignem, and 5 each from the other two Forms).
In addition, if a spell with one of these Forms as its primary Form has another element as a requisite, you use the primary Form to calculate totals, even if the requisite is lower.
This seems much more worth the 3 virtue points, to me. But I'll definitely think about multi-element spells to invent.
I'll go with Minor Magical Focus (Elemental Spirits, Genii Loci, and Elementals) then, if that sounds good to everyone. I'll also add some flesh to the above outline over the weekend.
Hi everyone, happy new year! Apologies for the big gap since my last post.
Here is the fleshed out background for my magus; please let me know if there's anything to fill in further.
Dagobert was born to a forester and his wife in AD 1174. His family lived at the foot of the alps, in the village of Garmisch. Appointed by the local nobleman, Dagobert's father was responsible for applying forestry laws, catching poachers, controlling logging, and maintaining boundaries, among other duties. When his son's Gift manifested, it made his life significantly more difficult. Distrust among the villagers of Dagobert extended to his family, and eroded the authority of his father. When a sizeable amount of fine money went missing, Dagobert's father was implicated, removed from his position, and forced to repay it. His reputation tarnished, work and wages were hard to find, and he became embittered. Distrust for his boy grew to hate, as he became convinced that it was Dagobert who had stolen the fine money and lost/buried/spent it, despite Dagobert's denials. The unlikelihood that a six year old was capable of this crime was overshadowed by the effects of the Gift. His father's hate came through in evil glares, harsh words, and threatened violence, and it didn't matter that the little boy wept in distress. Dagobert's mother felt she had to take steps to protect her son and brought him to the monastery of Benediktbeuern, where she left him with the monks - breaking his heart completely, but keeping him safe and giving him a chance at a good life.
At the Benedictine monastery, Dagobert was assigned to a caretaker: one of the monks named Wilibrand. Here Dagobert had some luck. Wilibrand saw it as his duty to tend to and teach the boy, despite the ill effects of the Gift. Wilibrand was an avid researcher and documenter of legends and occurrences linked to the magical, faerie, and divine realms. He shared both his fascination of such knowledge and his compassion for others with the boy. The knowledge, he shared by reading aloud to his charge from the books of legends he was compiling. The compassion, he showed directly to the boy every day and to the poor on visits throughout the area. Wilibrand would take Dagobert with him on most of his travels and often would go south back to the mountains, so the boy's connection to and exploration of that landscape continued. Dagobert would hang back to avoid unsettling people while Wilibrand spoke to them, but would always stay within earshot to hear their stories. He grew to enjoy these missions for providing aid and gathering information. He also found monastery life and its hierarchy, order, and efficiency to be a haven from the chaos that plagued the rest of the world around him and a salve for the despondency he felt at his parents' abandonment.
In his pursuit of new myths and legends, Willibrand went to Fengheld and met with Horst ex Mercere, along with some other, Gifted magi. He realized that the boy had a simliar effect on him as those magi. So at the next opportunity to travel north after this realization, Wilibrand brought Dagobert with him. At this point, the boy was about 10. While at Fengheld, Wilibrand introduced the boy to Horst, who brought him to Stentorius. It was an intimidating interview, but the presence of the Gift in the boy was confirmed, and it was decided after some deliberation that Dorana ex Bonisagus would be his mater. [Canonical note: Dorana was to take on another apprentice in 1205 or so, after Dagobert had completed his Gauntlet in 1199.] Willibrand was saddened at the loss of his pupil, but agreed that an apprenticeship to the maga was the better path for Dagobert to take.
As his apprenticeship progressed and he learned about the Order, Dagobert found parallels with monastic life, and began to see more clearly how he could fit into the world. The despondency and loneliness he felt through his parents' abandonment receded further. He found a passion for his studies of the Arts and excelled, focusing on Auram as it was Dorana's specialty, but finding connections between all of the elemental Arts through his natural elemental talents. He also learned of the perfusion of airy spirits throughout the land. Sometimes, if he helped magus Peter in his lab, he would be rewarded with a glass of enchanted wine that would allow him to see those spirits. He would roam for hours, observing them and whispering to them in the hope of being able to communicate. On one such adventure, a bit tipsy from a wine that revealed florae to him, he came across a gang of older boys bullying a younger one. Rushing to the aid of the victim, he put the older boys to flight with a palm of flame and threats of immolation. As it turned out, the boy that Dagobert rescued was from the covenant - the son of the cooper who made all the wine barrels. From this quarter, Dagobert received effusive thanks and he looked back on his actions with certainty that he had done the right thing. But from his Mater, he received stern admonishment for the flagrant threat to use his Gift for harm. Sure enough, there were repercussions when the Baron who protected the village of the bullies arrived at Fengheld and complained about the mad wizardling who attacked his villagers with no cause. The senior magi diffused the situation, with the consequence for Dagobert being to do labor to make up for the money needed to pay off the Baron.
Several other situations such as this, in which Dagobert leapt to help those in need without thinking through the potential consequences, occurred throughout his apprenticeship. Each time when Dorana resolved those consequences for him his sense of debt to her grew, until at the very end of his apprenticeship he fell so into her debt that he vowed to provide Dorana anything he could, if ever she needed it. During his Gauntlet, the senior magi of Fengheld had assembled in the grand meeting hall of the covenant, along with a few prominent magi Bonisagi who happened to be visiting. This panel put his abilities and knowledge to the test and posed him the challenge of darkening the light streaming in from the high windows without using the Art of Ignem. Because of the Auram emphasis of his Mater's tutelage, he came upon the approach to create a dense layer of cloud to obscure the light - they said darken, not make the room pitch black, after all. And then he botched the spell. Clouds formed, but started roiling, turning dark and effectively blocking the light, but also growing heavy with rain and the temperature of the room dropped. The clouds were at best about to drench the assembly hall, or at worst ruin the interior with hail, and he froze. Seeing him choke, Dorana dispersed them subtly, thus allowing him to save face, pass his Gauntlet, and take the name of Dag as a magus of the Order.
I've also allocated experience to Arts and Abilities for him through apprenticeship. I can post those next, along with everything else on a character sheet, but wanted to find out first if that should be done here or in a dedicated thread. Once all that is approved, I'll cover the years between Gauntlet and his introduction to Tugurium, year by year. What year and season does it make sense for him to join the campaign?
@Emelric I was going to wait to clarify the topic in the other thread, but seeing that it's going slowly, I prefer to give you some feedback now that I have the time to read your story carefully.
First of all, I wanted to ask you if your schedules are more stable now. Otherwise the process of advancing the character narratively will take a lot of time 
Its not a problem in itself, but that can affect to the recommended year/season to join the campaign...
If more or less you can advance quickly, I'd say that you could join just after Alba and Celeste reached Tugurium, or a season later, if you want. Thats my opinion, ofc. That would be late Spring / early Summer of the year 1205.
Now, about the character. I love how your past interlaces so much with different medieval life styles 
Also, seeing that Dagobert went through the apprenticeship from 1184 to 1199 in Fengheld, that means that surely you would already know Alba (she started a year later than you). We can talk about it if you want.
Apart from that, I also like the personality and development of your character, I want to know more about him when you go to the sheet 
So, to me looks perfect. And even if you aren't sure about the exact starting year/season, I'd say that you could start preparing the previous years... Dagobert finished his Gauntlet in the year 1999 after all, you still have a long path before you 
Thats it, when you first show the sheet, ofc 