My apologies to Kui then.
Sigh. I really should have just stuck to my guns and run a 4th ed saga. But there was so much in the 5th ed HoH books i liked!
Check that. For some reason, I'm thinking that they may be Aquam when outside of the body.
I seem to have read that somewhere, but I can't recall where right now.
I think I'm going to overrule wine being purely Aquam. Rather, Intellego Aquam can still detect poison in a liquid regardless of what that liquid is, but wine can be affected by Herbam as well. If ice doesn't require a Terram requisite, then it makes no sense that a ReHe to press grapes into wine would require an Aquam requisite.
I never thought about ReHe used to make wine.
I'm inclined to say you can't do it, just based on the end product requiring time for natural processes to act.
Alcohol production is well understood in the paradigm, it's a matter of time, allowing yeasts to convert sugar to alcohol. Can't be rushed, by human efforts, and I think that's pretty well established. I'd just have a problem with ReHe being used to go from grapes directly to wine. Pressing the juice out of the grapes and straining the grapes from the liquid seem reasonable uses of ReHe. To turn the juice into wine, though, is MuAq for instant wine, or wait for fermentation to occur.
So, let me get this straight, you're okay with ReAn turning a sheep into vellum (and it takes time to skin and cure properly, too!), but you're not okay with ReHe speeding up fermentation? 
The whole Rego craft system is a mess, IMO.
I know you can't take a tree, fell it and turn it into fine furniture. You need several years to air dry the wood or a few weeks in a kiln. But that is also possible. You showed one example, I think almost all the Crafts,have issues.
That isn't one of the ones that's ever particularly bothered me. I can see how it bugs people, but for me, I can easily tuck it all under the "it's maaaaagic!" blanket.
The one that really bugs me is "only Creo can improve something and Perdo can only make things worse." Seriously? I PeAn to cut the end off a quill, I throw in a lot of Finesse so it's a nice sharp edge-- and the pen has to write WORSE because I used Perdo? AYFKM?!?!??
Oh. Another thing that Cygna will probably donate to the covenant because of her Vows of Humility and Poverty is her maidservant, Daniella (the Jewish girl who can't learn Hebrew), following the teaching of Christ that the first shall be last and the last shall be first, and that (as she sees it now) it would be unseemly, and a violation of her vows to have another person wait on her.
She will also (to borrow an SCA-ism) serve feast every meal that she can, as well as work in the kitchen (since she does have some baking skill, they can probably find some use for her) and volunteer her services as a laboratory assistant for anyone who wants her. As an assistant, I mean...if they want her the other way, that would run against the Vow of Chastity. Although she doesn't add as much as Claudia, it's still nothing to sneeze at.
Guillaume will make it very public knowledge that he will take it as a personal insult if any magus abuses this.
Also, any season she spends in such a manner can probably be written off as covenant service, as long as she's any good (say, +8 to LTs?).
Then leave t under Creo. I think of Rego mimicking or replicating natural processes.
Part of the paradigm? Perdo. I destroy. I can see that interpretation with only making something worse. However there are several spells that don't operate that way. PeTe spell that makes the lab spotless in Covenants and the Hauberk of Supreme Lightness or some such in HoH:S that destroys the weight being the most obvious examples.
I think she adds a +9: +4 Int, 5 Magic Theory.
Plus, she's still going to be working on her big Charter project. Iirc, you said it would take three seasons to study it all? And then another season for her to put together the index, I'm thinking? (done as a Tractatus? Or would it be a Commentary?) If so, what would her Source Qualities be for those seasons? Or would it make more sense for her to have Claudia compile the notes and write the index, since Claudia has a better Communication and Good Teacher, as well as Affinity with Scribe (and a Scribe score of 4) if that matters?
Exactly! They come up with a stupid idea and then they're not even consistent about it!
Destroying things can improve them. This is not a new idea-- Shiva destroys so Brahma can create, but Shiva is not "evil" or "bad," and there are creation/renewal/preservation aspects to Shiva as well.
You destroy a blade slowly every time you sharpen it. But a sharp knife is unequivocally better than a dull knife.
Besides, I can think of a lot of politicians who would be drastically improved by judicious application of Perdo Corpus.
Not to mention Creo Mentem.
PeCo t:Group size +2. That's up to 1,000 individuals. That's plenty.
I'm sure there is a Limit of Magic that would cause the spell to fail. Probably requires a Hermetic Breakthrough.
It would take three seasons for someone with solid mastery of Lex Hermei to cover it thoroughly. Without any knowledge in the law, Cygna's efforts would be ill-spent, likely to have many errors.
The same person who reads it will have to index it.
It would have to be a massive Hermetic Breakthrough to overcome Essential Nature.
Solid knowledge defined as?
You need 3 Magic Theory to not screw up a lab, so 3 Lex Hermei seems like a solid foundation for having functional lawyering.