What keeps bugging me as I'm reading it (236 right this moment) is that we've been told multiple times that people can follow the dual path of both mage and warrior, which trains all of the stats. The only difference seems to be the energy type, which just seems to be a combo of magic and physical energies.I assume I'll find out later why the origin path is so 'awesome', but so far it doesn't actually seem much different than training both paths at once.