For those kind of questions it's better to use 'newbie' channel, there's more
chance you'll get a faster reply.

However, as far as I remember, there is no way to see which spells belong to
which category, ask around, people know them more or less all. Comparison
between specialisations, well, it's just simply what type of magic you will
master. You can choose multiple specializations, but in the beginning I'd
suggest to take just one. Why - ask players, they would know the answer
However, noone disallows you to take all of those specializations at once, and
train them all in parallel. (That's just the way you want to develop your
character. Not an easy one, but also a way )

^o^

Hello all,
there is ofcourse the command:
mage types
for further information you can also try:
mage intro

mage help - for rest of the guild commands
-p