In what is most likely an oversight, the protect armour/weapon/item spells
have been the spell type "protection" for a long time. Merchants don't have
mastery of shielding, and conjurers didn't get any item prot spells. This
didn't make a lot of sense.
So, after chatting with Duke on the subject, I've made the prot spells
transformation. The enhancement merchants with mastery of metamorphosis get
will greatly affect the effect and duration of the blue glow.