Neve Gallus - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

There have never been specific water spells in DA before. It was always fire, earth, electricity and frozen water/ice/snow. Just because Neve is an ice mage and may have some unique spells specific to her, doesn't mean that Rook won't be allowed some ice spells as well if they choose. Once of our specialisms is mean to be elementalist. Back in DAO all the elemental spells were found in the Primal School. Then in DA2 and DAI they split them between elemental and primal, with fire/cold being classed as elemental magic. I'm guessing that there will be some basic elemental/primal spells that are available to you outside of the specialisation but it is likely that if you want to make the most of the one you choose, you will focus on something other than primal spells unless you want to be an Elementalist. Then when you get to the Specialism perhaps you will also need to choose which element you want to concentrate on. So, perhaps you can be an ice mage too but not exactly the same as Neve.