There's a lot of good material for roleplaying in this book. The general distinctions between Archmasters, Exemplars, and Oracles, the discussion of how to maintain your humanity or at least something resembling sanity when long-lived, all of that's great. There's a few awkward places where it contradicts itself (in at least one case within a single paragraph) but overall it's solid. The book's greatest weakness is the Archspheres, which are not well thought out, and include some levels that actually do nothing, from the mechanics.
Overall, a solid book, and if the archspheres were redone the book would be a good thing to update for the current edition.
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