This book allows Mages to wield the powers of their characters aesthetic without a large experience cost and debate on whether a certain sphere should be at two dots or three dots for a certain effect.

For example if you wanted a mage with prophet aesthetic you would need prime to alter your aura, mind to inspire people the same way divinity does, life to heal the sick and matter to create food. Glory minor sphere can do all of that but it is balanced by the fact that it can only do those things.

However in my opinion the real charm of this book comes from the fact that it gives a framework for individualizing a Mage since when players use these you no longer have situations where two Hermetics have the exact same powerset because they both have three dots in Forces. Instead one of them has three dots in air and water while the other has three dots in fire and earth resulting in them complementing each other rather than stepping on each others toes.

I highly recommend getting Prism Of Focus book alongside this one as that too offers a wide variety of customization options and by using them together as a Storyteller you are guaranteed to have unique NPC's for each situation and as a player you are guaranteed to be able to add such a nuance to each of your characters that you could do a similar character to your last character and have an unique character anyways.

Minor Spheres were first introduced in the Revised ST Handbook, and though they seemed like an interesting idea, they were completely undeveloped and badly overpriced for what they were, making them interesting but largely unused. This book fixes those problems, nailing down a stronger set of mechanics for Minor Spheres and giving nine examples. This book finally makes Minor Spheres worth considering, and not just the ones listed. I hope that the author or others follow this up with additional options.

The Book of Fragments introduces to nine new minor spheres of magic to use in your mage games. This product included concepts on how to incorporate these spheres into your games. We found the entire concept of minor sphere fanstastic. The author does an amazing job to presenting these minor spheres.

We strongly recommend this product, to all Mage players.