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This is a slightly fringe question so I apologize.

In Bestiary III and the Inner Sea World Guide there are several clockwork creatures and an associated template. They gain several advantages and disadvantages, including a limited operation time without being wound. The final cost and time to create them is increased.

I would like to know the rational behind the increase in cost. It could well be that the advantage they gain, even compensated by the drawbacks, warrants the price increase for balance reasons. Or, it could be a statement about the nature of clockwork technology as compared to normal construct construction. Perhaps it is both or neither.

I would appreciate anyone with more system mastery or Pathfinder design experience offering their opinions on the matter.

Thank you to everyone for your swift replies.

A wizard who chooses to specialize in the Void school must select one of Air, Earth, Fire, or Water as their opposition school. On the lists of their four schools are several repeated spells such as Summon Monster. I assume that normally only choices related to the opposition school's element are restricted, using Summon Monster to summon an elemental of the opposed school would require two slots for example.

My question is this: Does a void specialist consider such spells in their opposition schools opposed in their entirety or only in regard to the element of their opposed school?