The sovereign selection screen is uninformative and a new player may find it very confusing. For instance, I don't know what each sovereign specializes in. Is Porcipinee a caster or warrior? The stats may give some clue as to where a sovereign's strengh lies but that's a lot of mouse-over work that needs to be done by the player. Anyone looking through the list of sovereigns should have a rough idea of what kind of playstyle they require. If there were a few windows that provide the player with some additional information (a la World of Warcraft character selection screen) it would help a lot.
This goes for the spell books as well. It is not immediately obvious what 'Mobility', 'Enchantment' or 'Terraforming' does exactly. One way to address this issue is to create spell book categories and group them according to function (damage dealing, buffing, strategic etc...). After that a short summary of how that spell book helps the player should be provided as well. Also, I would suggest creating new icons for the spellbooks and have the picture show what each spell book does. So for mobility you could have a picture of a foot or something. The Elemental symbols that are in place now are meaningless and don't provide any information to the player.
Ideally when you click a sovereign you'll have a few windows that describe the sovereign's "class" (wizard, warrior or rogue type for example), give a general idea of what their spellbooks do and provide any other miscellaneous info that may be helpful to the player (a description of their perks/talents).
