Among the 'advantages' that Dumner characters get upon character creation is that they start the game with the 'Sparks' spell known. Which sounds great until you realize that the Sparks book is locked in the cage where you first learn lockpicking, about 15 minutes into the game. Kinda meh.

Um....what? That's really not that big of a deal...

....? Did I miss something, here? What's the problem?

One of your 'racial perks' is the ability to know a spell about 15 seconds longer than everyone else, who can simply grab it from a locked cage literally two fights into the game.