Garod, I like the elemental affinities you are proposing, and that butchery talent is good, but a bit creepy too. Me like!

Stabbey, Monster Lore sounds quite interesting too, but like the other ones you proposed, it's very hard to know what one unit of intelligence, etc, will entail. Perhaps you could keep the names and the ideas, but making them enhance such skills in other ways - how, I don't know.