A cool idea that has not surfaced yet (to my knowledge) would be to start the game as shadow or astral schools. They would be placed in their respective worlds of origin, and end up going through the story of the game but at different points in the story line. For instance, shadow school students would start in Khrysalis and the astral students would start in Celestia. Those students could be (exchange students) sent to wizard city to "study" under Merle Ambrose. Seeing as he knows about the Arcanum, he would send you to the Arcanum to learn your new spells but he and the professors would give you one condition. You could not mention them to anybody under no circumstance. This story line could add depth to the current story line and also give members in the end game more freedom and incentive to play longer. This comes at a cost with new spells and lot of story line changes but seeing as we have shadow school and astral school enemies but no wizards who can do the same, I think it would be a good idea to include these schools as end game options.
That would be interesting not sure how that would work. If they would go with this idea why not go full out and make ya wizard evil. It's not like they need to make new worlds, only add new dialogue and npcs in story. It's not very hard to do but would bring replay value back
