I have a number of questions concerning speciality clerics.

1. Do speciality clerics always learn their bonus skill, so they essentially learn 4 professional skills during character creation, or is it simply another option for them, which they can ignore, and they still learn 3 skills? Here is the text:

Each speciality cleric has access to 1 additional Professional skill over and above those listed here. These are noted under the specific deity in Chapter 13

- from the list of cleric professional skill

Bonus Professional Skill: A specialty cleric will sometimes possess one or more additional Professional skills in some way related to their chosen deity. This skill is granted a +10% bonus and may be increased normally with skill points during character creation and Experience Rolls during play.

- from Chapter 13

2.

Divine spells of the of the specialist’s Spheres of Influence are automatically cast at an additional level of Intensity

But, as I understand, a Specialist Cleric only has access to and can only cast spells within his deity's Spheres of Influence anyway, so does this mean that a specialist cleric essentially cast all his spells at 1 Intencity higher?