Smolbep @smolbep @TheEdVerse Hi! l've been thinking about the Gift with your tweets this past week, and I got to wondering: is it even possible to have a reliable method to grant the Gift? If so, has anyone figured one out yet? If not, why?

1) No. There is no reliable method of passing on the Gift. A tendency has been observed for parents who both have the Gift to have offspring who have a higher chance of being Gifted than the children of non-Gifted parents, with the children of unions between Gifted... #realmslore

2) ...and non-Gifted being “in the middle” in terms of likelihood of each of their children being Gifted. It seems to be something beyond mortals to figure out, or control. Some have even tried such things as ongoing contact with enchanted dildoes, surgically... #realmslore

3) ...implanted magic items, magical undergarments, and “treatment programs” of having spells frequently cast on pregnant women and their infants, to try to make the Gift manifest more often…but NOTHING is reliable. Mystra, Azuth, and Ao can grant the Gift, and... #realmslore

4) ...overwhelming one’s own blood with that of creatures whose Gift is innate (dragon’s blood) often but not always works, but nothing more is reliable. It's obviously, after all this time and experimentation, something that can’t be “figured out,” so…that’s why. #realmslore

Could keeping on studying the arcane and trying to practice the Art on a daily basis despite being Giftless be suitable method for acquiring the Gift eventually? Cause thematically I think it'd make more sense to reward genuine effort rather than leaving it to simple luck.