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(Arcane magic, that is.) Someone who lacks the Gift can't deliberately access the Weave, so even if they PRECISELY mimic an arcane spellcaster, and do everything exactly right, nothing will happen. It's like waving an electric table lamp around and expecting it to light up, ..
It doesn't work because they don't have the mental knack of visualizing the effect (& precise target/location/extent, if applicable) AND symbols formed in their mind by the somatic component AND connection to the Weave. You must do all three simultaneously to cast.
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...when it isn't plugged in. And when you work arcane spells and have the Gift, you are the light bulb. If you lack the Gift, the lamp has no bulb, just an empty socket where the bulb should plug in.
Some sages train their powers of concentration, and interview spellcasters...
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...about the three-dimensional imagined images (usually lines of floating blue-white fire) that moving the caster's hands through the somatic component of the spell forms in the caster's mind, and so can write accurately about spellcasting...but if they lack the Gift, magic...
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...will never happen for them unless Mystra, Azuth, or another deity or servitor of a deity observes them, takes pity on them or wants to work through them, and "just makes it happen."
In the Realms, this rare event most often happens when someone devoted to a place tries...
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...to desperately defend it (example: an old caretaker, not clergy, of a temple who tries to keep it from being burned down or looted by raiders), and tries to copy what they've seen priests do, as they frantically call on the god--and the god sees and hears, and sends magic..
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...through them that they will likely never be able to work again.
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