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No. They are NOT "truly Giftless" if they develop a Gift; they only SEEM Giftless, until it manifests.
To answer your earlier multipart question on this: ...
Sages can come to understand the Weave more than the average person, through intense study (reading the...
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Thank you for the answer! It really helps! So you'd say that a truly Giftless assistant to a wizard who works with magic everyday (using items, scrolls, practicing, etc) would have a good chance at developing the Gift?
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...accounts of others who can “feel” and work with the Weave), and by questioning the right individuals (Weavemasters and others who work with the Weave or even live in it, as “voices in the Weave,” like Dove and Syluné). In theory, someone who has a latent Gift...
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...(so, NOT “Giftless,” but having no developed Gift yet) could dream enough, and heavily enough, about the Weave, to dimly “feel” it.
Someone who is truly Giftless can only work with the Weave, and come to feel its flows of power, by acquiring and using the...
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...right magic item or items (one that has enchantments that call directly on the Weave for different results, so the wielder must make guiding choices to awaken and control the item). If an item requires attunement, such attunement requires the Gift.
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Many “artifacts” (really powerful magic items) hav sentiences of their own, and can guide a Giftless wielder into communicating with, using, and feeling the Weave.
However, all other routes for a Giftless to know and use the Weave require awakening a latent...
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...Gift, even if it’s only a limited, undeveloped “wild talent.”
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