The Weave of magic

Magic is the internet and only wizards have good bandwidth.

>>54078699
Basically, the world has natural, raw, ambient magic. It's incredibly powerful, and also incredibly dangerous, so it will easily destroy even the most patient and skilled mortals, locked away inside all matter and thus difficult even to access assuming you want to blow your brains out between your ears.

The Weave acts as a barrier and a gate between raw magic and the world of Toril, like a massive web overlaying it that all mortals walk like spiders, or an ocean that objects float on top of. It allows mortals to access magic and be protected from the harmful effects of contacting raw magic, while still able to tap the refined energy through the Weave. With the Weave gone, raw magic will quickly dissipate from the world, disrupting existing magic and damaging conductors of raw magic, only leaving pitiful dregs of fuck-all for people to actually use. All three times that the Weave's been destroyed (because Mystryl/Mystra IS the Weave, not just its custodian), the backlash resulted in widespread destruction.

The Weave is present in everything in Faerun, be it living, dead, undead, inanimate, solid, liquid, or gas. It permeates the soil, suffuses the deeps of the ocean, and stretches to the limits of the air in the sky and beyond. It's basically the fabric on which the substance of the world is embroidered, anchored to the world with innumerable anchor-points (maintaining these is one of the jobs of her Chosen, as well as expanding and promoting the spread of magic).

Spellcasters cause spells to work by drawing power from the Weave, adjusting the balance of energy in their spell use so that the power comes forth and is shaped by their actions and will. That is ALL spellcasters, mind you. Clerics receive their spells from their deities, yes, but the power they're accessing is the Weave, and deities generally use the Weave (Shar used the Shadow Weave instead) as the transmission medium (like a phone line) to get the spells into their clerics.

>>54079119
thanks, im much more clear on it now