As a result, they were usually social pariahs. These spontaneous spellcasters were basically walking cataclysms that could be unpredictably triggered at any moment. It might kill the spellcaster, burn out their magical ability, or, in rare cases, cause the desmata to become stuck “open” – basically spewing forth wild magic in a chaotic torrent. The spontaneous alignment of any desmata could go horribly awry. However, this was an uncontrolled, dangerous, and incredibly unstable process. In some cases, these desmata would become “active,” allowing these “natural spellcasters” to create variable magical effects without any formal training. Some individuals were similarly known to be born with or later manifest natural desmata. (In other words, you had to prep a specific spell into each spell slot.) It was always known, however, that this was merely a theoretical limit: There were creatures with natural desmata, for example, who could use them to flexibly cast a variety of spells. It used to be the case that each desmata had to be carefully customized to a specific flow of energy. In any case, this means that a given ley line can be associated with one, some, or all nine of the energy fields (spell levels). They are a sort of obduction where magical energy enters the Material Plane, similar to how new crust is “pushed up” through ocean rifts. Ley lines can be thought of as “cracks” in the skein of reality where this interplanar energy is pushing through into our plane of existence. There might even be more or less discrete layers – i.e., spell levels – in the ley field. If you were to truly “blow up Hell,” or whatever, the quantum levels of the energy field would shift, completely disrupting all magical theory: A 3 rd level spell slot would no longer have the same amount of mystical energy. (This is also why you may hear some arcanists referring to the “first sphere” or “seventh sphere” of magic, while others refer to the level or branching or so forth.) The “turning of the Great Wheel” or “branchings of the Great Tree” are really just metaphors for how arcanists believe energy flows through the multiverse. Magical theory believes that the nature and shape of the ley fields are due to the configuration of the major planes. Different bodies of arcane theory feature different stable patterns through which they progress, but, for example, wizards have perfected patterns for creating two entanglements with the first sphere of energy (1 st level spells), another for four entanglements with the first field of energy and two with the second field, and so forth. In practice, arcanists have learned very stable configurations of entanglement. Usually such events simply kill the caster outright. At best, this can burn out some or all of the caster’s magical potential, creating a scar on their soul. If the entanglement goes wrong, a spellcaster can essentially “ground” themselves – becoming (very briefly) a living conduit through which unrestrained magical energy pours into the Material Plane.
(Or, more accurately, they shape their spiritual valence – the “surface” at which the soul’s energy interfaces with the rest of reality – to create specific desmata, or channels, which are entangled with the ley fields. When spellcasters prep a spell, they are creating an entanglement between their souls and the quantized fields of ley energy which permeate the cosmos.
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