When you manipulate the weave, you are manipulating the foundations of reality. It is a beautiful exchange, but it is fragile. Your components have to be precise, or you could injure yourself. Sorcerers experience through wild magic, unable to contain all the magical energy that runs through them. Knowledge is power to wizards, but to sorcerers, their personality largely determines their comprehension. A mentally unstable sorcerer is the most dangerous, a walking time bomb if not meeting their proper needs. The invention of magical shackles was invented for sorcerers and used largely during the medieval ages, where the concept of mental health was understudied.
Pages are showing various drawings of how mages throughout the ages depicted magic. Some believed it came from the lungs, the gut, various locations, or reproductive organs. There are pages of the weave being broken down like atoms, and how each plane of existence influences our material realm
Excerpt written by Valax the Wonderous
Now that you understand the foundation, what if we could bend the rules? If sorcerers can, then surely, with the proper components, those who comprehend the weave could. Metamagic is taking the elements created by the weave and reshaping them to augment a spell. It is a difficult feat that I have taught some wizards through trial and error. It is why I am the first; it is my creation, and I will teach you its secrets. First, you must understand your spells. I task you with writing down the components of your spells and breaking them down to a molecular level. This may seem tedious or even ridiculous, but an error in metamagic will cost you or others their lives. One wrong imbalance from a non-sorcerer and devastation can arise. Sorcerers can freely do these calculations at will; it is like breathing. For wizards or other spell casters, you must study. You must understand your spells inside and out. They must become like breathing to you in effort.
There is are breakdown of basic cantrips and level 1 spells. The last page of chapter two says, "write your own spells down in your journal and understand them
Excerpt written by Dante Featherstorm
To push beyond your limits in battle is the ultimate sacrifice. It is said that casters are stronger than martials, but that is a myth. A barbarian can easily split a wizard in two, but magic surely does assist in survival. What if a barbarian can tap into their inner power? What if they could manipulate the weave with their rage? This is what an ultimatum is. The martial channels that weave through their body and perform great feats that a mage could never do. They are too fragile; their bodies would rupture from the absorption alone. This isn't without risk to the martial, and most attacks will create a 100 to 120 radius explosion, depending on strike. Transformations, powerful strikes, summons, etc. An ultimatum is different for each person.