Originally Posted by zyr1987
This is a good basic primer on the weave:

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Weave

For more on its history, why you don't mess with it, and why spells are capped at ninth level (with very few exceptions):

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mystra (The goddess in charge of the weave)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Karsus (The man who used the only twelfth level spell to wrest control of the weave from Mystra, and succeeded...for five minutes. No prizes for guessing what happened next)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Helm (A god who killed Mystra once, badly damaging the weave and creating wild magic and dead magic zones, lovingly known as Helmlands. I hope we encounter a few of those in our adventures, if only to make things more interesting)

Yeah, so accroding to this Gale is wrong about what weave is. If you are a spell caster he says there is a gust of weave about you and he also says that he needs to consume the weave inside artifacts, but weave is not something that is inside characters or objects.