Well... There are people in my world with magical potential called Gates. Gates are always competing with a creature inside of them known as a Phantom. If their willpower is weaker than the Phantom's, then the Phantom will kill them and take them over. Phantoms who already exist take pleasure in driving Gates into despair so they can create more Phantoms.

So, either the Phantom is destroyed and the Gate loses all magical potential in exchange for their life, or the Gate manages to control their Phantom and their willpower wins out. Then they become a Wizard.

I'm not too sure about how the guy before me became one... This other guy I know just made a contract with a Phantom, so he's not actually a Gate, but he's still a Wizard.

That's the short version of it, anyway. [smile] We can't really study it. We have to go through hell and come back in one piece.