I have always considered the doubled cost of talents for wizards as an indication of the very wildness of magic. In my understanding, magic required a highly trained form of thinking in order to be understood at a fundamental level as wizards do, and that this form of thought is so outrageous and arcane that a person trained in it is himself
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alienated from understanding things normally ever again.
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For whatever reason, when you gain a general grasp of magic, you lose your grasp of reality. It's like a form of autistic savantism which is learned rather than formed genetically.
This article is quite interesting, and I may experiment with this rule yet. It opens up the door for more diverse wizard characters. Bravo!