Ehm...on a more serious note, if anyone's interested the reason spells only go up to level 9 is that BEFORE the fall of Netheril, mages (then called arcanists who were basically ALL sorcerers - no-one had to memorize any spells beforehand) did not have any level restrictions on spells. But some dude named Karsus apparently cast a 12th level spell called Karsus' Avatar which allowed him to steal Mystra's divinity for himself. Of course when he did this the Weave failed for a moment. But in that moment all of Netheril's great floating cities crashed to earth - thus ending the kingdom of Netheril. Karsus himself was slain. But from that point forward Mystra restricted arcanists to level 9 spells, and from then on they all had to memorize spells - thus creating the modern mage!
Sorry for the history lesson but I just read about it the other day and wanted to get it down before i forgot it all.
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