Years ago, I played a profoundly insecure wizard; he just had layers of walls between himself and those around him (the dismantling of those walls as his friendships developed were the fun part of playing such a broken creature).
Anyway, he spun endless bullshit about how his magic worked. Just, outrageous garbage. Total fibs.
All these years later, some of the forms of magic described in #Hammondal are based directly on some of his bullshit. So that's been fun. 😅