Lyxen
Great Old One
The way I see it, and although obviously it varies from setting to setting, it's clear that magic can do pretty much everything, and that it's pretty wild. Actually, the fact that there is a magic system usable by casters but along very specific lines only just goes to show how wild it is. Yes, there are some recipes that allow safe and repetitive casting, but no-one (apart from rare exceptions) modifies these casting rules, even sorcerers can only modify them along very specific paths that are more or less safe (except for Wild Magic, obviously).
So overall, it's fairly consistent and it has the advantage of being open for the DM in terms of possibilities of having different effects, spells, and more mysticism if he wants to.
So overall, it's fairly consistent and it has the advantage of being open for the DM in terms of possibilities of having different effects, spells, and more mysticism if he wants to.