Hmm. Not that I have any experience with this specifically, but I could see that. If it’s just… building up that energy and not giving it a chance to release, to vent. Or the magebane might just be treating the symptom, not the underlying root cause. If you take a painkiller for a sprained ankle, the pain will still keep happening whenever the drugs wear off.

[ Quick, rapidfire patter, thinking out loud. The doctor still feels that itch to grab a pen and paper to take notes, but he doesn’t have the handwriting for it, so it’s just affixing this conversation in his memory to the best of his recollection. He’ll dictate some notes for himself later. ]

We didn’t go into much detail about it before; can you describe the tentacles further? And you said you didn’t have magic at all before Thedas?