Magic Madness
Murloc The Mad and His Locked Tower, the notes from his studies of his last days would be the most extensive on the sickness to date.
Causes
The Study and Use of Magic without the proper mental willpower training to withstand the warping effect magic has on the mind.
Symptoms
Obsession with gathering of supplies for a long expedition. Through bargaining all other possessions at a loss and theft if possible. the longer kept in this state the subject will soon lose cohesive communication skills and become violent if restrained from continuing. If the madness takes someone while away from their place of wilderness they often take off at a run heading towards some unseen point without care for the path they take, and are latter found at the base of a cliff face crushed and mangled still attempting to head the call. If found at all. If restrained subject with fight against restraints until exhaustion and death due to malnutrition.
Treatment
None known save for putting the person into a drug induced comma but this prolongs the death as the magic warps the mind beyond any form of control even over the simplest of functions
Prognosis
Fatal
Sequela
Madness
Affected Groups
Magical users Save for bards, whose studies prior to the use of magic involve intense memorization that strengthens the mind, but society belief it is the gift of the song that grants them the feelings and not any kind of magical effect.
Prevention
Proper training of the Mind with the elven monks prior to beginning the studies. A abiding to the agreement to only study so often and use magic only when necessary.
History
The first recorded full onset of Magical Madness was a Sorcerer by the name of Merloc latter Dubbed Merloc the Mad he secluded himself to a tower as the madness began to overtake him, and locked himself inside with a verbal passphrase he knew he would forget in his madness. In an attempt to cure his madness through deeper studies and understanding of magic.
Cultural Reception
Most wizards even without the condition are often put to the headsmans axe for fear of this madness taking hold of them
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