Treatment
To get rid of this curse, a different ritual is needed. Arcana awakening is a ritual that is only remembered by the protectors of the Dracus temples and is also recorded and stored in the temples. The ritual itself need to be casted by the person that cursed the victim; it could be casted by another caster but the mana used on the ritual goes up by a lot and only powerful people could cast it and yet, they would be exhausted.
As previously mentioned, it can be treated with an Arcana awakening ritual, but before doing so, there are a couple of tests to be done to protect the victim's health. These tests are performed because, while Arcane silence stops teh victim of using magic, the body stills accumulates mana and finds new uses for it to avoid getting Mana excess. These new uses are often seen as boosts to the organs, to healing, or even as a weapon used by the immune system (albeit there have been two recorded cases of people getting their body destroyed by magic that fought the immune system).
Since the victim's body might have gotten used to use the excess mana as a vital living resource, a ritual of Arcana awakening might kill them, as the user regaining the use of mana, their body will return to expelling excess mana with small but constant spells rather than using it for the body, and such changes might be lethal for the victim.
History
Many tales have been born after someone being cursed or meeting someone with Arcane Silence but most of them stayed as tales, staying as a tale to scare a young mage into being good, and because Dracus have been very reluctant to share their magical knowledge to other species, people never believed the tales unless they meet or where someone with the curse. Thus, cases of Arcana Silence, while its believe to be many, very few are known.
Most important and well known cases at present times are the cases of Zembu and Eva Thervert.
Zembu a mage close of the deceased latest king of Eshines, was cursed by the new king of Eshines, Fenrir, and then exiled. He has been traveling around the world, seeking asylum to other countries that once knew him as a powerful mage and second hand of a king. This has made rumors of the Arcane Silence expand and make people doubt if these tales are only tales or something more.
Eva Thervert, another case of this curse, is slightly less known but slowly growing as she is believed to be the first person to break the curse on her own. Cursed by Kin'rah Shanan, she break out of the curse while traveling back to her homecountry of Eshines followed by the one who cursed her.
This is a really scary condition! Just taking away someone's magical abilities is already scary enough, but all the physical side effects make it even worse! You've said that most people think it's lost to time, and only a couple of temples still have the knowledge of the ritual. I guess this makes these temples pretty powerful, if they wanted to?
The temples are indeed powerful but also very kept to themselves as I slightly explain in Kit'de'thral (people working on them). They do not like to share their knowledge, so while they are powerful, no one is really aware of how *much* powerful they can or cannot be.
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I must look so stupid, it's Kit'de'thrak not thal XD (link works fine tho)
Love to code, but this one is driving me crazy!
My world Shattered won as the "Most ground-breaking premise new world"!