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Date: 2021-09-13 01:51 am (UTC)Palsied as a word has been around for a very long time. Usually it's associated with age [probably Parkinson's disease] but there are other cases. Henry the Eighth's son, Arthur, was described as a palsied child, with symptomatology that was clearly C.P. [he died of complications from one of the 'treatments' for it, septicemia I think, from all the blood letting.]
But I agree, why make that the central defining feature of character? I mean, ok so your mage has tremors and isn't very dexterous.. but there are schools of magic that rely on chants alone for a start.