#also i convinced myself that he AND hamid just apply make up early in the day and use Prestigiditation to MANTAIN it

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Still talking about RQG!WIlde and magic.

Except now I know I am very stupid and only now realized that an important fact about his curse is that if he can't sleep he can't get long rests (unless he gets really creative) so he can't refresh his spells. At all.

This could serve to explain how the fuck he casted a spell to protect him from the heat in Damascus when bards noticiably don't have acess to Endure Elements. He had to already be looking for alternative ways to use magic. This also means that before the cufs he was already progressivaly losing his magic somewhat. He likely couldn't actually do much but cantrips at Damascus since he either had no spell slot or was trying to spare the few he had for a huge necessity.

It does break my Minor Ilusion abuse idea. But it makes sense.