The collar seems to interfere with magic generation somewhere far upstream of getting anywhere near that far, blocking her before Opalyn can really generate or call forth the magic; the item does not try to let her generate it and then block it!  This makes sense; if magic items could generate power on anything like Orphan's scale, then Orphan would not have been able to lawnmower over wealthy enemies.

It's like being drunk, maybe, in a very selective way.  Like your motor neurons are in their own personal REM-stage dream, where every time they try to be sensible they just end up feeding the pillowcases back to the crocodiles again.  The impulse to cast a spell is not going nowhere, but it sure is not going into generating the magic that could actually feed into that spell.

The collar seems to interfere with magic generation somewhere far upstream of getting anywhere near that far, blocking her before Opalyn can really generate or call forth the magic; the item does not try to let her generate it and then block it!  This makes sense; if reasonably economical magic items could generate power on anything like Orphan's scale, then Orphan would not have been able to lawnmower over wealthy enemies.

It's like being drunk, maybe, in a very selective way.  Like your motor neurons are in their own personal REM-stage dream, where every time they try to be sensible they just end up feeding the pillowcases back to the crocodiles again.  The impulse to cast a spell is not going nowhere, but it sure is not going into generating the magic that could actually feed into that spell.

The collar seems to interfere with magic generation somewhere far upstream of getting anywhere near that far, blocking her before Opalyn can really generate or call forth the magic; the item does not try to let her generate it and then block it!  This makes sense; if reasonably economical magic items could generate power on anything like Orphan's scale, then Orphan would not have been able to lawnmower over wealthy enemies.

It's like being drunk, maybe, in a very selective way.  Like your magical motor neurons are in their own personal REM-stage dream, where every time they try to be sensible they just end up feeding the pillowcases back to the crocodiles again.  The impulse to cast a spell is not going nowhere, but it sure is not going into generating the magic that could actually feed into that spell.

The collar seems to interfere with magic generation somewhere far upstream of getting anywhere near that far, blocking her before Opalyn can really generate or call forth the magic; the item does not try to let her generate it and then block it!  (If reasonably economical magic items could generate power on anything like Orphan's scale, then Orphan would not have been able to lawnmower over wealthy enemies, right?)

It's like being drunk, maybe, in a very selective way.  Like your magical motor neurons are in their own personal REM-stage dream, where every time they try to be sensible they just end up feeding the pillowcases back to the crocodiles again.  The impulse to cast a spell is not going nowhere, but it sure is not going into generating the magic that could actually feed into that spell.