One of the Empire Mods' talented writers came up with the idea to have part of the island cursed in which the players stats are lowered for a period of time if they enter this region. We decided instead of just guessing, we ask for you the players thoughts.
There are two possible solutions, one is to lower all stats. Another is to lower the stats that the player has focused in. So if the player picked the "class" mage at the beginning, then those are the ones to be lowered.