The "scholar" with the mushroom people lets us know the stasis its the only thing stopping the tadpoles from chowing down, he might have mentioned shadowmagic too
He calls it "strange magic", not shadow magic, though.
He also states that apart from stasis, the tadpole is shielded from interference. So it might be that there are two forces at work here: one prevents your character from turning until the stasis is removed, but the other prevents the absolute from getting into their mind.
He says its sheilded from physical and magical attacks iirc, even telepathic reaching out it all seems part of the same magic shield.
