Magical Fragmentation

What most people know is that an overuse of mana or an overabundance will kill a mage. However, what the average person does not know is that the repetitive casting of magic will eventually cause something known as Magical Fragmentation.
===How do I get it?===
By casting a certain spell over and over again, or a group of spells. Fragmentation usually only happens to polymages (mages who know more than one element of magic), as they are not specialized to handle one element, and instead use a multitude of elements.
===What happens?===
When Mana Fragmentation happens, you will be unable to access an element. Example: If I were to cast a pyromantic spell, a necromantic spell, and an allomantic spell every day of the week for a year, eventually I would not be able to cast the pyromantic spell anymore, as it would be the first one.
Imagine it to be like this: you have a favorite blanket. You've had it for as long as you care to remember, and you sleep with it every night. Now, one day, you find a tear in the blanket, but you've had it for so long, you pay it no mind. Then soon, another tear shows up, and you pay no mind. Over time, the blanket will be reduced to a scraggy form of what it used to be, because you slept with it every night.
Basically, it means you won't be able to cast spells anymore. It isn't to be confused with Sealing a mana pool, or the drying up of one. Your mana pool would still be intact, however you would not be able to apply the mana to access a certain element, and would not be able to cast a spell.
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