Mana Burn

What is known as a Mana Burn is a condition in which the very magic one person has inside them, begins to overreact and begin to trigger while still in someone's veins before a spell is cast. The pain is excruciating it is reported that it feels like all your blood in your body had just become Acid and it completely debilitates a mage for years.
Sometimes the sensation can last days, hours, or seconds, but it caps your ability to adsorb magic and makes casting spells extremely painful, or unable to do any at all. This is the absolute worst condition a mage can get. The condition lasts for hours if not days, and often can only be helped by magic or anesthesia. The stories behind manaburns are very sickening as they are the ultimate mage sickness that can be easily brought upon.

Transmission & Vectors

The 'disease' is not transmissible, it is more of a situational condition that feels like an illness and can lead to further illnesses due to the pain and trauma that is felt with this. To be mana burned can achieved in two ways, overuse of magic by an under skilled mage, or by the actual dark spell known as Manaburn. Either way the person on the receiving end does not want to experience this.

Causes

The projection of a higher-skill leveled spell from a under skilled mage can lead to a mana burn, this is the natural cause of such a thing. However Magic science has created a spell that can cause such a condition as well, which the condition got its name from, Manaburn. Magic is energy that flows through everyone, mages utilize this to project spells or cast conditions on things or people. When lots of energy is used it can get hot, as magic is tied to Gaia's life force, this can be very dangerous if not done correctly.
When this magic becomes Hot, it causes Manaburn, which feels like all your blood has become liquid fire.

Treatment

The treatment of Manaburn has to be done through magic, or have the sufferer put under sleep until their body can recover. Usually a mana infusion is the ideal way to cure a mana burn, which in it self is a painful treatment at first, However sufferers feel enough pain as it is  and won't feel the spent energy being forced out of their body. Usually magic is infused into the blood of the sufferer, which restores the energy used, at this point it feels as if you were just placed in a pool of cool water on a very hot day.
For the non-magical treatment, it is much more complicated and dangerous. For those who are not lucky enough to be near a magic healer, the sufferer is placed into a medically-indused coma for at least four days, where they then awake and treat them with an IV.

Prognosis

If the Manaburn is severe enough the body can die from traumatic shock. At times it can even cause nerve damage and this is what is to be avoided. Most manaburn cases are non-fatal, however being killed by a manaburn is akin to torture and has happened in the past, Liches and other magical-induced creations that feed on this energy are the known causes of this.
The Sasslisian Lich Sakraz Sesslin is known to do this method of torture to people who betrayed him, or are enemies of Sassliss.

Type

Magical

Origin

Magical

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Rare