Fire Powers (FiD)

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Fire is an element of transformation, it can destroy but also forge.

Fire is the the element of energy and change; it fuels the processes of the world. Science sees fire as a process, not an element. Fire powers are often destructive, manifesting as searing goats of flame, raging elementals, or anger. But it has a peaceful side as well in the application of intelligence, crafts and industry.

Fire attacks are direct and deadly.

Fire creatures include fire elementals, fire-breathing dragons, and other monsters with fire powers. Learning who to summon may require study or be a a score in itself. It includes desert animals, which can also be affected by Animal powers.

Fire Power Effects

Action	Basic No minimum 3 Stress	Advanced Minimum 2 Dice 5 Stress	Master Minimum 4 Dice 7 Stress	Apex Minimum 6 Dice 13 Stress
Attune	Pyro Perception Detect fire creatures and fire powers.	Pyro Purge Dismiss a Fire creature or end a Fire power ability.	Pyro Pact Summon a Fire creature.	Pyro Passage Portal to a plane of Fire.
Command	Pyro Whisper Command Fire creatures. You can't understand them.	Pyro Projection Communicate with fire over long distance.	Pyro Potentate Command Fire creatures, as if you were their superior.	Ember Enslavement You can permanently bind fire creatures to service.
Consort	Fire Fashion Fire, smoke, or soot accessories.	Ember Embodiment Assume the form of a fire creature.	Ember Enchantment Shapechange a willing or helpless creatures into fire creatures.	Heat Hounds Transform a number of willing or non-sentient creatures, give them a task.
Finesse	Ember Express Ride a fire creature or combustion vehicle.	Ember Assault Fire as a fine and potent close-range attack. Give crew Ember Express.	Pyro Precision Fine Fire manipulation for very precise heat or flame.	Ember Ensnarement A maze of fire suppresses scale.
Hunt	Pyro Pursuit Track by following traces of heat.	Blaze Bullet Fire attack at range, similar to a fine and potent rifle.	Smoke Sculptur Control smoke and warm wide areas.	Fireball Fire attack similar to a fine and potent grenade.
Prowl	Smoke Shroud Hide and breathe in smoke without discomfort.	Pyro Path Move through fire, smoke, ash, and lava. Do rocket-assisted jumps.	Blaze Brigade Bring allies along when you use Smoke Shroud and Pyro Path.	Rocket Ride Crew can fly like rockets, fast but imprecise.
Skirmish	Pyro Punch Fire close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.	Pyro Power Pyro Punch, except the weapon is fine and potent.	Blaze Barrier Fire obstructions that prevent scale.	Ember Explosion Fire attacks all enemies in the area.
Study	Ember Examiner Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Fire.	Ember Expertise Learn the powers and abilities of Fire.	Ember Echo Read the past events of something fire, ash, or igneous rock.	Ember Encyclopedia Ember Expertise in a wide area, then Ember Echo for some fires.
Survey	Pyre Perception Sense heat, fire, Fire creatures, and Fire powers.	Pyre Peek Choose fire that you know of; you can perceive as if you were at that spot.	Hearth Homing Choose a location or creature. You Pyre Peek at the nearest fire.	Pyro Panopticon Pyre Peek from all fires at once over a wide area.
Sway	Ember Empathy Understand fire creatures even if normally couldn't, and to sense their motivations.	Flame Fellowship Crew can communicate with fire creatures. Make folk more energetic, fiery, and industrious.	Ember Entrancement Plant suggestions in the mind of a Fire creature.	Inferno Induction Permanently change the personality and motivations of a fire creature.
Tinker	Furnace Forger You can forge, solder, weld, and ignite things.	Furnace Flame Shape fire and it retains the new shape.	Furnace Fusion Transform by precise heat treatment.	Furnace Fabricator Furnace Flame to mass produce objects or make something big.
Wreck	Blaze Bonfire Burn like a bonfire or put one out. Noisy.	Blaze Furnace Burn like a furnace or put one out.	Blaze Ash Blaze Furnace that silently reduces to a fine ash.	Blaze Firestorm Create a firestorm or put one out.

Pyro Precision
Fine Fire manipulation for very precise heat or flame. Can cause precise destruction or create patterns or letters of fire.

Expanded Fire Powers

Attune

Connect with the natural world and harness the power of plants for various purposes.

Sense Sprout You can detect plants and plant powers.

Banish Bud You can force a plant creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the operation of an ability of the plant power.

Fecundity You can call a plant creature from a different plane. Summoning plant usually animates existing plants; summoning creatures from nothing gives a worse position.

Gateway of Growth You can create a portal that allows travel to and from the plane of plants for a limited time.

Command

Pyro Whisper Command Fire creatures. You can't understand them.

Pyro Projection Communicate with fire over long distances.

Pyro Potentate Command Fire creatures, as if you were their superior.

Ember Enslavement You can permanently bind fire creatures to service.

Consort

Fire Fashion Fire, smoke, or soot accessories.

Ember Embodiment Assume the form of a fire creature.

Ember Enchantment Shapechange a willing or helpless creature into a fire creature.

Heat Hounds Transform a number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a task.

Finesse

Ember Express Ride a fire creature or combustion vehicle.

Ember Assault Fire as a fine and potent close-range attack. Give crew Ember Express.

Pyro Precision Fine Fire manipulation for very precise heat or flame.

Ember Ensnarement A maze of fire suppresses scale.

Hunt

Pyro Pursuit Track by following traces of heat.

Blaze Bullet Fire attack at range, similar to a fine and potent rifle.

Smoke Sculptur Control smoke and warm wide areas.

Fireball Fire attack similar to a fine and potent grenade.

Prowl

Smoke Shroud Hide and breathe in smoke without discomfort.

Pyro Path Move through fire, smoke, ash, and lava. Do rocket-assisted jumps.

Blaze Brigade Bring allies along when you use Smoke Shroud and Pyro Path.

Rocket Ride Crew can fly like rockets, fast but imprecise.

Skirmish

Pyro Punch Fire close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.

Pyro Power Pyro Punch, except the weapon is fine and potent.

Blaze Barrier Fire obstructions that prevent scale.

Ember Explosion Fire attacks all enemies in the area.

Study

Ember Examiner Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Fire.

Ember Expertise Learn the powers and abilities of Fire.

Ember Echo Read the past events of something fire, ash, or igneous rock.

Ember Encyclopedia Ember Expertise in a wide area, then Ember Echo for some fires.

Survey

Pyre Perception Sense heat, fire, Fire creatures, and Fire powers.

Pyre Peek Choose fire that you know of; you can perceive as if you were at that spot.

Hearth Homing Choose a location or creature. You Pyre Peek at the nearest fire.

Pyro Panopticon Pyre Peek from all fires at once over a wide area.

Sway

Ember Empathy Understand fire creatures even if normally couldn't, and to sense their motivations.

Flame Fellowship Crew can communicate with fire creatures. Make folk more energetic, fiery, and industrious.

Ember Entrancement Plant suggestions in the mind of a Fire creature.

Inferno Induction Permanently change the personality and motivations of a fire creature.

Tinker

Manipulate, shape, and create fire to suit your needs. Fire is a powerful transformative element, and can modify substance governed by other powers. When used with long-term projects, powers can often substitute for missing resources such as tools or raw materials, but that is all it does until you can start using Furnace Fabricator.

The position depends on how quiet your workplace is and how much time you have to work with. The effect determines the effectiveness of your construction, but also how long it will last. Devices that are more powerful are harder to contain, and thus wont last as long.

Furnace Forger You can forge, solder, weld, and ignite things.

This mainly substitutes for tools, up to a small workshop. You are also protected from any dangerous effects of working with heat. The ability to create and control fire allows crafts like smithing, casting, kiln firing, and baking, but at this level you still can't create the extreme temperatures needed for truly advanced crafts.

Furnace Flame Shape fire and it retains the new shape.

You can now do more than normal craft could do. You can create really hot fire and use it to craft other materials. You can shape fire and have it retain that shape for a while. This lets you create fire conduits, allowing you to set up patterns of fire similar to what you could do with ducts and chimneys. This can allow you to set up traps or devices that would normally require extensive equipment.

Most Pyroshaping will only be good for a single scene, but if your effect surpasses that required for the effect you want, you can stretch the effect until the end of the score.

Furnace Fusion Transform by precise heat treatment.

You can transform anything that can be worked by heat even if you don't know the power related to the resulting material. If you know other powers, you can create matter associated with those powers by applying fire to any other material that is not superbly heat resistant.

Furnace Fabricator Furnace Flame to mass produce objects or make something big.

This is Pyroshaping on a larger scale. Useful for equipping a large band or building something large like ships or buildings that normally require a work force and facilities. When doing long-term projects that involve building or crafting, you can use Ember Engineering to great effect, manufacturing hundreds of items with the same effort as one item even under what normally be poor conditions, but this has the usual stress cost.

Wreck

Destroy, dismantle, and obliterate objects made of stuff related to your power.

The effect required depends on the size and structural strength of your target. Standard effect is a car-sized hole in a brick or mortar wall. Construction significantly weaker than this only demands limited effect. A smaller hole stil need the same effect. Something larger and/or stronger requires great effect.

The position depends on the situation. A quiet workspace is controlled, the general hustle of adventure risky, dealing with a fight, massive crowds, or dangerous construction is desperate.

Blaze Bonfire Burn like a bonfire or put one out. Noisy.

Just as crude as it sounds. You can start and put out fires up to bonfires and strike with the force of a burning sledgehammer in combat. In combat, Wreck may be at an advantage or disadvantage compared to Hunt, Finesse and Skirmish, depending on the situation.

Blaze Furnace Burn like a furnace or put one out.

This bypasses the strength of materials, allowing you create or putting out a fire up to a blast furnace. You can also use this to smash like a fine, potent, white-hot sledgehammer.

Blaze Ash Blaze Furnace that silently reduces to a fine ash.

The difference from Blaze Furnace is that wrecking things is now silent. Leave less traces, what you wreck disappears. Get rid of evidence of fire and heat, leaving just holes.

Blaze Firestorm Create a firestorm or put one out.

Rather straightforward, this just scales things up to the level of burning a number of city blocks.