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Fire is an element of transformation, it can destroy but also forge.
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Fire is an element of transformation, it can destroy but also transform and forge other elements.
  
 
Fire is the the element of energy and change; it fuels the processes of the world.  
 
Fire is the the element of energy and change; it fuels the processes of the world.  
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But it has a peaceful side as well in the application of intelligence, crafts and industry.
 
But it has a peaceful side as well in the application of intelligence, crafts and industry.
  
Fire attacks are direct and deadly.  
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Fire attacks are direct and deadly causing burns and possibly immolating targets.  
  
 
Fire creatures include fire elementals, fire-breathing dragons, and other monsters with fire powers.
 
Fire creatures include fire elementals, fire-breathing dragons, and other monsters with fire powers.
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It includes desert animals, which can also be affected by [[Animal Powers (FiD)|Animal]] powers.
 
It includes desert animals, which can also be affected by [[Animal Powers (FiD)|Animal]] powers.
  
=== Electricity Power Effects ===
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=== Fire Power Effects ===
 
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|align="center" | '''Action'''  
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|valign=bottom | '''Action'''  
|align="center" | '''Basic'''    <br> No minimum    <br>  3 Stress
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|align="center" valign=bottom | '''Basic'''     
|align="center" | '''Advanced''' <br> Minimum 2 Dice <br>  5 Stress
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|align="center" valign=bottom | '''Advanced'''  
|align="center" | '''Master'''  <br> Minimum 4 Dice <br>  7 Stress
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|align="center" valign=bottom | '''Master'''   
|align="center" | '''Apex'''    <br> Minimum 6 Dice <br> 13 Stress
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|align="center" valign=bottom | '''Apex'''    
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|valign=bottom | '''Dice '''
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|align="center" valign=bottom | —   
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Minimum 2d
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Minimum 4d 
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Minimum 6d      
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|valign=bottom | '''Stress'''
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Avoid fumble (2+).
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Succeed (4+).
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Full success (6).
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|align="center" valign=bottom | Critical (2 sixes).
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Attune'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Attune'''  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Perception''' <br> You can detect fire creatures and fire powers.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Pressure'''   <br> Intimidate with Fire.  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Purge'''      <br> You can force a fire creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the effect of a fire power ability.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Purge'''      <br> Dismiss a Fire creature or end a Fire power ability.  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Pact'''      <br> You can call a fire creature from another plane. This is generally an unwilling servant. It will obey one command from you and this can be extended.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Pact'''      <br> Summon a Fire creature.  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Passage'''    <br> You can create a portal that allows travel to and from the plane of fire for a limited time.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Passage'''    <br> Portal to a plane of Fire.  
  
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Command'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Command'''  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Edict'''       <br> You can speak to fire creatures even if normally couldn't, allowing you to use the command action on them. You cannot understand them.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Whisper'''     <br> Command Fire creatures. You can't understand them.
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Parley'''       <br> You and allies can communicate with fire creatures.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Projection'''   <br> Communicate with fire over long distance.
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Potentate'''    <br> You can give commands to fire creatures, as if you were their superior. This does not remove existing loyalties, which can lead to conflicts.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Potentate'''    <br> Command Fire creatures, as if you were their superior.  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Enslavement''' <br> You can permanently bind fire creatures to service. Unless affected by other powers, they will stay in one location and act according to your instructions, like very loyal and literal-minded goons.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Enslavement''' <br> You can permanently bind fire creatures to service.
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Consort'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Consort'''  
|valign="top"| '''Fire Fashion'''     <br> You add fire, smoke, or soot to a body, clothes and accessories. This can mask your identity or create fabulous outfits.  
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Embellishment''' <br> Fire, smoke, or soot accessories.  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Embodiment''' <br> You assume the form of a fire creature. Add 1d to one action and subtract 1d from all actions covered by an attribute except if you just raised one of them.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Embodiment'''   <br> Assume the form of a fire creature.
|valign="top"| '''Ember Enchantment''' <br> You can shapechange a willing or helpless creatures into fire creatures. This can be a curse, it can be broken but it is not easy. You can easily break the effect.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Enchantment'''   <br> Shapechange a willing or helpless creatures into fire creatures.
|valign="top"| '''Heat Hounds'''      <br> You can transform a large number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a simple instruction, typically someone for them to hunt.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Embrace'''      <br> Transform a number of willing or non-sentient creatures, give them a task.
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Finesse'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Finesse'''  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Express'''     <br> You can ride a fire creature or combustion-powered vehicle as if it is domesticated and you have the keys.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Excursion''' <br> Ride a fire creature or combustion vehicle.  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Assault'''     <br> You can use fire as a fine and potent close-range attack, similar in effect to a fine potent dueling sword or pistol, or you can give your friends the Ride ability for the duration of a score.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Assault'''   <br> Fire as a fine and potent close-range attack.
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Precision'''   <br> You can do fine manipulation of fire, allowing you to apply very precise heat or flame. Can cause precise destruction or create patterns or letters of fire.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Express'''   <br> Create a fast and furious vehicle of fire.
|valign="top"| '''Ember Ensnarement''' <br> Create a maze of fire, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.  
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Ejection''' <br> Rocket ride.  
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Hunt'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Hunt'''  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Pursuit'''       <br> You can track by following traces of heat.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Pursuit'''   <br> Track by following traces of heat.  
|valign="top"| '''Blaze Bullet'''       <br> You can use fire to attack at range, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Bullet'''   <br> Fire attack at range, similar to a fine and potent rifle.
|valign="top"| '''Fireball'''           <br> You can use fire to attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. This allows you to fight many creatures in the same area very effectively, but there is a risk of collateral damage.
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|valign="top"| '''Smoke Sculpture'''<br> Control smoke and warm wide areas.  
|valign="top"| '''Combustion Cascade''' <br> You call down the equivalent of a fine potent artillery barrage, attacking everything and everyone in a wide area. This can raze buildings and create rubble. Usually enough to provide cover for any escape.
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|valign="top"| '''Fireball'''       <br> Fire attack similar to a fine and potent grenade.  
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Prowl'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Prowl'''  
|valign="top"| '''Smoke Shroud'''  <br> You can hide in smoke and ash without discomfort. You can breathe smoke without damage or hindrance.
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|valign="top"| '''Smoke Shroud'''  <br> Hide and breathe in smoke without discomfort.
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Path'''    <br> You can move on and through areas of fire, smoke, ash, and lava without danger as long as you don't stop. You can do rocket-assisted jumps.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Path'''    <br> Move through fire, smoke, ash, and lava. Do rocket-assisted jumps.
|valign="top"| '''Blaze Brigade''' <br> You can bring allies along when you use Smoke Shroud and Pyro Path.
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Brigade''' <br> Bring allies along when you use Smoke Shroud and Pyro Path.
|valign="top"| '''Rocket Ride'''  <br> You can fly like a rocket. This is fast but imprecise. You can bring others along by touching them, this can be a chain of hands.
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|valign="top"| '''Rocket Ride'''  <br> Crew can fly like rockets, fast but imprecise.
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Skirmish'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Skirmish'''  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Punch'''     <br> You can use fire as a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Protection''' <br> Blocks Fire Harm.  
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Power'''      <br> Same as Pyro Punch, except the weapon is fine and potent.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Power'''      <br> Pyro Punch, except the weapon is fine and potent.
|valign="top"| '''Blaze Barrier'''  <br> Your fires can create obstructions that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Barrier'''  <br> Fire obstructions that prevent scale.
|valign="top"| '''Ember Explosion''' <br> Your fire strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.  
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Explosion''' <br> Fire attacks all enemies in the area.  
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Study'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Study'''  
|valign="top"| '''Infernal Insight'''       <br> You can identify objects and creatures of fire and see the use of the fire power.  
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Examiner'''     <br> Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Fire.  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Expertise'''         <br> You know the powers and abilities of something you analyze with Infernal Insight.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Expertise'''   <br> Learn the powers and abilities of Fire.
|valign="top"| '''Ember Echo'''             <br> You can read the past events of something hot, fire, ash, or igneous rock. This includes what happened nearby and how the thing was ignited or heated, but not its history beyond that.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Echo'''         <br> Read the past events of something fire, ash, or igneous rock.
|valign="top"| '''Conflagration Cognition''' <br> You apply Ember Expertise and Ember Echo to everything in a wide area. This is easy to do where you are, more difficult at range.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Encyclopedia''' <br> Ember Expertise in a wide area, then Ember Echo for some fires.  
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Survey'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Survey'''  
|valign="top"| '''Pyre Perception''' <br> You can sense fire and fire creatures at a distance and understand their general nature. This works even when you can't see the target, but both range and information suffers.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyre Perception''' <br> Sense heat, fire, Fire creatures, and Fire powers.
|valign="top"| '''Pyre Peek'''      <br> Choose fire that you know of; you can perceive as if you were at that spot. You are blind when doing so.  
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|valign="top"| '''Pyre Peek'''      <br> Choose fire that you know of; you can perceive as if you were at that spot.  
|valign="top"| '''Hearth Homing'''  <br> Choose a location or creature. You Pyre Peek at the nearest fire, which is often close enough to perceive the target.
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|valign="top"| '''Hearth Homing'''  <br> Choose a location or creature. You Pyre Peek at the nearest fire.
|valign="top"| '''Pyro Panopticon''' <br> You Pyre Peek from all fires at once over a wide area. As long as you concentrate you retain this perception and can report what you see to others.
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|valign="top"| '''Pyro Panopticon''' <br> Pyre Peek from all fires at once over a wide area.
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Sway'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Sway'''  
|valign="top"| '''Ember Empathy'''      <br> You can understand fire creatures even if normally couldn't, and to sense their motivations.  
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Empathy'''      <br> Understand fire creatures even if normally couldn't, and to sense their motivations.  
|valign="top"| '''Flame Fellowship'''  <br> You and allies can communicate with fire creatures. You can make folk more energetic, fiery, and industrious.
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|valign="top"| '''Flame Fellowship'''  <br> Crew can communicate with fire creatures. Make folk more energetic, fiery, and industrious.
|valign="top"| '''Ember Entrancement''' <br> You can plant suggestions in the mind of a fire creature, which will be triggered under conditions you specify. This is a subtle power, but easier to spot once triggered.
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|valign="top"| '''Ember Entrancement''' <br> Plant suggestions in the mind of a Fire creature.
|valign="top"| '''Inferno Induction'''  <br> You change the personality and motivations of fire creatures. This power is permanent, but blatant. The target remember their past, but regard it as unimportant compared to their new motivations.  
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|valign="top"| '''Inferno Induction'''  <br> Permanently change the personality and motivations of a fire creature.  
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Tinker'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Tinker'''  
|valign="top"| '''Kindling Control''' <br> You can handle fire as if you had the appropriate tools and protective devices. You can create fire out of nothing.
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|valign="top"| '''Furnace Forger'''     <br> You can forge, solder, weld, and ignite things.
|valign="top"| '''Pyroshaping''' <br> You can shape fire as if it were of clay, and the fire will retain their new shape for some time even. You can forge, solder, and weld.
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|valign="top"| '''Furnace Flame'''     <br> Shape fire and it retains the new shape.
|valign="top"| '''Molten Mastery''' <br> You can transform an object by precise heat treatment. This works particularly well on metals. You can create fine and potent items this way.
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|valign="top"| '''Furnace Fusion'''     <br> Transform by precise heat treatment.
|valign="top"| '''Ember Engineering''' <br> This is similar to Molten Mastery but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something large, such as a vehicle or building.
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|valign="top"| '''Furnace Fabricator''' <br> Furnace Flame to mass produce objects or make something big.
 
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|align="left" valign="top" | '''Wreck'''  
 
|align="left" valign="top" | '''Wreck'''  
|valign="top"| '''Flame Flare'''     <br> You can burn like a small fire or put one out. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place.  
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Bonfire'''   <br> Burn like a bonfire or put one out. Noisy.  
|valign="top"| '''Ignition Impact''' <br> Similar to Flame Flare, except more powerful; works like a cutting torch or bonfire. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Furnace'''   <br> Burn like a furnace or put one out.
|valign="top"| '''Ash Annihilation''' <br> Similar to Ignition Impact, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine ash.
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Ash'''       <br> Blaze Furnace that silently reduces to a fine ash.
|valign="top"| '''Pyre Pandemonium''' <br> Similar to Ignition Impact, but over a large area. This can level a city block, empty a canal system of water, raze a city wall, and similar massive destruction.  
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|valign="top"| '''Blaze Firestorm''' <br> Create a firestorm or put one out.  
 
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'''Pyro Precision'''    <br> Fine Fire manipulation for very precise heat or flame. Can cause precise destruction or create patterns or letters of fire.
  
 
== Expanded Fire Powers ==
 
== Expanded Fire Powers ==
Expanded descriptions of effects that differ significantly from [[Powers (FiD)#Typical Powers and How to Use Them|Typical Powers]].
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Fire effects are often dramatic and capable of shaping a scene, not only through what they do, but through their Consequences.
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Position depends on the situation. 
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A quiet workspace is a '''Controlled''' Position. 
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The general hustle of adventure is '''Risky'''. 
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Direct attacks, massive crowds, or dangerous construction are '''Desperate'''.
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Consequences often affect the environment: bad air, smoke, spreading fire, or weakening structures. 
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These Consequences are frequently represented by clocks that tick quickly toward escalation, often starting new clocks as the situation worsens.
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=== Attune ===
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Harness the power of Attune to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with Fire beings and phenomena.
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==== Pyro Perception ====
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Detect Fire creatures and Fire powers.
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{{ : Include Attune Basic Detect Powers (FiD) }}
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==== Pyro Purge ====
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Dismiss a Fire creature or end a Fire power ability.
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You can dispel any Fire power and powers affecting fires or Fire creatures.
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{{ : Include Attune Dispel Materialize Spirits (FiD) }}
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==== Pyro Pact ====
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Summon a Fire creature.
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''Creatures of Fire:'' 
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Fire creatures you can summon come in three types — spirits, elementals, and creatures with powers.
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Fire spirits are immaterial guardians and exemplars of Fire and its virtues of energy and transformation.
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An elemental is a simple creature totally dominated by its power. Most elementals have animal intelligence, and often take the shape of animals as well, though animated chunks of matter and humanoid forms are also common.
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Creatures with powers resemble normal creatures, having a biological body and metabolism, but also possessing exceptional abilities related to their power. A fire dragon is impossibly large, flies, and breathes fire.
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{{ : Include Attune Summon (FiD) }}
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Not all creatures with powers are summonable or dismissible. Many are native to this world and have no special vulnerability to Attune power effects.
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==== Pyro Passage ====
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Portal to a plane of Fire.
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This is situational, but vital when needed. 
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The plane of Fire may be a mirror-image of the mundane world rendered in flame, an ocean of burning oil, a range of volcanoes, or a forest swept by firestorms that rapidly recover.
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The City of Brass, home of the efreet, is an important location here.
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{{ : Include Attune Gate (FiD) }}
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=== Command ===
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Intimidate and lead Fire creatures, projecting authority through threat and presence. 
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Position and Effect depend on the situation and your relationship with the listeners.
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Position depends on the target’s relationship to you. 
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Ordering a creature that considers itself your superior is a Desperate Position. 
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A Controlled Position usually comes from a creature that already agrees you outrank it, with failure making further attempts more difficult. 
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A Risky Position is typical against equals.
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Conflict, defiance, rebellion, uncontrolled fire, and increases to your Crew’s Heat are common Consequences.
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==== Pyro Pressure ====
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Intimidate with Fire.
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You create Fire effects such as flames on your body or free-floating fire to heighten your authority, gaining leverage similar to that provided by an explicit threat, such as displaying a weapon. 
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This can provide the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without immediate violence.
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Creatures of Fire may recognize you as a figure of authority.
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==== Pyro Projection ====
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Communicate with Fire over long distances.
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You can communicate with Fire creatures over any distance as long as you know the target. 
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You can communicate with the most powerful Fire creature in a vehicle or installation as long as you can see the exterior. 
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Communication is simple and direct, suitable for the Command Action.
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You can also use an existing fire as a communication focus, communicating with anyone near that fire. 
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If no one is near the target fire, the power fails.
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==== Pyro Potentate ====
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Command Fire creatures as if you were their superior.
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This allows you to order strangers around and improves Effect, but not Position; targets comply without accepting your authority. 
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This does not remove existing loyalties, which may lead to conflict. 
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Understanding the social order of your targets helps avoid clashes with established hierarchies.
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Fire inspires fear more readily than loyalty. Making city guards flee requires less Effect than ordering them about.
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==== Ember Enslavement ====
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Permanently bind Fire creatures to service.
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This only works if you already hold power over the target. 
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The effect is similar to Pyro Potentate, but permanent. Strong emotions may break your control, but otherwise it persists until dispelled.
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=== Consort ===
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Consort powers change your form and, at higher tiers, that of other creatures. These powers may also be used as a Set Up for later Consort Actions, often improving Effect or Position, or enabling actions a human could not normally perform.
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Common Consequences include being mistaken for someone else, your assumed form becoming a hindrance, or igniting nearby objects unintentionally. You might become obnoxiously attractive, emotionally over-engaged, or suffer other unexpected complications.
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==== Ember Embellishment ====
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Fire, smoke, or soot accessories.
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Enhance your appearance with smoke, heat, flaming patterns, or actual flames. 
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You do not physically change yourself; instead, you alter your accessories and outfit. 
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At Advanced tier, you can do this for another creature.
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==== Ember Embodiment ====
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Assume the form of a Fire creature.
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This is a true physical transmutation. You need not assume the form of an existing creature, as long as the Game Master agrees your new form fits the Fire theme.
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Shapechanging can act as a Set Up for other Actions, but may penalize certain activities depending on your new form. When appropriate, your new form can use Basic and Advanced Fire powers inherently without suffering Stress.
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With a Limited Effect, you transform into a version of yourself as you might have been had you grown up as the creature whose form you assume; those familiar with you can still recognize you. 
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A Standard Effect allows you to become a generic creature, making you very hard to recognize as yourself. 
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A Great Effect allows you to assume the shape and some of the personality of a specific creature you have studied.
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==== Ember Enchantment ====
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Shapechange a willing or helpless creature into a Fire creature.
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This is Ember Embodiment applied to another creature. The duration depends on the Effect: a Limited Effect is very temporary, a Standard Effect lasts for the duration of a score, and a Great Effect lasts a long time and may become permanent, depending on the story.
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Making the target unrecognizable requires additional Effect; see Ember Embodiment.
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This is sometimes used as a form of poetic justice, transforming the target as punishment through a curse that is difficult to break.
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==== Ember Embrace ====
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Transform multiple willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a task.
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{{ : Apex Consort }}
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=== Finesse ===
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Exercise finesse with Fire, manipulating and attacking with precision.
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==== Ember Excursion ====
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Ride a fire creature or combustion vehicle.
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This allows you to use Finesse with mounts and vehicles you are not familiar with.
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Fire vehicles include all combustion vehicles.
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You can bypass simple locks on vehicles, but not more serious security.
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Fire mounts include any animal using Fire.
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You can such ride beasts even if they are not trained to carry a rider.
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They must still be willing and physically able to carry you.
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You can give this ability to your crew as an Advanced power.
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==== Ember Assault ====
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Fire as a fine and potent close-range attack.
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Besides variety in damage, this only substitutes for equipment, fine and potent finesse weapon is just as effective. In a fight, using this does not take any more time, activating your attack power is equivalent to drawing a weapon.
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==== Ember Express ====
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Create a fast and furious vehicle of fire.
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Create a vehicle out of fire, most easily by igniting something that is present but possibly creating it out of thin air.
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Functions much as any other vehicle from the setting, a smaller vehicle is faster and more agile, but Ember Express vehicles tend to be fast and furious, hard to control but responsive to a skilled hand.
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==== Ember Ejection ====
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Rocket ride.
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Allow your crew and your the mounts and vehicles to rocket, flying very quickly but imprecisely. Once you land, the ability ends.
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=== Hunt ===
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Track, attack, and unleash devastating barrages with Fire. 
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At short range, this can be dangerous to you and yours.
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==== Pyro Pursuit ====
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Track by following traces of Heat.
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Warm-blooded creatures and most vehicles leave a trail of warm prints as they move. 
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These are easy to track but fade quickly. 
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Tracking heat signatures works even if the quarry does not leave any mundane trail or clues. 
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Consequences often involve losing the trail or being drawn into danger by the environment or the target’s countermeasures.
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==== Blaze Bullet ====
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Fire attack at range, similar to a Fine and Potent rifle.
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You attack with a long-range bolt of Fire. 
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This serves as a replacement for traditional equipment; a Fine and Potent ranged weapon is equally effective. 
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While some targets may be more or less vulnerable to Fire attacks, this is the exception rather than the rule.
 +
 
 +
==== Smoke Sculpture ====
 +
Control smoke and Heat over wide areas.
 +
 
 +
You control smoke and warm the environment over a wide area. 
 +
This does not inflict direct damage, but the environment can cause Harm over time. 
 +
You can affect roughly a city block or an equivalent natural area, and you may have the affected area move along as you travel.
 +
 
 +
Warming a cold environment improves endurance, while excessive Heat causes exhaustion. 
 +
Smoke obscures sight and causes coughing; prolonged exposure is dangerous. 
 +
 
 +
Smoke Sculpture is usually used as a Set Up, but it may also change how people act — smoke often causes panic or flight as people assume a fire that may not exist.
 +
 
 +
==== Fireball ====
 +
Fire attack similar to a Fine and Potent grenade.
 +
 
 +
An escalation of Blaze Bullet. Less precise, this affects all creatures in an area and carries a significant risk of collateral damage. 
 +
 
 +
Fireball is unusually effective against cover. When targets are behind cover, reduce Effect by one step instead of having targets merely duck and cover.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
=== Prowl ===
 +
Move with stealth and agility among smoke and embers.
 +
 
 +
==== Smoke Shroud ====
 +
Hide and breathe in smoke without discomfort.
 +
 
 +
This allows you to hide in Fire and smoke, allowing you to be where others do not look and cannot see. 
 +
It otherwise works like any other attempt to use Prowl to avoid notice. 
 +
Only you can benefit from this ability; your friends and allies cannot unless you use Blaze Brigade, below.
 +
 
 +
==== Pyro Path ====
 +
Move through Fire, smoke, ash, and lava. Perform rocket-assisted jumps.
 +
 
 +
You can climb on smoke and flame and perform rocket-assisted jumps to any spot you can see. 
 +
These movements are extremely fast but clumsy and risky. 
 +
Your crew cannot use this ability unless you employ Blaze Brigade, below.
 +
 
 +
==== Blaze Brigade ====
 +
Bring allies along when you use Smoke Shroud and Pyro Path.
 +
 
 +
You and your allies can now Prowl in places where your power is at home. 
 +
They still use their own Prowl Action.
 +
 
 +
==== Rocket Ride ====
 +
Crew can fly medium distances like rockets — fast, loud, and imprecise.
 +
 
 +
This enables regional travel. You remain within the same city or region, but as long as you have clear sky overhead, you can fly away from almost any situation.
 +
 
 +
Rocket Ride is loud, and landing in unfamiliar places may be dangerous. 
 +
Both required Effect and Position are worse unless you know where you are going. 
 +
As a result, Rocket Ride is excellent for escapes, but less effective for intrusions into hostile territory where you lack familiarity.
 +
 
 +
=== Skirmish ===
 +
Prosper in the chaos of battle.
 +
 
 +
==== Pyro Protection ====
 +
Absorb Fire and Heat. Ignore smoke from Fire.
 +
 
 +
You can ignore most Harm from a dangerously hot environment. 
 +
This does not protect against toxic gases from sources other than Fire.
 +
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 +
==== Pyro Power ====
 +
Attack like a Fine and Potent Finesse weapon.
 +
 
 +
You create a ray or blade of Fire to wield as a weapon. 
 +
Aside from differences in damage type, this only substitutes for equipment — normal Fine and Potent Finesse weapons are just as effective. 
 +
Certain targets may be more or less vulnerable to specific attacks, but this is the exception rather than the rule.
 +
 
 +
==== Blaze Barrier ====
 +
Fire obstructions prevent Scale.
 +
 
 +
You create a fiery hellscape that forces enemies to engage you one by one, preventing them from benefiting from Scale. 
 +
Consequences often mean you lose control of the Fire and it spreads wildly.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Explosion ====
 +
Fire attacks all enemies in the area.
 +
 
 +
You turn yourself into a one-person firestorm. You negate the advantage enemies gain from numbers and spread your Effect to Harm all enemies involved in the skirmish.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
=== Study ===
 +
Study and analyze objects and creatures imbued with your power to gain insight and knowledge. The effect required depends on range, limited effect for touch, standard effect for line-of-sight, and great effect to reach a target you know of or have some link to, but which is out of line-of-sight.
 +
 
 +
Position depends on the situation. Safely in your base the position is controlled. In the middle of a fight or when pinned down the position is desperate. Sometimes the thing you are researching it dangerous in itself, worsening position, consequences may give you knowledge that lacks crucial details.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Examiner ====
 +
Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Fire.
 +
 
 +
This gives the name and very basic information in narrative terms, but not details or actual rules.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Expertise ====
 +
Learn the powers and abilities of Fire.
 +
 
 +
You learn of any powers or special abilities the target has. This includes actual rules and game effects.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Echo ====
 +
Read the past events of something fire, ash, or igneous rock.
 +
 
 +
This includes previous owners and how the object has been moved around as well as significant scenes from its history. The power zooms in on events of interest to you.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Encyclopedia ====
 +
Ember Expertise in a wide area, then Ember Echo for some fires.
 +
 
 +
Provides a detailed view of events involving fire, smoke, and heat as far as you can see, pinpointing locations of interest like furnaces and campfires. You can then use Ember Echo to learn the history of up to three such locations.
 +
 
 +
 
 +
=== Survey ===
 +
Perceive and locate Fire and combustibles. 
 +
The Outcome you need depends on the target’s concealment. 
 +
A '''Limited Outcome''' finds things hiding behind cover or in distant places you can barely see. 
 +
A '''Standard Outcome''' can look behind walls and into hard cover. 
 +
A '''Great Outcome''' can look into far-away places and spots you had no idea existed.
 +
 
 +
==== Pyre Perception ====
 +
Sense heat, fire, Fire creatures, and Fire powers.
 +
 
 +
This is a basic spotting power, selectively sensing things related to Fire. 
 +
You can specify what you are looking for: combustibles, certain types of fire, smoke of a particular color, and so on.
 +
 
 +
==== Pyre Peek ====
 +
Choose a fire that you know of; you can perceive as if you were at that spot.
 +
 
 +
You move your perception to a fire and sense as if you were there as long as you maintain concentration. 
 +
You still sense things at your actual location, but only very dimly.
 +
 
 +
==== Hearth Homing ====
 +
Choose a location or creature. You Pyre Peek at the nearest fire.
 +
 
 +
Similar to Pyre Peek, but allows you to focus on a specific creature or position. 
 +
Your senses are automatically directed to the best vantage point provided by a suitable fire, typically close enough to observe the target. 
 +
This fails if no suitable fire is available.
 +
 
 +
==== Pyro Panopticon ====
 +
Pyre Peek from all fires at once over a wide area.
 +
 
 +
Your senses are expanded impossibly, as if you were multiple individuals spread across the scene. 
 +
You form a comprehensive mental image of the area, revealing numerous details simultaneously. 
 +
It is difficult for targets to hide unless they account for every fire as a potential observer.
 +
 
 +
=== Sway ===
 +
Communicate, mesmerize, and manipulate creatures imbued with Fire. 
 +
Position and Effect are determined normally, depending on the situation and your relationship to the listeners.
 +
 
 +
:'''Limited Outcome''' works if it follows the target’s existing impulses, overcoming only fragile self-restraint. 
 +
:'''Standard Outcome''' can convince a target with no particular stake in the matter. 
 +
:'''Great Outcome''' can convince a reluctant target, but not a passionate one.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Empathy ====
 +
Understand Fire creatures and sense fiery motivations.
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You can gauge the mood and motivations of Fire creatures and understand what they are saying. 
 +
You can also sense when any kind of creature is in an energetic, fiery, or industrious mood.
 +
 
 +
==== Flame Fellowship ====
 +
Crew can talk to Fire creatures. Stoke energy and drive.
 +
 
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You and your Crew can use the Sway Action with full Effect against Fire creatures, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. 
 +
You are still persuading, not asserting authority.
 +
 
 +
You can also influence any type of creature to become more energetic, fiery, and industrious.
 +
 
 +
==== Ember Entrancement ====
 +
Plant suggestions in the mind of a Fire creature.
 +
 
 +
This is an enhanced Sway attempt that allows you to implant suggestions which trigger under conditions you set. 
 +
The influence remains subtle until the suggestion activates, and the target does not remember being swayed.
 +
 
 +
==== Inferno Induction ====
 +
Permanently alter the personality and motivations of a Fire creature.
 +
 
 +
This change is permanent and blatant. It reshapes the target’s priorities and loyalties at a deep level. 
 +
The target remembers their past, but considers it unimportant compared to their new motivations.
 +
 
 +
There are limits to this power, especially for creatures bound to greater forces — you cannot make a Fire creature love the sea. 
 +
Exceptional circumstances may break this change.
 +
 
 +
=== Tinker ===
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Manipulate, shape, and create Fire to suit your needs.
 +
 
 +
Fire is a powerful transformative element and can modify substances governed by other Forms. 
 +
In Long-Term Projects, Tinker Fire can often substitute for missing resources such as tools or workspace for crafting, not just for Fire-related work. Until you gain Furnace Fabricator, this replaces tools and workspace but not labor or raw materials.
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==== Furnace Forger ====
 +
Forge, solder, weld, and ignite.
 +
 
 +
This primarily substitutes for tools, up to the scale of a small workshop. 
 +
You are protected from the dangerous effects of working with intense Heat.
 +
 
 +
At this level, Fire enables crafts such as smithing, casting, kiln firing, and baking, but you cannot yet generate the extreme temperatures or precision required for truly advanced fabrication.
 +
 
 +
==== Furnace Flame ====
 +
Shape Fire so it retains form.
 +
 
 +
You surpass normal crafting limits by shaping Fire itself and applying it as a tool. 
 +
You can generate extremely hot Fire and use it to work materials governed by other Forms, even those you do not know.
 +
 
 +
You can shape Fire so it retains a form for a time, creating conduits, channels, or patterns similar to ducts or chimneys. 
 +
This allows the construction of traps or devices that would normally require extensive equipment.
 +
 
 +
Most uses of Furnace Flame last for a single scene. 
 +
If your Outcome exceeds what is required, the effect may persist until the end of the score.
 +
 
 +
==== Furnace Fusion ====
 +
Transform materials through precise heat treatment.
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 +
You can shape materials that can be worked by Heat, even if you do not know the Form associated with the resulting substance. 
 +
If you know additional Forms, you can produce matter associated with those Forms by applying Fire to other materials that are not exceptionally heat resistant.
 +
 
 +
''Example: If you know Fire and Metal, you can create Metal from any material you are able to melt.''
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 +
==== Furnace Fabricator ====
 +
Scale Furnace Flame to mass production or large construction.
 +
 
 +
This is Furnace Flame applied at a much larger scale. 
 +
It is useful for equipping large groups or constructing major works such as ships or buildings that would normally require a workforce and facilities.
 +
 
 +
When undertaking Long-Term Projects involving construction or crafting, Furnace Fabricator allows you to produce hundreds of identical items with the same effort as one, even under poor conditions, at the usual Stress cost.
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=== Wreck ===
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Destroy, dismantle, and obliterate objects made of Fire or powered by Fire.
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 +
The Outcome required depends on the size and structural strength of your target. 
 +
A '''Standard Outcome''' is a car-sized hole in a brick or mortar wall. 
 +
Larger or stronger targets require a '''Great Outcome'''. 
 +
Smaller holes still require the same Outcome. 
 +
Construction significantly weaker than mortar may only demand a '''Limited Outcome'''.
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==== Blaze Bonfire ====
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Burn like a bonfire or put one out. Noisy.
 +
 
 +
Just as crude as it sounds. 
 +
You can start or put out fires up to bonfires, or strike with the force of a burning sledgehammer. 
 +
In combat, Wreck may be at an advantage or disadvantage compared to Hunt, Finesse, and Skirmish, depending on the situation.
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==== Blaze Furnace ====
 +
Burn like a furnace or put one out.
 +
 
 +
This bypasses the strength of materials, allowing you to create or put out a fire up to the scale of a blast furnace. 
 +
You can also use this to smash like a fine, potent, white-hot sledgehammer.
 +
 
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==== Blaze Ash ====
 +
Blaze Furnace that silently reduces targets to fine ash.
 +
 
 +
The difference from Blaze Furnace is that wrecking things is now silent. It leaves fewer traces — what you wreck disappears. 
 +
You can eliminate evidence, leaving only fine ash.
 +
 
 +
==== Blaze Firestorm ====
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Create a firestorm or put one out.
  
Fire is the essence of energy.
+
Rather straightforward, this just scales things up to the level of burning multiple city blocks.
No Fire power is different enough to need its own detailed description.
 

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Fire is an element of transformation, it can destroy but also transform and forge other elements.

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 causing burns and possibly immolating targets.

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 Advanced Master Apex
Dice Minimum 2d Minimum 4d Minimum 6d
Stress Avoid fumble (2+). Succeed (4+). Full success (6). Critical (2 sixes).
Attune Pyro Pressure
Intimidate with Fire.
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 Ember Embellishment
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.
Ember Embrace
Transform a number of willing or non-sentient creatures, give them a task.
Finesse Ember Excursion
Ride a fire creature or combustion vehicle.
Ember Assault
Fire as a fine and potent close-range attack.
Ember Express
Create a fast and furious vehicle of fire.
Ember Ejection
Rocket ride.
Hunt Pyro Pursuit
Track by following traces of heat.
Blaze Bullet
Fire attack at range, similar to a fine and potent rifle.
Smoke Sculpture
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 Protection
Blocks Fire Harm.
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

Fire effects are often dramatic and capable of shaping a scene, not only through what they do, but through their Consequences.

Position depends on the situation. A quiet workspace is a Controlled Position. The general hustle of adventure is Risky. Direct attacks, massive crowds, or dangerous construction are Desperate.

Consequences often affect the environment: bad air, smoke, spreading fire, or weakening structures. These Consequences are frequently represented by clocks that tick quickly toward escalation, often starting new clocks as the situation worsens.


Attune

Harness the power of Attune to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with Fire beings and phenomena.

Pyro Perception

Detect Fire creatures and Fire powers.

This is usually done to spot a spirit or a disguised creature. It can also help identify a creature's connection to powers, providing valuable insights into their nature. If you know several different powers, you can scan for all of them at the same time. Limited outcome suffices against a nearby creature you can clearly see. You need greater outcome against against a creature that is hidden or far away (standard outcome) or behind a wall (great outcome). The position usually starts controlled, with the usual consequence that you missed the opportunity and cannot try again until the situation changes.

Pyro Purge

Dismiss a Fire creature or end a Fire power ability.

You can dispel any Fire power and powers affecting fires or Fire creatures. Dispelling can be used as a defense against others' use of powers, or it can be used to break continuing effects. Dispelling is often used as a setup action to help another character in a situation when the opposition is using powers. This usually improves the position of the supported action and can work in addition to other setup actions. When used directly, the effect is usually limited unless the opponent is relying on powers for their safety. Against an opponent that uses Animal wings to fly or turned into a fish to breathe underwater you have a better base effect. When dramatically appropriate that a power is hard to dispel, often because it is the crux of the situation, this will not negate the power but instead give you a clue to what you need to do to resolve the situation.

Forcing a spirit to materialize is easy, but limited in range; if the creature can get away from you it can de-materialize again, only to materialize again if it gets close enough. Limited effect only works on spirits within reach. Standard effect covers an area based on your tier (p 220). Great effect reaches out to a range covered by tier (p 220).

Dismissing a creature is hard and usually requires great effect. A creature that has been wounded or otherwise weakened only needs standard effect. A creature that wants to be dismissed requires only limited effect.

Pyro Pact

Summon a Fire creature.

Creatures of Fire: Fire creatures you can summon come in three types — spirits, elementals, and creatures with powers.

Fire spirits are immaterial guardians and exemplars of Fire and its virtues of energy and transformation.

An elemental is a simple creature totally dominated by its power. Most elementals have animal intelligence, and often take the shape of animals as well, though animated chunks of matter and humanoid forms are also common.

Creatures with powers resemble normal creatures, having a biological body and metabolism, but also possessing exceptional abilities related to their power. A fire dragon is impossibly large, flies, and breathes fire.

Summons are Chohorts: Creatures you summon function as temporary cohorts — either an Expert or a Gang — with added Powers from their Form. An Expert is a skilled individual who can offer advice, Assist, or act independently. A Gang is a group (numbers based on your Tier, p. 221) that primarily provides Scale in combat and labor.

You can always summon a Gang of creatures one Tier below yours. Summoning a specific Gang or Expert requires knowing its unique identity — called a true name in mystical traditions. For a technomancer, this might be a type ID, blueprint, or genetic code. Learning a creature’s true name may require a flashback, or in complex cases, the research downtime activity or a reward from a score.

Summoning a Creature: The summoning itself is quick but dangerous. When you have time and resources, it is wise to use wards and Barriers, but in action this is usually impossible and you must face the risks. Having allies present for safety is advisable. Offering a creature gifts or services appropriate to its nature and power can be a literal Devil’s Bargain — accepting an additional consequence to gain an advantage.

Depending on your degree of outcome, a creature is willing to do different things:

  • Limited Outcome allows you to ask questions of an Expert or demand a short period of physical labor from a Gang. They will not fight for you.
  • Standard Outcome allows any service appropriate to the creature’s type, having it act in its typical role. Most creatures don’t mind fighting, but may have preferences about how they do it and what they do outside a fight.
  • Great Outcome allows service outside the creature’s comfort zone, though not against its nature. Lengthy service — even within its comfort zone — also requires a Great Outcome, such as guarding treasure until it is stolen.

The position usually starts at Risky — the creature is compelled and may resist. Typical consequences, in ascending order of severity:

  • General sulkiness
  • Half-hearted efforts
  • Demanding not to be summoned again
  • Breaking things or demanding concessions
  • Overly literal interpretations of your commands
  • A test attack to assert dominance
  • Deliberate sabotage of tasks
  • A constant struggle to maintain control

Not all creatures with powers are summonable or dismissible. Many are native to this world and have no special vulnerability to Attune power effects.

Pyro Passage

Portal to a plane of Fire.

This is situational, but vital when needed. The plane of Fire may be a mirror-image of the mundane world rendered in flame, an ocean of burning oil, a range of volcanoes, or a forest swept by firestorms that rapidly recover.

The City of Brass, home of the efreet, is an important location here.

There are things that are possible to do here that are not allowed in the regular world. Appropriate effects are reduced one step in difficulty, from advanced to basic, master to advanced, and apex to master. This opens the possibility of new super-apex powers that have to be negotiated with the game master. Such effects rarely reach outside the plane of origin, but if they affect creatures there the effect may remain when you return to the mundane world.

This can also be used to contact creatures too powerful to summon. This allows you to ignore tier when creating the gate, but gives you no power over the target. The creature may then use the gate to come to you, call you into its presence, send minions, or communicate with you at a distance.

Command

Intimidate and lead Fire creatures, projecting authority through threat and presence. Position and Effect depend on the situation and your relationship with the listeners.

Position depends on the target’s relationship to you. Ordering a creature that considers itself your superior is a Desperate Position. A Controlled Position usually comes from a creature that already agrees you outrank it, with failure making further attempts more difficult. A Risky Position is typical against equals.

Conflict, defiance, rebellion, uncontrolled fire, and increases to your Crew’s Heat are common Consequences.

Pyro Pressure

Intimidate with Fire.

You create Fire effects such as flames on your body or free-floating fire to heighten your authority, gaining leverage similar to that provided by an explicit threat, such as displaying a weapon. This can provide the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without immediate violence.

Creatures of Fire may recognize you as a figure of authority.

Pyro Projection

Communicate with Fire over long distances.

You can communicate with Fire creatures over any distance as long as you know the target. You can communicate with the most powerful Fire creature in a vehicle or installation as long as you can see the exterior. Communication is simple and direct, suitable for the Command Action.

You can also use an existing fire as a communication focus, communicating with anyone near that fire. If no one is near the target fire, the power fails.

Pyro Potentate

Command Fire creatures as if you were their superior.

This allows you to order strangers around and improves Effect, but not Position; targets comply without accepting your authority. This does not remove existing loyalties, which may lead to conflict. Understanding the social order of your targets helps avoid clashes with established hierarchies.

Fire inspires fear more readily than loyalty. Making city guards flee requires less Effect than ordering them about.

Ember Enslavement

Permanently bind Fire creatures to service.

This only works if you already hold power over the target. The effect is similar to Pyro Potentate, but permanent. Strong emotions may break your control, but otherwise it persists until dispelled.

Creatures are cowed rather than recruited and may comply minimally or lie low until ordered.


Consort

Consort powers change your form and, at higher tiers, that of other creatures. These powers may also be used as a Set Up for later Consort Actions, often improving Effect or Position, or enabling actions a human could not normally perform.

Common Consequences include being mistaken for someone else, your assumed form becoming a hindrance, or igniting nearby objects unintentionally. You might become obnoxiously attractive, emotionally over-engaged, or suffer other unexpected complications.

Ember Embellishment

Fire, smoke, or soot accessories.

Enhance your appearance with smoke, heat, flaming patterns, or actual flames. You do not physically change yourself; instead, you alter your accessories and outfit. At Advanced tier, you can do this for another creature.

Ember Embodiment

Assume the form of a Fire creature.

This is a true physical transmutation. You need not assume the form of an existing creature, as long as the Game Master agrees your new form fits the Fire theme.

Shapechanging can act as a Set Up for other Actions, but may penalize certain activities depending on your new form. When appropriate, your new form can use Basic and Advanced Fire powers inherently without suffering Stress.

With a Limited Effect, you transform into a version of yourself as you might have been had you grown up as the creature whose form you assume; those familiar with you can still recognize you. A Standard Effect allows you to become a generic creature, making you very hard to recognize as yourself. A Great Effect allows you to assume the shape and some of the personality of a specific creature you have studied.

Ember Enchantment

Shapechange a willing or helpless creature into a Fire creature.

This is Ember Embodiment applied to another creature. The duration depends on the Effect: a Limited Effect is very temporary, a Standard Effect lasts for the duration of a score, and a Great Effect lasts a long time and may become permanent, depending on the story.

Making the target unrecognizable requires additional Effect; see Ember Embodiment.

This is sometimes used as a form of poetic justice, transforming the target as punishment through a curse that is difficult to break.

Ember Embrace

Transform multiple willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a task.

This is where Consort becomes similar to an Attune Summon power effect. You transform a number of existing creatures and give them a task that they will perform with gusto, turning them into single-minded minions. Targets must be willing, Non-Sentient like animals, or just very minor figures in the plot, many tiers below you.

This creates a gang cohort (p 96) that they can be given bit parts as servants or laborers or fight and chase for you. Such goons are more useful for chasing and cornering targets than in actual combat.

Finesse

Exercise finesse with Fire, manipulating and attacking with precision.

Ember Excursion

Ride a fire creature or combustion vehicle.

This allows you to use Finesse with mounts and vehicles you are not familiar with. Fire vehicles include all combustion vehicles. You can bypass simple locks on vehicles, but not more serious security. Fire mounts include any animal using Fire. You can such ride beasts even if they are not trained to carry a rider. They must still be willing and physically able to carry you.

You can give this ability to your crew as an Advanced power.

Ember Assault

Fire as a fine and potent close-range attack.

Besides variety in damage, this only substitutes for equipment, fine and potent finesse weapon is just as effective. In a fight, using this does not take any more time, activating your attack power is equivalent to drawing a weapon.

Ember Express

Create a fast and furious vehicle of fire.

Create a vehicle out of fire, most easily by igniting something that is present but possibly creating it out of thin air. Functions much as any other vehicle from the setting, a smaller vehicle is faster and more agile, but Ember Express vehicles tend to be fast and furious, hard to control but responsive to a skilled hand.

Ember Ejection

Rocket ride.

Allow your crew and your the mounts and vehicles to rocket, flying very quickly but imprecisely. Once you land, the ability ends.


Hunt

Track, attack, and unleash devastating barrages with Fire. At short range, this can be dangerous to you and yours.

Pyro Pursuit

Track by following traces of Heat.

Warm-blooded creatures and most vehicles leave a trail of warm prints as they move. These are easy to track but fade quickly. Tracking heat signatures works even if the quarry does not leave any mundane trail or clues. Consequences often involve losing the trail or being drawn into danger by the environment or the target’s countermeasures.

Blaze Bullet

Fire attack at range, similar to a Fine and Potent rifle.

You attack with a long-range bolt of Fire. This serves as a replacement for traditional equipment; a Fine and Potent ranged weapon is equally effective. While some targets may be more or less vulnerable to Fire attacks, this is the exception rather than the rule.

Smoke Sculpture

Control smoke and Heat over wide areas.

You control smoke and warm the environment over a wide area. This does not inflict direct damage, but the environment can cause Harm over time. You can affect roughly a city block or an equivalent natural area, and you may have the affected area move along as you travel.

Warming a cold environment improves endurance, while excessive Heat causes exhaustion. Smoke obscures sight and causes coughing; prolonged exposure is dangerous.

Smoke Sculpture is usually used as a Set Up, but it may also change how people act — smoke often causes panic or flight as people assume a fire that may not exist.

Fireball

Fire attack similar to a Fine and Potent grenade.

An escalation of Blaze Bullet. Less precise, this affects all creatures in an area and carries a significant risk of collateral damage.

Fireball is unusually effective against cover. When targets are behind cover, reduce Effect by one step instead of having targets merely duck and cover.


Prowl

Move with stealth and agility among smoke and embers.

Smoke Shroud

Hide and breathe in smoke without discomfort.

This allows you to hide in Fire and smoke, allowing you to be where others do not look and cannot see. It otherwise works like any other attempt to use Prowl to avoid notice. Only you can benefit from this ability; your friends and allies cannot unless you use Blaze Brigade, below.

Pyro Path

Move through Fire, smoke, ash, and lava. Perform rocket-assisted jumps.

You can climb on smoke and flame and perform rocket-assisted jumps to any spot you can see. These movements are extremely fast but clumsy and risky. Your crew cannot use this ability unless you employ Blaze Brigade, below.

Blaze Brigade

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

You and your allies can now Prowl in places where your power is at home. They still use their own Prowl Action.

Rocket Ride

Crew can fly medium distances like rockets — fast, loud, and imprecise.

This enables regional travel. You remain within the same city or region, but as long as you have clear sky overhead, you can fly away from almost any situation.

Rocket Ride is loud, and landing in unfamiliar places may be dangerous. Both required Effect and Position are worse unless you know where you are going. As a result, Rocket Ride is excellent for escapes, but less effective for intrusions into hostile territory where you lack familiarity.

Skirmish

Prosper in the chaos of battle.

Pyro Protection

Absorb Fire and Heat. Ignore smoke from Fire.

You can ignore most Harm from a dangerously hot environment. This does not protect against toxic gases from sources other than Fire. You increase the effect of Skirmish rolls for endurance in such environments. Roll Skirmish to resist such Harm. 1-3: No reduction. 4-6: Reduce Harm by 1 level. Critical: Reduce Harm by 2 levels. As a Master power, you can protect an ally for a score; as an Apex Power, you can protect your crew. Allies roll their own Skirmish dice.

Pyro Power

Attack like a Fine and Potent Finesse weapon.

You create a ray or blade of Fire to wield as a weapon. Aside from differences in damage type, this only substitutes for equipment — normal Fine and Potent Finesse weapons are just as effective. Certain targets may be more or less vulnerable to specific attacks, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

Blaze Barrier

Fire obstructions prevent Scale.

You create a fiery hellscape that forces enemies to engage you one by one, preventing them from benefiting from Scale. Consequences often mean you lose control of the Fire and it spreads wildly.

Ember Explosion

Fire attacks all enemies in the area.

You turn yourself into a one-person firestorm. You negate the advantage enemies gain from numbers and spread your Effect to Harm all enemies involved in the skirmish.


Study

Study and analyze objects and creatures imbued with your power to gain insight and knowledge. The effect required depends on range, limited effect for touch, standard effect for line-of-sight, and great effect to reach a target you know of or have some link to, but which is out of line-of-sight.

Position depends on the situation. Safely in your base the position is controlled. In the middle of a fight or when pinned down the position is desperate. Sometimes the thing you are researching it dangerous in itself, worsening position, consequences may give you knowledge that lacks crucial details.

Ember Examiner

Identify powers, objects, and creatures of Fire.

This gives the name and very basic information in narrative terms, but not details or actual rules.

Ember Expertise

Learn the powers and abilities of Fire.

You learn of any powers or special abilities the target has. This includes actual rules and game effects.

Ember Echo

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

This includes previous owners and how the object has been moved around as well as significant scenes from its history. The power zooms in on events of interest to you.

Ember Encyclopedia

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

Provides a detailed view of events involving fire, smoke, and heat as far as you can see, pinpointing locations of interest like furnaces and campfires. You can then use Ember Echo to learn the history of up to three such locations.


Survey

Perceive and locate Fire and combustibles. The Outcome you need depends on the target’s concealment. A Limited Outcome finds things hiding behind cover or in distant places you can barely see. A Standard Outcome can look behind walls and into hard cover. A Great Outcome can look into far-away places and spots you had no idea existed.

Pyre Perception

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

This is a basic spotting power, selectively sensing things related to Fire. You can specify what you are looking for: combustibles, certain types of fire, smoke of a particular color, and so on.

Pyre Peek

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

You move your perception to a fire and sense as if you were there as long as you maintain concentration. You still sense things at your actual location, but only very dimly.

Hearth Homing

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

Similar to Pyre Peek, but allows you to focus on a specific creature or position. Your senses are automatically directed to the best vantage point provided by a suitable fire, typically close enough to observe the target. This fails if no suitable fire is available.

Pyro Panopticon

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

Your senses are expanded impossibly, as if you were multiple individuals spread across the scene. You form a comprehensive mental image of the area, revealing numerous details simultaneously. It is difficult for targets to hide unless they account for every fire as a potential observer.

Sway

Communicate, mesmerize, and manipulate creatures imbued with Fire. Position and Effect are determined normally, depending on the situation and your relationship to the listeners.

Limited Outcome works if it follows the target’s existing impulses, overcoming only fragile self-restraint.
Standard Outcome can convince a target with no particular stake in the matter.
Great Outcome can convince a reluctant target, but not a passionate one.

Ember Empathy

Understand Fire creatures and sense fiery motivations.

You can gauge the mood and motivations of Fire creatures and understand what they are saying. You can also sense when any kind of creature is in an energetic, fiery, or industrious mood.

Flame Fellowship

Crew can talk to Fire creatures. Stoke energy and drive.

You and your Crew can use the Sway Action with full Effect against Fire creatures, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. You are still persuading, not asserting authority.

You can also influence any type of creature to become more energetic, fiery, and industrious.

Ember Entrancement

Plant suggestions in the mind of a Fire creature.

This is an enhanced Sway attempt that allows you to implant suggestions which trigger under conditions you set. The influence remains subtle until the suggestion activates, and the target does not remember being swayed.

Inferno Induction

Permanently alter the personality and motivations of a Fire creature.

This change is permanent and blatant. It reshapes the target’s priorities and loyalties at a deep level. The target remembers their past, but considers it unimportant compared to their new motivations.

There are limits to this power, especially for creatures bound to greater forces — you cannot make a Fire creature love the sea. Exceptional circumstances may break this change.

Tinker

Manipulate, shape, and create Fire to suit your needs.

Fire is a powerful transformative element and can modify substances governed by other Forms. In Long-Term Projects, Tinker Fire can often substitute for missing resources such as tools or workspace for crafting, not just for Fire-related work. Until you gain Furnace Fabricator, this replaces tools and workspace but not labor or raw materials.

  • Limited Outcome solves an immediate problem, then ends. Any effect achieved will last, such as a repair made with temporary tools.
  • Standard Outcome construction, repair, or item lasts for the duration of a score.
  • Great Outcome is semi-permanent. This does not make permanent kit, but it can make permanent effects to the setting, such as repairing a large construction like a bridge or wall.
  • Something larger than a human, very complex, or of higher Quality Level than your Tier or Lifestyle increases the needed Outcome.

Position depends on the tranquility of your workspace and if you are working on something dangerous in itself.

For long-term projects, Tinker powers can substitute for missing tools, but that is all they do until you can Fabricate.

Furnace Forger

Forge, solder, weld, and ignite.

This primarily substitutes for tools, up to the scale of a small workshop. You are protected from the dangerous effects of working with intense Heat.

At this level, Fire enables crafts such as smithing, casting, kiln firing, and baking, but you cannot yet generate the extreme temperatures or precision required for truly advanced fabrication.

Furnace Flame

Shape Fire so it retains form.

You surpass normal crafting limits by shaping Fire itself and applying it as a tool. You can generate extremely hot Fire and use it to work materials governed by other Forms, even those you do not know.

You can shape Fire so it retains a form for a time, creating conduits, channels, or patterns similar to ducts or chimneys. This allows the construction of traps or devices that would normally require extensive equipment.

Most uses of Furnace Flame last for a single scene. If your Outcome exceeds what is required, the effect may persist until the end of the score.

Furnace Fusion

Transform materials through precise heat treatment.

You can shape materials that can be worked by Heat, even if you do not know the Form associated with the resulting substance. If you know additional Forms, you can produce matter associated with those Forms by applying Fire to other materials that are not exceptionally heat resistant.

Example: If you know Fire and Metal, you can create Metal from any material you are able to melt.

Furnace Fabricator

Scale Furnace Flame to mass production or large construction.

This is Furnace Flame applied at a much larger scale. It is useful for equipping large groups or constructing major works such as ships or buildings that would normally require a workforce and facilities.

When undertaking Long-Term Projects involving construction or crafting, Furnace Fabricator allows you to produce hundreds of identical items with the same effort as one, even under poor conditions, at the usual Stress cost.

Wreck

Destroy, dismantle, and obliterate objects made of Fire or powered by Fire.

The Outcome required depends on the size and structural strength of your target. A Standard Outcome is a car-sized hole in a brick or mortar wall. Larger or stronger targets require a Great Outcome. Smaller holes still require the same Outcome. Construction significantly weaker than mortar may only demand a Limited Outcome.

Blaze Bonfire

Burn like a bonfire or put one out. Noisy.

Just as crude as it sounds. You can start or put out fires up to bonfires, or strike with the force of a burning sledgehammer. 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 to create or put out a fire up to the scale of a blast furnace. You can also use this to smash like a fine, potent, white-hot sledgehammer.

Blaze Ash

Blaze Furnace that silently reduces targets to fine ash.

The difference from Blaze Furnace is that wrecking things is now silent. It leaves fewer traces — what you wreck disappears. You can eliminate evidence, leaving only fine ash.

Blaze Firestorm

Create a firestorm or put one out.

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