Plane of Fire

The Roiling Inferno

By most accounts, the Plane of Fire is the most actively hostile to sentient beings, but it is also a beautiful sea of scintillating color and motion. While it is frequently described this way, however, it bears little resemblance to the Plane of Water. Like the Plane of Light, it is more like a flat surface with a sky above, but this 'flat' surface is full of lava floes and chaotic waves. The sights of the plane, from islands to mountains, float upon this 'stormy sea' of liquid Fire.

Traits

• Gravity: Down is typically towards the surface of liquid Fire, though it is relatively low.
• Burning: The plane has a bare minimum of 30 Heat Intensities at all times, with some outstanding areas reaching as high as 60. Thankfully, these exceptions typically involve being submerged in the roil rather than on the surface. Thus Fire Immunity can make the area livable, but not completely harmless. Effects that cause damage on Heat AT add on to this heat rather than being factored in separately, thus bypassing this fire immunity even if they would normally be negated by it (IE: if they would normally do less than 150 base damage).
• Magic: Spells of the Path of Fire (including subpaths or free access spells a caster uses with it) take effect at one level higher than they are cast at, while spells on the Path of Water suffer the opposite effect.

Geography

Much of the plane's geography is made of solid or liquid Fire, with some strange forms of stone or metal alloys comprising the rest. Even islands and colossal volcanic mountains do not remain still in the plane, floating on the roil like icebergs disconnected from any sort of bedrock. Even so, these solid masses stay together enough that they can be said to be geography, and cities can form on them. The oldest of these often have to hold their steadily crumbling islands together with massive chains or similar structures. Where there are no civilizations, many of these islands form their own strange wilderness, appearing only passingly similar to volcanic regions in The Eye.
Geysers of flame and ash, islands of rapidly growing forests, and plains split by rivers of flame are just some of the myriad sights. Despite what many may initially think, it is not a place that is merely red and orange; a variety of colors are present, even more so near the border with the Plane of Light. Some areas bear spires of brilliant blue from the purity of their flames alone, and the rivers can bear similar hues. On the other hand, the land is frequently blackened with ash, though not ubiquitously.
Transportation across the roil is treacherous even with protection from heat, partly because it as not as flat as it may initially seem. Some areas have sudden shifts in elevation resulting in 'waterfalls' of liquid Fire. Columns of flame or even pure energy can sometimes erupt from below the surface with little warning. Smaller islands can break apart and dissolve from the forces of the currents, even while travelers stand upon them. As a result, flight and other mobility can be just as important as protection from heat.

Fauna & Flora

Though organic life as known by The Eye is effectively absent, the life of the plane has abundant energy to sustain itself in other forms. Beings that are effectively vampiric motes of energy or living flame are not an uncommon sight, if they can even be called life. Some beings are born of the metal and stone, with the heat keeping their bodies fluid and mobile. Those closest to life are actually made of flesh or something like it, harnessing the abundant energy to heal rather than burn. This often causes them to grow and die abnormally quickly, and rapidly growing and wilting black forests are not an uncommon sight on the floating islands.
The largest and most dangerous beings are so inherently supernatural that they lack such drawbacks, however. Some simply seem to be immune to heat, swimming through the roil of burrowing through rock with ease as they hunt. Others float above it in the low gravity like fleshy balloons, and still others leap like terrestrial predators from island to island. Dragons often float on the currents when resting before taking back to the skies to hunt, and still larger elementals lurk in the depths.
Like their cousins in the Plane of Air, the more humanoid residents of this plane often lack legs in favor of making use of the low gravity. Other sentient elementals, such as soulkindlers, do not tend to form anything resembling societies due to their capricious natures. Perhaps more pressingly, some demons take the Roiling Inferno as their home, awaiting those desperate or deranged enough to summon them. Some elementals act much the same way, albeit with less nefarious intent, especially towards the Teleran.

Natural Resources

The mere fact that a stone or metal alloy is solid in this plane is a testament to its resistance to heat, if not its durability. Many unique alloys and building materials from the plane have immense durability, presence, and temperature resistance. On the other hand, these same factors can make them nigh impossible to work, and some are even exclusively held together by high temperatures and collapse under foreign conditions. The hides of native wildlife make for a good compromise in this regard between temperature resistance and ease of being worked. Finally, alloys that are not solid within the plane can still have value when shaped and cooled outside of it, though transferring heavy liquid metals in any meaningful amount can be a daunting task.
Corestone is of course available in varying quantities across the plane, and some of it is of much higher purity than its terrestrial variant. Light crystals from the neighboring plane, unable to melt from heat alone, can also occasionally be found floating on the currents. As with most planes, the organic components of native life can have useful supernatural properties as well. Apart from obvious elemental applications, artifact ingredients from local plants and animals frequently aid in transformational effects and those relating to absorption or manipulation of energy.

Type

Dimensional plane

Owner/Ruler

Source of Chaos