Burning hands

Burning hands is a spell of the evocation school of magic.

Effect

Learned by some wizards of relatively low experience, burning hands momentarily engulfed the wizard's hands in a burst of magical flames and then expelled them rapidly into an adjacent area of roughly 25 feet (7.6 meters) in diameter. Earlier versions projected a cone of flame from the fingertips of the caster's outstretched hands, thumbs touching. These flames did no harm to the wizard but could scorch the flesh of others caught nearby during the fiery blast. The effect was instantaneous but damaging and the wizard required only a short, momentary rest to refocus in order to cast the spell again. The post Second Sundering version cast flames in a 15‑foot (4.6‑meter) cone and had the older spell casting method of having ones thumbs together with outstretched hands. This ignited any flammable object that wasn't worn or carried.

Side/Secondary Effects

If cast in the phlogiston, the spell caused the immediate detonation of the caster and everything within a 5 ft (1.5 m) range.

Discovery

The spell was attributed to Netherese arcanist Primidon in −1909 BC and was originally called Primidon's burners.