Fire

The element of fire was one of the four fundamental building blocks of matter, both useful and dreadful, warming and consuming, changing and purifying. Despite elements generally playing a neutral role in the cosmos, fire was seen as aggressive and evil by many.
==Cosmology==
Fire manifested its position in the cosmos as the Elemental Plane of Fire, one of the Inner Planes. The element was also represented there in living form as fire elementals.
The ruler over the portfolio of fire in Faerûn and Zakhara was the elemental lord Kossuth, while it was held by Tezca in the Maztican and by Girru in the Untheric pantheon. Among the Lords of Creation worshiped in southeastern Kara-Tur, Agni held dominion over this element. Moradin of the dwarves and Flandal Steelskin of the gnomes also had a special interest in fire as it was used in the forge. Talos, the draconic deity Garyx, and the giant power Surtr administered the destructive side of fire. The evil archomental Imix also worked to wrest the claim over the element of fire away from Kossuth, but the greater power remained firmly in control. Beyond Realmspace, Sirrion the Flowing Flame held the portfolio of fire for the world of Krynn.
==Magic==
===School of elemental fire===
Many magical spells utilized the element of fire. Elemental fire was recognized as a "school of effect" (rather than one of the eight traditional schools of magic). Wizards specializing in this school were called fire elementalists.In some areas of the world of Mystara, fire elementalists were called pyromancers. Fire was opposed to the element of water, both as a school of magic and as a worldview.
Magic-users in Zakhara had a similar but not identical notion of fire magic in the form of the province of flame.
Likewise, the wu jen of Kara-Tur divided spells into five elemental groups, including fire.
===Divine fire magic===
A number of deities granted divine spells that relied on the element, either in the form of the elemental fire sphere, or the fire domain.
==Celestial bodies==
Spacefarers also used the four elements to distinguish different types of celestial bodies present in the crystal spheres. Fire bodies were often found at the center of a crystal sphere, giving light and warmth to all its worlds. The sun of Realmspace (as its only fire body) was just such an example.|74-76}}
==Appendix==
===See also===
* Creatures with the Fire subtype (3rd and v.3.5) or keyword (4th edition)
* List of spells with the Fire descriptor (3rd, 3.5, and 4th edition)
* List of elemental fire spells (arcane, 2nd edition)
* List of elemental fire sphere spells (divine, 2nd edition)
* List of fire domain spells (3rd and v.3.5)
* List of fire domain deities (3rd, 3.5, and 4th edition)
* Fire-dominant planar trait
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Category:Energies
Category:Substances
Category:Elements