Elemental Plane of Fire

The **Elemental Plane of Fire** is one of many Planes of Existence in the *Critical Role* universe. It is connected to Exandria in the Material Plane with at least a few rifts, the best-known of which has been tended by the Ashari for centuries.

## **Description**

The Plane is an endless badland of broken, burning land and reddish, iron-like rock, flaming distant mountains, and a burning orange-and-red horizon. There are tornadoes of flame tearing through the landscape, and jutting bits of glass-like rock poking from beneath the ground causing beautiful, dangerous, jagged gardens of melted sand. Black clouds of smoke and ash rise from multiple volcanoes, carrying a sulfuric and ionized scent. The temperature is extremely hot.

Creatures alien to the fire elemental climate, averaging between 110°F to 120°F, suffer progressive exhaustion.

## **Connections to the Material Plane**

### **The Portal in Pyrah**

In the region of Othanzia, there is a portal called the "Rift of Flame" that connects the Material Plane to the Elemental Plane of Fire. Long ago, the druids of the Fire Ashari established an enclave, called Pyrah, around the portal, guarding it to maintain balance and protect the world from energies and elementals of the Fire Plane.

### **The Cavern of Axiom**

In Kamaljiori's chamber in the Cavern of Axiom, there are multiple gateways to Elemental Planes. Keyleth placed her hand into the column of flame marking the gateway to the Elemental Plane of Fire, then Wildshaped into a fire elemental and plunged in.

#### **River Inferno**

Some speculate that River Inferno has ties to the Elemental Plane of Fire.

### **Unguarded rifts**

#### **Everplume**

Experts believe that in the center of the Everplume volcano lies a rift to the Plane of fire.

#### **Mount Mentiri**

Scholars propose that the searing heat coming from Mount Mentiri may indicate an active volcano or the existence of a rift to the Elemental Plane of Fire under the mount.

#### **Serpent's Head**

Due to tremors, the foundation of the keep, the Serpent's Head, has cracked, revealing small rifts to the Plane of Fire.

## **Notable locations**

### **The City of Brass**

The City of Brass is a large settlement within the Plane of Fire, populated primarily by those who are native to the Plane, although humanoids from the Material Plane are not an uncommon occurrence. However, the city has a very prominent slave trade and those humanoids often end up becoming enslaved.

### **The Sea of Fire**

The Plane features a sea of molten rock and there are "aqueducts" channeling the lava from the sea through the City of Brass. The City of Brass also has naval grounds on the coast of the Sea of Fire.

### **Planerider Ryn's study**

The Mighty Nein used a *Plane Shift* scroll gifted by Planerider Ryn to Yussa Errenis to reach a cavern used by her as a study or library. It was guarded by a fire elemental.

## **History**

### **Thordak banished to the plane**

When Emon belatedly realized that the rumors of a great red dragon were true, and that Thordak was a threat, the Arcana Pansophical devised a trap that would banish him to the Elemental Plane of Fire.

During his 15 or 16 years in the Plane, Thordak mostly stayed over the Sea of Fire.

### **Keyleth's Aramenté**

In "Aramente to Pyrah" (1x22), Vox Machina entered the Elemental Plane of Fire to help Keyleth complete the Fire portion of her Aramenté. Cerkonos provided a challenge for the group to pass, which they did, but not without finding and barely hiding from a colossal red dragon, later revealed to be Thordak.

### **Sealing the breach**

When the Chroma Conclave freed Thordak from the Elemental Plane of Fire, they created a breach between that plane and the Material Plane through which many elementals were able to escape and wreak havoc. Many of the Fire Ashari druids were slain or injured. Vox Machina, with the help of Gern Blanston, aided the Fire Ashari in sealing the interplanar rift.

### **The study of Planerider Ryn**

The Mighty Nein briefly visited the Plane of Fire in "Between a Ball and a Hot Place" (2x129) when they used a *Plane Shift* spell scroll gifted to Yussa Errenis by Planerider Ryn to escape from pursuing Dwendalian Empire forces. They remained within the area of Ryn's study, battling the guardian fire elemental, in order to obtain a long rest, returning the next morning to the Prime Material Plane.

## **External links**

* Elemental Plane of Fire on the *Forgotten Realms* Wikia (*Forgotten Realms* lore is not canon to *Critical Role*)

## **References**

1. ↑ See "Path of Brass" (1x74) at 1:55:34.
2. ↑ See "Between a Ball and a Hot Place" (2x129) at 1:14:49.
3. ↑ See "Path of Brass" (1x74) at 1:55:34.
4. ↑ See "Between a Ball and a Hot Place" (2x129) at 1:14:49.
5. ↑ See "Path of Brass" (1x74) at 2:48:15.  Pike passed the first constitution check with a 7. At "Clash at Daxio" (1x77) at 0:17:27 she took a point of exhaustion rolling a 7 on a second constitution check.
6. ↑ See *D&D: Dungeon Master's Guide*, 5th ed., p. 55.
7. ↑ See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting*, p. 30.
8. ↑ See "Best Laid Plans..." (1x50) at 18:04.
9. ↑ See "A Name Is Earned" (1x49) at 4:07:59.
10. ↑ See *Explorer's Guide to Wildemount*, p. 128.
11. ↑ See *Explorer's Guide to Wildemount*, p. 64.
12. ↑ See *Explorer's Guide to Wildemount*, p. 90.
13. ↑ See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting*, p. 70.
14. ↑ See "Path of Brass" (1x74) at 2:46:54.  See also at 2:50:45 and at 3:50:03.
15. ↑ See "Where the Cards Fall" (1x75) at 18:49.
16. ↑ See "Where the Cards Fall" (1x75) at 3:06:03.
17. ↑ See "Between a Ball and a Hot Place" (2x129) at 3:01:00.
18. ↑ See "Between a Ball and a Hot Place" (2x129) at 1:18:48.
19. ↑ See "Desperate Measures" (1x40) from 2:38:01 through 2:40:00.
20. ↑ See "Desperate Measures" (1x40) at 2:37:14.
21. ↑ See *Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting*, p. 11.
22. ↑ See "Path of Brass" (1x74) at 3:37:44.
23. ↑ See "Cindergrove Revisited" (1x46) at 3:07:57.

**Art:**

1. ↑ Fan art of Vox Machina's journey through the **Elemental Plane of Fire** in "Aramente to Pyrah" (1x22) (flipped version), by Alika Gupta (source). Used with permission.
2. ↑ Fan art of River Inferno, by Cyarna Trim (source). Used with permission.