Amon Belfire

Amon calling upon his inner fire

The Red Crusade (Former)

> "I will literally set you on fire if you touch my knives again"
>
> - Amon to a kitchenhand in the USAS

## Appearance

Amon Belfire is a relatively tall fire genasi standing at a height of 6"4, however despite his race he does not look like any typical fire genasi, missing the charcoal skin and firey hair in favor of having a more humanlike appearance, only showing his heritage under heavy emotion or in combat where his body flares up in flames.

## Amon's Story

### Childhood

As a child Amon was an oddity within the city, lacking the common traits of his kind, instead of the darkened skin and fire-like hair, Amon was born much more alike to the humans of the martial plane, having black hair and white skin. The distinct lack of features of his kind didn’t stop with appearance, as it seemed that besides the physical difference, Amon also lacked the deep magical connection with fire, that all Fire genasi have. This however did not stop his parents from loving him, despite being different, they raised him as best as they could. Instead of an early education into the Brass City’s army “The Red Crusade” Amon was destined for a life of a servant, early on being taken under the wings of Flintknap neverdim the head chef of the Charcoal Palace, Amon’s early years had seen him under the tutelage of the kind but strict chef, where he learned much of the craft,

### Teenage years

In his early teens Amon had become a full-fledged servant in the Charcoal palace, having become the 2nd chef to Flintknap, The population around the Brass city had started to hear of the child that was fire-born yet had no connection to the fire, as Amon started to cook for the less fortunate inhabitants of the city hosting cookouts. Causing a dislike within the upper nobles, yet becoming liked by the common-folk.

While the years went on for Amon inside the palace, he became close friends to a handmaiden by the name of Cathexis Agni, a slightly older than him maid within the palace, Cathexis was an ex-member of The Red Crusade, being forced to servitude after sustaining an injury in the Cinder wasted repelling an attack from Red Dragons coming from the Fountains of Creation.

Being told many stories of the world outside the walls of the city from Cathexis, Amon began to dream of the world outside, having aspiration to join The Red Crusade he asked Cathexis for training in the art of combat. Not wanting to subject the Kid to the cruel world outside of the “safe” walls of the city it took sometime for Amon to persuade her to train him.

### Adulthood

Years after the first time Cathexis started training Amon had passed, having reached the age of 23, Amon set out to join The Red Crusade, The main purpose of the army was to protect the Sultan, however they have always been in conflict with the Army from the Plane of earth, the conflict that dates back to the titanian era, where the Current reigning sultan, was a fanatical supporter of Akraman being promised the lands of the realm of earth for his dynasty, on the opposite side, the King of the Earth plane, sided with Akrateir, the conflict on the martial plane long ended, but in the elemental planes it still wages on. Amon searched out a Captain of the Army, an Efreeti by the name of “Yezu the Elegant” and requested to join the ranks of the army, The Efreeti simply laughed at him and told him to come to the next training session in the courts of the palace, if he could hold his own against others he would be allowed a place in the ranks. In the courtyard Amon joined the training session with the glaive he received from Cathexis, as a gift to show his training was complete, he was set fight against an old genasi, the experience of the elder man proved to be a difficult opponent versus the speed and strength of the Younger Amon, the duel was fought to a standstill, for Yezu, who was watching this spar lightly, this was enough to offer Amon a place among his Battalion “The Elegant Flames” in the Crusade.

A few years passed by in the army for Amon, being sent out to defend the city from possible threats on numerous occasions, At first he was blown away by the vast desert of embers and lava outside the city, however the longer he stayed within the Crusade the more repetitive this sight became, Amon wanted to explore more, he wanted to see more, a new dream was born. On the night of his 28th birthday Amon was summoned to Yezu, he was drafted along with four others members of Yezu’s Battalion to go on a scouting mission towards the Fountains of Creation, having heard reports of Earth elementals and genasi’ from the Earthen kings army coming to invade the lands of fire. The next morning a two weeks long travel towards the southern borders of the realm began, the trip was not eventful at all, until close to the mountains the group of scouts got overwhelmed by a Sandstorm, this caused Amon to split from the group and seek shelter inside a cave of the mountains that made up the Fountains of Creation. It was inside this mountain, that Amon would receive a gift, inside this mountain there was a small nest containing a single egg, not knowing what the egg was but feeling a strong connection to it Amon decided to wait and protect the egg until its owner returned, going against his orders and not returning with his fellow scouts. Amon remained in the cave for a weeks time, having protected the egg from small earth elementals and near the end of the week, a green dragon wyrmling, however, his supplies started to run low and soon he would be forced to return to the brass city to face his punishment for disobedience.

Two more days passed and Amon had to leave, just as he had packed up his belongings, the egg cracked and a screech was heard in the distance, Wanting to state his curiosity Amon came closer to the egg to see what could possibly hatch, in a matter of minutes it was clear that this was an Egg of a Phoenix, a rumored mythical being in the City. Staying close to the Newborn Phoenix, an immense heat radiated into Amon, at the entrance of the cave was the owner of the Egg, a giant Phoenix was hovering just outside the entrance of the cave. Fearing his end has come Amon walked outside and Embraced the end, as the Phoenix was about to strike Amon, its hatchling walked out of the save and stood besides Amon, causing the Giant phoenix to stop its attack, a beautiful voice entered Amons head, and spoke to him.

After his encounter with the phoenix and being released for protecting the phoenix' young, infront of Amons feet, a feather inside a golden amulet on a chain appeared, reaching for it, it radiated warmth, Amon picked it up, and hung the amulet arround his neck, once he did, he felt immense heat course through his body, like a connection with the fire he never had, his arms exploded with flames, as if changing his body, his arms had become like wings of the phoenix, but made of pure fire, he tested them out, and indeed they could allow him to fly. Giving one last glance back towards the Phoenix and its hatchling, he set off back towards the City of Brass in the far distance, ready to face his punishment.

### Into the Martial plane

Amon Returned to the Brass City with his newfound ability to fly, keeping it hidden and choosing to walk in and not make a show out of it, he returned to Yezu to report, who in turn showed slight surprise, as Amon had returned when no one else did, troops had gone out to scout and found four bodies near the fountains of creation, assuming everyone on the scouting mission had died. Amon told Yezu that he hid in a cave from the earthen forces, even slew a wyrmling before escaping back home. An obvious lie, yet a convincing one, After the report Amon was sent on leave for a few weeks, he went to find his parents and Cathexis, to tell them what happened and to show them what he could do now. During the week another new peculiarity arose, as Amon was helping Flintknap in the kitchen during his free time, he managed to cut himself, but instead of the cinder-filled blood that used to come out when he bled, pure flames dripped out of his wound, he tasted this by making another small cut on his hand, the wound hurt as any other, but once again flames came out instead of the usual blood.

Telling his parents about this, they became worried, worried that once the Efreeti of the palace found out they would experiment on him, to find out how this happened, and potentially how to harness it into power for the Sultan, they told Amon to flee from the city, to hide away from what could harm their child. Chandler and Cinder took their child to an old and kind Efreeti in the slums, one that Amon had cooked for in his younger years, one that turned into a friend of the family, They begged for his help in safeguarding their son, the Efreeti, immediately obliged, however he stated it would be his last act of magic, as the weave was starting to leave him in his old age, and his end was coming soon. Both parents gave their son a gift, Cinder gave Amon a ring that would protect him from flames, wherever he went, Chandler poked Amon with a small needle, the ink seeping into his skin and moving towards his right arm, soon intricate patters on black lines adorned his right arm. With their goodbyes said, and a clap of the Efreeti’s hands, Amon was no longer in the Brass City, being sent to a different plane to protect him from the Sultan of the Charcoal Palace, where he ran around all his life.

Amon woke up on soft green grass, all around him colors he had never seen before, the earth was alive, all around him however were creatures watching him, he didn’t know where he was, and he could understand some of the creatures, they looked human, but also some looked smaller, as he would soon learn would be dwarves, gnomes and halflings. He quickly asked where he was, and he got a confusing response, “Grirun” a place he never heard from before, asking more he learned he had left the plane of fire, and ended up in the martial plane, directly in the backlines of the forces of the unified society of the Azure sun, some scholars recognizing his foreignness explained to Amon what The martial plane was and the current situation of the world, in return Amon told them about the Brass City and the plane of fire, and its way of life. In Grirun, at the Camp of the USAS, Amon volunteered to help their efforts, having a want to explore the world, clearly he would not stand for the forces of The Conquerer army to destroy everything he had yet to see and experience.

Weeks went by and Amon had taken up position as chef for the forces of the USAS taking care of meals for the hungry, also somewhat a jester, he learned from the scholars the ways of magic, which he incorporated into him fighting style, but also to show off as he cooked for the soldiers, making fire dance all around the cafeteria, it became a dinner and a show in one for first-timers in the encampment. As more time flew by, Amons encampment was relatively safe in the backline, however on an unfortunate night sappers and assassins of the conquerer army had snuck into the camp, taking many lives of the USAS members, Amon, being awake and cleaning up the cafeteria ran outside with the awake guards and for the first time since showing his fiery wings to his parents, in the pitch black dark of night he unleashed them again, startling and surprising enemies and foes alike, and lighting up the night’s sky in a brilliant orange hue. After the battle at the camp, Amons camp was set to join the forward camps in their campaign to repel the forces of death, This is where Amon left the encampment, aiming towards traveling towards the different continents, to see what they have to offer, be it sightseeing or learning cooking recipes. As Amon was traveling southwards on a ship, The sky ignited in a pillar of green, coming from the Continent of Iberia. Determined to stay as far away as possible from whatever that was, the ship travelled on towards the green swamp-filled continent of Ruashoth wanting to experience what new sights it had to offer.

## Abillities and Feats

### Abillities

Amon appears to be made of fire much like an elemental, as such when an enemy strikes his after he has channeled his power his flames retaliate to the attacker

Amon's flames appear to burn brighter and hotter than regular flames, making all but the most immune creatures and beings vulnerable to being struck by his flames

Amon is an excellent quality chef, having made delicous morale boosting treats for the lightbringers on multiple occasions.

Amons magic is primarily fire based, where he draws fire from himself to overwhelm opponents with scorching flames.

### Feats

Amon, together with Gokher managed to best both the knights kilbride of house solowens in a two on two duel, where these house knights had reigned undefeated for a long while

Amon is currently working on his own magic spell, which he is developing with the help of Vulmar Ventris and the sparring help of Alexander Springspell