Ignatious Calour

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### Aliases

The Sage of Fire, Firefly (Vince), Fire-boy (Kori), Captain of the Immortal Legion,

## **Iggy**

**Iggy** is a major character from The Runaways campaign. He is a fire elemental met in Arc 2 and is later revealed to be the Sage of Fire. He is a recurring character in the series.

## Appearance

Iggy is an orange flame elemental with a bulky build. His entire body is made of flames, with the flames in his eyes and mouth burning brighter. He has molten freckles across his cheeks. His flames change color depending on his emotional state–brighter orange when he’s angry, blue when he blushes, and pink when he’s drinking alcohol.

He usually wears silver armor with reddish-orange trim. He has a well-worn cyan bandana tied around his neck. Underneath that, he wears a dark, long-sleeved shirt made out of a water-resistant material, brown cargo pants, brown gloves, and dark boots. After the finale, he is seen wearing an obsidian ring with a purple stone, though it is usually obscured by his gloves.

## Personality

Iggy is caring and protective of his friends and loved ones. He is usually quiet and reserved, though he is noticeably more talkative around Vince. He has stated that he keeps to himself due to being self-conscious about his intelligence, and often lets others do planning for him so as to not embarrass himself. Despite that, he is often more intuitive and empathetic than others and is good at reading others’ emotions. He gets uncharacteristically sappy when it comes to Vince, often speaking very highly of him to others and staying close to him when he’s around.

## Abilities

Iggy’s a skilled sword-fighter. His preferred weapon is a custom-made sword named “Hellfire,” which he lights on fire by channeling his flames through it. He can use two-handed weapons as one-handed weapons and he’s also trained in battle axes and even daggers. Raised as a soldier since he was young, he also has impressive endurance and reflexes.

He has complete control over his flames, being able to use and interact with highly flammable objects without lighting them on fire. He can attack using these flames, but he rarely uses them for combat. He’s also resistant to most non-magical attacks, as they pass straight through his flame body. While he is weak to water, his armor and hood are created in a way to repel and redirect water so unless he is nearly or completely submerged, he’ll take minimal damage.

As a paladin, he has some basic healing and warding spells. He’s also a very skilled blacksmith and gardener.

## Background

### The First Arowisian Revolt

Iggy was created in the Elemental Plane of Fire, though he has no memories of it. He was summoned alongside three other flame elementals: Ash, Ember, and Blaze. He was named along with his siblings by Charon Calour–an international war correspondent drafted into the Arowisian military as a pyromancer.

   For the first few years on the Prime Material Plane, Iggy and his siblings were schooled by Charon in Common, literature, politics, and geography. Iggy struggled in most of his classes due to his poor memory. Despite this, Charon showed favoritism toward him and often attempted to praise his other skills. Because of this, he was often teased by Ember and Blaze and ignored by Ash.

When Iggy was around twelve, he and his siblings were drafted officially into the Arowisian military to destroy the First Revolution. It was here that Iggy discovered his proficiency in combat, excelling in sword fighting. He also discovered that most flame elementals summoned had not been educated in Common the way that he and his siblings had, meaning he was one of the few soldiers in his unit that could fully understand (and eavesdrop on) his superiors. Using this advantage in addition to his combat skills, Iggy quickly climbed the ranks and assumed to rank of captain by sixteen. Unlike many fighters with his rank, he fought to ensure his unit was as defensive as it was offensive and helped design and forge armor to repel water-based attacks on his troops. Because of this, his unit made it out unscathed nearly every time they entered battle and was dubbed the Immortal Legion.

When Iggy was eighteen he was ordered to bring his unit and two others to destroy the town of Florarim, Charon’s hometown. Blaze and Ember, having been appointed leaders of the other smaller units, reprimanded Iggy for his callousness and urged him to lie to High Arowis and claim they’d been unable to complete the mission. Iggy refused, and shortly after the army massacred the city, the two disappeared. Iggy searched for three days but never found them.

Afterward, Iggy returned home to tell Charon the war was coming to an end soon. She, like Blaze and Ember, reprimanded Iggy for his behavior and urged him to desert the army and escape Arowis. He argued with her, blaming her for summoning him into the war, claiming the Arowisian government was doing this for the greater good, and insisting that he had to finish what he started. Charon gave him some international currency and claimed she had a ship waiting for him in the Blitzgrim harbor, stating that she had already contacted Ash whom she had helped escape earlier in the war. Instead, Iggy returned to the Arowisian capital in the middle of the night without warning.

When the war was officially declared over by the ruler of Arowis, King-Emperor Titus Clawthorn, the armies of elementals were summoned to the capital city for a “celebration” called the Cementation of Heroes. In reality, this was an organized mass genocide of the flame elementals in which the Arowisian government trapped the armies in a large walled area and proceeded to flood it. Thanks to the armor Iggy crafted for himself and his soldiers, several members of the Immortal Legion, including Iggy, survived the assault. The rest of the forces perished.

When Iggy returned to his home, he discovered that it had been burned down by Arowisian pyromancers, killing Charon in the process. Horrified that his actions had resulted in Charon’s death, Iggy refused to move from Charon’s body or the rubble of his home for nearly an entire day, even when it started to rain. Due to his armor, he was able to survive the downpour. However, because his face was uncovered, he retained permanent scarring resembling freckles on his face.

When he awoke, he took Charon to the ruins of Flororim and buried her there. At her grave, he took an oath of redemption and swore to spend the rest of his life protecting others. He then took the money left by Charon and left Arowis on a ship bound for the Eastern Continent.

## Trivia

* It has been debated as to the reason Iggy has, or at the very least simulates, muscles. A prominent theory is that he does it to blend into the planar population, as he was raised by a human. Another theory is that he does it to impress Vince. None have been confirmed.
* Meta has lamented the fact that Iggy has never had the same accent from campaign to campaign. She states that in a perfect world, Iggy would have an Irish accent, but she is currently unable to do one.