Fire Magic is an Rare Magical skill. Skill checks with it are modified by Intelligence.
Fire Magic is the Basic Magic of flame, heat, destruction, and overwhelming energy. Those who master it learn to channel raw elemental fury into blazing attacks, searing defenses, and explosive bursts of power. Fire Magic is aggressive, relentless, and difficult to contain, capable of turning even a brief moment of carelessness into catastrophe.
Practitioners of Fire Magic excel at direct damage, lingering harm, battlefield pressure, and explosive force. Some unleash torrents of flame and burning projectiles to devastate groups of enemies, while others wield heat more subtly through smoke, suffocating air, and persistent magical fire that continues to burn long after the initial strike.
Each rank in the Fire Magic skill increases your Accuracy bonus with Fire Magic spells by 1, boosts your damage with Fire Magic spells by 1/5th, and enhances your chance to score a Critical Hit with Fire Magic spells by 1/10th.
As your skill in Fire Magic grows, you will gain additional benefits from it.
Improved Affinity (All Ranks)
Studying the destructive and consuming nature of fire teaches you how to endure heat, spread chaos, and manipulate flame with increasing precision. Upon attaining a new rank title (Initiate, Apprentice, Journeyman, Adept, Master, Grandmaster), you gain a 25% Affinity bonus in one of the following skills: Fire Magic, Uncontrolled Burst, Afterburn, Blazing Heat, Aimed Casting, or Geometric Casting. You can gain this Affinity even if you did not previously possess Affinity or Ranks in the chosen skill.
Initiate (Ranks 10–19):
As an Initiate, your body begins adapting to the intense heat generated by your magic. Flames cling to you more willingly, and you learn to move through fire with growing confidence. You gain the ability Ember Skin:
Ember Skin: As a Bonus Action, your body radiates intense heat for 1 minute. During this time, your Resistance to Fire damage increases by 10%, and any creature that hits you with a melee attack or grapples you takes Fire damage equal to half your Fire Magic ranks (rounded up), to a maximum of 10. This ability can be used once per day.
Apprentice (Ranks 20–34):
Your growing mastery of Fire Magic allows you to feed upon destruction itself. The flames you unleash burn hotter and linger longer upon weakened enemies. You gain the ability Slow Burn Aura:
Slow Burn Aura: Once per day, as a Bonus Action, you may enter the Slow Burn aura for 1 minute. While the aura is active, whenever you deal Fire damage with a spell to a creature, the damage also inflicts Ongoing Fire damage by 2 pm the target. This effect can only trigger once per round on the same target.
All of these bonuses are cumulative.