Fire Elemental - Blog Posts
Been busy, thinking about life choices, etc. This started out as a MTG Custom Card, but with my hatred of Hasbro and there subsidiaries I don't know what to do with it. I still love the game and other properties it's associated with but can not reconcile with the owners.... I have not playtest it so have no Idea how bad it is. It is a Voltron style commander that has a reason for you to sacrifice it.
Two DnD OCs, I have to really wright a book or something with all the Ideas I have.
Druids are seemly always grew up in the wild or wanting to bring down civilization, where's my stay at home gardening girl who helps with the harvest festival?
“Now ye stand before the lord of the pure flame, will you mold thy self to become a grate weapon or another piece of slag? Now come!” Warlock patron? Fire elemental Npc?
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Fire bro
Yes I have been playing Sun Haven and yes I still have INSANE brainrot. 🤪
Ignis and Shang’s daughter!! I know the child system in game isn’t super in depth like this but this is how I imagine her lol
I love Sun Haven so much, here’s more of my fire elemental OC! ✨ His name is Ignis :)
Agni!
I will be exploring the design of this character in this post!!
The title is just a place holder... for a fire elemental character I made, in my Delusion magic system world.
Simplification of the Magic system, all beliefs of a person that they hold absolutely no contradiction for, to that idea, in themself, is somehow made manifest in my bronze age based world!!! The only limit is they cannot break the law of conservation of information.
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Agni was one of the first to perfect his delusion.
His delusion? That fire is chaos...
These kinda ideas cannot really be contradicted cause chaos can mean whatever... A malleable abstract idea... Cause I don't think fire has an empirical information called chaos... So it's a delusional idea (chaos) being labeled in reality with the medium of a real thing (fire)...
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The back story for this delirius character is that he lost something or someone important to fire... And his life has been a constant struggle where he is working towards something, but always meets setbacks due to unforeseen factors which overwhelms him and/or induces PTSD for plot reasons...
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So, whenever his brain goes nuts, failing to create cohesive thoughts...
HE LEAKS PURE PLASMA.
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If Fire = chaos. Chaotic state of mind makes him see the world in a chaotic fashion, which means his simulation of the world in his prefrontal cortex will introduce the simulation of fire in this chaotic state... Delusion manifesting... Superimpose the mentally simulated fire onto the narrative! Fire!
Not all Delusion are manifested... Most people just experience extra sensory stuff... Or are skilled artisans with wisdom of first hand experience (experience in terms of mental circuitry, making the act instinctual)... You guys can see my first magic system in my profile for another example of a system of delusion magic...
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Going back to the state of his brain, specifically his current loss of cohesive thought...
This state can be caused by so many things... From Lack of necessary resources like sodium ions, to excessive blood loss, to just being, boring ol' reliable, shocked enough from confusion or concussion... To just analyze paralysis caused by being overwhelmed...
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In this state, if he's not knocked out cold...
He will leak FIRE!!!
From his epidemic lining....
Assume its like sweating but instead of sweat beads, it's tongues of outward slithering fire!!
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The energy has to come from somewhere... So for now lets go with the chemical energy stored in his body...
And its obviously also burns him... Hmm... Maybe the tongues of flame SURROUNDS him... rather than come directly from his skin... So its just heat at first that he generates and has to somehow tolerate...
But that also means he breaths in a lot of Carbon monoxide... Hmm... He just has to live with it I guess...
And he could probably choose where it leaks from? That would need some concentration... Hmm... Concentration while his minds all gone haywire?? Maybe could be related to mastery?
BUT MASTERY IS BORING AS FUCK
Maybe I could somehow teach him that fire is not an all consuming kind of chaos somehow... A punishment for his character arc going stagnant? Maybe with love?
Maybe show him the warmth fire brings?
Hell ya!
So he falls in love with someone who was received warmness by his flame rather than burn from it! Sounds fun!
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Anyway, since he now knows fire can also bring warmth, thats effectively unlocking passive healing and shit
HIS IDEA OF 'CHAOS' CHANGES!!!
Remember! Abstract ideas are infinitely Malleable!!!
Chaos doesn't just mean destruction and death... At the end of the day, it just an antonym for order! Rest is whatever bullshit you add to it...
Maybe his current understanding of the term 'chaos' can be something less painful and more as something that is now actively helping him grow internally...
This character is a sad forged in the flames of chaos type, a dude who has been through shit and you respect where he is now...
THE TRIGGER WONT CHANGE CAUSE HIS IDEA IS STILL FIRE IS CHAOS... ITS HIS LOSS OF COHESIVE THOUGHTS...
but maybe he can work around it... If he wants to achieve a lack of cohesive thought... (after obviously identifying and isolating this trigger first, that a epiphany he has in a cornered scenario... Throw in drama and up the stakes and begin the self talk to monologue sequence)
Maybe he just needs to somehow silence him own thoughts i guess...
NO THOUGHTS ALSO MEANS NO COHESIVE THOUGHTS!!! AM I RIGHT???
Hehe, So now bro can try calming down a little and keep his head all quiet... Then he can concentrate while still activating the trigger!!!
HE CAN NOW DIRECT THE TONGUES OF FLAME!!!
INSTEAD OF JUST LEAKING FIRE! BRO IS NOW CONTROLLING IT!!!
It starts out by him first making smalls gaps in the fire around him in key zones like his face and joints... And then slowly concentrate them to specific zones like just his fists... Training and rising that flow state up!
He can keep his thoughts cohersive and going when he doesn't need to release flames... Distracted, unga bunga vibing with the sunset, or just busy analysing his situation, and the terrain and factors, what armor the enemy is wearing, or, some shit... And when he wants to make contact... Still his mind... And Boom!!!
Fire!
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If I have to make a logic behind how the release can be concentrated to some body parts and not all... Let's go with nerve ending!!!
AREA OF BODY THAT HAVE A HIGHER SUPERFICIAL DENSITY OF NERVE ENDING CAN BE THE KEY!!!
Imagine the humunculus... Bigger exaggerated regions have higher nerve ending...
Maybe he can select a threshold by his concentration that says fire will leak from a set minimum value of nerve ending density areas only...
And then from there, its road to mastery of quantifying and dictating how much fire... At least to the point I can still portray the flame as a leak from his body, and not boring old creation of flames...
I am fine with this mastery... Doesn't sound boring... Maybe he's an older character already... with his history sprinkled here and there rather than showing his journey closely...
This makes the chemical potential energy in his body sustain longer since its kinda in his control when he wants the flame or not... It makes efficiency better too... Less energy being wasted...
And since he can also master the amount of energy to release...
HE CAN DICTATE HOW IMPACTFUL THE COMBUSTION SPARK IS!!! AKA, *DRUM ROLL* THE BOOM BOOM...
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Consider the fact that the tongue has amazing nerve ending superficial density...
BREATHING OUT FIRE?? HELL YA!!!
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If I had to explain the specific of why this shit happens... Maybe it has to do with the flying away of electrons in the air surrounding his skin... Causing instantaneous Plasma matter zones in air...
Like his body is doing something that makes his skin facilitate that... And the nerve endings on his skin manifest that outside his body...
I mean its about his thoughts right, thoght = brain activity = nerves are involved = chaos leaking from its ends on tbe skin...
Maybe the blood flow has been changed somehow, and in its perfect rhythm and ionic saturation.... creating a magnetic field and also ionising the air somehow?
To the point you can see flames rather than just heating air atleast... (Cute electric coil-esque hands sometime in the story?)
Idk bruh... it's Delusional magic.... I will have to break some constraints of our reality... Design liberty type stuff... To make the Delusion make sense I have to deploy some strategic ignorance...
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FLAME ELEMENTAL
AGNI!