Elemental Plane of Fire

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Elemental Plane of Fire
The Elemental Plane of Fire, as illustrated by Raven Mimura.
Type: Inner Plane
Layers: n/a
Alignment: No alignment traits
Native Inhabitants: Efreet, azer, fire elementals, fire minions, fire weirds, mephits, harginn, gen, firenewts, pyrophor, phantom stalker, helions, plasms, fire giants, drakes, hell hounds, salamanders, and flame spirits
Greyhawk Powers: Kossuth, Imix, Zaaman Rul

The Elemental Plane of Fire, also known as the "Plane of Burning Skies" in the journals of Tzunk, looks like a normal landscape with one major difference: Everything is cloaked in flame. The majority of the plane is a flaming ocean, but occasionally pockets of solid "land" float upon this. All things burn and scorch mercilessly. The air, too, will scorch and kill those without protection. Efreet are able to grant anyone they desire—mostly their slaves—temporary immunity to the land; otherwise, a traveler must use spells or magical devices to protect himself. The plane is broken up into tiny kingdoms and principalities, each led by a specific ruler who commands a wide variety of races who live together and cooperate.

This plane has a definite "up" and "down," logically because flames leap upward, so movement on this plane is relatively normal. The atmosphere is too thin to support balloons or fleshy wings, though elemental creatures can fly through it as they will.

Structure

The Elemental Plane of Fire touches the border Ethereal Plane at all points. Toward the Positive Energy Plane it becomes the Quasielemental Plane of Radiance and toward the Negative Energy Plane it becomes the Quasielemental Plane of Ash. Toward the Elemental Plane of Earth it becomes the Paraelemental Plane of Magma and toward the Elemental Plane of Air it becomes the Paraelemental Plane of Smoke. Vortices spiral through the Ethereal Plane to connect the Plane of Fire with places of great heat on the Material Plane, such as volcanoes and the heart of the sun. A portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire lies somewhere in the Burning Cliffs of Oerth. The Flaming Mirror of Tenh can open another gate to the Plane of Fire.

Ecology

Fauna

Native fauna include the flamelings, lava worms, fire bat, animental, firetails, fundamentals, waiveras, scapes, and tshalas. It also has species of black flies, glowing hornets, and crawling bugs, including the fire beetle. The waiveras is a black lizard with eight legs. The scape is a rodent like a rat with the ability to teleport. Various "animentals," including birds and sharks made entirely of flame, glide through the plane's skies and seas.

Flora

  • Ash willows are trees with dark red bark that can grow up to 120 feet in height. They thrive near pools and rivers of lava, raining ash around them and quickly transforming volatile areas into calm forests covered in ash.
  • Crimson rye is a wild plant that can be used as a soporific.
  • Salamander orchids are living flowers composed of fire and brass.
  • Habbat is a wild grain eaten by the efreet and others.
  • Qamh is a type of soft, spongy grass that grows on islands of solid land.
  • Serpent trees are black, leafless plants that feed on heat rather than light.
  • Sweet shiverrod is a wild plant that can be used to create poison.
  • Tergamit, or fire fruit, is eaten by the efreet but is deadly to nonnatives.
  • Treelike plants composed of pure metals are found on the obsidian island of the Crucible, the largest of the azer towers.
  • Umbellin is a spicy brown bean.
  • Verdobba is a nutty, dark purple tuber.
  • Ziwan is a thorny weed.

Inhabitants

Natives of Fire tend to live in mixed-race communities, tiny kingdoms and principalities.

  • Azer are a race of smiths, resembling dwarves with hair and beards made of flame. Their King Amaimon travels between the towers of his people.
  • The efreet (sing. efreeti) are a tyrannical genie race, sworn enemies of the djinn.
  • The beautiful, feminine fire weirds are diviners of hope, nourishment, and love.
  • Fire mephits are the most mischievous of their kind, fond of terrible pranks.
  • Harginn, or flame horrors, are grues resembling humanoids with flames instead of legs. They are lowly servants and beasts.
  • Fire gen are tiny servitor genies who work with elemental wizards called sha'ir to fetch their spells.
  • Firenewts are reptilian humanoids who are also common in the Hellfurnaces and the Sea of Dust.
  • Pyrophors are wicked elementals of chaos resembling flickering coals, sworn enemies of the helions.
  • Helions are benevolent, philosophical elementals of law resembling rings of pulsating flame. They are enemies of the pyrophors and efreet.
  • Plasms are hideous skeletons made of the raw stuff of the Ethereal Plane combined with elemental matter.
  • Elemental drakes are smaller relatives of dragons.
  • Salamanders are evil reptilian creatures who live apart from other races in nations ruled by their powerful nobles.
  • Flame spirits are fire elementals subordinate to the Celestial Bureaucracy revered in the lands of the Celestial Imperium.

Features and settlements

  • The City of Brass is the capital of the efreeti empire and the greatest metropolis on the plane.
  • The Crimson Pillar is the hottest part of the plane, an orb 10 miles in diameter that forms the home of the Tyrant-King of the Fire Elementals, Kossuth.
  • The Crucible is the largest of the towers of the azer, found on an island of obsidian in a sea of molten platinum. It is ruled by the master smith Shanmakeen.
  • The Plain of Burnt Dreams is the location of the Temple of Ultimate Consumption, the home of the evil archomental Imix. This is also the location of a recent battle between Imix and his rebellious son Zaaman Rul.
  • The Amerindian god Hastsezini makes the Elemental Plane of Fire his home.
  • The elder god Cthuga is said to dwell on the Elemental Plane of Fire. Cthuga resembles a flaming amoeba with fiery tentacles. It also keeps a home on the Prime Material Plane, a palace of fire within an active volcano.
  • The Isles of Scorched Bones in the Sea of Scorching Waves are said to host the bones of a long-dead race. Today, its sole inhabitants are fire bats, fire mephits, and the occasional efreeti hunting party. The efreeti fortress known as the Black Fist is nearby.

Phenomena

  • Cerulean magma is a bright blue lava that exudes corrosive lime-green smoke. It is thought to be the hottest substance on the plane.
  • Detonation refers to clouds of vapor that explode without warning.
  • Shadow fire is dangerously cold to creatures native to the plane, but harmless to nonnatives.
  • Ebony motes are storms of darkness and cold that paradoxically infest the Plane of Fire, freezing natives and nonnatives alike.
  • Fyrite is an ore found near pools of cerulean magma, a valuable material for creating fire-resistant armors and weapons.
  • Hardfire is a red and orange quartzlike rock found on the banks of cerulean magma pools. Harmless on its own plane, on cooler planes it slowly disintegrates, finally bursting into a dangerous fireball before crumbling to sand.
  • An inferno star is a mobile, starlike object a mile or more in diameter that burns even fire-resistant creatures.
  • Lambent flames are flickering fields of purple fire that protects those within it from fire damage. They are unfortunately unstable.

Bibliography

  • Baur, Wolfgang. Secrets of the Lamp. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1993.
  • Collins, Andy, and Bruce R. Cordell. Epic Level Handbook. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2002.
  • Cook, David "Zeb" Planescape Campaign Setting. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1994.
  • Cook, Monte. The Planewalker's Handbook. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1996.
———. Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix Three. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998.

Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index

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Topic Type Description Product Page/Card/Image

Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, C2 the Ghost Tower of Inverness 14
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth 16
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa 10
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Deities & Demigods (1st & 2nd printing), AD&D 1e 6, 9, 128, 129, 133
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Deities & Demigods (3rd+ printing), AD&D 1e 6, 9, 113, 114, 118
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Dead Gods 83, 86
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Dragon magazine #068 64
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Dragon magazine #200 39
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Dragon magazine #241 79
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Dragon magazine #347 34, 42, 48-50
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, El Raja Key Archive (Standard Edition) 187
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Greyhawk Adventures 76, 79, 97
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders 66
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Living Greyhawk Gazetteer 154
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Living Greyhawk Journal #5 29
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Legends & Lore, AD&D 1e 6, 9, 113, 114, 118
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Manual of the Planes, AD&D 1e 5, 12, 22, 24, 25, 28, 36-40, 46, 48, 51, 53, 94, 120, 121
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Official AD&D Coloring Album 24, 26
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, OP1 Tales of the Outer Planes, AD&D 1e 30-35, 83-84
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Outside the Mountain, D&D 3.5e 1
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Pathfinder Chronicles: Campaign Setting, Pathfinder 1e 179
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Player's Guide to Greyhawk 8
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Player's Handbook, AD&D 1e 120, 121
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e 2, 151
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, SJR6 Greyspace 4, 23, 24
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil 60, 63, 103, 104, 105
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, LT3 The Doomgrinder 14
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, LT1 The Star Cairns 44
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, WG5 Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure 30
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) 68
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, World of Greyhawk boxed set (1983) 25
Elemental Plane of Fire Planar Plane/Dimension, The Isle of Dread: Original Adventures Reincarnated #02, D&D 5e 196, 199, 205
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