The Pyromancer

Eyes glowing, a human clenches her teeth as she hurls a fiery blast that explodes and engulfs the rocky plateau. One blackened survivor manages to stand. She growls and sends a bolt of flame slamming into his chest that pushes him screaming over the cliff.

A halfling hides behind a pile of bones in the dank cavern. A whoosh of flame and the shrieking of kobolds tell him his trap has been sprung. He cackles and steps out to finish them off, fire blazing around his hands.

Smiling as the muscular warrior swings his axe, a tiefling disappears while the blow cuts through a puff of ash left behind where she should have been. She reappears behind the confused brute and causes the air to explode in flame around him.

Pyromancers share an intuitive bond with heat and flame. They carry an unexplainable knowledge that lets him manipulate the very powers of the plane of fire itself. A pyromancer isn't bred; it is born.

Masters of the Flame An innate bond with the plane of fire fuels the pyromancer's prowess with heat and flame in a manner unlike other magics. While the pyromancer on a whim can call upon fire's consuming power to rival the destructive force of a dry forest set ablaze, he or she can just as easily manipulate it to produce a variety of beneficial effects. These manifestations of the pyromancer's mastery over fire synergize into powerful abilities unobtainable through other means.

Called to the Fire A love of fire and the ability to control it go hand in hand for pyromancers. Fire is life and life is fire. However, a pyromancer's powers typically manifest as part of an especially intense experience that casues the pyromancer to harness a heretofor untapped well of energy, previously unknown and unexplored, but which bursts forth dramatically and changes the pyromancer's existence forever. For some, this happens while coming face to face with death; for others, it could be an encounter with something otherworldly or perhaps a horrific vision or dream. Whichever the case, the certainty is that after this experience, the call of the flame is unmistakable and the thirst for greater mastery over it becomes nigh unquenchable. A pyromancer's pursuit of ever greater power over the fires that seem to burn within have nothing to do with musty tomes, study with paper and quill, or other scholarly endeavors. The pyromancer also eschews any worship or dealings with some greater power to forge and strengthen the link between flame and mortal will. Rather, pyromancers learn to bridle their own innate potential and channel it towards ever more intense and dynamic effects. Titles of a Pyromancer Pyromancers may not always be referred to as pyromancers. They may be called by a number of titles, including flame or fire caller, mage, tamer, charmer, shaper, and walker.