Warty salamander

Location:

Cracked Flatland

Phenotype:

Ignic

Role:

Scavenger

Kindled in deep magma, given form in molds of sandstone, made hungry by the tantalizing sky-orb, the salamander hefts its knotted bulk across the ground in perpetual turmoil. They consume cold, disintegrating it in their blast-furnace gut, firing their scales to red kaleidoscope madness when the sun reaches its zenith. To stare at one long enough in this state, it is said, can cause one to read the thoughts of fires in distant places. The triumphal flare of flamestorms in the ever-burning jungles of Kaa, the smug intensity of candles on Ivnoana’s altar when the Rite of Taut Cords reaches its climax, the grim despondency of The Emperor Conflagration when the forces of an Aeon Marid flood the lower halls of its castle.