Dread Elemental Domain of Pyre
The Dread Elemental Domain of Pyre came to be when a young Ent named Tindertwig thought that his fellow Ents had become too stagnant and set in their ways. This thought was spurred by his interest in humans, who seemed to live life at a much faster pace than Ents did, he found their fast-paced lives fascinating, and he wished to learn more about them. He also thought the forests he lived in could benefit from controlled burnings to help new life grow. He got the idea when he heard from a friendly Druid that in some forests in other lands natural forest fires would occur so that old, dead wood and plant life could be cleared out to make room for new plantlife. He proposed the idea to the Elder Ents, but they ended up expelling him from the forest because they thought his ideas dangerous. Tindertwig was able to find some welcome in rural communities that had a Druid or Ranger in residence, but he found that he found no welcome in large cities, or even rural communities without a Druid or Ranger. People ran away from him in terror, or ran him out of any town he approached. Tindertwig began to grow bitter; he came to see that the people from the world outside the forest were just as unable to accept something new, him, as were the Elder Ents.
Tindertwig grew angry and bitter at Humans, and even at any other races that took up residence in towns and cities. An idea formed in his mind, if he could start a fire and a city, and then stop it from going out of control, then surely he would be hailed as a hero and finally find complete acceptance among town and city dwellers. Twindetwig decided that he would start a small fire in a nearby city, then let it grow for a bit, just enough to be noticed, then he would put it out. His plan may have gone perfectly had it not been for an unexpected windstorm which blew through the area the night he set the fire in the slums of the city. The fire grew too great for him to control and out and he was badly burned when he was desperately trying to put it out. Tindertwig fled the city and took refuge in a nearby river to assuage his burns. Meanwhile in the city, the fire continued to rage out of control ad hundreds lost their lives and many more lost their homes. Someone must have seen Tindertwig setting the fire, as he soon found groups of men coming to look for him. He had gone from a freakish curiosity to a hated and hunted public enemy. The fist men that came for him were found crushed to death. Tindertwig then ran to the woods of the city’s remaining park, but he was smoked out by the humans in the city. He escaped by floating down the river and hiding in the forested hills south of town. There, he decided he would return to the city and explain his error, and hopefully regain his chance to teach. The people of the city would not listen to him and he had to flee from the city once again when he tried to approach it again. The people of the city began to cut down trees to rebuild what Tindertwig’s blaze had destroyed.
Tindertwig grew even more upset at the people of the city. He decided that it would be better to burn them out and grow new people who he could teach and guide. People who would listen to him and not be tainted by the ignorant views of the current city dwellers. Soon fires began to break out on the outskirts of the city and nearby farms, always at night. A charred, twisted giant of living wood was seen stalking the lonely hills and creeping along the riverbanks to hole and sink boats with his mighty fists. Dozens of men and women were killed or driven from their homes in terror.
Tindertwig eventually began to study fire magic, so that way he could better learn the nature of the element and so he could start the fires he created without the aid of any tools. It was during this period of time when a group of humans came to cut wood from the forest Tindertwig was staying in. Tindertwig knew them to be from the city he had nearly destroyed the night he was burned. In anger he decided he would use his newly learned fire magic to burn them alive. He carefully approached the group of human woodcutters, the words to a fire spell on his wooden lips. The woodcutters recognized who he was and began to flee in terror, but Tindertwig let loose his spell and let forth a great column of fire on them. They all died screaming in pain. The fire from his spell was stronger than it usually was, and the surrounding area was caught in flames. Tindertwig began to panic, as the fire was spreading quickly and too fast from him to control, just like that night in the city. He tried to put out the fire using some water magic he had also learned, but it was no use and soon the fire had engulfed nearly all of the small forest he was in. Tindertwig tried to escape from the forest, but he found there was no end to it. He soon found himself back at the site where he had burned the woodcutters to death. There remains were still smoldering. Much to his surprise their remains caught fire suddenly and rose in a great conflagration and formed into what looked like fire elementals, but had the woodcutter’s remains visible in their bodies. They began to chase Tindertwig and so he ran from them, soon more of these strange fire creatures began to join in the chase and no matter how much he ran, he could only find temporary reprieve from them. Tindertwig was now caught in an eternal chase, one from which he may never escape.
I did copypasta some of your stuff from the thread you linked to on the first page of this thread.
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