YOUR FIRE IS YOUR LIFE
The bar is not health and ammunition — it is both. Shaping fire spends it, it fades on its own, and at zero you die. Everything below is a way of getting it back.
SHAPE — HOLD
Hold to pour a burning trail out of yourself. It costs Flame while it burns and damages anything it touches. Lay it through a crowd, not at one body.
RECALL — RELEASE
Let go and the fire comes back through everything it crosses on the way, dealing heavy damage and returning Flame for every body it passes. A long committed trail pays; a short flick does not.
ASH STEP
A short dash that ignores what slows you. It is your only escape from a closing circle and from molten ground — spend it to leave, not to arrive.
THE GROUND IS NOT NEUTRAL
Molten veins burn you and burn anything walking on them. Deep ash slows you, but it is cold and safe, and the trench you trample stays fast. Herd bodies across the fire; retreat across the ash.
BRANDS
Kills earn Brands. Each one changes how you spend and reclaim Flame, so pick the ones that fit the way you are already fighting.