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Burning
A Burning creature is on fire. The fire is a condition rather than a wound: it stays on the creature from round to round, deals its own damage every round, and ends only when it is put out or the battle does.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Damage each round | 1 point up to half the creature's Size, see The damage |
| What sets it | fire attacks, at 4% per point of surviving damage, see Catching fire |
| Who cannot burn | 10 or more Fire Resistance, Spiritform, Mistform, an innate Chill Aura, underwater, see Immunities |
| Going out | 25% a round before modifiers, see Dousing |
| Armour | does nothing against the burning itself |
The damage
Damage each round
- roll 1dSize, then halve it and round up
- a creature with 5 Fire Resistance or more halves the result again, rounding up or down at random
- a creature with 10 or more takes nothing, being immune outright
Size is the whole of it, on the grounds that a larger body offers more to burn. A size 2 creature takes 1 point a round; a size 6 creature takes 1 to 3.
The damage is not fire damage, so Fire Resistance does not reduce it beyond the halving above, and no other elemental resistance touches it either. It also ignores armour completely, and it is one of the few sources that Luck, Fool's Luck and Twist Fate cannot negate.
Catching fire
Fire attacks set fires. The chance is 4% per point of damage, divided by 3 when the attack deals Fatigue instead of damage. Beyond 25 points the fire is certain.
The points counted are what survives Fire Resistance, measured before both the damage roll and the protection roll. The hit must still land, though: a blow that Protection soaks entirely sets nothing alight.
Immunities
A creature cannot be set alight when any of the following is true:
- 10 Fire Resistance or more
- an innate Chill Aura
- standing in an underwater province
The Chill Aura here is the creature's own, not the Water-5 bless: Banes, Ghosts, Wights and Ice Devils qualify, a blessed unit does not.
The list is re-checked every round, and becoming immune while alight makes the fire go out on the next round without fail.
Dousing
A fire is rolled against every round, and the chance it goes out is:
| Source | Effect on the chance |
|---|---|
| base | 25% |
 each point of Cold on the Scales | +5% |
 each point of Fire Resistance | +2% |
| rain | +100% |
| minimum | 1% |
Heat counts as negative Cold, and an Fire Vulnerability counts as negative Resistance.
A creature that routs has its fire resolved up to 100 times as it leaves the field, and each of those rounds deals its damage and then rolls to go out exactly as a normal round would.
Spells that set fires
Three Alteration spells set a fire outright instead of rolling for one, and all three are Fire magic:
| Spell | Path | Research | Targets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burn |  1 | Alteration 2 | one creature |
| Combustion | 1 | Alteration 4 | a small area |
| Conflagration | 2 | Alteration 8 | a large area |
All three ignore the immunity list when they apply the fire, so the creature affected by them will suffer at least one round worth of burning (damage will still be affected by Fire Resistance though).