Black Fire is a Firestorm-Spirit in The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Background[]
For many decades, the great loci of fear and hate went undiscovered by the eyes of spirit or Uratha. When someone did first find the loci, it was Sand-Doused Campfire, a morose little spirit that had been the runt of every spirit court the spirit joined. Unhappy but not ambitious enough to fight for more power, Sand-Doused Campfire wandered away through the Sonoran Desert. Pure happenstance led the spirit to the powerful loci, where, spying unsullied and unclaimed Essence, the least spirit gorged.
It remembers little of that time. Black Fire now guesses that it lost control and consumed as much of the Essence as it could, as its fiery nature drove it to do. As it fed, Black Fire moved from locus to locus, growing as it absorbed huge quantities of untouched Essence. The spirit suspects that it may have drained one or two of the first loci it came upon completely and reduced the strength of some others before regaining the presence of mind to conserve its new assets. Then, sated and tired, Black Fore buried itself in the sand and slept.
Black Fire only just woke up. After its great binge, it had become a mighty spirit of flame and firestorms. Black Fire has a sadistic craving for the feeling of burning flesh and consuming beloved homesteads, a taste developed through consuming so much negative energy from the loci. But Black Fire is moving slowly. The last thing it really remembers is discovering the first locus a Sand-Doused Campfire, and the spirit needs to spend some time stretching its boundaries before it moves off to seek the great wildfires of California and Colorado.
In the the short time since its reawakening, Black Fire has done much. It is playing with its newfound abilities, and its games are dangerous. Besides testing its abilities with control over flame and heat, Black Fire is gathering about itself a rudimentary spirit court. Still unused to being a high-rank spirit, Black Fire is inexperienced at the subtle trades of favors and politics common to the more established courts. When Black Fire sees a spirit, Black Fire usually insists that the creature forswear its current oaths and bestow fealty to Black Fire. The new spirit doesn't know enough to establish what benefits Black Fire offers to its subjects. Only those spirits that are so weak that they know they cannot escape, and those that are too craven to try, bend knee to this strange, awkward behemoth of a spirit. Others, Black Fire is happy to burn to death, though many escape while Black Fire is still learning the intricacies of using more powerful Numina.
Black Fire is impatient, and wishes to see more things and people burn. It is beginning to experiment with its ability to affect the physical world. Flames burning plants and scorching the desert to glass make these events visible to people in the real world. A short while after this, Black Fire examines the ins and outs of possessing humans and using them to spread the power of flame. An attempt to create a locus resonant with fire follows quickly. If the Uratha do not discover Black Fire and convince it to move, or destroy it, the greater spirit will decimate the entirety of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Other spirits, cognizant that the lesser members of their spirit courts are disappearing into the clumsy grasp of this upstart, may wage war of Black Fire and the traitors that make up its court. Such an event has echoes of King Spine's war, above, and it is in the best interests of the dominant pack to avoid it.
Stats[]
Rank: 5
Attributes: Power 15, Finesse 7, Resistance 12
Willpower: 27
Essence: 30 (50 max)
Defense: 15
Speed: 32
Size: 10
Corpus: 22
Influences: Fire **, Pain **
Numina: Blast (Fire and Pain), Chorus, Command Fire*, Discorporation, Fetter, Gauntlet Breach, Harrow, Living Fetter, Materialize, Possession, Rage Armor*, Reaching, Wilds Sense
Ban: Though few know it (as Black Fire bears little resemblance to Sand-Doused Campfire), sand binds this spirit. It may walk upon and scorch sand, but sand used to attack or douse it cut its Defense in half. If completely buried in sand, Black Fire becomes completely impotent until released.
*As the Gift; Black Fire does not know how to teach it.
References[]
- WTF: Territories, p. 141-142