Atrocious Fire Transformation

Cost: 35m
Target: Body of water

In the uttermost South, lakes and rivers of fire flow like water. The sorcerer copies the Essence of the South's liquid fire and casts it into a body of water—and 10-yard-high scarlet flames sweep over its surface. The resultant burning water flows and eddies, just as normal water does, but it also ignites everything it touches that could conceivably burn. Everything caught in the flames is destroyed, except enchanted objects or those made from the magical materials. The flaming water deals environmental damage (6A/action, Trauma 5).

The burning water cannot be quenched. Other water that comes in contact with it will be vaporized. If the added water is a truly enormous quantity—if, for example, a transformed fire-river flows into a lake of normal water—then the water will heat, but not boil, with the burning water floating on top of it.

Atrocious Fire Transformation lasts a number of hours equal to the sorcerer's Essence, and the caster herself is immune to the flames. This spell works on any body of water, even that created or enhanced with magic. The flames extend one mile outward from the caster. On still waters the effect is static; on a river, the flaming water flows downstream, and new flames continually appear at the point of casting. A medium-sized river—for these purposes, any river that does not appear on the map printed on the Exalted endpapers—can be covered in flames from bank to bank.

For the duration of this spell, elementals associated with the transformed body of water become fire elementals. All their traits remain the same, but their Charms become fire-based and their attitudes, appearances and emotions fluctuate violently, at the Storyteller's discretion.