Emberkin

• Humanoid, but with partially elemental organs — hearts of molten plasma, lungs that glowed when exhaling.
• Their blood was thick, luminous, and faintly magnetic to metal shards.
• Had semi-calcified ridges along arms and legs that helped channel their intense internal heat safe

• Gender presentation existed but was fluid and largely ceremonial.
• Older Emberkin often developed small “cinder halos,” drifting motes of light that hovered around them, signs of immense internal power.

• Could interbreed with humans or dwarves, though such unions were rare and considered sacred.
• Emberkin offspring gestated in wombs superheated by internal ley flames for ~6 months, often accompanied by ritual flamewarding.

• Lived in massive basalt citadels and flowing lava fortresses, channeling ley surges directly through their homes to power forges, hearths, and ritual pits.

Fed on charred meats, volcanic fungi, and drank rich mineral infusions. Could absorb minor sustenance directly from basking in ley flames.

• During volcanic booms, their power surged dangerously; entire Emberkin cities would undergo controlled ritual burnings to “vent” excess power.
• In cooler years, skin darkened, internal fires dimmed.

• Intensely passionate — about art, war, romance, or philosophy. Everything was done with a consuming zeal that frightened even dragons.
• Prone to duels and grand displays to settle disputes.

Organized into Pyreclans, each tied to a specific magma well or dragon pact. Led by Pyrelords, advised by Ash Oracles who saw portents in drifting ember patterns.

High, noble features with faint heat distortions making them seem to ripple. Eyes like smoldering coals, sometimes leaking harmless sparks.

Almost entirely limited to Embergarde’s volcanic belts — they were the reason these areas became such powerful ley nodes.

Exceptionally clever, but driven more by intuition and passionate insight than slow reason. Famous for leaps of logic that sometimes left entire projects aflame — literally.

Could see deep into heat spectra, sense ley flows through their bones, and even detect emotions as small shifts in surrounding thermal fields.

• Elaborate titles incorporating deeds and magma spirits:
• Kaelor Zharanth of the Scorch Pact, Miraeth Flamereach, Sire of Three Volcanoes.

Romance was tempestuous, often cemented with joint ritual branding that mingled blood and flame. Bonds were lifelong and deeply spiritual.

• Created immense lava runeworks, molten automata, and blade forges that could birth semi-living weapons.
• Their art was pyrokinetic — entire sculptures of flame that danced through basalt halls.

Spoke High Embercant, a Draconic-rooted language filled with long vowels, crackling consonants, and embedded minor spell triggers.

Touched foreheads to share heat in greeting. Feuds often resolved by burning duels where combatants first lit each other’s shoulders as a mark of honor.

Minimal clothing, often molten chains, ritual jewelry, and tattoos of glassy obsidian inlaid with molten veins.

Saw themselves as living expressions of the world’s creative and destructive fire — believed to literally return to the heart of Mythralune upon death, reforged in the planet’s core.

• Pyrefests: entire city eruptions choreographed with dance and magic.
• Ash Mournings: when an Emberkin died, families gathered to inhale small amounts of their cooled ash, taking their essence into the next generation.

• Dragons: Deeply entangled — some Emberkin were lovers, others enemies. Emberdrakes saw them as near-equals, while Stormblights despised their molten arrogance.
• Molten dwarves: Both rivals and partners, forged many legendary weapons together.
• Salamanders: Revered Emberkin as semi-divine elders, even long after the Emberkin began to fade.
• Other mortals: Feared them; humans and elves united at times to curb their expansion