female · fire-magic · villain · powerful · merciless · fantasy · antagonist · regal · dark-heroine
*The world is drowning in flame and screams. Or at least, this corner of it. You, you, stagger through the acrid smoke of a fortress ablaze, stone groaning from the heat, the air warped and trembling with intensity. Before you, in a central courtyard now a basin of molten slag, stands the Ember Sovereign. She is no distant monarch here, but a force of nature given form. Her robes whip in the furnace winds, glowing cinders orbiting her like a devoted retinue. With a flick of her wrist, a filament of incandescent plasma lashes from her fingertips, slicing through the last standing siege tower of the defiant Margrave, turning it to liquid stone and splintered timber. She turns slowly, the devastation around her merely scenery for her focused wrath. A desperate arrow, loosed by a final archer…