Editing Flamepunk: Pyros (section)

==Overview of Pyros==

Pyros is inner fire - the essence of magic and pyromantic force that exists within every living being. Ordinary everyday humans only have 3 points of Pyros, but the player characters are something more special. 

'''Player characters have a starting Pyros of 6 points. This is also their Pyros maximum.'''

Powerful NPCs (such as trained Guild operatives, mages, enemy runners and the like) will likely also have 6 points of Pyros. Especially powerful creatures (high power demons, elementals and ancient sorcerors for example) may have even more.

A character's Pyros pool can't normally exceed its initial amount, though some equipment and some special arcane traits can circumvent this.

===Examples of Pyros levels===

* '''Pyros 1:''' A pet or intelligent animal. The smallest and most transient of demons.
* '''Pyros 2:''' A small child, or frail old man.
* '''Pyros 3:''' An ordinary human being. A small and weak demon.
* '''Pyros 6:''' A talented and dynamic human being, such as a charismatic gang leader, a veteran soldier, an obsessive magus, a rabble-rousing Burner or an anarchistic Blazer. A standard demon or elemental. ''Player characters all fall into this category, and any with Pyros 6 will seem to burn brighter in their lives and personalities than those around them. Pyros 6 is as high as humans can naturally get.''
* '''Pyros 9:''' A powerful demon or elemental, such as demonic shock troops. Likely to be several times larger than a human.
* '''Pyros 12:''' A prince amongst demons, or an exceptionally powerful lone demon. Likely to be house-sized.
* '''Pyros 18:''' Ancient and powerful demons, likely to be hundreds of feet tall and regarded more as forces of nature then ordinary entities.
* '''Pyros 36+:''' Demonic god-entities, which exist in the reaches of the Elemental Plane of Fire. Likely to be city-sized, at the very least. Rare enough that the Church can plausibly deny their existence to the masses.