Flamepunk: People, Culture and Factions
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People
Culture
Language
Glossary
A host of fire-related slang terms has grown with the burgeoning ranks of flamerunners and dispossessed street punks that fill the cities of (Name of World).
Glossary:
- Ash
- Excrement, offal (or, more generally, undesirable). Ash is what's left behind after a fire, and its use to mean "shit" was a natural development.
- Binder
- General term for someone who can bind elemental flame.
- Blazer
- Street slang for a person who can enter flamespace. Also sometimes used as a synonym for burner (see below).
- Brands
- Firebrands (actually a form of tattoing) used to augment the body.
- Brass
- One of the more common metals used to form flamerunning equipment, brass is used generally to mean "high-end, fancy equipment."
- Burn
- Fight. Also used the sense of "get it on," "get going," or "let's roll."
- Burner
- Slang term for street tough, figher, or hired muscle. Generally considered a catch-all epithet for a buddy or companion.
- Family
- A member of the Hadar, e.g. '"Stay away from that blazer. He's Family."
- Flamespace
- The realm of flames, where physical reality is broken down to its elemental essences. This is the playground of the flamerunners.
- Icepit
- A place where the spark (see below) is chronically absent; a boring place. An uncool (in the sense of popular) location.
- Muleblood
- In the brutally hot bloodforges, fleshshapers use the power of the Flame Realm to melt and reshape the flesh of men, turning them into...something else. They are reforged into an amalgam of flesh, metal and fire. These fearful creatures are called, in common parlance, mulebloods. Fleshshapers tend to refer to them as the "reforged," however.
- Snuff
- Derisive term for a chump, or a loser, someone whose spark is weak. "You want a piece of this, snuff? Come on then, let's burn." Also gutter.
- Spark
- Slang for firebonding or other fire magic, and the frequently visual side effects of the same. Typically, used to indicate the presence or absence of interesting stuff going on, e.g., Let's get outta here, burner. There's no spark in this icepit."
Factions
Major Factions
The world of Flamepunk is one of infighting, competing influence, and power brokering among powerful factions that seek to control the world, the people, and the magic. However, three major contenders for the role of "world domination" have arisen through the twists of history.
Since these organizations are so influential in the large and small activities of everyday life, each of them is given their own page.
The Guilds
Massive corporate conglomerates with a tight grip on the throat of the (Name of World) economy.
The Church of the Holy Flame
A sprawling religious bureaucracy that appeases the people while perpetuating the use of flamebinding magic.
The Hadar Families
Powerful families and clans woven together by a web of debts, marriages, and contracts going back thousands of years, the Hadar are involved in enterprises both legitimate and criminal.
