Casara is a loner from Brooklyn, New York, but she casts spells of flames when she dreams of a Fire World inhabited by amazing gods & goddesses that call to her to join them there. Indeed, stronger each night, she hears a powerful Calling that by now she can’t help but crave to follow. When Flambeaux the Fire Shaman appears to her out of her bedside candle to take her away to the Fire World she leaves with him eagerly on a great quest of self discovery to heal not only the Fire World, but the place she leaves behind, in a search to find the source of The Calling.

An impossibly ancient Fire Shaman, whoonce helped humans to discover fire, he led his people to the Fire World to create a Paradise in the Flames where fire could not burn them. There they built a high culture, aligned with the forces of creation, but it soon they fell prey to narcissism & greed, and to the Great Decline that saw his world become a paradise lost. Now he wanders the deserts, playas & plains with his Fire Tribe, surviving as nomads, trying everything to get the disparate factions to reunify. Soon he hears a Calling from a girl in another world and goes to find Casara as their only hope of redemption.

Powerful but insecure, hiding behind the adoration of her zealous followers, The Oracle defends a canyon pass with her fanatical cult that allows access to the plains, guarding the Fire Gate through which only true believers may pass. Seething with the tremors of her own demise, clawing at herself in the guilt of her failures, she is possessed with the wisdom of her own suffering and churns out answers to those who address her. Always calmed by the presence of Flambeaux she yet will not be pacified by the new usurper Casara, yet only by meeting her head on will the Fire World ever be healed

An ex-noblewoman of the once-great Fire Court, she did well by the Great Decline, retreating to her walled enclave ‘Sunset City’ & setting up a semi-civilised fiefdom at the first sign of trouble. There, she rules in seclusion, protecting her citizens and nurturing her pride, caring little for those outside her thick walls. The courtiers of her city call themselves ‘Giants’, walking on high stilts and wearing tall fire headdresses, revelling in ritualistic pomp, served by their slave classes. But can she be trusted? Is she a friend or a foe to Casara, Flambeaux and to The Calling itself?

Gift from the Unicorn, conjured up by the Oracle, the sad and precious Fire Fairy is the innocence of the Fire World personified. Patron saint of the downtrodden & hope for the slave class, her mute & demure way explodes with joy when she is put with Casara., becoming her guide, handmaiden & bodyguard, on great wings of flame as she soars up ahead of the expedition across the plains, scouting for danger, a warriors’ spirit powering her path across the sky above like a shooting star. Until these times of need, she was seen as but a legend, but now she is very very real

Flambeaux crowned Ravenbane king way back, & tasked him with leading them into a renaissance age of compassion, benevolence & magic. For a while, the Fire People flourished. But fire consumes as well as creates & Ravenbane grew cruel & tyrannical & his court, “Darkworld”, became a feared carnival of debauchery, populated by his ‘Heartless Minions’. The Fire Tribes became refugees in the wilderness, fearing his mercenaries’ brutal raids. Casara now makes her pilgrimage straight to the heart of Darkworld - can she tame a fire that's burned out of control?

Rising Star since the Great Decline, JJ the Mercenary has done well for him and his band of henchmen mercenaries since he began seeing it as an opportunity where his talents for pillaging and brutality could be of use. He has a code though; one of the warrior, eager to meet a glorious death in battle and to redistribute the wealth of the green…into the pockets of himself and his own. He and his band of soldiers are out for themselves. They raid the tribes and steal slaves for Ravenbane but as heir power grows, JJ’s covetousness for the crown itself is scarcely debated..

The Unicorn knew to withdraw from the unfolding dramas of the wars-of-the-flame a long time ago & took her fairy kin to the deep volcanic forest of the equator, where she created and enforced a policy of fun and play which may yet be the key to saving their reality. There, she & her sisters seduce the wayward traveller with beguiling congeniality, teaching & empowering them patiently. Her inherent wisdom is as strong as the branches of their ancient oaks, but NO!.. she will nothelp Casara & Flambeaux! She has gifts so much greater than that if they will stop to find them

The Trinity is the soul of the Fire World, thrumming at the heart of the Great Volcano, a 3-headed fire goddess who is both the creator & the destroyer, she cares not for anyone but the fire & will test, tax & question you to measure you up against the purity of the flame itself. Her Underworld lair is a shrine to what may be or not be and it is known that The Calling resides closely grasped by the flaming fingers of her 6 hands. Are you pure enough to step into the flame without burning!? The Trinity will be the great decider of your fate