Spellfire Wielder

Bony claws raked shrieking agony oacross her back.  Pain almost overwhelmed her.

Shandril opened her eyes and looked for the dracolich.  On hands and knees, Shandril turned and saw Shargrailar sweepoing down again, its cold eyes glimmering at her from its cruel skull, its claws oputstretched to rend and tear.  The onetime thief from Deepingdale met the dracolich's chilling gaze and laughed.

From her eyes flames short forth, in two fiery beans that struck the undead dragon's own eyes.  Smoke rose, and Shargrailar screamed.  Bony winds sheared away to one side in agony.  Shandril was still laughing in triumph as she spat a white inferno of flames into the blinded dracolich.  It reeled backward in the air, blazing, and crashed to the earth. -from the novel Spellfire

Spellfire is refined, controlled, raw magic.  In beneficient manifestations, it appears as a font of silver light and healing energy.  In battle, it is a searing blue-white jet of all-consuming radiance.  Spellfire in its basic form as described in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and that information is expanded here.

The supernatural ability known as spellfire is thought by many to be unique to a single person each generation, but recent information indicates that this is a fallacy, and that spellfire wielders are more common than originally thought.  People born with the ability to use spellfire have the Spellfire Wielder feat, described in the next chapter.

A person gifted with spellfire can perform amazing deeds, depending upon their skill, talent, and the amount of magical energy they have within them at the time.  In general, spellfire can be used to heal, create blasts of destructive fire, or absorb magical effects it contacts, although the exact effects vary by circumstance and user.  Talented wielders have developed the ability to release multiple blasts at once or even fly (see the spellfire channeler prestige class in the next chapter).

Absorbing Spell Engery 

A spellfire wielder can use her reaction to absorb spells targeted at her as if she were a rod of obsorption.  She gains one level of spellfire energy for every spell level absorbed and can store a number of spellfire energy levels equal to her constitution.  If she has reached her limit she cannot absorb spells until she expends some of her stored spellfire energy levels.

If an incoming spell effect has a greater number of spell levels than she can currently store, she absorbs spell levels up to her limit and the remaining spell levels are devided by the original number of spell levels to determine what fraction of the effect gets through.

If her constitution decreases so that her number of stored spellfire levels is greater than her current constitution, the excess levels discharge at a random creature in range as destructive spellfire.

Store spellfire energy levels are unavailable in an antimagic field, but are not lost.  Once the wielder is out of the antimagic field, the spellfire energy levels are again available for use.  Dispel magic and similar effects cannot negate stored spellfire energy levels.  A character with stored levels radiates magic as if she were an item with a caster level equal to her number of stored levels.

Using Spellfire

As a standard action, a spellfire wielder may expend stored spellfire energy levels as a melee or ranged touch attack (maximum 400 ft), dealing 1d6 points of spellfire damage per level expended (Dexterity save DC20 for half damage).  Spellfire damage is half fire damage and half raw magical power.  Creatures with immunity, resistance, or protections against fire effects apply these to half of the damage, but not the other half.

A spellfire wielder can heal a target by touch, restoring 2 hit points per spellfire energy level expended for this purpose.  This is not considered positive energy, so it does not injure undead.

Unlike most supernatural abilities, spellfire is affected by spells and magic items that affect spell-like abilities, such as a rod of absorption or rod of negation (if pointed at the mantifestation rather than the wielder).  It can be thwarted or counterspelled by dispel magic and theoretically a spellfire wielder could counterspell anothers's spellfire.  However, spellfire is a supernatrual ability and does not provoke an attack of opportunity when used, nor is it subject to spell resistance.