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Ymeri
The All-Consuming; the Queen of the Inferno. NE/CE archomental of the destructive power of fire, deserts, volcanoes (She/Her)
Pantheon: Elemental
Symbol: Four flaming swords arranged in a crossed pattern
Realm: Fire / Burning Ridges / Auroric Palace
Known Proxies: None
Imagine the most jealous, destructive, hungry kind of fire—it burns not just because there’s fuel there to feed it, but because it’s literally enjoying destroying your house, watching your life’s work go up in smoke, oh and roasting your pets alive too, just for good measure. That’s Ymeri the All-Consuming, the self-proclaimed Queen of the Inferno, and you’d better believe she’s got the power to back up her claims. This malevolent archomental represents fire at its most chaotic and calamitous, embodying the devastation that an uncontrollable blaze causes as it consumes everything in its path, simply because it can.
When Ymeri manifests, she takes the form of a many-armed humanoid reptilian with burning wings that spread wide. Her lower body resembles that of a great lizard, scaled and powerful, while her torso bears four or even six arms that can wield multiple weapons or cast spells simultaneously. Her wings burn with flames that creating a shimmering aurora of heat that can be seen from miles away. Some describe her eyes as molten gold that reflects the light of a thousand burning cities. She often wears a reptilian mask on her humanoid face. Or perhaps it’s a humanoid mask on her reptilian face. I’m not about to get close enough find out which, berk.
The Philosophy of Consumption
Ymeri’s philosophy would be chilling if it wasn’t literally ablaze: flames should dominate the planes, and everything she can’t seize else should be burned to ash. She teaches that destruction brings joy, that consumption by flame is the natural order of things, and that stagnation is the greatest sin imaginable. Her followers learn to be passionate and quick-witted, to destroy their enemies with fire and inspire new cultists through their zeal. But there’s a darker truth beneath her teachings—Ymeri doesn’t just want to conquer for some grand cosmic purpose. She revels in the act of destruction itself, finding genuine cruel pleasure in watching civilisations reduced to cinders and their histories erased forever.
The Queen of the Inferno holds dominion over fire, heat, and smoke, but she also promotes the use of fear and pain as tools of power. Branding irons to mark slaves, and pyres to burn witches—she claims those were her innovations. Unlike other fire deities who might burn for purification or transformation, Ymeri burns to dominate and terrorize. Her flames jump and shift unexpectedly, embodying fire’s most erratic behavior. She’s the forest fire that suddenly changes direction, the house fire that leaps across firebreaks, the wildfire that creates its own weather. Her followers learn that unpredictability is strength, that keeping enemies guessing is more valuable than any tactical manual.
The Eternal War
Ymeri rules from the Auroric Palace, a magnificent fortress that stands sentinel at the border between the Plane of Fire and the Para-Elemental Plane of Magma. The palace itself is a weapon of conquest—its shimmering heat sublimates the very stone it rests upon into a mist of vaporised magma, which rises into the white, green, yellow, and blue hues of the aurora incendi that spread across the Plane of Fire from above her abode. This serves partly as a display of power, but mainly as a constant assault on her greatest enemy’s domain.
That enemy is Ayrzul, the Fossilized King of Earth. Their rivalry represents the eternal struggle between fire’s desire to consume and earth’s immovable resistance. Ymeri believes that elemental earth will eventually succumb to her flames, and she actively works to make this prophecy come true by sending ifrit agents to destabilise the rigid hierarchy of Ayrzul’s followers. Her Tongues of Ymeri—a clan of humanoid elementals that serve as her ambassadors, advisors, and spies—work tirelessly to thwart the Fossilized King’s intelligence-gathering efforts.
But Ymeri’s ambitions stretch far beyond just defeating Ayrzul. Long ago, she stretched her fiery wings and flew beyond the clouds of ash that choke the top of the Plane of Fire, gazing across the Astral to the Outer Planes, and seeing how tiny her infinite plane truly was. That vision of the vastness beyond her realm filled her with a burning need to conquer everything she’d seen. But she knew that for her inferno to consume such vastness, it would need much more fuel.
Burnt Bridges
Perhaps the most telling story about Ymeri’s character concerns her systematic destruction of all records regarding her true origin. Unlike other powers who might embellish their histories or create grand creation myths, the Queen of the Inferno has taken the opposite approach—she’s burned every chronicle, murdered every witness, and obliterated every trace of whatever humble beginning she might’ve had. She claims to have always existed. She seems to believe that this brings her followers great joy every day, as they have no need to imagine a world without their queen.
This act reveals the core of Ymeri’s nature: She’s not just a destroyer, but a revisionist who seeks to immolate inconvenient evidence to allow her to reshape reality itself. By burning away her past, she made herself into something more—not through growth or transformation, but through the pure act of erasure. It’s a philosophy that extends to everything she touches: if something doesn’t serve her vision, she’s got the power to make sure it simply ceases to exist.
Fanning the Flames
Of all the elemental lords, graybeards fear that Ymeri commands the largest following. Most fire elementals seem to revere her, alongside many efreet, fire mephits, and other creatures of the Plane of Fire. Whether that’s because they too revel in destruction, or whether that’s because they’re too afraid of her wrath to do anything but follow her, that’s less clear. The pyrophor, a sub-type of fire elemental that revels in chaos, are her strongest advocates, invoking Ymeri’s name whenever they commit atrocities on the Plane of Fire of beyond.
However, her relationship with other high-ups of the Inferno reveals the complex politics of the plane. Few salamanders honour her name, preferring instead to worship the demon lord Flauros. Chant goes that a covert order of efreeti known as the Secret Fire is dedicated to opposing her rule.
On the Prime, Ymeri is worshipped primarily by cults of fire elementalist wizards, kineticists, and red dragons—beings who share her love of destruction and her understanding that fire’s glorious power lies in its ability to terrify. Her arsonist clerics are amongst some of the more dangerously insane priests you’ll find anywhere, and worship of Ymeri is banned in many cities following conflagrations that they proudly admit to starting.
The Queen of the Inferno represents fire’s most dangerous aspect: its ability to grow beyond any attempt to control it. She teaches that hesitation is weakness, that mercy is fuel wasted, and that the ultimate expression of power is to burn so brightly that even the memory of what came before is consumed in the flames.
EDICTS: Be passionate and quick of wit; Destroy your foes with fire; Inspire your inferiors with zeal and strategy.
ANATHEMA: Allow yourself to stagnate or to lose motivation; Extinguish destructive blazes.
Canonical Sources: Rage of Elements [PF2e] p116; Gods & Magic [PF2e] p126; Planes of Power [PF1e] p54-55.
Other Sources: Jon Winter-Holt. Canonwatch: