The fire elementals can assume the form of any animal or monster from the Prime Material Plane, mimic humanoid shape, or create composites with elemental shapes, for example a lava lion with a flaming mane and charcoal eyes. Fire elementals could usually be distinguished by the different colors of flame coming off their bodies.

Description

Unlike the other three elemental planes, the Plane of Fire has normal gravity and a landscape, although most of the "ground" is made primarily of loosely packed elemental fire and feels like walking in a swamp of hot coals. The rivers and oceans are filled with a more liquid version of the same stuff. Non-native flying creatures find the atmosphere thin and therefore do not have their usual speed or maneuverability.

Visibility is hampered by the smoke coming off the flames engulfing, but not consuming, nearly every solid, liquid, or gas (and creature) on the plane. What one can see is usually distorted by heat ripples. Geographic features such as hills, mountains, and cliffs do not have a geologic lifespan, because even the more solid areas slowly move like a magma flow as seen on the Prime Material Plane.

• If a traveler doesn't have protection or immunity from temperatures high enough to melt stone then death will be swift.

• The "weather" is hot and deadly. Rains of hot ash move about like thunderstorms, threatening those on or near the ground with hot embers and blinding ash.

Beauty in peril
The dangers of the plane can not be overstated, but those that survived the trip talk about wonders and beauty at nearly every turn. Flame colors spanning the rainbow, from the vermilion of a forge hearth to the yellow-white of heated iron, from the blues and greens of chemical reactions to the familiar candle-flame yellows and oranges.