Kindlekraner

Planar

Urban

Touch

Melting Wax

Kindlekraners are capricious creatures of fey origin who have been infused with primordial energies from the Elemental Plane of Fire, making them extraplanar nomads and outcasts who find no permanent home in either of the planes from which they share ancestry. The original kindlekraners were goblins from the Feygloam who were enslaved by efreetis and transformed by powerful magic to suit their new purpose as the builders of great citadels of fire. In the millennia since, the kindlekraners have freed themselves and have become scattered across the planar fabric, carving out meagre existences of subsistence and chaos. 

After years of forced servitude where they were used as builders, kindlekraners, freed from their vile masters, take pleasure in fiery destruction. Kindlekraners are simple-minded beings that are instinctively driven to burn down unnatural structures — any structures that would not naturally occur in nature. The creatures prefer to work slowly and mindfully, burning single structures at time and taking care to revel in the sights and sounds of combustion.  

The fires set by a kindlekraner appear blue and purple instead of orange and red. Though the fires give off no heat and feel cool to the touch, they burn and destroy just as efficiently as regular flame. The charred aftermath of a kindlekraner’s fires smells of honey and brimstone. 

Kindlekraner’s have a natural aversion to wool, and will be hesitant to strike those who cover themselves in the wool of a lamb. A potion brewed with buckwheat and honey as key ingredients will make the user resistant to the kindlekraner’s fires. 

Kindlekraners are nomadic, and as such they never remain in one location for long. When they do stop to rest, however, they dig small burrows into the ground and conceal the entrances with whatever materials are readily available, including vegetation in natural environments or floorboards, furniture, or flagstones in urban ones. A kindlekraner never remains in a particular burrow for longer than three days. 

Kindlekraners prefer to avoid direct combat. If cornered, however, they use their Touch attack against any targets in melee range, prioritising flammable enemies, and then try to use their Melting Wax attack to grapple enemies so that their Nimble Escape can better be used to create distance and disengage. 

The heart of a kindlekraner, if ritually removed from the body, grants its holder resistance to fire damage. The hand of a kindlekraner, when dried, ground into a powder, mixed with sand, and ingested, allows one to summon a spectral hand as an extension of their body. A PC can make a 

 Wisdom (Survival) check, or other check the GM deems appropriate, to obtain loot from the 

. On a successful check, the GM chooses one piece of loot, or has the PC roll a d4 to determine what they get. On a failed check, the PC gets a Kindlekraner Crystalized Candle. A PC can choose to have another make their skill check if they so choose.

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