Fire (The Legend of Spyro)

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This article is about the element from The Legend of Spyro series. For the breath attack from the original series, see Flame. For one of the elements from the Skylanders franchise, see Fire (Skylanders).

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The Fire Temple Banner by Jared Pullen

“Clear your mind Spyro, and feel the fire that flows through your veins. Allow its heat to consume you, and breathe with it. Now, rise up and release the firestorm within you!”

– The Chronicler, The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night

Fire is one of the four main Elements used by Spyro in The Legend of Spyro series. Unlike the fire ability in the original series, this breath attack was re-imagined to allow primary and secondary elemental abilities. Ignitus is an elder dragon who is the Guardian of Fire.

History

Fire is a form of light, heat, comfort, and even destruction; a primal force of nature. In the darker places of The Legend of Spyro, the Fire element burned its brightest, and this was true for all the elemental effects. It is governed by focused control over breathing and expressed by exhalation. While this ability is active, a Fire Dragon's horns, tail and wings would trail tendrils of gleaming sheaths of flame as they moved through an assault for more devastating attacks.

Fire Guardian Ignitus

Ignitus is the Dragon Guardian of Fire, having mastered the blazing element he wields. At old age, he is still able to perform fury attacks but doing so wears him down and it takes a while for him to recover. In The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, Ignitus can generate a barrier around himself and those close to him to provide protection from fire and other sources of heat. Although a storyboard panel reveals the intention was for Ignitus to generate a shield made of flames from his fiery surroundings or from his own fire breath.

Abilities

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning

Seeing his brother Sparx in danger of being killed, Spyro obtained his first use of the Fire Element. With lack of experience, Spyro would simply breathe flames (much like his past uses). Until training with Ignitus, Spyro learned how to shoot 'Fire Bombs', which were extending the flame breath in a small, concentrated form that would explode once it hit enemies. Using an extreme amount of energy, Fire fury would lift Spyro up until being enveloped by a line of red/orange energy until it was exploded into a larger 'bomb'. Unlike most elements, the Fire abilities would shoot or rain explosive, magma spheres once upgraded.

In the Nintendo DS version of the game, at the expense of Fury energy, Spyro can generate a shield of flames called the Fire Shield, which damages enemies who touch it.

Fire
Attack Name	Upgrade Level	Use
Fire Breath	0	N/A
Fire Blast of the Blazing Skies	1	Scorch the bad guys with a fuller, hotter breath that won't fizzle out.
Fire Blast of the Scorched Earth	2	Turn up the heat on your flames to see enemies run around with their pants on fire.
Dragsooth's Fire Blast of the Eternal Inferno	3	This ultimate burning force explodes out of Spyro's mouth like a fiery volcano.
Fire Ball	0	N/A
Fire Ball of Smoke and Flame	1	What's better than a fireball explosion? An even bigger one!
Malak's Fire Ball of the Burning Plains	2	Add power, sprinkle in some shrapnel, and you've got a bomb with a nasty kick.
Malak's Fire Ball of the Burning Plains	3	Break up the party for Cynder's goons with the mother of all explosions!"

The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night

By re-awakening his dormant Fire element through his dream, Spyro kept his signiture flame breath but now as his new training by the Chronicler emerged, he would execute new abilities and forms of "fury". His secondary attack was Comet Dash, where he would spin around to home into his enemies like a missile while covered in pure, fire energy. His new Fire fury was similar to his previous one, but instead of the embers falling, Spyro has them circling around him until they fling up and aim at enemies like comets. Against certain enemies and especially bosses, Spyro instead spits out a flame that functions like a missile which could be charged indefinitely.

In the Gameboy Advance version of The Eternal Night, he can fire a short-ranged fireball. When the Fire element is upgraded to level 2, Spyro will use his fire breath, which deals a lot of damage and can burn enemies, but consumes a lot of magic over time and stops him in place. At level 3, he can angle the fire up and down and turn around while using it.

Primary Attacks
Element	Attack Name	Use
Fire	Fire Blast	Versatile weapon that burns enemies, fires cannons, ignites torches, and charges crystal balls

Secondary Attacks
Element	Attack Name	Use
Fire	Comet Dash	Combustible charging attack does physical damage plus fire damage

The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon

Even though his fury was stripped permanently, Spyro's past Fire breath and Comet Dash can now both be upgraded a few times until fullest potential. This makes it the first reawakened element with lack of strength and versatility, unlike the others he had.

Primary Attacks
Element	Attack Name	Upgrade Level	Use
Fire	Dragon Fire	1	Allows you to breathe Dragon Fire that burns your target.
Fire	Blazing Dragon Fire	3	Allows you to breathe Dragon Fire that burns your target, doing greater damage.
Fire	Scorching Dragon Fire	4	Allows you to breathe Dragon Fire that burns your target, doing more damage, and spreading from one enemy to another.

Secondary Attacks
Element	Attack Name	Upgrade Level	Use
Fire	Comet Dash	2	Surrounds Spyro in fl ames as he charges into his enemies.
Fire	Blazing Comet Dash	3	Surrounds Spyro in fl ames as he charges into his enemies, doing more damage.
Fire	Scorching Comet Dash	4	Surrounds Spyro in fl ames as he charges into his enemies, doing greater damage. Fire also spreads from one enemy to another.

Gallery

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  Spyro's Fire attack concepts
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  The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
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  The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
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  The symbol of Fire in Dawn of the Dragon.
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  The Fire element symbol in the Nintendo DS version of Dawn of the Dragon.

Trivia

• The element of Fire was the first element both Spyro and Malefor mastered.
• Previous dragons who mastered Fire are mentioned in the final upgrades in A New Beginning and The Eternal Night, named Dragsooth, Malak, Ishlandur and Berylsythe.
• Cynder in her adult corrupted form was able to breathe a corrupted version of Fire called Shadow Fire. She retains some semblance of this with her Shadow Fire ability in Dawn of the Dragon.