First appearance: Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren · watch it on YouTube
Amren Scorsia is a fire genasi from the elemental plane of fire who fought the self-styled magician Mageic in Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren, played by Miss_Magitek. She was polite to the Grandmaster and openly disgusted by her opponent. Over the bout she survived a cursed doll, a hailstorm of hot dogs and a cathedral explosion. Then the arena itself turned to lava and swallowed her. Her story didn’t end there: the Arbiter knelt over her cooling body and offered her a second life.
Story
Goblins brought Amren into the Dread Fortress on the Arbiter’s snap, billed as “red versus blue” against Mageic. She introduced herself with full ceremony: “It is I, Amren Scorsia. From the elemental plane of fire.” Mageic immediately decided she was his “pretty sidekick.” He complained that his manager Jerry had promised him an exclusive contract and sneered that she had no manager of her own. Amren made clear she was “not some… show tunes kind of performer.” The Grandmaster settled the matter: managers had no role in her arena, and Amren was “an honored guest in this battle.”
The fight took place in the Grandmaster’s abandoned abbey. A creepy porcelain doll appeared on the fountain’s edge and asked who wanted to be her friend. Amren refused Mageic’s handshake (“you filth”), so he shook the doll’s hand instead. The doll, Dolly, branded a rune into his palm and became his assistant. Amren answered by appearing on a rooftop in a puff of mist and setting off fireworks for the crowd: “Is this really who you are cheering for? … Do you want a real show?” When Mageic went invisible and whispered his plan to the doll, the abbey echoed it straight to Amren, and she stomped and set the cobblestones churning. Mageic sent Dolly floating up to give her “a nice big old hug.” Dolly announced “I hug with my teeth” and bit her ankle. Amren golfed the doll back at him with her staff, and it shattered. “I sent her away permanently.”
The doll haunted her anyway. After a chaos event in which the Acolytes pelted the arena with tacos, hot dogs and a steel chair, someone threw their own grandmother into the arena, and she died; the Arbiter dragged her body away and mopped up the blood. Mageic then conjured a weeping, furious illusion of Dolly on Amren’s shoulder. It whispered the lullaby in her ear, and Amren broke down and fled across the scaffolding: “Go away, dolly. Please.” The Grandmaster finally crushed the phantom in her fist. Amren was left to reflect: “I had to watch Dolly die twice, Mageic.” Inside the cathedral, she matched the Grandmaster’s disappointed-mother stare at Mageic with a glare of her own. Mageic slowed her to a crawl, and she answered by sealing the door with a wall of fire: “I won’t let you leave.” The Grandmaster, unwilling to see “such beauty” held back, lifted the spell and granted Amren an extra burst of action. Amren set the rug, pews and floor ablaze, and then the Arbiter’s hidden pocket of natural gas blew the whole cathedral apart.
The endgame was a slugfest. Amren shattered the last of the stained glass and endured Mageic’s withering curse twice. When the floor split open, she hung by her fingernails, then stepped into the flames (“The fire is my safe spot”) and unleashed “my big one,” an inferno that Mageic, warned by her own announcement, dodged behind a wall of debris. He hit her with a blast of cold twice over. With the crowd chanting her name, she stayed on her feet by sheer will: “The fire will always beat the cold. I live another moment.” She vanished, reappeared at his side and scorched his “beautiful showman face.” But the crowd’s chant of “Fire!” summoned the last chaos event: the floor became lava. Mageic shimmied up a column. Amren, sure of her bond with fire, stood her ground. It was too much, and she melted into the lava with her arms raised. The Grandmaster’s wings cooled the floor into a lava statue of her. Before it fully hardened, the Arbiter knelt and asked if she would like to live. She said yes, and he promised to “mold you into the perfect weapon.” He reshaped her from the lava and vanished with her. Mageic was crowned victor. At the table, her player called it a fitting end, “one with the lava of this arena,” with “Terminator 2 vibes,” and admitted Amren’s hubris was her downfall.
Personality and Abilities
Amren carried herself with fiery dignity. She was courteous to the Grandmaster, contemptuous of Mageic’s showmanship, and quick to cackle when things started burning. Her magic was flame and earth: fireworks, walls of fire, a cone of burning hands, an all-consuming inferno, and the power to make the ground erupt or tremble. She could step through space in a blink, shatter glass with sound, and use her staff as a very effective golf club. She also showed real vulnerability. The haunted doll rattled her badly. Her deepest trust was in fire itself, right up until the moment it was too much even for her.
Relationships
- Mageic: her opponent, who insisted she was his assistant. She loathed him, scarred his face, and lost to him when the floor turned to lava.
- Dolly: the cursed doll who bit her ankle. Amren smashed her and was then haunted by her illusion.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: treated Amren as an honored guest, lifted Mageic’s slowing spell to let her shine, and mourned “a great champion who brought heat to the fight.”
- The Arbiter: secretly saved her from the lava and remade her as his “perfect weapon.”
Memorable Quotes
- “It is I, Amren Scorsia. From the elemental plane of fire.” (Magic — S1 Ep2)
- “Is this really who you are cheering for? … Do you want a real show?” (Magic — S1 Ep2)
- “I sent her away permanently.” (Magic — S1 Ep2)
- “I had to watch Dolly die twice, Mageic.” (Magic — S1 Ep2)
- “The fire will always beat the cold. I live another moment.” (Magic — S1 Ep2)
- “Yes, I would like to live.” (Magic — S1 Ep2)