Archflame Lara

Lara the Smouldering was the First Archflame of the Infernari, but she began as an apprentice in the Dweomersecte. 

Born to obscurity in the lower city of Peakshadow, Lara rose swiftly to prominence by the brilliance of her mind and an uncanny sensitivity to the elemental force of fire. She was elevated to the position of magister under Archmage Arecelos I, whose unorthodox experiments into the infernal realms she embraced with fervent dedication. Under the tutelage of both Arecelos and his successor Vynse, Lara honed her command of flame until she was said to be impervious to heat and able to shape fire as a sculptor shapes clay.

When first Arecelos and then Vynse were slain -- torn from the world by extraplanar entities during their summoning -- Lara became convinced that they had nearly achieved ultimate dominion over the material world, what she would later call the Prime Ember. Her attempts to continue their work were met with condemnation. Peredik the Tall, elected Archmage in 4093, issued a censure forbidding the Dweomersecte's contact with infernal powers and suppressed Lara’s research.

Rather than recant, Lara renounced the Dweomersecte, declared herself the head of a new school and led a handful of followers into exile. These defectors became the first Infernari, united by their faith in fire as both truth and transcendence. They named her their Archflame.

Lara's charisma and intensity reshaped magical orthodoxy across the Four Lands, and her brief rule laid the foundation of a flame-wrought philosophy that endures to this day. Her later years remain mysterious -- some say she perished in the volcanic collapse of Mount Erenos; others claim to have seen her in the deep Khard of Southrun. Some say she walks the Sea of Glass, ablaze but unburned and identify her as the Amira al Nar -- a minor goddess of that land.