A group of Rider captives trapped inside a Wheeler-made fire cage.
A fire cage is an execution method wherein the captive or captives is placed into a cage made out of wood, which is then set on fire, burning the victim alive inside. The practice first started in Nivorah, and is ubiquitous among Wheel clans, but less so among Riders, and no Rider clans in the Black Eel Valley regularly practice this method of execution.
Ride Like the Wind[]
Fire cages are first introduced in Ride Like the Wind.
Some time after the Skyquake event has happened, you may hear the following rumor:
| “ | Apparently the <Wheel Clan>s have reacted to the skyfall by rounding up people they say are to blame, and burning them in fire cages. While I'm sure there were sacrilegious <Wheel Clan> people, I don't think a disaster that big was caused by a few Wheels | ” |
Events[]
Fire cages appear in the following events:
Lore[]
Your clan circle can say the following about fire cages:
- "Fire cages are just what they sound like. You make them from wood, put prisoners inside, and set them on fire."
- "As you can probably guess, a fire cage is a structure they set aflame with prisoners inside."
- "Fire cages were used against taboo breakers in the days of the Golden City."
- "There are old stories about Hyalorings using fire cages. But none of us here do it."
- "If you want to be more like charioteers, by all means, build a fire cage."
- "Stelfor of the West Clan fought Goldtalon, chief of the Big Chariot clan. The struggle was brutal, with captives on both sides burning in fire cages."
Lights Going Out[]
A number of burning fire horses.
By the time of Lights Going Out, some have taken up the practice of fashioning the cages into horses, so called fire horses.
Events[]
Your clan never witnesses or practice fire cages as a method of execution, but in the bad ending Loss: Pyres, your clan uses fire horses as a method of self-immolation for ritual suicide.