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Greek Fire
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Before ironclads came on the scene, ships were extremely flammable. However, since they also had ready access to water, exploiting this required something special. Enter the Byzantine Empire, who developed the Trope Namer, a type of fire that was impossible to extinguish with water. Ever since, many works involving pre-gunpowder navies involve some form of it. Numerous naval incendiaries exist, but to properly qualify as Greek Fire they must possess certain characteristics. |
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The Witchlands has seafire, which is basically traditional Greek Fire amplified in power. How it's made is not said, but it's Firewitched in some way to make it stronger, and the sheer mention of it is enough to terrify experienced sailors. | |
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The first two issues of DC Comics' Blue Beetle series of the 1980s has Ted Kord dealing with the Incendiary Man who uses this to burn down his target buildings, all for the sake of getting even with the city of Chicago's fire department for failing to notice him when he was trapped in a burning building. | |
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The Gentleman Bastard universe lacks gunpowder and firearms, yet "alchemy" has devised a type of inextinguishable incendiary bomb which burns white hot like blazing sun and can burn a large man-of-war in minutes. It's so destructive that warship captains avoid its use in combat since storage aboard ship would be too dangerous. | |
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Age of Empires and Age of Empires II had fire-ships that used the historical Greek Fire, projected from hoses. Although short-ranged, they did deal substantial damage to enemy ships. Unsurprisingly, the inventor, the Byzantine, has some of the best fire-ships with its faster attack speed and gaining extra range from the Greek Fire unique research. | |
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Wise Phuul: rulion burns white, and is considered so dangerous its manufacture has been banned via diplomatic treaty. | |
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| Greek Fire / int_56fa0ea4 | type |
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Civilization: The Byzantines get the fire-shooting Dromon galley as a unique unit in both Civilization III (when they appear in the Conquests expansion) and Civilization V (when they appear in the Gods and Kings expansion). | |
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The honeyfire demonstrated by the Herders in The Obernewtyn Chronicles appears to be this. | |
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| Greek Fire / int_60f30aaf | type |
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The Saga of Recluce includes Chaos fire, which is magically generated. It is especially feared because, in addition to the standard characteristics, it can be created inside steam engines and loaded cannons. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations: Ezio burns down a good part of the Ottoman navy as it's blocking the port on his way to Cappadocia. | |
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The Council Wars series fills this role with Napalm, although after the first couple uses they get extinguisher foam on all ships, somewhat reducing both effectiveness and the terror factor | |
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Dungeons & Dragons has alchemist's fire, though most versions are not waterproof it is still sticky and burns when exposed to air. Some supplements do have waterproof versions. | |
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The blazebalm used in the Tortall Universe fits most of the requirements. It is a flammable jelly-like substance that is often used as an explosive weapon; it is particularly useful against spidrens and other immortals. | |
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One of the low-tech alien races in Ranks of Bronze have what seems like Greek Fire, the faction defending a fort from the legion pour it down murder holes and toss pots of the stuff at them. | |
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Used literally in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and its sequel, in which Greek Fire is a magical substance that burns green and is lethal to monsters and demigods alike. | |
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| Greek Fire / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
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Wildfire from A Song of Ice and Fire is unquenchable by water, lights anything used to smother it on fire, and burns brilliant green. It was used in the battle of the Blackwater and was essentially the only reason Tyrion won. Its production is a secret well-guarded by the Alchemists' Guild, but there are strong implications that some sort of magic is involved. Storage is extremely dangerous, and it's eventually revealed that the Pyromaniac former "Mad King" Aerys II had thousands of pots of it buried in secret throughout the city in order to burn the whole place down if it was captured, and that this discovery was the reason Jaime Lannister killed him before he could give the order. Fridge Horror comes into play when you realize that there is a real chemical that can do this without magic and is every bit as dangerous: chlorine trifluoride. | |
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Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1997): The fifth level features a siege against William the Conqueror's castle where the Anglo-Saxon are firing a ballista whose spears are tipped with Greek fire. | |
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Game of Thrones, the live-action adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire shows Wildfire in all its horrifying brilliance in the penultimate episode of the second season, "Blackwater". It's portrayed as a Fantastic Nuke, complete with a mushroom cloud out the top of the massive green fireball. Ships are completely obliterated in the initial blast, and the green inextinguishable fire understatedly lingers for much longer. Wildfire appears again in the season six finale, "The Winds of Winter" as part of Cersei's plot to evade her forthcoming trial and destroy her enemies in one fell swoop. The blast is even more destructive than the one in "Blackwater", annihilating the Great Sept of Baelor in a blinding flash of green, along with hundreds—if not thousands—of people inside and for several blocks around. |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Imperium had Phosphex Weapons (not to be confused with Phosphor Weapons), which are based on real life White Phosphorus except even more volatile. "Had", because one Tech-Priest was so horrified by Phosphex that he destroyed the STC for Phosphex weaponry, considering it too horrific to use. The last true Phosphex weapon, which was used to execute said Tech-Priest, is thus a precious relic of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Tech-Priest wasn't the only one who hated phosphex. The Primarch Vulkan, who normally favored a Kill It with Fire approach to problems, refused to use it considering it something that should have remained in the Dark Age. |
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Age of Mythology: The expansion The Titans adds the Atlantean civilization, which has the fire ship unit, the equivalent of hammer ships to be used against arrow ships, only it uses Greek fire instead of a hammer. | |
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| Greek Fire / int_bf0710c5 | type |
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Greek Fire is used by Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. | |
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| Greek Fire / int_bff01809 | type |
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Fluff occasionally mentions the High Elves of Warhammer having a substance called "Alchemist's Fire" designed for use against other ships (though it can be utilised for other purposes) which burns white and whose recipe is a closely-guarded secret. | |
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The Akkadian fire in the Dragon Jousters book Sanctuary. | |
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Medieval II: Total War has fire ships for the Byzantine Empire. The Crusades campaign in the expansion also has Greek Firethrower units that use it in handheld flamethrowers. | |
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Rise of the Tomb Raider: The Deathless Ones make extensive use of Greek Fire for fire arrows, grenades and placed explosives in the form of large jars. Their version of the stuff burns bright-blue, and their obsession with it is well-justified, given how they're undead descendants of a religious cult that fled the Byzantine Empire in the 10th century. Lara can acquire the recipe late in the game to upgrade her own fire arrows with increased damage against armored targets. | |
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In Deadlands, Greek Fire is one of the elixirs available to alchemists (although, like all elixirs, it is actually the product of Mad Science). | |
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Ironclaw: The Book of Horn and Ivory has an incendiary alchemic weapon called "aqua vitae" (historically concentrated alcohol). | |
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Eldest: green fire is used on an arrow fired at Roran's ship, forcing the crew to hack away ignited portions. | |
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In The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Falcrest's dominance at sea is ensured by the "Navy Burn", a sticky, highly flammable oil that burns green and can't be extinguished with water. In fact, being an oil, spilled Burn floats on water and sets the sea on fire too. It can be sprayed from siphons, like Greek fire in real life, but it’s more often used to arm Falcrest’s signature gunpowder rockets, significantly increasing its range. No other maritime power fields anything remotely as lethal — the Oriati Mbo's cannons are good at putting holes in wooden ships but bad at actually sinking them, while a single Burn missile can turn a warship of any size into so many cinders. | |
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Timeline: Professor Johnston is forced to recreate Greek Fire for Lord Oliver, he succeeds in making something that ignites when exposed to water. | |
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Leviathan has Phosphorus rounds, which display all of the characteristics, though they're used against hydrogen filled fliers. | |
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Metamor Keep: the Kingdom of Whales has Greek Fire, the name "Greek" was eventually retconned to be the name of the inventor. Phil, a Whalish prince who was visiting Metamor at the time of the Battle of Three Gates, attempted to assist in the fight with Greek fire, but there was an accident and he was covered in the stuff. The flames disappeared when the Curse transformed him into a rabbit, but if the Curse is ever removed or suppressed the fire returns. And the experience traumatized him so badly he reverts to a feral state every night. |
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Though Crusader Kings II has no naval combat, if you play as the Byzantine Empire you may hit an event chain where the Empire's supply of Greek fire is stolen. | |
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