After a lifetime's work, and so many sacrifices, Ember had finally attained her goal. She stood at the heart of the dormant volcano, Mount Nazzad, on a black stone platform suspended by enormous chains above bubbling magma. Before her glimmered a very large ruby on a pedestal. Within it, she knew, slumbered the immense power of Zad the Stoker of Passions, sealed within this mountain, and the key to her revenge against this kingdom.
Taking a deep breath, she placed a wrinkled hand on the ruby's surface. It was nearly burning to the touch, but she grit her teeth. She felt power pulse from the ruby, course through her arm, surge into her body, and...
It had been thousands of years since Mount Nazzak had rumbled like this, causing miles and miles of land around it to tremble. Across the entire kingdom, the sound of a woman's triumphant laughter echoed. The top of Mount Nazzak roared thrice as luminous, red cracks formed one its surface.
Crack.
Crack!
CRACK!
The mountain exploded, showering the surrounding countryside with flaming boulders. The farmers and villagers who didn't immediately turn and run could see, amidst the black smoke the mountain belched, the upper half of a glowing humanoid figure rising, glowing the color of flame.
Ember, who was still laughing, had been reborn as a living inferno. The joy Ember was feeling was beyond human. Elemental. Apocalyptic. Black clouds seeded by the mountain's ash swirled overhead, and peals of thunder greeted her arrival. Rain, as if cowed by her firey might, didn't dare fall just yet.
Her figure, only looking faintly humanoid at first, coalesced into a more defined upper body. Ember's grasp of her new power improved. She WAS the mountain now, and could mold her molten stone body however she wanted. Instinctively, she had given herself the form her human body had had in her youth, but in naturally more godlike proportions.
Her face was beautiful and terrible, of course, with eyes of literal flame, red-hot lips and a skin of smooth stone. It cracked and shifted along with her movements and expressions, but always resolved itself into a statue's simple beauty. Her hair was glowing the brightest of all, having semi-solidified into a cascade of liquid curls, always gently swirling as they pulsed with firey light.
Her limbs were slender, though with obvious muscle definition highlighted by the contrast of orange molten rock and solid black stone. Ember swiped with her arms to clear away what remained of the mountaintop still, as well as pull herself up higher from the mountain she had just hatched from.