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Answer by Mermaker for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

They build clothes using their own hair.I mean, when they burst into flames, they don't sear themselves bald, right? So, that means that pyromancer hair is at least immune to their own flames.So, a...

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Answer by EdvinW for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

Frame challenge, just in case you didn't think of it: One option is to let them be naked.Norms concerning nudity have been very variable between cultures and between times. It is common to have nudity...

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Answer by Patrick Artner for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

Lateral thinking: There is no real nead for "special" clothing beside normal difficult to enflame thread of wool or leather.Control differentiates trained mages from pyros:Fire mastery requieres the...

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Answer by Richie Frame for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

There are numerous mitigation strategies for dealing with heat and flame:Thermal RadiationThermal InsulationThermal AbsorptionResistance to IgnitionEase of ExtinguishingResistance to Thermal...

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Answer by John for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

WoolUnless your trainees are producing a sustained flame wool clothing will work fine. Wool clothing was the material of choice for firefighters fir decades because it is incredibly difficult to...

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Answer by Mike Serfas for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

Asbestos underwear.It's the traditional for online commentary of all sorts. It can be woven from naturally fibrous stone. It's known to alchemists. Best of all -- it won't be known to cause cancer for...

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Answer by Radovan Garabík for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

For a really heavy duty mage (where leather does not work anymore). plain old asbestos is quite sufficient. Naturally occuring, it was known already to ancient Greeks, although industrial use began in...

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Answer by L.Dutch for Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

Good old leather will do the trick.It protects from fire and won't catch fire. Moreover it's available for a tech level like the one you have in mind.An apron like the one in the picture (which is for...

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Making Suitable Clothing For Fire Mages

In my world, there are mages capable of wielding the power of flame. The trouble is, trainee pyromancers tend to burst into flame, whenever they get excited. And later on, truly gifted pyromancers...

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