About the flames -> fire alias

on post #1705564 flames feels accurate, but fire doesn't

Why would fire be inaccurate? There's fire in the background.

You don't see any object burning, so it feels not quite accurate to say that there is a fire. Those are just the flames of a fire

Borrator said:

You don't see any object burning, so it feels not quite accurate to say that there is a fire. Those are just the flames of a fire

Pretty sure you don't need to be able to see the object for it to count as a fire. Plenty of other posts under fire like that.

But... if you allow magic, sometimes you can have normal-looking flames without anything at all being actually set on fire

Borrator said:

But... if you allow magic, sometimes you can have normal-looking flames without anything at all being actually set on fire

One popular magic spell is named "fireball". It even has the word "fire" right in it. Magic fire is still fire.

Well, it's a different form... forget it, that's just how it feels to me, and it seems it's not the same for other people, so naturally implication gets left as is