Manipulate Fire

Alteration [fire]
Tier: 1
Components: Verbal, Somatic
Casting Time: 1 major action
Range: 40 ft
Target: Small flames
Duration: Concentration
Saving Throw: None
The torch in the guard’s hand begins to burn even more brightly, quickly consuming the head of the torch and causing him to shout in alarm.

You can manipulate small flames (about torch-sized, or smaller) in slight ways. You can make a flame burn twice as fast (and twice as bright) or half as fast (and half as bright). You can cause a flame to burn so slowly that it goes out, or burn so quickly that burns out in a flash of light (disorienting adjacent creatures for 1 round).

Augmentation:
If you cast this as a tier 2 spell, you can affect fires as large as a 5 ft square (or 5 ft sections of even larger fires). When you cause a fire of this size to burn faster, it deals double damage to anyone in its square. A fire made to burn slower deals half damage.