Talk:Fringilla Vigo/Netflix series/@comment-26094176-20191225174005/@comment-43407464-20191227074304

That's the key phrase though. Supposedly, from other fans theory, that the fire she pulled from was not from herself, but from the buildings behind her. We saw at the beginning of the series that there is a give and take of magic. If they are purely summoning and have no source, they will use their life force and slowly shrivel up and die. But if they are acting as a conduit from an alternate source, in this case the fire that already exists, they will not waste their life force. Although they may strain themselves as Yen used a large amount of energy to harness the flames.