About burning bones

[SamanPatou]

How much damage does "normal fire" to bones, normally?
Because I was in doubt about whether or not the following sentence was proof of heat/fire resistance:

After a time, the King grew bored with this torment and ordered Spinal to burn himself alive as a final rite of purification in penance for his crimes. While his flesh melted away, Spinal’s skeleton remained, and even when the Mask was removed from his seared and smoking skull, there yet persisted a will and a force that moved the bones, however feeble it might be.

For further context, Spinal is a living skeleton, and his bones don't seem to have suffered any notable damage, and the text also seemingly implies that the bones remaining unscathed by the fire is an extraordinary event.

 

[Arceus0x]

I mean cremation exists so that means that the skeleton guy has resistance to fire manipulation/ heat manipulation

 

[SamanPatou]

Doesn't cremation reach particularly high temperatures?

Spinal burned himself alive in ancient Babylon, when they didn't have modern means to burn people. Would that still be comparable to what modern cremation does?

 

[Arceus0x]

Doesn't cremation reach particularly high temperatures?

Spinal burned himself alive in ancient Babylon, when they didn't have modern means to burn people. Would that still be comparable to what modern cremation does?

idk, most likely. I've seen statements that they burn at 1292 farenheit but idk if i should trust that

 

[Confluctor]

Cremation can range from 1400 - 1800 F.

 

[Antoniofer]

Rather than resistance to heat, it may simple means that the flames weren't hot enough to reduce the bones to ashes (the text does not says it uses modern methods of cremation).

 

[SamanPatou]

Rather than resistance to heat, it may simple means that the flames weren't hot enough to reduce the bones to ashes (the text does not says it uses modern methods of cremation).

That was my point, it couldn't be a modern method as it happened in ancient Babylon, but I wasn't sure if "common fire" (I don't know how to call it, but you get it) could do significant damage to the bones.