Assuming you're reducing a human body to ash and not complete blood vapor, it's 9-A. Reducing to a bloody mist is also 9-A, and not much higher than being reduced to ash.
Yes, it is reducing them to ash, as was pointed out in the scene. It is however, also specifically stated to "consume their souls", so maybe their bodies burning is a side effect of their souls being destroyed. So in that case, a specific rating wouldn't be necessary (since it's dura neg), or is it better to just add the 9-A rating, together with dura neg?
Yeah, that would make sense. But unfortunately we're not really given any specific temperature in this case. Tbh this fire does seem to be more hax than pure AP, but it's hard to ignore the fact that their bodies were still turned to ash.
It does seem like it needs to harm the target first, but I'm not really sure about that, because the characters she was burning did state that they couldn't be harmed by conventional fire manipulation. Now whether that's down to resistance/immunity to fire manipulation, or just down to their durability, I'm not sure.
What would be the AP for this? I did a quick calc, and got 9-B (1.8653366711311 * 10^6 joules), but I'm not really sure.
And in this case, where we have 13 "humans", we get 2.642397015*10^9 J, putting the AP at 8-C, correct?
Yes.
Pretty sure the heat revisions are not going to nuke heat as AP, DontTalkDT was more or less planning to make a revision regarding where and when to distinguish between heat and blunt-force AP and some other extra stuff (Basically heat would be a separate form of AP from striking strength depending on a case-by-case basis but still AP regardless, but DT knows more in that regard). But well, his IRL work is currently putting that on hold ATM.
No worries.
Prolly not.
