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Flint-and-Steel was now once a Name in the Other Place, and awakens with the other Old Hours.
| card = File:Stolentemplate
| quote = Who is the fuel, and who is the flame?
| origin = Flesh and Stone
| titles = Flint-and-Steel<br /> The Pyre-Spark
| names = FNORD
| aspects = {{Aspect|Forge}} {{Aspect|Moth}} {{Aspect|Lantern}}
| arrival = c. 425 480 B.C.E.
| owners = [[User:ThreeInquisitors|Will, A Poor Lunatic]]
}} '''Flint-and-Steel''' ('''The Pyre-Spark''') is the nineteenth Hour of the Second Fansus, represented by the Sun. Shaping itself from the Stone, it is the Hour of obsessions that consume, of mad genius, and of self-destruction. Its aspects are [[:Category:Forge (Vol. II)|Forge]], [[:Category:Moth (Vol. II)|Moth]], and [[:Category:Lantern (Vol. II)|Lantern]].
==History==
Before the Collapse, there was an Hour of Forge. Flint-and-Steel was one of its Names then, and in due time it consumed its erstwhile master from within, using its essence to fuel its own ascension. When the Other Place collapsed Stone crashed against Stonefell, striking Flint-and-Steel almost perished. It survived in a comatose state, surviving on the dimmest sparks that settled near to the of Glory. When until, once day, the Mother Bear awakened and reignited the Spirarch descended from on high, these sparks were fanned into a roaring fire by the resurgent Glory. From this came and the FlintPyre-and-SteelSpark awoke.
Flint-and-Steel was especially active in Persia, inspiring Ahura Mazda and patronising the Achaemenids and especially the Arsacids during the War of the Ancients. Its influence brought technological advancement to the Parthians - superior metallurgy, automatons, steam power... But much was lost to the war and the influence of the Rotted Ox.