The Flint

"This is only a stone, though it is smoothed and sharpened to a midnight point, but look closer. Each of its facets shows a single point of light. It might be the glint of firelight. It might be each a different Star."

- The Colours of the Old Fire

The Flint was one of the Hours. It was one of the six Gods-from-Stone, who came into being before humanity, and one of the five among them who were cast down by the other Hours in the Lithomachy. When humanity was young, it learned the arts of shaping and remaking from The Flint, and the principle of was once called "Flint". According to In Memory of Gods, The Flint met its demise at the hands of The Forge of Days, which first eclipsed it and then shattered it. This may correspond with the Rite of the Rebel Striving, a teaching of the Forge in which an artisan shatters a tool, which would later come to be associated with The Lionsmith's shattering of his sword and betrayal of The Colonel. If this is the case, it suggests that the Forge's killing of Flint was a betrayal. The Flint was sent to Nowhere with the other dead Hours.

Books

 * In Memory of Gods
 * The Manner in which the Alchemist was Spared
 * The World Does Not Weep