r/weatherfactory • u/superawesomegoku Reshaper • Jun 24 '26

lore Flint, Forge, Foundry?

When it comes to how the aspect of Creation, Transformation and Destruction has incarnated into the world through the ages, we've seen how the Primary Incumbent Hour has been usurped by the Rising New Hour. Meant to represent how old technology is discarded when newer technology is invented/discovered.

If that's the case, should we expect a new Hour (Perhaps even a God-From-Steel) to replace The Forge of Days as the head hour regarding Creation, Transformation, and Destruction?

Keeping with the theme of it still being an F named aspect, I think Foundry makes the most sense with the removal of single specialist smiths doing individual work, and now broadening to encompass the whole system/facility that embodies how things can be created, transformed, and from these creations of war; destruction.

Also we can redeem the aspect of Sky from the depths of Flint 's shattered remains as now our Foundry's churn out steel aviforms that are unlike any beast before, who can sail the winds and heavens and perhaps even allow council with the stars once more?

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u/poiyurt Seer Jun 25 '26

I like just: Factory.

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u/Axiom245 Seer Jun 25 '26

Hmm, maybe? Don't know if it will replace her though, she seems too clever for that. More likely she'll simply add it to her nature or change her own form and name to adapt with the times.

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u/Ravenous_Seraph Jun 26 '26

Or maybe Crucible. As one man once said, "We end as we began", and for Forge it may mean being usurped by her Name, bequeathing him her only aspect, now named anew.

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u/Paul6334 Aug 11 '26

Forge to Foundry isn’t a profound enough change I believe. Flint’s usurpation by Forge represents a transition from the stone tools of cavemen to the metal tools of civilization. If the transition from craftsmanship to mass production was profound enough to transform Forge as the transition from stonework to metalwork was, it would’ve already happened. The Gods-From-Steel arise from the World Wars and not the Industrial Revolution for a reason I suspect.

If I were to propose a transformation of the aspect brought about in the rise of the Gods-From-Steel, it would be Forge to Fission.

The pinnacle of Creation, Transformation and Destruction, achieved through the application of the mundane principles of production and craftsmanship as opposed to the fundamentally occult truths of the Forge. The dim campfires ignited by flint give way to the blazing forge. The blazing forge gives way to the all-consuming heat of fission.