The Sucronic Flare (also Chronal Flare) is a chronomantic summoning flare of the uchronic Belle Époque: fired into the night sky, it calls by name a specter the shooter already knows.
| Type | Artifact |
| Discipline | Chronomancy |
| Spanish entry | Bengala Sucrónica |
Properties
A flare for calling, not battle, it summons according to the name the shooter thinks of when firing: only a specter the shooter knows, never a stranger. «Quien dispara la Bengala llama a los que tiene atrasados por nombre, no por número» (“Whoever fires the Flare calls those they hold overdue by name, not by number”). When the shooter thinks not of a name but of a doubt, it calls whoever the doubt demands.
A gloss attributed to Book V of the Decadian holds that whoever fires it always advances or delays the following hour.
History
- The Horseman of War, its first documented holder, gave it up in exchange for the Lament of the Faithless.
- An anonymous shooter in a frock coat fired it from a rocky hill at night: a golden beam rose into a constellation, and three translucent specters of its light broke from it, arms outstretched toward the shooter.
- Later records place it in the hands of Templars and of pagan agents of the Constantinople loop; it was heard fired in the night of the five-year loop.
Open questions
- The two names may be one in different tongues: Chronal from academic chronomancy, Sucronic from the trade’s popular speech.