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| {{Major spoiler}}<blockquote>{{Neath_Location|image1=flintvineyard.png|image2=|caption1=|caption2=|location=[[The Elder Continent]]|alias=|allegiance=The Vignerons|notable_inhabitants=[[The Thief-of-Faces]]
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| [[The Shames]]|music=|port=}}''"If the Surface sunset was the blood of the Sun; if it pumped out its heart's last dregs into the mild sea; if the waters stank of copper and the sky was a shroud; then this water would be the colour of a sunset. It is red, red, red."''<ref name="flint">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Where the [[Bleeding Forest]] ends, where the colors are green and grey, where [[Stone]]'s light shines once again: here lies the '''Prison of Flint'''.
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| == The Strangest of Wineries ==
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| <blockquote>''"Here the colours are grey and green. A narrow portal pierces a high and flint-thorned hedge. A crowd of lumpen figures muffled in grey wool guard the portal with weapons of fanged wood."<ref name="flint" />''</blockquote>The Prison was built to hold a pretender-god - the [[Thief-of-Faces]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"The prison of the Thief-of-Faces. Not a name that is often spoken aloud."''</ref> who dared violate the [[Mountain of Light]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''""They have fallen far from what they were [...] But their progenitor, the Thief-of-Faces, was an extraordinary creature. It stole essences from the Mountain herself, the heart of the South."''</ref> He is long gone, however. The area is currently inhabited by a group of beings called '''Vignerons''' (winemakers), who wear masks evocative of grapes and are covered head to toe in wool.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"A crowd of lumpen figures muffled in grey wool [...] wears a wooden mask painted to resemble a bunch of grapes."''</ref> Heed their words, communicated through drink. For instance: don't touch the fruit.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"It seems that to enter, one must drink. [...] The flavours unfold on your tongue. The taste of cherries, like a welcome. [...] A forbidding slatiness [...] not to touch the fruits of the Prison. [...] The dissipating berry aftertaste tells you helpfully that this is a vigneron - a wine-maker."''</ref>
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| [[File:Griswine.png|thumb|A cup of griswine.]]
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| Mysterious statues holding cups to their lips pepper the Prison's vineyard. These were once people, who drank grey-colored '''griswine''' that turned their bodies into flint; they are sentenced to stay within the Prison until they are freed by a taste of any other wine.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"One who tastes the griswine will instantly become a statue. The taste of any other wine will free a statue from their prison."''</ref>
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| Within the central knoll, where the Vignerons daren't approach, lies '''the Lesser Wound''', a red spring that flows a much deeper crimson than the Nameless River.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"The Vignerons will not approach the central knoll. A spring flows from its side into a deep pool – red like the waters of the Nameless River, but a deeper red."''</ref> Terrifying creatures known as '''[[The Shames|Shames]]''', the children of Stone, inhabit these waters; they are powerful beings of stone that protect the Lesser Wound.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"“Shames!” she shouts. “Mountain’s get!” She leaps forward, slashing the connective gristle between two lumps of wet and shining rock."''</ref> Within the Lesser Wound are '''Essences''' that can change a being rather drastically; the red waters taste of blood and can warp a drinker's face,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"Here must flow the Essences [...] You bend your head and touch your lips to the water. It is warm. It tastes precisely like blood [...] "Your face changed,""''</ref> as the Lesser Wound leaks life.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"You see how a far-flung Mountain-limb underlies the Vineyard, and you understand that the Lesser Wound leaks life."''</ref>
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| The only exit from the prison is the '''[[Violant]] Gate'''. Heptagonal tiles, impossibly tessellated, make up the inside of the tunnel, and various mottoes and graffiti cover the walls within.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}''"A troublesome but necessary connection [...] Violant light swallows the before and the behind. The stones beneath your feet are heptagonal tiles, impossibly tesselated. The walls bear mottoes..."''</ref>
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Places]]
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| [[Category:The Elder Continent]]
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| [[Category:The Neath]]
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