Flame Road

The high friction of the movement on a surface causes enough heat to create the illusion of a flaming trail. The Flame Road is similar to the Wing Road in that both Wind and Fire are said to be "free". The higher the friction, the more heat is generated and thus, the more intense the flame. Similar to how a car moving at high speed, suddenly slamming on the brakes, it enters a drift that highly heats up the wheels, producing smoke behind, the same principle applies to ATs, but being smaller while moving at the same (or higher speeds), produces more heat and thus flames with more ease.

## Principles

* The generation of heat via friction to create flames. It's especially useful against the Rising Road, as it can be used to dispel the illusions from it created (although would require a sufficiently skilled rider, and wouldn't be capable of nullifying the illusions of the strongest Rising Road techniques).
* Using heat to bend light, create updrafts, and create heat mirages.
* The use of fast and precise attacks to freeze the movement of their victims. These tricks are collectively referred to as "Time".

## Flame Regalia

The Flame Regalia of the Flame Road, is the "emblem" that makes a Flame Road rider into the Flame King/Queen of the Flame Road. The name of the Flame Regalia is believed to be Key 'Mother'. The core appears to be the wheels, and is decorated by a nine-tailed fox with flames at the end of each of its tails. Because fire is considered to be the creator of everything this Regalia is able to imitate the power of other Roads when fully awakened.

It has the capability of vastly improving one's flame creation, being both easier and much more intense, wider and larger flames.

When activated, the Flame Regalia's sides open up and the wheels slightly pop out, allowing the flames to course around and through it, as well as reshaping the Regalia to fit other Road characteristics in a way.

**Infinity Atmosphere: Hole Nine Heaven's Gate [Ættir]:** The activated Flame Regalia has the ability to tap into Skylink (a cyberspace with a virtual copy of every rider's memory stick) and copy the tricks of other roads. This shapes the user's flames into ghost-like copies of the original riders. If the wielder of the Flame Regalia isn't strong enough to use those tricks on his own, however, this technique is said to burn up the user's life as well (potentially killing them), although even at the proper level, it still puts a big strain on the user. Tricks from other Roads/Riders can only be copied if the original user grants access to the Flame King/Queen.

## Common Tricks

* **Flame Clones:** Through heat mirages the rider creates clones of themselves, which disappear once hit.
* **Flame Drafts:** The rider uses heat to manipulate updrafts, allowing them to help others or themselves into descending down more softly or just ascending somewhat higher.
* **Flame Lens:** The Rider shoots out a single mirage to a far away distance, via the combined heat related skills and principles of the Flame Road.
* **Platform of Flames:** Using the rising air current from the "Flames", the rider can step on them like platforms, allowing them to stay in the air like floating. Due to the flames needing to collide with the floor to maintain this, it is not considered flying and thus cannot be used at extreme heights.
* **Cloak of Time**: Despite it's name, it does not use any of the Time principles, it only works for a limited period of time. Makes the user and or who the user wants be made invisible for a short period of time. This is achieved by using heat convection to reflect light, though it does require the rider to be immobile for the duration of the trick. The trick lasts for as long as the rider stays put, although after moving it, it lasts only a short amount of time afterwards.

## Variant

The Apollon Road is a Variant Road (a Road made from just using an already existing Road in a different way), created by utilizing the Flame and Time principles at the same time, weakening the Flame but making Time more efficient and powerful.