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{{For|This page is for the force threatening Hieron. For the song of the same name|Marielda: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, The Interlude}}
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{{Quote|The Heat and the Dark is like a jar of bees, if the jar of bees was the nothing on which existence is written. By mistake.|author=[[Uklan Tel]]|source=[[Winter in Hieron 27: A Good Metaphor]]}}
'''The Heat and the Dark''', also known as '''the Dark and the Heat''' or simply '''Nothing''', is a powerful and destructive force that surrounds and threatens [[Hieron]]. "The original state of non-action, non-matter, non-existence", it is not two separate forces but two manifestations of the same absence<sup><ref>"There is clearly debate about if the heat and dark and separate things in the fiction, with the Yellow House wanting the Dark to come first, etc

but I think by the end of S3 it should be clear that "The Heat and the Dark" is just what people call the nothing that Hieron floats in, the original state of non-action, non-matter, non-existence

So it's not like there is 'The heat' and also 'the dark'" - [[Austin]] via the ''Fans at the Table'' discord, #general-spoilers channel, 7/3/17
</ref></sup>. It may have had a role in the [[Erasure]].

==Debate==
There are multiple schools of thought on the exact nature of the Heat and the Dark.
*[[Samothes]] believed that the Heat and the Dark arrive together. There isn't much to do except to try and make life good until then.
* [[Samot]] and his [[Disciples of Samot|disciples]] believed that the Heat arrives first, and then the Dark. To stop it, you must keep the Heat at bay.
*The [[Yellow House]] believed that the Dark arrives first, and then the Heat, but that people have a light to them, and by moving, playing, dancing, and celebrating in the dark, we emanate that light and keep the Dark from coming in full, and thus prevent the Heat. [[Maelgwyn's Faithful]] hold a similar position.
* The [[Cult of the Dark Sun]] allegedly believed that rather than preventing its coming, it should be accelerated to put an end to worldly misery. [[The Dark Son]] himself believed that the Heat and the Dark was a substance to be worked on, and wanted to accelerate its coming to have more material to make use of.
*The [[gnolls]] believed that the Erasure was not brought about by the Heat and the Dark, and that any danger that the latter represented was unimportant in comparison to the more immediate problems facing their society.

==Gallery==
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File:Spatterdocks heatanddark.jpeg|Interpretation of the Heat and the Dark by [https://twitter.com/spatterdocks/status/916352948480774145 Lily Pfaff]
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