Take the truth with many grins of salt (Spring 1234)

[The_Fixer]

@Xavi

Flash is magical, while species generated by it are not... Never have been... this is precisely the beauty of this spell. Not the largest or meanest combat spell out there. But useful as a temporary distraction.

Species are not brightness. See this bit by Mark Shirley.
See also Phantasmal Fire, which must use an Ignem requisite to produce light (or else, you don't see the fire in darkness). BTW, Flash of the scarlet flame is only CrIg "create light", there's no species involved.
Finally, see Mien of Helios, in MoH, which is, IIRC, a personnal range Flash of the scarlet flame, and lists explicitly that it is resisted.

@Marko Markoko

If Xavi needs a die roller, I nominate Fixer

So...
1d10=1 Woot!
1d10=10
That's a 20!

@Marko Markoko

Might I suggest a different tactic? Defense does no good against vapor. That will be a Soak roll. Press the Attack and try to kill the thing quickly. It spent its action on the vapor cloud. It can roll Defense, but not another Attack. Switch to Defense next round.

Well, antoni doesn't know this. He thinks the Drake will breathe fire or something, and the Lion of Andorra is bravely ready to lay his body before Vibria, protecting the maga from harm at his own expense.