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One of the most unique ways the Lights of Roshar behave unlike regular matter is in the way they naturally vibrate.{{book ref|sa4|89}} Each Light vibrates at - and responds to - not only a specific frequency (matching the pure tone of its Shard), but also to a specific ''rhythm.'' For example, when singers listen to a Stormlight sphere, they can faintly hear Honor's pure tone wavering and pulsing to a stately rhythm - Honor's rhythm. Hybrid Lights, such as Towerlight and Warlight, complicate this further, as they have ''two'' tones (e.g. in the case of Towerlight, Honor's and Cultivation's), somehow different from what they would be in the constituent Lights, changed to be in harmony with one another; both tones adopt a rhythm, once again different from the rhythms of the hybrid's "components" - for example, both of Towerlight's tones vibrate to the Rhythm of the Tower.{{book ref|sa4|76}}{{book ref|sa4|110}} The combination of a Shard's tone and rhythm is sometimes referred to as the Shard's ''song.''{{book ref|sa4|83}}{{book ref|sa4|97}}{{book ref|sa4|110}} |
One of the most unique ways the Lights of Roshar behave unlike regular matter is in the way they naturally vibrate.{{book ref|sa4|89}} Each Light vibrates at - and responds to - not only a specific frequency (matching the pure tone of its Shard), but also to a specific ''rhythm.'' For example, when singers listen to a Stormlight sphere, they can faintly hear Honor's pure tone wavering and pulsing to a stately rhythm - Honor's rhythm. Hybrid Lights, such as Towerlight and Warlight, complicate this further, as they have ''two'' tones (e.g. in the case of Towerlight, Honor's and Cultivation's), somehow different from what they would be in the constituent Lights, changed to be in harmony with one another; both tones adopt a rhythm, once again different from the rhythms of the hybrid's "components" - for example, both of Towerlight's tones vibrate to the Rhythm of the Tower.{{book ref|sa4|76}}{{book ref|sa4|110}} The combination of a Shard's tone and rhythm is sometimes referred to as the Shard's ''song.''{{book ref|sa4|83}}{{book ref|sa4|97}}{{book ref|sa4|110}} |
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β | The relationship between Lights and their tones goes in the other direction as well. The same way the harmony of a Light's tone and rhythm can be felt and heard, one can create this harmony using musical instruments, or even one's voice, and thus draw the Light in.{{book ref|sa4|69}} In fact, |
+ | The relationship between Lights and their tones goes in the other direction as well. The same way the harmony of a Light's tone and rhythm can be felt and heard, one can create this harmony using musical instruments, or even one's voice, and thus draw the Light in.{{book ref|sa4|69}} In fact, Raboniel speculates that the reason Light responds to sound, and the combination of a specific tone and rhythm, is because it is reminiscent of the "voice" of the Light's Shard.{{book ref|sa4|76}} The Vriztl Guild of Thaylenah, likely unaware of the Realmatic reasons behind it, has been making use of this property of Light to transfer Stormlight between gems - in their case, using tuning forks matching Honor's tone. |
=== Opposite Tones === |
=== Opposite Tones === |