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=== Towerlight ===
Towerlight is the very substance of the spren known as the [[Sibling]], and as they are the child of Honor and Cultivation, so is Towerlight the product of the melding of these two Shards' Investitures, tones, and rhythms. It can only be created by the Sibling and their Bondsmith, though the imprisonment of Ba-Ado-Mishram rendered them unable to produce more than small amounts - enough to power only the most essential of Urithiru's fabrials;{{book ref|sa4|69}} a deficiency that appears to have ended when Navani Kholin became the Sibling's current Bondsmith. A key factor in the creation of Towerlight is the Sibling's ability to hear both of their parents' songs -
In appearance, Towerlight resembles both Stormlight and Lifelight, as it glows with a soft blue-green light. When split through a prism, it produces two rainbows of color, one with a wider blue band, and one with a wider green one.{{book ref|sa4|65}} Towerlight's rhythm - the Rhythm of the Tower - evokes the "boundless energy of Cultivation, always growing and changing, and the calm solidity of Honor - organized, structured."{{book ref|sa4|110}} The psychological effects of holding Towerlight are unknown.
=== Warlight ===
Unlike Towerlight, which has been known to humans and singers alike for millennia (even if knowledge of it was largely lost on Roshar after the Recreance), Warlight - the hybrid Light of Honor and Odium - is a recent discovery, one that even renowned singer scholars like Raboniel thought an impossibility. During the occupation of Urithiru Navani discovers that a human and a singer (or at least she and Raboniel) can create Warlight by allowing Stormlight and Voidlight to combine inside a gem made to vibrate to the Rhythm of War - a rhythm created by the harmony of Navani singing Honor's song and Raboniel singing Odium's; a rhythm Raboniel didn't know existed prior to these events,{{book ref|sa4|76}} and whose emotional influence she notes will be of particular interest to [[El]].{{epigraph ref|sa4|59}}
Warlight glows with a vibrant black-blue light, and its rhythm is a burst of chaotic notes, bounded by a regular, orderly pulse.{{book ref|sa4|76}}
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