Difference between revisions of "Lights"

One of the most unique ways the Lights of Roshar behave unlike regular matter is in the way they naturally vibrate. 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}}