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|If Light is Investiture, and all Investiture is deity, and deity has Intent, then Light must have Intent.
|[[Navani]]{{epigraph ref|sa4|71
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Gaseous Investiture within the [[Rosharan system]] manifests as a number of different '''Lights''', each associated with one or more [[Shard]]s. These Rosharan Lights include the three pure ones - [[Stormlight]], [[Voidlight]], and [[#Lifelight|Lifelight]] - a few hybrids ([[#Warlight|Warlight]] and [[#Towerlight|Towerlight]] being the only confirmed ones), and the [[#Anti-Light|anti-Light]]s.
== Anti-Lights ==
Physical matter is known to have a counterpart called [[Wikipedia: antimatter| antimatter]] - matter composed of antiparticles that share many properties with the particles of ordinary matter, but manifest some of them in an opposite way (e.g. a proton and an antiproton have the same mass, but opposite electric charges and magnetic moments). Raboniel describes this in terms of axi with opposite polarities.{{book ref|sa4|97}} A similar relationship exists between Investiture and anti-Investiture in the cosmere. Anti-Investiture - or, in Roshar's specific case, anti-Light - comes in a number of different varieties, each one of which shares some properties with its corresponding ordinary Light, while exhibiting other attributes in an opposite way. Most notably, a Light and its anti-Light that come in contact will naturally annihilate each other{{book ref|sa4|65}} - with the reaction seeming more violent when the two are brought together under pressure.{{book ref|sa4|97}}
Anti-Light shares most of the physical and magical properties of ordinary Light: it glows in the physical spectrum (though unlike regular Lights, it appears to warp the air around it, almost as if it is drawing light instead of emitting it), it can be stored in gems, it responds to sound and vibration, and has Intent. One area where anti-Light differs from regular Light - or at least the pure ones - is that it requires Intent to be created, a property it shares with the hybrid Lights. The only known method of creating anti-Light requires dampening the natural vibration of its corresponding Light, isolating it from its Shard's pure tone, and then re-writing it with a different tone, one that has been inverted with Intent. One way to do this involves putting the ordinary Light in vacuum and allowing it to draw near a gemstone that has been made to vibrate to the tone of the desired anti-Light - the ordinary Light's opposite tone.{{book ref|sa4|97}}
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