Difference between revisions of "Lights"

There are three primary, or "pure" Lights in the Rosharan system, one for each Shard.

 

=== Stormlight ===

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Honor's Light has been a core part of life on Roshar, both literally in the renewing and refreshing energy it provides to the planet's flora and fauna, and figuratively - in the numerous ways it is being used by people in their everyday life. It is delivered primarily through the highstorms, and glows with a steady white light, with a slight, nearly imperceptible blue tint. When its illumination is split through a prism, it produces a rainbow with a larger blue band. When drawn in and held by a Surgebinder, it encourages motion and action. Stormlight's - Honor's - rhythm is a stately one.{{book ref|sa4|65}}{{book ref|sa4|67}}{{book ref|sa4|76}}

 

=== Voidlight ===

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Voidlight glows with a distinct purple-on-black glow described as "hyperviolet"{{book ref|sa4|16}} - possibly the Rosharan or Alethi term for either superviolet or a chimerical color. When its illumination is split through a prism, Voidlight produces a rainbow with an "enormous" violet band, dwarfing all other colors.{{book ref|sa4|65}} When drawn in and held, Odium's Light enflames emotions,{{book ref|sa4|67}} though at least in singers it doesn't infuse their entire body - like Stormlight does - but instead goes to their gemheart.{{book ref|sa4|67}} Its rhythm is chaotic, but with a certain strange logic to it.{{book ref|sa4|76}}

 

=== Lifelight ===

Lifelight, or Cultivation's Light, is perhaps the rarest of the three pure Lights. Some of it can be found in the [[Valley]], in the form of green mist.{{wob ref|12207}} [[Lift]] is uniquely able to produce it by metabolizing food,{{book ref|sa4|60}} but no other ways of obtaining it are currently known. It appears very similar to Stormlight, a nearly pure white light, but where Stormlight has a slight blue tint, Lifelight has a slight green one. When its illumination is split through a prism, it produces a rainbow with a larger green band.{{book ref|sa4|65}} Its rhythm is stark and staccato, but it builds. Lifelight shares Stormlight's effect on plants but to a superior degree, stimulating their growth when combined with the proper rhythm.{{book ref|sa4|76}}