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==== The Vriztl Guild Method ====
There exists at least one alternative to the Arnist Method, and while it doesn't have a formal name, it is known to the Vriztl Guild of Thaylenah - and it traditionally involves tuning forks and sound. If a gem can be made to vibrate at a frequency matching one of the pure tones of Roshar, it will draw nearby Light corresponding to that Tone (e.g. a gem vibrating to Honor's tone will draw Stormlight in). To transfer Light from one gem to another, the artifabrian would first use a tuning fork matching the desired tone, and touch it against the full gemstone, making it vibrate with the same frequency. The gem and fork vibrating at a matching frequency allows the artifabrian to lead a line of Light from the full gemstone to an empty one, which - when touched by the tuning fork and also made to vibrate at the matching frequency - would proceed to siphon the Light from the originally full gem, though a small amount of Light is lost in the transfer.{{book ref|sa4|42}}{{book ref|sa4|69}}
=== Intent ===
=== Towerlight ===
Towerlight is the very substance of the spren known as the [[Sibling]], and as they are the child of Honor and Cultivation, so Towerlight is
In appearance, Towerlight resembles both Stormlight and Lifelight, as it glows with a soft blue-green light.{{book ref|sa4|61}} 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.
== 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, such as within a gemstone.{{book ref|sa4|97}} This occurs when any Investiture and anti-Investiture come into contact, though the explosion is smaller if they are not both of the same Shard.{{wob ref|15889}}
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}}
Much like each Light's natural vibration can be heard or felt by different species, anti-Light's can too, though its song is not just physically audible, it carries a magical effect too. For example, to a human the song of anti-Voidlight will sound identical to the song of Voidlight, Odium's tone moving to his rhythm, but to a Fused - whose soul is filled with Odium's own Investiture - the song of anti-Voidlight not only sounds different, it also causes intense pain, similar to the discomfort they feel when hearing Odium's opposite tone, but much worse.{{book ref|sa4|97}} The type of Investiture an anti-light is keyed to can also impact on its reaction to types of Investiture, this can only alter the intensity of the explosion caused however.{{wob ref|15889}}
=== Anti-Voidlight ===
Anti-Voidlight is the first anti-Light to be discovered on Roshar, initially discovered by King [[Gavilar Kholin]] not long before his death.{{book ref|sa4|prologue}} His research into the Lights of Roshar and the ability to transport them between planets in the system allowed him to obtain a sphere of anti-Voidlight, which he gave to Szeth moments before dying.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} The sphere, and the anti-Voidlight within it, eventually
Anti-Voidlight glows faintly violet-black and appears to faintly warp the air around itself.{{book ref|sa4|16}} Its tone - and song - sound identical to those of Voidlight, but they induce an adverse reaction in the Fused, and presumably in other creatures heavily Invested by Odium, such as Voidspren. When made to touch the soul of such
=== Anti-Stormlight ===
Anti-Stormlight was discovered by [[Raboniel]] shortly after Navani's own discovery of [[anti-Voidlight]]. In many ways, [[anti-Stormlight]] behaves symmetrically to [[anti-Voidlight]] - except where [[anti-Voidlight]] has a destructive effect on beings Invested by [[Odium]], [[anti-Stormlight]] has that effect on ones Invested by Honor, such as Radiant spren.{{book ref|sa4|97}}{{book ref|sa4|104}} Using [[Raysium]] weapons, [[anti-Stormlight]] is able to kill Radiant spren, which breaks the bond between the spren and its Radiant.{{book ref|sa4|104}}
=== Other anti-Investiture ===
It is unknown whether hybrid Lights or [[Shards]] outside of the Rosharan system have anti-Investitures of their own. [[Khriss]] states that, though long theorized, the anti-Lights are her first evidence of an anti-Investiture.{{book ref|sa4|part=ars}}
== Notes ==
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