Difference between revisions of "Lights"

==== 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 ===

In addition to the "pure" Lights of Roshar, there exist hybrids created by the union of any two pure Lights. The methods of creation of these hybrids vary slightly, but at their core is the need for the appropriate Investitures, tones, and rhythms.

 

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 the product of melding these two Shards' Investitures, tones, and rhythms.{{book ref|sa4|69}}{{book ref|sa4|61}} 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 [[fabrial]]s;{{book ref|sa4|69}} a deficiency that appears to have ended when [[Navani Kholin]] became the Sibling's current Bondsmith.{{book ref|sa4|110}} A key factor in the creation of Towerlight is the Sibling's ability to hear both of their parents' songs - Cultivation's, which they could hear and sing on their own, and Honor's, which Navani had to provide for them.{{book ref|sa4|110}} Because of this, it is unclear whether the Sibling is truly "healed", or losing the bond - and Navani - would mean that they lose Towerlight once again.

 

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}}

 

 

=== Anti-Voidlight ===

 

=== Anti-Stormlight ===

 

=== Other anti-Investiture ===

 

== Notes ==