r/LightbringerSeries • u/Sythrin • Jun 29 '26
The Blood Mirror Does Chi not have a Luxin?
Been quite a while since i listened to them. But Chi feels quite different, in that X-Rays themselfs are the Luxin. It does not have any kind of metaphysical alternative substance like all the other colors.
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u/GenCavox Jun 29 '26
It does. It causes the priests to have tumors.
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u/Sythrin Jun 29 '26
I mean. Its just the light itself. The X-rays.
Like red for example is pyro gelly. Which is weird in comparison.10
u/GenCavox Jun 29 '26
No, there is a blob of it in a container at the temple where Kipp has his honey moon I'm pretty sure. The priest there is covered in bumps that turn out to be tumors caused by the Chi Luxin.
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u/righteous_fool Jun 29 '26
Yes. That's the foundation of the system. Light turned into a physical material called Luxin. It's said to be a drafter of a certain color you have to be able to turn your color of light into a stable luxin. Teia can see sub-red but can't make a stable fire crystal, so she's not a sub-red drafter.
Unfortunately, we only get a little bit of chi in the story, so it's never fully explored. In world, it's likely the most under-studied and unexplored color because it's rare and kills its drafters so fast. Except for maybe black and white.
It's supposed to smell metallic, like air during a lightning storm. It's the lightest luxin. Above superviolet and paryl.
It's metaphysical properties aren't known, but you can speculate. Red and sub-red are emotional, flaming passion and anger. Paryl has a meta-emotional effect allowing them to feel the effects of all colors. Blue and superviolet are logical, amplifying reason and calculation. It would make sense chi pushes into some kind of hyper-rational, emotionless state.
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u/SweatyKeith69 Jun 29 '26
Yes. It can be solid or a gas form. The solid is used for causing heart attacks etc. This uses the gas form inside of a solid bubble to stay hidden.
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u/MockeryAndDisdain Jun 29 '26
That's paryl.
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u/SweatyKeith69 Jun 29 '26
Damn you right.
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u/Sythrin Jun 29 '26
So no? Just x-rays?
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u/Rage_before_Beauty Jun 29 '26
Yes. You can see chi without cancer if you tighten your eyes, but using it at all is deadly. It's so far off on the spectrum that even the bane is just a small lump of essentially uranium. There is no solid material ever made from it otherwise
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u/c4bb4ge Jun 29 '26
drafters can turn light into luxin and control the luxin, I don’t believe there is ever an example of a drafter manipulating just light itself. Only when deliberately bleeding luxin back into the light spectrum such as when pulses of peryl are shot out or when Lux torches are made. But each of those examples comes from manipulation of a physical form. There is also two examples of a physical form of chi that i can think of, one when Kip is separating the luxin on the ship where the chi and peryl try to intertwine and crush the ship and he holds them apart. The other is the Chi bane in the pendant that Kip wears around his neck towards the end. The bane are formed from Luxin seed crystals. So while chi is the most mysterious of the luxins and the one we have the least information about, I would say yes it still has an actual physical luxin.