Currency

There are several **Currencies** in Sky that can be used to unlock a variety of items, such as Cosmetics, Spells, Expression upgrades, and more. The game currently has six types available:

* Candles
* Hearts
* Season Candles
* Season Hearts
* Ascended Candles
* Event Currency

## Candles

**Candles**, or **White Candles** (not to be confused with the Red Candles scattered around Realms), are the oldest Currency in the game. Furthermore, they are the most common and versatile type of Candle.

These Candles can be used to purchase both Expression upgrades, Blessings, and Special Event Cosmetics from Spirits. They may also be used to buy returning Seasonal Cosmetics via Traveling Spirits.

Candles are also required for almost all social interactions in the game. For example, making friends with other players generally requires the exchange of one Candle by either party. Additional Friend Actions, such as High Five, Hug, and Piggyback, require the use of more Candles. For more information, visit the Making Friends page.

#### Candle Runs

Players will frequently travel through the Realms collecting Pieces of Light on a daily basis. This is known as Candle Running or Candle Farming. When players light Red Candles, burn Darkness, or spend time in Social Light Areas, Pieces of Light (also known as Wax) will start filling up the Candle meter in the upper left corner of the screen. Once the Candle meter fills to the top, a blinking red dot appears. Tapping on it allows you to forge a Candle, which is added to your inventory. Any excess Light is transferred to the progress of the next Candle; you will not lose any Candles if you do not forge them right away.

For more information on locations, visit the Interactive Maps page or the Pieces of Light page.

**Treasure Candles** (also known as Bonus Candles, Candle Clusters, Candle Cakes, etc.) are large clumps of Red Candles that reward players with a sizeable amount of Light when lit. Every day there are four bonus Treasure Candles scattered throughout a specific Realm, indicated by the two Red Candles in front of the chosen Realm portal at Home. These Treasure Candles rotate between several specific sets of locations in each Realm, and finding all four will give the player 200 Pieces of Light in total. There are also several permanent Treasure Candles: 15 in Isle, 3 in Prairie, 2 in Forest, 3 in Valley, and 9 in Vault.

For more information on locations, visit the Treasure Candles page.

#### Daily Quests

Candles can also be collected by completing Daily Quests between Seasons. The Quests change every day and are accessed by selecting the button over the Return Shrine Statue at Home or Aviary Village. If you have forgotten the specifics of a Quest, you may tap the upper left corner of your screen on a mobile device or the left arrow button on a controller. The Quests of the day will appear white while unfinished and turn yellow when completed. To receive your reward of 1 Candle per Quest, simply select the button over the Return Shrine at Home or Aviary Village again.

#### Candle Packs

Candle Packs containing different numbers of Candles are always available to purchase using real money from the Premium Candle Shop. Additionally, White Candles are often bundled with other In-App Purchases (IAPs).

## Hearts

**Hearts** are the Currency used for almost all of the game's Cosmetics available through Regular Spirits in the Realm Constellations. Generally speaking, items from the Constellations of the later Realms will be more expensive than items from earlier ones. They are also used to purchase Expression upgrades from Traveling Spirits and certain Cosmetics from Special Events or Seasonal Events.

Hearts can be collected in a multitude of ways:

* Receiving them from friends as gifts
* Collecting Gifts of Light your friends have sent you
* Purchasing them yourself from Spirits
* Completing Seasonal Quests
* Converting unspent Season Hearts at the end of the Season
* Earning "likes" on one of your Message Candles, Message Boats, Shared Spaces, or Shared Memories

**Collecting Hearts in order to unlock Cosmetics can be slow-going. It's important not only to be patient, but also to be generous with others.**

#### Gifts from Friends

Gifting a Heart to a friend is done by selecting the  Gift icon in the Friend Menu, which requires you to spend 3 Candles. The Gift icon is accessible both at the Friend Constellation at Home or Aviary Village and by selecting on a friend in the game. If a player is trying to gift someone a Heart, it is necessary to have unlocked  High Five with each other first. This limitation not only applies to gifting done in person, but also gifting via the friend's Star in the Friend Constellation. For more detailed information, visit the Making Friends page.

Only one Heart can be gifted to a specific friend per day. This encourages players to gift to a variety of people rather than gifting only to one certain friend. If you have received a Heart, this will be visible in your Friend Constellation. You may collect it by selecting the friend's Star and clicking the Heart Envelope on the right menu.

Collecting Gifts of Light sent to you by friends in your Friend Constellation will also allow you to collect Hearts. In total, you must be sent 60 of these Gifts of Light to fill up the Heart-meter on the upper left side of the screen completely.

#### Spirit Shops and Seasonal Quests

A limited number of Hearts can be purchased from Ancestor Spirits and Season Guides. These Hearts always cost 3 Candles each, and never reset, meaning each Heart can only be bought once.

37 Hearts total can be purchased from Regular Spirits, one per Spirit. Each Heart is available after unlocking the first node (a Spell costing 1 Candle) in the Spirit's Friendship Tree.

Each Seasonal Spirit from the current Season has one Season Heart that can be purchased for 3 Season Candles (see Season Hearts for details). This Season Heart is converted to a regular Heart if it is not used before the end of the Season.

When Seasonal Spirits from past Seasons return as Traveling Spirits, there is always one Heart in their Friendship Tree. The Heart can be purchased for 3 Candles, after unlocking the first node (a Spell costing 5 Candles). However, you can only buy a Heart from a Spirit once -- if you bought the Spirit's Season Heart during their Season, or if you bought their Heart during a previous visit, you cannot purchase it again.

In addition, 73 Hearts total are currently available for purchase from the various Season Guides (also known as Quest Givers). Typically, each time a Quest is completed, it unlocks one Heart. These Hearts are free if the Quests are completed during that Guide's Season. After the Season ends, each Heart costs 3 Candles (and can only be purchased once, only if you did not get the free in-Season Heart). Note that the Season of Enchantment was the first Season to have Quests and a Season Guide who remained present in game after the end of the Season, meaning no Hearts are available from the previous four Seasons.

#### Messages, Shared Spaces, and Shared Memories

Players can leave messages around the Realms through Message Shrines or Message Boats. Message Candles left at Shrines which are the focus of a Daily Quest (called Quest Shrines or Meditation Shrines) require 10 "likes" to earn one Heart and last until the next reset. Messages left at Shrines not currently in use for a Daily Quest (called Gratitude Shrines) or through Message Boats require 50 "likes" to earn a Heart and disappear after 48 hours. For more information on Message Shrines and Messages, see this support page.

Players can also create Shared Spaces and Shared Memories. Shared Spaces, which can be created at Shared Space Shrines or by using Shared Space Spells, require 25 "likes" to earn a Heart and last for 4 days (96 hours). Shared Memories, created with Shared Memory Spells, require 50 "likes" and disappear after 6 days (144 hours).

Hearts earned in any of these ways can be collected from the Constellation Statue at Aviary Village. Note that you can receive at most **one** Heart for a given Message, Shared Space, or Shared Memory, and for one to become public (able to be seen by strangers), it must first receive three "likes" from friends.

## Season Candles

**Season Candles** are only available during an ongoing Seasonal Event and are used exclusively to purchase new Seasonal Cosmetics and Expression upgrades from the Seasonal Spirits for the current Season.

It is possible for non-Season Pass holders to gather 5 Season Candles per day by collecting Season Candle Bunches (see more below) and completing Daily Quests. Season Pass holders will receive one additional Season Candle from the Constellation Statue at Aviary Village, for a total of 6 per day. During a Double Season Candle Event, all players can forge an additional Season Candle each day. Read more on the Season Pass and Seasons in Seasonal Events.

**Season Candles do not carry over from one Season to another** - instead, at the end of a Season, each leftover Season Candle is converted to a White Candle.

#### Season Candle Bunches

There are four Season Candle Bunches sprinkled throughout the Social Space and first area of a chosen Realm every day (indicated through the cutscene played when checking in with the Return Shrine Statue at Home or Aviary Village, and the lit eyes of the Elder's symbol on the top of the Realm gate), which when lit combine to form a single Season Candle. (During a Double Season Candle Event, eight Season Candle Bunches can be found, allowing you to forge 2 Season Candles.) You can see the icon of the ongoing Season both in the uncollected Pieces of Light and on the sides of the Candles in the Season Candle Bunch.

Collecting Light from Season Candle Bunches does not put you at risk of being spotted by a Dark Dragon when they are in Golden Wasteland.

#### Daily Quests

During a Season, the Daily Quests given by the Return Shrine at Home or Aviary Village will reward players with Season Candles instead of White Candles. As with Quests outside of a Season, each Quest rewards 1 Season Candle. If you have forgotten the specifics of a Quest, you may tap the upper left corner of your screen on a mobile device or the left arrow button on a controller. The Quests of the day will appear white while unfinished and turn yellow when completed. To receive your reward, 1 Candle per Quest, simply select the button over the Return Shrine at Home or Aviary Village again.

It is possible to complete all Daily Quests safely, but for more dangerous Daily Quests (e.g., "Face the Dark Dragon"), you may want to bring a friend with you to help recharge you or collect your fallen Winged Light in case something goes wrong.

#### Season Candle Packs

During the Season, Season Candle Packs containing 15 Season Candles are available to buy using real money from the Premium Candle Shop. Season Candles may also be bundled with other In-App Purchases (IAPs).

Additionally, players that purchase a Season Pass, or are gifted one by other player, will automatically receive 30 Season Candles.

## Season Hearts

**Season Hearts** are a rare Currency in the game that are **only available to Season Pass holders during an ongoing Seasonal Event.**

1 Season Heart is available from each of the current Season's Spirits (not the Season Guide), at a cost of 3 Season Candles. It can only be purchased after unlocking every item in the Seasonal Spirit's Friendship Tree and is only available to players that own the Season Pass.

The only purpose of Season Hearts is to purchase the Season's Ultimate Gifts. Each Season, the total cost of all the Ultimate Gifts exactly matches the total number of available Season Hearts. **Season Hearts do not carry over from one Season to another** - instead, any unspent Season Hearts are automatically converted into regular Hearts at the end of the Season (similar to Season Candles).

Note that when a Seasonal Spirit returns as a Traveling Spirit, the Season Heart counts as that Spirit's 1 allowed Heart purchase. Therefore, the Heart in a Traveling Spirit's Friendship Tree will not be available to players who collected the Spirit's Season Heart during the Season. (Note that Season Hearts were not implemented during the first two Seasons - Gratitude and Lightseekers - and as a result, Season Pass holders from these two Seasons have been able to buy 1 regular Heart from the relevant Traveling Spirits).

## Event Currency

**Event Currency** (also known as Tickets) are a rare Currency in the game that are **only available during an ongoing Special Event.**

During an event, its specific Currency can be found scattered around the main area where the event takes place, or in some cases, can be collected alongside the event’s themed Daily Quests or activities. Players may also exchange Candles or Ascended Candles from Spell Shops to purchase additional Event Currency. The total number of Event Currency available to collect each day varies from one event to another.

Of special note is that this Currency **varies in appearance** to fit the theme of its event, such as resembling treble clefs during Days of Music (pictured below). Once collected in the players inventory, it'll appear as a ticket with a symbol on it that's related to its specific event.

Event Currency is used to purchase certain Cosmetics and Spells for the ongoing event from an Event Guide Spirit or Spell Shop. **Event Currency does not carry over from one event to another** and, unlike other Currencies in game, **does not convert to another Currency at the end of the event** - leftover Event Currency will simply disappear from the player's inventory once the event ends.

More information can be found on ThatSkyGame's Website.

## Ascended Candles

**Ascended Candles** (also known as Prestige Candles) are collected only upon completion of a strong Shard Eruption or the Eye of Eden (Spoiler Warning!), the last Realm of the game. *It is recommended you play through this level wholly before accessing detailed information on how to acquire Ascended Candles in Eden.*

Spoiler AlertThis article/section contains spoilers for in-game surprises, secrets, or storyline details, such as the end of the game. Please continue with caution if you are new to Sky: Children of the Light.

Ascended Candles are used to purchase Wing Buffs from both Regular Spirits and Traveling Spirits, which increase your Cape Power in the same way as collecting Children of Light. These two Collectibles stack together, allowing experienced players to acquire even greater Cape Power - up to a maximum total of 12 Wedges.

For more information, visit the Winged Light page.

Purchasing Wing Buffs from a Spirit's Friendship Tree also opens the ability to purchase previously inaccessible Cosmetics. Furthermore, Ascended Candles can be used to open up more of the Friendship Menu with friends and unlock high-level Friend Actions such as Warp. They can also be used to buy Event Currency and certain Spells from various Spell Shops, and to purchase Ultimate Gifts from the Realm Constellations.

Players will earn one quarter (0.25) of an Ascended Candle for each Statue given a Winged Light in the final section of the Eye of Eden, with a total of 15.75 Ascended Candles possible to collect each week. For more detailed information, visit the Eye of Eden (Spoiler Warning!) page.

Players can also earn between 1 to 3.5 Ascended Candles by completing a Strong Eruption (not to be confused with a Regular Eruption, which instead provides Pieces of Light). For more detailed information, visit the Shard Eruptions page.