Winged Light

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**Winged Light** (also sometimes called **Stars** or just **Wings**) are used to upgrade your cape and give you wing power.

## Sources of Winged Light

There are two sources of Winged Light: Children of Light and Wing Buffs.

### Children of Light

**Children of Light** are the most common source of Winged Light (and the only source available to new players). They are bright golden white glowing characters who look like short Sky kids without capes.

**Please refer to the Children of Light page for all their specific locations across the realms.**

### Wing Buffs

**Wing Buffs** can only be collected once the player has traveled through all the realms and can then unlock them through Spirit Friendship Trees.

**Please refer to the Wing Buffs page of more information.**

## Maximum Possible Winged Light

Maximum winged light is only possible for players who started at or before the visit of the earliest traveling spirit that hasn't revisited, because players must have purchased the Wing Buff from each Traveling Spirit so far. Each time a traveling spirit revisits, newer players can grow closer to the maximum number of winged light. Revisit means a visit after the first time visiting as a traveling spirit, so the second visit and onward as a traveling spirit would be a revisit.

In addition to first visits by Traveling Spirits, the maximum possible winged light increases whenever the latest season adds new Children of Light, or whenever a new tier 2 Wing Buff is added (e.g., associated with a new Tier 2 Cape).

It takes numerous days to collect all winged light due to the Shattering Memories that are only available on certain days. All are needed, and it is difficult to collect the 6 winged light from these memories before the next traveling spirit comes to raise the maximum. This is especially troublesome for players trying to get all the winged light while catching up on traveling spirits, ascending revisiting spirits.

Totals of All Winged Light (as of January 18)

## Leveling Up Capes

Gaining Winged Light increases the number of wedges you have to fly. At the start of the game, you obtain your first wedge during the Isle of Dawn tutorial by collecting your first Child of Light and forming your cape.

Each wedge (at the top of screen) means one flap of your "wings" when you fly, which will grant you the energy to fly further and higher. If you click the wedge icon at the top of your screen, it will show you how much Winged Light you have found so far and how many more you need to level up (it will also open the Expression Menu).

When you have collected enough Winged Light to level up, the wedge icon will have a red dot. Click on it to obtain another wedge. After the level up animation your energy is refilled so it can be an opportunity to fly further.

Information on your wedges is also displayed on the back of your cape (see Cape Energy). Your cape has one glowing star (or outline around a glowing star) for each available wedge of cape energy. The stars/outlines are dark if you have used up that wedge's energy and need to recharge.

The following table shows the number of Winged Light necessary to increase your wedges / cape energy.

## Recharging Capes

When you run out of flying power there are several ways to recharge:

* Collecting a Child of Light (full recharge)
* Using a Recharge Potion (full recharge)
* Flying through clouds, stars, or strong fires (campfires etc.) (fast)
* Giving high five or hugs to friends, when first taking someone's hand (fast)
* In the range of someone else's Deep Call (this is the standard way to charge other players, and **not available for players whose Light has been fully extinguished**) (medium)
* Flying near or riding creatures or calling them when near them (medium)
* Standing near or on a Light Bloom, i.e. the lit-up fungus brackets (medium)
* Standing near Ancestor Spirits (medium)
* Standing near other players when you have lit their light or holding hands with friends (medium)
* Recharging with a prop (Torch, Brazier, Feast and Mischief Table) (slow)
* Standing near or in candles or lanterns (slow)
* Collecting pieces of light from any source (slow)
* Standing in the sparkle left behind by a Child of Light (slow)
* Carrying the light in spirit carry quests (slow)
* Passing through some spirit gates (not all of them) (fast)

## Losing Winged Light

Ways of losing Winged Lights (or cape wedges):

* Being attacked by Dark Crabs, Red Shard Crabs or Dark Dragons
* Contacted with Red Shard (Ground or Flying) during the Strong Eruption events; prolonged contact with smaller red stones
* Prolonged exposure to rain
* Standing in polluted water (Golden Wasteland, Eye of Eden, Polluted geyser in Sanctuary Islands)
* Going through Eye of Eden
* Staying underwater after depleting your air bar
* With the Dark Dragon Pin

When a player loses Winged Light, it will fly away from the player and appear as orange wings with a white light countdown column. The player can try to pick them up again, but **they will break after 14 seconds, or immediately in final section of the Eye of Eden (Spoilers!)**, and the player will have lost their light and ability to fly, so it is often very hard to reach them. Other players may help with picking up the lost Winged Light before time runs out.

You will know that the Winged Light is truly lost when you see a slashing animation and hear a sword-cutting sound. The lost wing(s) will turn back ***into Children of Light*** and **can be found again** in their original location, but there is no way of knowing which of the Children of Light were lost and where to find them again. It is completely random. Since Patch 0.19.0, you can find your lost Winged Light by opening a Map Shrine and looking at what Realms your lost Winged Light are in. *Lost Winged Light can be recollected from the Children of Light that appear in their original form, not to be confused with the sparkle left behind by a Child of Light.* Note that Map Shrines don't show the exact amount of winged light missing in each area, they just show if a winged light is missing or not.

If your lost winged light that was Wing Buff instead of the Children of Light, you can only re-obtain it when you're reborn when finishing Eye of Eden.

## References

1. ↑ Stars was the term used for Winged Light in early versions of the game, and is still sometimes used by veteran players, especially those who were in the beta prior to global launch.
2. ↑ Previous to the 0.11.0 patch, it was also possible to lose winged light by hitting objects when flying or sliding too fast.