Editing The Light-in-Exile

{{Character|image1=glowingeyes.png|caption1=The Light-in-Exile|location=[[The Magistracy of the Evenlode]]|allegiance=Independent|relationships=[[Lamp-Cats]]}}<blockquote>''"You only see a fraction of the creature before you; even its own glow can't reach the full extent of its body. You see teeth, needle-like and long. You see an appendage that glows with peligin light, menacing and inviting in equal measure. You see eyes wide as lakes. This is a warm thing in a cold place."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Light-In-Exile|The Light-In-Exile|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>

The '''Light-in-Exile''' is a mysterious being who haunts the depths below the [[Magistracy of the Evenlode]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Light-In-Exile|The Light-In-Exile|Fallen London|}} ''"You [...] see a fraction of the creature before you; [...]"''</ref> It is an enormous creature with large eyes and needle teeth, and it emits [[peligin]] light to lure in divers.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Light-In-Exile|The Light-In-Exile|Fallen London|}} ''"You [...] see a fraction of the creature [...] its own glow can't reach the full extent of its body. You see teeth, needle-like [...] an appendage that glows with peligin light, [...] eyes wide as lakes. [...]"''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Search_the_lowest_Floors|Search the lowest Floors|Fallen London|}} ''"Glimpses: Of monster-light [...] this glow, [...] draws you to it. Has drawn you to it."''</ref> It exhibits intelligence,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Fill_a_mirrorcatch_box_with_peligin_light|Fill a mirrorcatch box with peligin light|Fallen London|}} ''"The Light-In-Exile wonders about the box; about what you mean to do [...] Who is it meant for?"''</ref> and is able to communicate<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_for_it|Reach for it|Fallen London|}} ''"The Light-in-Exile makes friends of outcasts [...] You, it's not [...] sure about. [...] You feel its age and want. It does not reject you, [...] neither does it accept you."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Let_it_study_you|Let it study you|Fallen London|}} ''"Peligin brilliance fills your sight, and your mind."''</ref> and recognize others.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Let_it_study_you|Let it study you|Fallen London|}} ''"[..] the Light-in-Exile. [...] It recognises you."''</ref>

The Light-in-Exile does not hunt those it lures; rather, it seeks to befriend those who are outcasts. The Light's companions include '''lamp-men''', [[Lamp-Cats|lamp-cats]], and [[Rubbery Men]], all of which glow as well.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_for_it|Reach for it|Fallen London|}} ''"Little lights swim in the darkness, orbiting the great one: Lamp-cats [...] lamp-men. [...] rubberies, with bioluminescent lights [...] The Light-in-Exile makes friends of outcasts that disappear beneath the water [...]"''</ref> Divers who do not meet its criteria are rejected and returned to dry land.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_for_it|Reach for it|Fallen London|}} ''"The Light-in-Exile [...] it rejects Constables, and sends them back up to their fraternity above. [...] neither does it accept you. [...] You wash out on the banks of the Evenlode [...]"''</ref> The [[Constables]] of the Evenlode use the Light's behavior as a "test" of sorts: a new recruit is submerged to meet the Light,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Rite|The Rite|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] at the bottom, a light gleams [...] the novice constable [...] He is fully submerged."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_for_it|Reach for it|Fallen London|}} ''"The Light-in-Exile [...] rejects Constables, and sends them back up to their fraternity above."''</ref> and if they return safely, they are welcomed into the group.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Keep_watching_3|Keep watching 3|Fallen London|}} ''"He emerges from the water [...] "Not outcast. I'm not outcast." [...] The gathered officers [...] reassure him that he has passed, [...] he is one of them, part of the law of the Evenlode."''</ref>

 

The origin of the Light-in-Exile is unknown.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Deeps_of_the_Magistracy|The Deeps of the Magistracy|Fallen London|}} ''"But what lives there now [...] does not sound like the Creditor. [...] the Light-in-Exile, she does not know what it is."''</ref>