History Literature / Blacklight

-> So here’s the deal.
-> My name’s Kihri Vyas, and I’m dead.
-> That’s not really important, it happened ages ago, but it’s good to have the context.

* AmplifierArtifact: The hammer [[spoiler: Zarah finds in the power station]] seems to operate like this, granting its wielder increased physical abilities and a near-Wolverine-level healing factor. Whether that's specific to the hammer or something all ghostlight constructs can do is still up in the air.
* CombatTentacles: [[spoiler: Paose]] uses these, to the extent that he uses them to carry him around rather than walking.
--> '''Kihri, [[spoiler: being more correct than she knows]]:''' What, you don’t think 'horny land octopus' is a legitimate avenue we should be investigating?
** ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine:[[spoiler: Zarah eventually imitates the technique to kill him]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:

** [[spoiler: Jona Mehrvitz takes the cake, though - after being tied down and mutilated until he was barely recognisable as human, his chest was caved in with a hammer and he was left to bleed and choke to death.]]
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler: Zarah finally manages to create her own (gold-coloured) ghostlight for the first time in Chapter Seventeen, but it's highly unstable, and violently explodes as soon as she releases it]].
** GoodThingYouCanHeal: [[spoiler: Not only does it explode, but it does so from ''inside her arm'', tearing it to shreds every time she uses it]].
---> [Her hand] had been absolutely ruined, skin and flesh peeled back like a flower unfurling, but it was already starting to stitch itself back together.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Paose is the main threat throughout the first book, but he seems to mostly be following along with Yanis's plans and goals]].

* {{Familiar}}: [[spoiler: Luce]] seems to fill this role for Orae - it's mentioned that she has higher-than-average intelligence, enough to understand human language to some degree.
* HealingFactor: After getting the hammer, [[spoiler: Zarah]] not only survives [[spoiler: getting thrown through a solid concrete wall, being impaled through the torso, and ''jumping ten stories from one skyscraper to the roof of another'', but heals quickly enough that she's able to stand within a few minutes at most.]]

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Kihri, who operates on 'standard' ghost rules, except for the fact that she can somehow [[spoiler: absorb other people's memories by touching/passing through ghostlight they've created.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Remy has to consciously remember to breathe, has cold skin, and is utterly impervious to physical harm (at least, so far)]].

* SoulJar: [[spoiler: Shades]] seem to function something like this - someone drawing on blacklight have been shown to regenerate from extremely lethal wounds, many times in a row, up to and including RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain. Destroying the shade seems to affect their capacity to draw on the blacklight to some extent, but as [[spoiler: Paose]] showed, it's not necessarily an instant-win button.

* TheBeastmaster: [[spoiler: The stranger from Chapter Seven operates like this, directing their dog with a system of whistles while they hang back and harass/distract]].

* KillingIntent: Remy unleashes something similar in Chapter Fourteen, rendering Zarah and Orae unable to move - however, it's specifically noted not to affect [[{{Muggle}} Rinet]]