Light, as used by the Guardians, comes in three different varieties these are the elemental damage modifiers, and are used in both a Guardian's chosen subclass and in certain weapons. Orbs of Light may also be found, which give power to a Guardian's Super, their ultimate use of the Light. Additionally, the Light was used by the Traveler to construct the Ghosts. Guardians are the rare few able to wield the Light as a weapon. The Light is antipathic to the Hive, though they are known to feed on it and offer it as a sacrifice to their gods. Ulan-Tan hypothesized that all Light is connected, later confirmed when Guardians discovered the Hive siphoning light from the Traveler through a piece of itself. All living things and all places possess some Light-possibly as a soul-as the spark of life is Light in itself. The Light emanates from the Traveler, but it is not exclusively produced by it. It is fundamentally driven to increase the complexity and diversity of entities within the universe, and in particular to encourage the growth of new lifeforms.

Like the Darkness, the Light is a paracausal force that has existed since before the beginning of time and space.

She is listening to the music of the insects amidst the flowers, the unguent as it begins to drip from the ferns, the slight scratch of the Worm beneath, and not to you, and certainly not to your cries for help.' - Mk. ' The Gardener is hard to bother she is constantly amidst her weeds, kneeling in the tangent dust, gloves covered in a mix of distant soils and metallic saps.

The light works