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And you know what? It's true what they say; we all float down here. And you will too. In fact, THEY ALL FLOAT!!! THEY ALL FLOAT!!!
~ It about the Deadlights.

The Deadlights are writhing radiant orange lights that are a mystifying but very deadly and terrifying, eldritch form of energy originated from the preternatural dimension known as the Macroverse (also known as the "Todash Darkness") and a recurring plot element from the works of legendary horror writer Stephen King including The Dark Tower and Stephen King's It.

Deadlights refer to supernatural energies appearing as radiating orange light originating from Macroverse.

It is well known that one mere glance (no matter a living soul stares briefly or longer) into these bright lights can instantly cause death and permanent insanity. For the same reasons, the energy proved to be a deadly weapon in the hands of powerful beings who can harness it without suffering ill-effects.

Only two known entities who strong enough to handle Deadlights; The Crimson King and It.

The Crimson King

The dreaded dark lord wields the Deadlights, which is also referred to as a type of magic. The Deadlights, when used, are able to cause great suffering to the point of death, and even possibly do things to the affected victim's soul. The Crimson King uses the Deadlights around the once cursed American town of Derry within Maine, in the book "Insomnia" to ascend to another level of the Dark Tower, but yet never directly casts "deadlights" as any sort of sorcery himself. Here, the Deadlights are shown to inhabit the higher level of the Tower to which the Crimson King ascends, implied to be one of the "Higher Random" levels where Life and Death as commonly understood do not exist.

It/Pennywise the Dancing Clown

The Ritual of Chüd

The Ritual of Chüd

The very life essence and even true form of the twisted extra-dimensional fiend (who was part of an obscure race of shapeshifting monsters called by its Gaelic name "Glamours") is comprised of the Deadlights themselves, and It (usually in Its favorite deceitful form as Pennywise the Clown) uses this power to blind Its fresh victims (usually human children) and robs them of their conscious minds as It drives them crazy as well as leave them both immobile and lifeless before It takes them away and consumes them. Its true form along with the Deadlights can be revealed via the Ritual of Chüd as performed by the group of 7 mortal misfit children twice in both their childhood and later in their adulthood.

In the 1990s TV miniseries Stephen King's It, the murderous local bully Henry Bowers witnessed Its Deadlights in 1960 after his recent failed attempt to kill Stan Uris of the Lucky Seven/Losers' Club and survived, but ended up being insane while his hair turned pale white as a side effect of the Deadlights' power before he emerged from the sewers beneath Derry and immediately arrested by the police for the deaths of the children taken by It which he confessed of while in custody.

In the 2017 live-action movie adaption of the famous Stephen King novel (referred to as It: Chapter One), Beverly "Bev" Marsh of the Losers Club witnesses the Deadlights in Its mouth and is put into a temporary coma. She is brought out of the coma by Ben Hanscom kissing her. Upon looking at the Deadlights, Beverly hears multiple sounds of children screaming. Including an older person shouting "HELP ME!!!" This implies that the Deadlights and to an extension It did not just eat their flesh and fear, but consume their souls as well.

In the 2019 live-action movie sequel (referred to as It: Chapter Two), 27 years later, the Losers Club except the now late Stan Uris came to the crater forged by Its arrival on Earth millions of years ago beneath the sewers of Derry and performed the Ritual of Chüd and succeeded where the 7 slain members of Derry's original local native American tribe known as the Shokopiwah have failed while extinguishing the blinding Deadlights by killing the heart of the vile cosmic fiend in Its weakened blob-like fetal state at the end of the childhood friends' long grueling fight once and for all.

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  • In the 2021 Stephen King horror crime novel Later, a singular Deadlight, or "dark-light" as it is referred to, is witnessed by the boy Jamie Conklin during his performance of the Ritual of Chüd against a Glamour. He describes the light, which is visibly pulsing within the spirit of Therriault, become clearer as the infested spirit grows weaker. Jamie describes the light as "bright and dark at the same time. It was something from outside the world. It was horrible," though he is not transfixed. Jamie recognizes that the spirit is the deadlight's only connection to the human world, and that it requires a host to survive in a physical form. After the Ritual, despite losing, the deadlight not only regains control of its spirit host but becomes stronger as well, now able to affect objects in the mortal plane. Later, when Jamie calls on the Glamour for assistance against Liz, a "brilliant no-color light," resembling a solar flare, emerges from a nearby mirror, forms a hand, and grabs Liz by the throat. As she stares into the light Liz stops screaming and begins to laugh maniacally, driven insane by the vision of the deadlight. After her death, Jamie witnesses the charred remains of Therriault, still haunted by the Glamour. He appears burned to a crisp from the inside out, the deadlight within glowing out from his orifices as well as the cracks in his flaking skin.
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