The other light wielders and their role?

[Flâneur]

I was thinking - what role do Alan Scott, Halo, Argent and the Emerald Eye play in the GL mythology now that Geoff Johns has introduced the Emotional Spectrum and Blackest Night?

We know, for example, that Argent creates constructs on the exact same frequency as the Oan GL Ring but is silvery white rather than green. So what exactly is she now and where do her powers stand in relation to theirs now?

Same for Alan - his ring's origin keeps flip flopping (Yalan Gur?) and now I have no idea aside from it being green and magic. The magic thing also doesn't seem to be much of a barrier to reveal that it's another harnessing of the green light though (especially since Hal mentioned Alan in BL), given the mystical roots of the red and violet lights. So what exactly is it in the wake of Blackest Night ideas and revelations?

And Halo, wielding light powers matching exactly to the colours of the Emotional Spectrum and being mentioned by Hal in BL. What does that imply about the linking of her race, the Aurakles, to the GL mythos?

[CYOTI]

the Emerald Eye - established in 52 as a prototype to the green lantern rings instead of constructs, it can only create energy blasts

the starheart - sentient magic molded into a ring and capable of creating constructs via will power like the GL rings. Could be a magical analogue to the rings.

Halo, don't know, but given that her people are pure energy or light, they could be beings of pure emotion or beings given form from the emotional spectrum like Parallax or Ion, but on a smaller scale.

[ryerye17]

Don't forget Dr. Light!

[Flâneur]

the Emerald Eye - established in 52 as a prototype to the green lantern rings instead of constructs, it can only create energy blasts

Yup, but that begs the question of how much or how little it had to do with the Oans. If it was a precursor to the rings then was it the first tool of the Corps? Or did the Oans nick it? Maybe someone was raising the lights before they ever were (after all, the Orange light was already active without being shaped by them).

It also begs the question of whether it can/should react to artifacts from the other Corps in the same way as a GL ring after all, it does invoke the green light but it doesn't have many of the typical traits. For example, the symbiotic relationship with the Blue Ring, the weakness to yellow or the threat it poses to Black Lanterns in conjunction with other lights.

Heck, the same applies to the symbiotes in the light, would Parallax and Ion react to the Blue Lanterns? Or is it more about the ring design than the light it's powered by?

the starheart - sentient magic molded into a ring and capable of creating constructs via will power like the GL rings. Could be a magical analogue to the rings.
Oh, definitely made by sentient magic but is it the green light harnessed by the magic (ala Atrocitus and the Zamarons with their lights) or is it magic aping the green light?

I remember the origin told in GL Volume 3 where there was a tyrannical GL in ancient China called Yalan Gur who had had the yellow weakness removed in his ring with a wood weakness introduced and the issue suggested that the Starheart (which was imprisoned by the Oans) had collided with this ring to form Alan's lantern. Since then, though, the bit about the yellow weakness has been contradicted in GL: Rebirth so who knows how much of that origin stands.

I'd also have thought the magic origin would eliminate ties to the green light but then again, the Zamarons used the Hawks for the Star Sapphire and Atrocitus used some kind of shamanic ritual using the guts of the Inversions for the red light.
Halo, don't know, but given that her people are pure energy or light, they could be beings of pure emotion or beings given form from the emotional spectrum like Parallax or Ion, but on a smaller scale.
This is a really interesting idea and really would make sense. Hmmm.

[CYOTI]

I'd also have thought the magic origin would eliminate ties to the green light but then again, the Zamarons used the Hawks for the Star Sapphire and Atrocitus used some kind of shamanic ritual using the guts of the Inversions for the red light.
The various color energies according to Johns is just the aura energy given off by sentient beings in their various states. The guardians and qwardians use technology to harness the collective will power and fear in the universe just as atrocitius used his blood rituals. Presumably magic can be used to do the same thing on a smaller scale like in the Starheart with willpower.

[bongoes]

Don't forget Dr. Light!

I think Dr. Light is just light. I don't know if there is a from of light that's just light, no emotional connection, but Dr. Lights powers seems like that's what shes has. I'm interested if BL Dr. Light will still have light powers.

As for Alan Scott I think Johns said something about seeing what happens when Alan meets a Blue Lantern is going to happen soon. Presumably that would shed more light (no pun intended) on the subject.

[CYOTI]

Alan Scott amongst the Lanterns is the one that has the strongest will so I guess he becomes even more hax if he is augmented by blue.

[Flâneur]

I think Dr. Light is just light. I don't know if there is a from of light that's just light, no emotional connection, but Dr. Lights powers seems like that's what shes has. I'm interested if BL Dr. Light will still have light powers.

As for Alan Scott I think Johns said something about seeing what happens when Alan meets a Blue Lantern is going to happen soon. Presumably that would shed more light (no pun intended) on the subject.

Oooh, where did you hear that?

[ljacone]

I actually just re-read "The Truth About Halo" not to long ago, and while it doesn't specifically say one way or the other whether the Aurakles are beings of emotion or not, I suspect that is a likely avenue for them. They are called out as one of the oldest sets of beings in the universe, created close to the start of Creation itself. It's not a far stretch to say that the Aurakles were created by the shattering of the light into the Spectrum.

As to what role Halo herself will play, well, since she can manipulate energy of all seven colors, maybe she can work like a converter or a filter... or a low-level power source. In any event I imagine the Outsiders BN tie-in will at least touch on this.

[carabas]

Yup, but that begs the question of how much or how little it had to do with the Oans. If it was a precursor to the rings then was it the first tool of the Corps? Or did the Oans nick it?It being one of their GL prototypes kinda implies that they did create it themselves and then tossed it into the trash for being not good enough.

[Alex L]

Unless it's been retconned, Alan's Starheart is straight-up magic. It's not connected to the emotional fabric that powers the various rings; it just happens to manifest itself as a similarly-colored flame.