Winged Light

Spoiler Alert

This article/section contains spoilers for in-game surprises, secrets, or storyline details, such as the end of the game. Please continue with caution if you are new to Sky: Children of the Light.

Winged Light (also sometimes called Stars or just Wings) are used to upgrade your Cape and give you wing power.

Sources of Winged Light

There are two sources of Winged Light: Children of Light and Wing Buffs.

Children of Light

A Child of Light

Children of Light are the most common source of Winged Light (and the only source available to new players). They are bright golden white glowing characters who look like short Sky kids without Capes.

Please refer to the Children of Light page for all their specific locations across the Realms.

Wing Buffs

Wing Buff

Wing Buffs are additional Winged Light you acquire by ascending your friendships with Spirits using Ascended Candles. They are one of the hardest collectible items to obtain in Sky.

Please refer to the Wing Buffs page for more information.

Maximum Possible Winged Light

Maximum Winged Light collection in Orbit

Maximum Winged Light is only possible for players who started at or before the visit of the earliest Traveling Spirit that hasn't revisited, because players must have purchased the Wing Buff from each Traveling Spirit so far. Each time a Traveling Spirit revisits, newer players can grow closer to the maximum number of Winged Light. Revisit means a visit after the first time visiting as a Traveling Spirit, so the second visit and onward as a Traveling Spirit would be a revisit.

In addition to first visits by Traveling Spirits, the maximum possible Winged Light increases whenever the latest Season adds new Children of Light, or whenever a new tier 2 Wing Buff is added (e.g., associated with a new Tier 2 Cape).

It takes numerous days to collect all Winged Light due to the Shattering Memories that are only available on certain days. All are needed, and it is difficult to collect the 6 Winged Light from these memories before the next Traveling Spirit comes to raise the maximum. This is especially troublesome for players trying to get all the Winged Light while catching up on Traveling Spirits, ascending revisiting Spirits.

Totals of All Winged Light (as of April 24)

Source	Number
Children of Light in Realms	114
Children of Light in Shard Memories	6
Children of Light from Credits	1
Wing Buffs from Regular Spirits	49
Wing Buffs from Traveling Spirits	77
Max Possible Winged Light	247

Leveling Up Capes

Different states of cape wedges

Gaining Winged Light increases the number of wedges you have to fly. At the start of the game, you obtain your first wedge during the Isle of Dawn tutorial by collecting your first Child of Light and forming your Cape.

Each wedge (at the top of screen) means one flap of your "wings" when you fly, which will grant you the energy to fly further and higher. If you click the wedge icon at the top of your screen, it will show you how much Winged Light you have found so far and how many more you need to level up (it will also open the Expression Menu).

When you have collected enough Winged Light to level up, the wedge icon will have a red dot. Click on it to obtain another wedge. After the level up animation your energy is refilled so it can be an opportunity to fly further.

Information on your wedges is also displayed on the back of your Cape (see Cape Energy). Your Cape has one glowing star (or outline around a glowing star) for each available wedge of Cape Energy. The stars/outlines are dark if you have used up that wedge's energy and need to recharge.

The following table shows the number of Winged Light necessary to increase your wedges / Cape Energy.

Wedges	Required Winged Light	Cumulative Winged Light	Remarks
1	1	1
2	1	2
3	3	5
4	5	10
5	10	20
6	15	35
7	20	55
8	20	75
9	25	100
10	20	120	Max wedge level without Wing Buffs
11	30	150	Possible since Season of Prophecy
12	50	200	Possible since Season of Shattering Current maximum level
13	50	250	Unavailable at the moment

Recharging Capes

When you run out of flying power there are several ways to recharge:

• Collecting a Child of Light (full recharge)
• Using a Recharge Potion (full recharge)
• Flying through clouds, stars, or strong fires (campfires etc.) (fast)
• Giving high five or hugs to friends, when first taking someone's hand (fast)
• In the range of someone else's Deep Call (this is the standard way to charge other players, and not available for players whose Light has been fully extinguished) (medium)
• Flying near or riding creatures or calling them when near them (medium)
• Catching a Butterfly with the emote (medium)
• Standing near or on a Light Bloom, i.e. the lit-up fungus brackets (medium)
• Standing near Ancestor Spirits (medium)
• Standing near other players when you have lit their light or holding hands with friends (recharge speed while holding hands varies depending on whether the players are flying or on ground, being slow in the former case and medium in the latter)
• Recharging with a Prop (Torch, Brazier, Feast and Mischief Table) (slow)
• Standing near or in candles or lanterns (slow)
• Collecting Pieces of Light from any source (slow)
• Standing in the sparkle left behind by a Child of Light (slow)
• Carrying the light in Spirit carry quests (slow)
• Passing through some Spirit Gates (not all of them) (fast)
• Being in an area that passively recharges your Cape, such as Bird Nest and the Citadel (medium)
• Recording a stationary character Shared Memory, and watching the preview (variable recharge speed, depending on whether additional light sources were used in creation of the memory). After full replenishing of the light (indicated by the distinct sound cue) publishing of the memory can be canceled.

Losing Winged Light

Losing Winged Light to a Dark Dragon (one player protected by an Elder Mask (SPOILERS)

Ways of losing Winged Lights (or Cape wedges):

• Being attacked by Dark Crabs, Red Shard Crabs, or Dark Dragons
• Contact with a Red Shard (grounded or flying) during Strong Eruption events; prolonged contact with smaller red stones
• Prolonged exposure to Rain in Hidden Forest
• Standing in Polluted Water (Golden Wasteland, Eye of Eden, Polluted Geyser in Sanctuary Islands)
• Going through the Eye of Eden, or getting hit by flying rocks in Eye of Eden
• Contact with a Red Shard on the portal to a realm undergoing a Strong Eruption
• Staying underwater after depleting your air bar
• With the That Sky Shop's Dark Dragon Pin

(The last three are the only ways to lose Winged Lights in Home or Aviary Village)

When a player loses Winged Light, it will fly away from the player and appear as orange wings with a white light countdown column. The player can try to pick them up again, but they will break after 20 seconds, or immediately in final section of the Eye of Eden (Spoilers!), and the player will have lost their light and ability to fly, so it is often very hard to reach them. Other players may help with picking up the lost Winged Light before time runs out.

You will know that the Winged Light is truly lost when you see a slashing animation and hear a sword-cutting sound. The lost wing(s) will turn back into Children of Light and can be found again in their original location, but there is no way of knowing which of the Children of Light were lost and where to find them again. It is completely random. Since Patch 0.19.0, you can find your lost Winged Light by opening a Map Shrine and looking at what Realms your lost Winged Light are in. Lost Winged Light can be recollected from the Children of Light that appear in their original form, not to be confused with the sparkle left behind by a Child of Light. Note that Map Shrines don't show the exact amount of Winged Light missing in each area, they just show if a Winged Light is missing or not.

If your lost Winged Light that was Wing Buff instead of the Children of Light, you can only re-obtain it when you're reborn when finishing Eye of Eden.