Lightbinders

Lightbinders are magic users like Lightbringers, though with different sets of abilities. their powers are known as Lightbinding. unlike Bringers, being a Lightbinder is not a perpetual vocational state. the world believes that only Archknights can be Lightbinders, and thus being one is being both, like Lightbringers seem to be always both Lightbringing users and priests of religions the Light, who have chosen to dedicate their lives to help others.

Archknight's secret
all through history people and Archknights alike have believed that the only way to obtain Archknight powers, meaning Lightbinding, was to truly desire fight evil, and sincerely pledge the Archknight's Oath, which is to fight evil for the rest of their lives. the Knights have also led the world to believe that Archknights, in a similar way as Bringers, lose their powers if they break their oaths, lose their dedication to the cause, or break the law. but this is a lie, and there are Archknight deserters with their powers intact. in the year fifty-one of the Fifth Day, Archknight Lyrah found out the existence of a young man, Daylen Namaran, who had become a Lightbinder without ever joining the Archhknights. and soon after she found out that her Archknight companion, Cueseg, had obtained his powers by doing the Vigil and pledging to fight the Shade, even though he did it to gain status instead of having true desire to fight evil. this cemented the dangerous revelation that anyone, regardless of their motivations could become a Lightbinder.