The Trial Beneath the Light is a legal process used among the Children of the Light for charges laid against one Child by another. The trial takes the form of a one-on-one sword fight that ends upon the death of one party. According to the High Inquisitor Rhadam Asunawa the right to Trial Beneath the Light was often claimed by the accused, when he knew that actual evidence would convict him. The right had not been claimed among the Children for four hundred years, until Galad Damodred challenged Lord Captain Commander Eamon Valda.