Another question that needs to be answered for your first light is the question: Incan or LED?
In the darkness in the forest, for example, you would be very, very pleased with an incan light.... provided it lasts as long as you need it (or you carry spare batteries).
Because that's the drawback: an incan light with serious output has a serious power consumption
Batteries can be fully exhausted in less than half an hour!
And, you can't choose the power (= light output) as you want: turn it on, that's it.
Then, we have LED-lights. They often come with 3 or more steps in output (and THUS in current consumption!!)
When you need a little bit of light, switch it on using the "low" position.
Need much, or very much light? Just use the medium or high position.
Want to disorient a criminal? Use the STROBE function!
It's all built into for example the Fenix P3D, the Olight M20 Warrior or the Tiablo A9. these lights are small and amazingly versatile. The only drawback is still the horrible colour of the light they have: in the dark, with darker colours (brown, dark green) you will barely have any useful light, and colours are most likely seen very, very strange indeed.
So, you might indeed invest in TWO lights, one being an incan and one LED.
In the case of an incan, I would advise a Wolf-eyes 9AX raider body, in these lights you can put two
protected(!) 18500 size Li-ion cells (AW are the best, go for them!) and you might put a Lumens Factory lamp assembly of your choice in it. With 1500mAh battery-capacity you can power a SR-9 lamp assembly for more than one hour. Then, the protection of the battery kicks in and will leave you in the dark SUDDENLY. Better shut it down yourself, after 45 minutes, to preserve the batteries. They don't like to be fully drawn.
As a LED-light, I think I would choose the M20 Warrior. It has a high-efficiency converter, can be used with one PROTECTED 18650 battery and has a very long runtime on the lowest setting. It is a convenient light to use, it has a memory for the last setting used for example. This is not something all lights have! Having to click through all undesired modes first is something, you end up hating, forcing you to buy another one in the end.
As you will be using them very often, make sure you buy the right one the first time! Gather as much information as possible, my advise is just my own opinion, it might not be yours.
Look through this forum for a few hours to learn more about batteries, possible upgrades, and powering options (the incan light I recommend you here, has the possibility to be run on either 3X CR123 primaries or 2X 18500 Li-ions, the M20 Warrior can be used on 1X 18650 or 2X 16340 Li-ion, or simply on 2X CR123 primaries, so you'll always find batteries on the go).
Please let us know what you choose in the end
Timmo.