The Black Sphere

[Cayden]

I've been thinking about this recently, and almost everyone seems to be convinced it is something evil or dangerous. It started to make me wonder what it could be and whether it was a red-herring. At first thoughts I wondered if it was to do with the Midnight Essences, or something which can control Parshmen or awaken them.

But there might be another option;

Honor has been shattered, If I were Odium then I would want to make it almost impossible to reforge. But for all we know he cannot remove those pieces from Roshar, so its possible that the shards are all on Roshar and not elsewhere in the cosmere, infact I think its probable.

So my real questions are;

1) Is the Black Sphere glowing from within because it holds a piece of Honor?

2) Do the Parshendi have one of these?

[Inkthinker]

I'm calling 1:5 odds that it's just a rock.

-EDIT-

Wait, when did it glow from within?

Edited October 31, 2012 by Inkthinker

[Cayden]

Pretty sure Szeth says it does at the start. Gah still waiting for my mate to finish reading my copy.

[Yados]

Maybe there's a Spren inside it. We did see in the illustrations that the gems in Fabrials trap and use Spren. Maybe this is something like that.

Edited October 31, 2012 by Yados

[FlashWrogan he/him]

The passage in question:

“The Parshendi? That makes no sense.” Gavilar coughed, hand quivering, reaching toward his chest and fumbling at a pocket. He pulled out a small crystalline sphere tied to a chain. “You must take this. They must not get it.” He seemed dazed. “Tell…tell my brother…he must find the most important words a man can say….”

Gavilar fell still.

Szeth hesitated, then knelt down and took the sphere. It was odd, unlike any he’d seen before. Though it was completely dark, it seemed to glow somehow. With a light that was black.

I don't think Honor would glow black light . . .

[Cayden]

The passage in question:

I don't think Honor would glow black light . . .

Encased in Odium it might :-)

[Inkthinker]

Well, we know spheres trap spren, 'cause that was revealed in Navani's notes about the fabrials. So I'd guess he's got a spren of some sort in there, but he doesn't know how to communicate with it (or doesn't understand it).

[Vortaan he/him]

Or there's a Voidbringer in there. Makes sense that if spren are Honor-based, Voidbringers that are Odium based might be able to be utilized in a similar fashion.

[mbg]

Whatever it is, I suspect that both the change of attitude observed in Gavilar and dying "crazy talk" related to its discovery.