Talk:Black Shard Arm/@comment-44309297-20200606090754/@comment-16533050-20200607071418

Agreed that the Arm is more a part of the Void and not directly from the Outsider, but the Eye is actually a piece of the previous Void deity before the Outsider came into being.

My supposition is that the Void is what directly powers Billie's abilities via her arm. However, it seems a Void Deity or at least a piece of one is necessary to focus this raw energy into something usable.

That's like saying the Void is a superconductor and the arm is an outlet. However, you need something to transfer this unending power into something useful, otherwise it just sits there, or worse you jam a fork into it and get electrocuted.

After the fall of the Outsider, Billie could still use the Black Shard Arm as... well, an arm. I mean it was still movable, malleable semi-floating rock that could grasp things and move as she wanted, but she couldn't summon the sword, and I think it also caused her pain but I'm not 100% on the latter bit (it's been a while since I read the final novel, and I'm not the author's biggest fan, so a lot didn't stick with me).

The only real connection I was giving the Arm and the Eye to the Outsider was that it may take the effort of a Void Deity to actually get them to function with a certain person. I'm fairly certain the Outsider, while not being the source of the material the arm was created from, was the shaper of the arm in it's form and it's function - being a source for Billie's Powers.

I mean, I highly doubt there just happened to be bits of the Void floating about in a perfect representation of Billie's missing arm before the Outsider arranged them so. ;)

The only functions I've seen regular people create from Voidrite is gravity defying properties, combustives, and fuel.