Talk:Chapter IV: Consequences/@comment-35202665-20180408172904/@comment-25669516-20180409132836

I have not played Marcus' side of the quest so I'm not exactly sure but it seems like shadow Energy is spread all across the world. Anyone can use it, which explains why your opponents too have access to it. In an AMA on the Wiki a few months back, one of the writers described it to be just like the Force from Star Wars. However, instead of just being a source of power which anyone anywhere could mould according to their desires, the shadow energy is sentient thing - capable of thoughts, possessing a conscious and able to project it onto other people (like it does in the case of Itu/Marcus/June). This sentient part of the Shadow Energy, its mind you can call it, was what was trapped inside the sphere.