For the similar item appearing inEchoes: Shadows of Valentia, seeStar Jacinth. For the skill fromEngage, seeStarsphere (skill).

TheStarsphere (Japanese:星のオーブStar Orb), later known asAzure (Japanese:蒼炎Blue Flame) in the era ofYlisse,^[1] is one of the fiveorbs of theBinding Shield/Fire Emblem, situated on the complete Emblem's bottom-left. It was introduced as anitem inFire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, where in addition to having several unique effects of its own when held in a unit'sinventory, finding it was required as one of two components to create theStarlighttome. InMystery of the Emblem andits remake, one ofMarth's goals was to find thetwelve lost shards of the broken Starsphere to reassemble it.

History

Archanea

Inthe year -10, the Starsphere was separated from the Binding Shield by the thiefAdrah and sold off to raise funds for his eventual conquest of the continent and foundation of theKingdom of Archanea. Eventually, as part of his quest to recover the gemstones,Gotoh found the Starsphere,^[2] and at some point he locked it and theLightsphere away in chests in theFane of Raman.

During theWar of Shadows, Gotoh commandedMarth of the Archanean League to bring him the Starsphere and Lightsphere so that he could create theStarlight tome, in order to allow Marth to defeatGharnef and takeFalchion back from him. After retrieving the two spheres from Raman, Marth gave them to Gotoh in aMacedon village, who used them to create Starlight. However, the force of Starlight's creation broke the Starsphere and caused it to shatter intotwelve pieces, which were scattered across Archanea.^[3] Three years later, during theWar of Heroes, Marth recovered all twelve fragments and had Gotoh restore the Starsphere, and then took the Starsphere again as part of his search for all five spheres. AfterHardin's defeat, the Starsphere and the other four spheres were reunited with the Fire Emblem, turning it back into the Binding Shield.

Ylisse

The Starsphere is known by the nameAzure in modern day Ylisse and Valm inFire Emblem Awakening. Azure is given to the party byTiki at the end ofChapter 16. InAwakening, Azure is not an item that appears in any units inventory, and is simply a plot item, and is immediately placed intoChrom'sFire Emblem upon acquisition. It has none of the uses or effects the Starsphere previously had.

Data

Game	Icon	Uses	Worth	Effects and notes
Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light	--	--	Cannot be sold	Prevents a unit's weapondurability from decreasing when held in theirinventory.
Mystery of the Emblem		--	Cannot be sold	Prevents a unit's weapondurability from decreasing when held in theirinventory. +30% to all of the holder'sgrowth rates when in their inventory.
Shadow Dragon		--	Cannot be sold	Prevents a unit's weapondurability from decreasing when held in theirinventory, unless that weapon is being used as an item.
New Mystery of the Emblem		--	Cannot be sold	+2strength,magic,skill,speed,luck,defense, andresistance when in a unit'sinventory.

Locations

Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light,Shadow Dragon

Mystery of the Emblem

New Mystery of the Emblem

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Trivia

• According to Wendell, the Starsphere has the twelve constellations seen in the Archanean sky etched on its surface.^[3] Judging by how its shards are all named for the real-life constellations of the Western Zodiac, and have these constellations depicted on their surfaces, this suggests that these twelve constellations all exist and are seen in Archanea as well.
• The colors of the Starsphere and Geosphere were swapped in the DS remakes; inMystery of the Emblem, the Starsphere is blue and the Geosphere is green, while the Geosphere is blue and the Starsphere is green inShadow Dragon andNew Mystery of the Emblem. However, theStar Shards retain the original dull-blue color of the SNES version, andAwakening reverts their colors back to the SNES coloring. Additionally, theStar Jacinth item fromShadows of Valentia, which is very similar to the Starsphere, is blue.
• The tapestry depicted in the opening ofMystery of the Emblem uses a star as iconography for the Starsphere (pictured; top right).

Etymology and other languages

Azure

Gallery

• 
  Artwork of the Starsphere from theEncyclopedia.
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  Artwork of the Starsphere and theLightsphere fromAPE'sMystery of the Emblem guide.
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  Artwork of the Starsphere from theFire Emblem Trading Card Game.
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  The Starsphere (upper-right) with the other four spheres inNew Mystery of the Emblem.

References

See also

• Binding Shield
• Lightsphere
• Starlight