Perfect darkness solar manifestation

[Adam Beckerman]

I'm a little confused about how this works. On page 101 it says
"you also choose whether your solar manifestation (in any form) either glows brightly with one color common to stars or is the perfect darkness of a black hole. A glowing solar manifestation, regardless of its form, sheds dim light in a 20-foot radius. You can shut off the light or darkness as a standard action in order to blend in our assist in stealth..."

Does the solar manifestation shed darkness of you choose the "perfect darkness" option?

Thanks for any help!

[Sedoriku]

Given how light actually works, if anything I'd assume the mote absorbs light in a 20 foot radius. There's no way to 'shed' the absence of light.

However, as there's nothing written to that effect I'd probably say no, it doesn't. There are possibly times where having a ball, armor or weapon of pure black is not beneficial to have, and thus being able to shut it off might be useful.

[Kvetchus]

CRB 101 says:

"You also choose whether your solar manifestation (in any for) either glows brightly with one color common to starts or is the perfect darkness of a black hole. A glowing solar manifestation, regardless of it's form, sheds dim light in a 20-foot radius You can shut off the light or darkness as a standard action..."

So, I see a couple things here:

1. It can glow or be darkness.
2. If it glows, it sheds dim light.

The RAW do not specify anything about "shedding" darkness (aka: absorbing light). However, it says you can shut off the darkness as an action, which implies the RAI do allow for the black hole type mote to "shed" darkness rather than light.

So... I would say that this is just poorly worded and the intention here is that you can either have a mote that produces either light or darkness in a 20 foot radius.

Its dim-light, not blinding, which means the darkness is perfect (like the spell) but rather "dim" darkness - so perhaps the effect is one light category down from whatever ambient is (since it really would, in fact, be absorbing light rather than emitting darkness...)