haha the sparkle is supposed to be the necklace. You can see what it looks like when you look at the mc’s profile pic. He’s holding it on a chain.
In the game trailer there’s an explanation that there’s 6 wayfinder compasses and that whoever has them will have their fates intertwined regardless of their distance.
And yeah I got that ? Mark glitch too. It seemed to happen only when I fast forwarded scenes a lot.