Shade WeaponLevel 5+ Rare
This weapon is crafted from gleaming black metal. Wisps of white energy shift and flow across its surface.
| Lvl 5 | +1 | 1,000 gp | Lvl 20 | +4 | 125,000 gp | |
| Lvl 10 | +2 | 5,000 gp | Lvl 25 | +5 | 625,000 gp | |
| Lvl 15 | +3 | 25,000 gp | Lvl 30 | +6 | 3,125,000 gp |
Weapon: Any melee
Enhancement Bonus: attack rolls and damage rolls
Critical: +1d8 damage per plus
Power (Conjuration) ✦ At-Will (Free Action)
Trigger: You slay a living creature with an attack using this weapon.
Effect: You conjure a Medium shade in a square adjacent to the creature. The shade lasts until it is destroyed or until the end of the encounter, and it occupies its square. While the shade persists, you can move it up to 5 squares as a minor action.
The shade can be attacked, and all of its defenses are 10. It has no hit points, but if it is hit by an attack that deals damage, it is destroyed. It is otherwise immune to attacks' effects.
Power (Necrotic) ✦ At-Will (Minor Action)
Each shade that you created with this weapon explodes, causing any creature that is adjacent to one or more of the shades to take 5 necrotic damage.
Level 15 or 20: 10 necrotic damage.
Level 25 or 30: 15 necrotic damage.
Published in Dragon Magazine 400.