Shadowsword (Magic Sword)

This sword is made from the finest steel, infused with night hag's blood to darken the metal to a deep, almost black, ebony. Once the blade has been forged, it is treated during construction as a +4 weapon. The wizard casts enchant an item, monster summoning IV to call a shadow, geas, and polymorph object, turning them into a hand grip for the sword. This is then joined to the blade with a mending spell.
Know alignment is placed on the sword by a limited wish and shocking grasp is added to the mix. The wizard then casts invisibility and bathes the sword in a mixture of skulk spittle and blink dog blood. Finally, the wizard binds all the dweomers together with a permanency spell.
The resulting weapon varies its attack effectiveness according to the lighting conditions. In bright sunlight, the shadowsword is treated as a normal sword: in overcast conditions, it acts as a sword +1, in torchlight, it is +2: in darkness, +3. Once a day, the sword confers invisibility upon its user until he or she attacks.
The shadowsword is always of chaotic evil alignment, as must be the wizard who constructs it, the weaponsmith who forges it, and the person who wields it.
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