role: public
type: weapon
rarity: rare
location: "Momeline Sweetwater"
foundry:
  base: Compendium.dnd-players-handbook.equipment.Item.phbwepDagger0000
  embed: true
  data:
    img: "icons/weapons/daggers/dagger-jeweled-black.webp"
    system:
      rarity: rare
      magicalBonus: 1
      properties: ["fin", "lgt", "thr", "mgc"]

Description

A dagger whose blade is simply not there in open air: the hilt sits in the hand as a plain crossguard and grip of dark iron, weighted as though the blade were present, but nothing shows above it. Underground, in a cellar, a tomb, a tunnel or a cave, the blade appears, a narrow spike of dull black metal.

Mechanics

Type: Dagger, +1 (rare)

Properties:

• You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
• The blade manifests only when the wielder is below ground. Above ground it does not exist, cannot cut, and cannot be found by anyone searching for a weapon.
• Because the hilt reads as an ornament, guards who take weapons at a door tend to leave it.

Story

Momeline carried Burrowfang through the surrender of arms at the Forum in Session 45 - Traps and Temples; the guards saw a hilt and no blade and let it pass.