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Crafted from what seems to be darkness itself, this rod may feel real and have a cold, metallic texture, but it is visually blacker than the blackest black, reflecting not an iota of light at all. At it's its head its smooth shaft breaks into a chaotic mess of tentacles , which , if you stare at it too long, seems appear to move of their own violationvolition. Prized by shadowcraft mages all over, the rod is both boon and bane. [[Summary::This rod makes your shadow magic more real, but it comes at the cost of your own reality.]]
While weidling wielding the rod, any shadow conjuration or evocation spell you cast (and its varientsvariants) have their reality increased by 20% on a failed save. However each time you use the rod in this method , your own reality decreases by 5%. The effect is subtle, as if someone desaturated your color and messed with the contrast slightly, and the user never notices it, for he always seems normal to himself. When you are partly unreal, you enjoy a miss chance equal to your unreality, and also have a failure chance to perform anything equal to the same amount. The effect is similar to ''[[SRD:Blink|blink]]'', in that when you fail, you have briefly phased into the plane of shadows, and thus your attack or spell slips into the wrong plane.
You naturally recover 5% unreality per day, and the effects cannot be healed magically. If you exceed 50% unreality (55% or more), you must make a DC 20 [[Will]] save. On a failure, you transform into a [[SRD:Shadow|shadow]] (or a [[SRD:Shadow|greater shadow]] if you had more than 9 or more HD) and become an NPC. For every 5% you exceed, the saving DC goes up by +1. At 100% unreality, you transform without a save.
