Shadow Lantern is a unique type of Moonlantern which does not produce light and grants a unique summoning spell.
Encased in a cocoon of shadow within the lantern, the mangled pixie lies like some deformed pupa, its mouth slack, and those same shadows crawling over its graying tongue.
Properties
- Damage
1d4 (1~4) + Strength modifier 
Bludgeoning damage - Details
Clubs 
Rarity: Rare
Enchantment: None
One-Handed
Light
Melee: 1.5 m / 5 ft
Weight: 0.9 kg / 1.8 lb
Price: 190 gp
Special
The holder of this item gains:
: Can cast once per Long Rest.
Where to find
Obtainable from Balthazar's hidden room in Moonrise Towers when Gale is in the party:
- To access Balthazar's hidden room, interact with the top right Protruding Book and insert one of the human hearts from the room into the small Ancient Altar.
- Within the hidden room, interact with the ritual circle with Gale and combine a Dead Pixie with a Broken Moonlantern.
Notes
- This item is only obtainable with Gale in your party, and Gale has exclusive dialogue about Mystra and shadow magic before and after creating the lantern.
- Allowing Gale to destroy the ritual instead grants him Mystra's Benevolence (
Advantage on Concentration checks until the next Long Rest). If the player destroys the circle, no benefit is granted. - Despite being tagged as a Rare item, the ingame tooltip for the Shadow Lantern is coloured as a Story Item, like other Moonlanterns.
- As the flavour text suggests, unlike other Moonlanterns, the Shadow Lantern does not emit a bright sphere of light. Contrary to what the description may indicate, it also does not produce shadows, unlike Darkness.
- Since this special lantern doesn't emit light, it provides no protection from the Shadow Curse.