Darklight

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Darklight
Release	14 November 2005 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	Shadow of the Storm
Quest item	Shadow of the Storm
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	500 coins
Value	500 coins
High Alchemy	300 coins
High Alchemy	300 coins
Low Alchemy	200 coins
Low Alchemy	200 coins
Destroy	You can reclaim it from Gideon Bede in the Saradomin church in Varrock.
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	1.8 kg
Examine	The magical sword Silverlight, enhanced with the blood of Agrith-Naar.

Darklight is a magic sword created from the sword Silverlight during the Shadow of the Storm quest. In that quest, Silverlight is transformed into Darklight after being dyed with black mushroom ink and then being used to destroy the demon Agrith-Naar, which coats it in ichor. Both Silverlight and Darklight can be mounted on the wall of a Quest Hall in a player's home. This weapon cannot be made using the Smithing skill.

Against regular enemies, Darklight is a fairly weak weapon with bonuses equal to those of a Steel longsword. However, when using the sword to fight most varieties of demon, it will gain a large accuracy increase (enough to accurately hit mid-level demons resistant to melee) and deal double damage with abilities and auto-attacks. Additionally, Darklight is used to remove the fire shield from a tormented demon, the only other way being holy water. Darklight can also be used to kill vampyres.

The following creatures will take increased damage from Darklight:

• Abyssal demon
• Balfrug Kreeyath
• Black demon
• Greater demon
• Holthion
• Ice demon
• Lesser demon
• Jungle Demon
• Nezikchened
• Othanian
• Pyrefiend
• Tstanon Karlak
• Zakl'n Gritch

Despite their demonic nature, Darklight will not gain bonus accuracy and damage against imps, nechryael or hellhounds.

Combat Stats

Requirements
None
Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
Unknown edit
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		245		-
Accuracy		316		-
Style		Slash
Range		? (edit)
Speed		Fast (3.0s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
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Special Attack

Strike your target reducing their Attack, Strength and Defence by 5%. Against demons, this is twice as effective.

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A player using Darklight's special attack; Weaken (before the Evolution of Combat)

Retrieval

If a player loses Darklight, it can be retrieved by talking to Gideon Bede in the church north of the Varrock museum. It may be necessary to start the reworked version of Demon Slayer before Darklight will be offered.

Trivia

• Oddly enough, the Varrock Museum display plaque calls Silverlight, and therefore Darklight as well, a sword made of steel. This is odd since both Darklight and Silverlight may be used to slay Vampyres, who can normally only be damaged by weapons made of silver. This discrepancy can be explained by the ‘magical treatment’ alluded to by the Varrock museum's display and by the God letters, where Guthix claims responsibility for the creation of Silverlight to restore balance following the appearance of Delrith.
• On the 15 December 2009, Silverlight received a graphical update. However, black Silverlight and Darklight did not although the mounted Darklight in a quest hall did receive a graphical update.
• On the 21 December 2009, Darklight received a graphical update.
• When it was updated, many players had not realised and mistook it for a new 'dragon sword' because of its reddish appearance.
• Darklight was updated in the same system update that released the 2009 Christmas Event.
• Before the graphical update, Darklight used to look like the black ink-dyed Silverlight in terms of colour. Now, Darklight has a slightly redder tinge compared to the dyed Silverlight, which actually has a black blade.
• If Darklight is used on Sir Prysin, he will believe a key is given to him (like in the Demon Slayer quest).
• Once you get a Darklight and you run out of days on your membership, you will not be able to get the Silverlight (this appears to only affect some players).