Item

Unfinished Demonshield

A newly made Shoon-style diamond shield

A modern diamond shield fabricated from four riveted triangular plates. It permanently remains inert because Mordas's ritual lacks Hilather's prison-key.

InertPlot itemFailed prison vesselDemonshieldShoonartifactfiend prisonMordas

General description

Four pale metal plates form a compact shield over the off-hand forearm and upper arm. Fresh tool marks, mismatched rivets, and one unsealed channel betray recent manufacture. Its Shoon dimensions are exact. Its magic is not.

Reference details

Category: Shield
Rarity: Nonmagical
Attunement: Not required
Construction: Four riveted triangular plates
Origin: Fabricated near Beregost from reconstructed Shoon designs

Key facts

The triangular plates found in Adventure 006 are samples and rejected components from this shield, not fragments of an ancient artifact.

The shield is nonmagical and functions as a normal shield.

Mordas copied the exterior dimensions and visible channel geometry of a Shoon-era Demonshield but did not recover Hilather's prison-key.

No version of Mordas's ritual can bind the summoned glabrezu into this shield. At full power, the spell-lens phase-rejects and the shield remains ordinary metal.

The shield's apparent glow during the ritual is reflected resonance from the conjuration, not a forming enchantment or prison.

Inert state

The unfinished shield grants the normal +2 bonus to Armor Class when wielded. It has no other property and can be dismantled safely. The recent construction and failed channels make it valuable evidence against Mordas.

Failed transfer

At full ritual power, violet light converges on the central rivet and reflects back toward the spell-lens. The shield falls from its armature as ordinary metal. A worn shield may show a demonic silhouette and frighten its bearer for a moment, but no creature, magic, or lasting planar resonance enters it.

Competing claims

Vestra demands the shield intact as evidence of the attempted infernal prison. Thalantyr claims its construction and failed channels belong to the Ulcasterian record. Ormlyr wants it removed from Beregost or dismantled. Mordas treats it as Zhentarim inventory until phase rejection proves it worthless as a weapon.

Adventure appearances

Adventure 007

The prepared shield begins on a connected armature in the upper shield chamber among failed diamond-shaped prototypes. After an alarm or long rest it is moved down to the ritual hall. The other assemblies are unconnected and cannot provide extra disabled components. The central object remains inert in every outcome. Mordas's full-power experiment summons a glabrezu but can never transfer it into the shield.

Finale objective
Always inert
Evidence of failed method
Cannot imprison a glabrezu

Also known as

unfinished Demonshield
blank diamond shield
fourteenth shield
Mordas's shield