"Oh no, it's nothing like that. If you don't want him to go on a rampage and level the city, you'll get it for him. It's a scythe. Large, black, covered in ruins. If you attempted to use it, the necrotic power in the weapon itself would literally consume you. So, if your magic is the art of reanimating the dead, sure, it would help you. But it has a bad history of backlash."