How am I contradicting myself? I'm saying I never FOUND the sword in the game, but I did in ShadowKeeper. So I took the sword *scimitar* and gave it to a beefed up creature and just don't flat out give it to myself, see? That's how I abtained it, with a little bit of CHEESE on top.

If you are a dual-wielding thief or bard class, and you have ToB installed, the Scarlet Ninja-to is better than Belm once you get your Use Any Item HLA. It also gives you +1 APR but it's a +3 weapon which also does poison damage.