Shadow warrior

A Shadow warrior is a deceased knight, back from the plane of death. Shadow warriors are popular monsters to train on because: they have a reasonably high number of Life points for their level; they drop crimson charms frequently; guthan's set is effective; and it is rumoured that they drop dragon half-shields and dragon spears more frequently than other monsters.

Shadow warriors are also a slayer task given by Chaeldar and Vannaka. These monsters don't appear on the mini map. The examine info 'He's a shadow of his former self' is a reference to the popular phrase. Shadow warriors appear to be wielding battleaxes, but they attack at the same speed as scimitars.

Killing a Shadow warrior is a Hard task in the Ardougne achievement diary.

Habitats
The western-most part of the Legends' Guild basement

Weapons and armour

 * Black dagger (p)
 * Black full helm
 * Black knife
 * Black longsword
 * Adamant spear
 * Rune spear
 * 5 Rune javelins
 * Dragon spear (rare)
 * Shield Left Half (very rare)
 * Black robe
 * Mithril mace

Runes and magic equipment

 * 45 Air runes
 * 3 Cosmic runes (common)
 * 2 Death runes
 * 2 Blood runes
 * Chaos talisman (rare)

Other

 * Nothing
 * 6 or 8 Coins (very common)
 * Uncut gem (Ruby/Emerald/Sapphire) (common) (Diamond) (uncommon)
 * Mithril bar (common)
 * Half of a key
 * Weapon poison (uncommon)
 * Starved Ancient effigy (rare)

Herbs

 * Grimy Ranarr
 * Grimy Dwarf Weed
 * Grimy Guam
 * Grimy Lantadyme
 * Grimy Tarromin
 * Grimy Kwuarm
 * Grimy Marrentill
 * Grimy Cadantine
 * Grimy Harralander
 * Grimy Avantoe
 * Grimy irit

Trivia

 * The way that Shadow warriors stand and walk is similar to the way that avatars and similar NPCs used to stand and walk before the RuneScape HD Graphic Update.