Steel Shadows

Apprentice, Cloak of Shadows
Level/School: 1st/Abjuration
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 10 minutes/level (D)

Darkness coalesces about your body, forming a shadow-shape of armor and another that looks like a shield. Although they are as weightless as the air, you know they'll protect you as well as if they were made of steel.

Steel shadows grants you a +3 armor bonus and a +3 shield deflection bonus to AC, but without weight, armor check penalty, arcane spell failure chance, or speed reduction. The effect is not a force effect, and attacks from incorporeal creatures ignore it.