Vipers edge +2
DullSkullTheSecond
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Found it in EE keeper but I have never seen it in game, found tons of other weird/broken items but none was as interesting as vipers edge +2 and I would rather acquire without cheats so where is it? 
Also did some experiments with the blade and found out the hard way that if you equip it you instantly die for petrification! Solved that "problem" by drinking a potion of mirrored eyes but it wore off which resulted in another death when I slept or reloaded. So the sword is a bit problematic to use
. It also poisons the user from time to time in combat but I removed that problem by using the poison resistance necklace.
Even though the sword has some flaws it is a beast in combat and should prove very fun on a mage/thief since it causes wild magic spikes from casting spells and improves the backstab multiplier.
Would really like to know if there is a way to tame this sword and use it effectively! Will add screenshots of the item description!
Also did some experiments with the blade and found out the hard way that if you equip it you instantly die for petrification! Solved that "problem" by drinking a potion of mirrored eyes but it wore off which resulted in another death when I slept or reloaded. So the sword is a bit problematic to use
. It also poisons the user from time to time in combat but I removed that problem by using the poison resistance necklace.Even though the sword has some flaws it is a beast in combat and should prove very fun on a mage/thief since it causes wild magic spikes from casting spells and improves the backstab multiplier.
Would really like to know if there is a way to tame this sword and use it effectively! Will add screenshots of the item description!
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The description is also very interesting and worth a read!
Also I do not see the sword as that overpowered since it already instantly kills it's user lol
Will try the mod @elminister provided tomorrow, will be very interesting to try out the sword with "less" risk of getting petrified. Will also check if it removes the petrified on hit effect. Also thank you so much for this mod!
Would be amazing if more of these kind of cursed items could be added to the game.
Also there is no way to "track" this item in keeper? To find its source? Started to think that the sword is used by some creature in the game but can't be looted, or that it's very well hidden like evermemory.
I am playing Baldur's Gate Trilogy btw but it's in the Abyss outside the Planar Sphere when you go to hunt down a demon heart. It's concealed in a piece of abyssal...fungi, I guess, at the extreme left of the area, in the first patch of fungi and rocks at the edge just down from halfway. Use your tab key to highlight the area. Naturally, without the tab key I never would have found it.
Be warned, it's protected by an undetectable trap which disintegrated my kensai everytime he opened it but seems to just require a save vs spell which Nalia made. It may be necessary to bolster your saving throw by magical temporary means to open it.
Have fun.
I've also checked all the additional mods I've loaded and the only possibilities for new items were the Item Upgrade mod and Unfinished Business for BG2, which both install specific named items. Viper's Edge is not named amongst them.
So, unless you're right, I'm inclined to believe it's in the original game, and yet it's still surprising that no-one has located it until now (and posted about it, of course). There's far harder stuff to find, lying in some tiny nook in the middle of nowhere, especially in BG1, without the aid of the tab key.
In any case, any BGEE player should soon tell be able to tell me if I'm talking out of my arse or not.
Oh well. I think I'll go and listen to Viconia run hot and cold.
I suspect that the Viper's Edge was merely a coding exercise or in-joke ("Hey, look, guys! I've made the most ridiculous sword!"), rather than something which was ever intended to be included in the game.