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My party expects to fight a powerful Lawful outsider and wants to use the Align Weapon spell.
Align weapon makes a weapon chaotic, evil, good, or lawful, as you choose. A weapon that is aligned can bypass the damage reduction of certain creatures. This spell has no effect on a weapon that already has an alignment.
You can't cast this spell on a natural weapon, such as an unarmed strike. When you make a weapon chaotic, evil, good, or lawful, align weapon is a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful spell, respectively.
Because the description states "chaotic, evil, good, or lawful" and not "anarchic, unholy, holy, or axiomatic" I assume that this means that the ONLY effect of Align Weapon is to allow the weapon to bypass DR. Such a chaotically aligned weapon would not deal 2d6 extra damage to a lawful creature as an anarchic weapon would, nor would it give a lawful character wielding the chaotically aligned weapon a negative level.
Is this interpretation correct?
Correct. Align weapon does not grant any of the special weapon properties listed in the magic weapon section.
- Gauss
It will not give the 2d6 damage, yes. I'm honestly not so sure about the negative level there. Personally I'd say that still applies.
The negative level is not part of the spell Align Weapon. It is part of the Special Weapon Property Holy (and the other alignment based weapon special properties). Thus, there is no negative level.
- Gauss