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You can add more than one modifier to your blade, but the total modifier cost must be equal to or less than the total modifiers you have available.
At 5th level, you only get to add +2, so +1 Keen is legal, as is, if the weapon is at least +1 already, is frost, keen. At that level, though, because oif the limitations, you cannot make your blade vorpal or dancing or brilliant, because they cost more enhancement than you have available at that level.
At 17th level, when you add +5, you get a lot more options. Vorpal uses up all 5 enhancement "points" available, and requires the weapon to already be at least +1. +1 dancing would be 5 points, IIRC, as well, or +1 Brilliant.
Of course, this is also why a Bladebound Magus can never put any other enhancements on his blade but the ones it achieves from his level (+12 at 3rd, top +5 at 17th), and what his arcane pool lets him add to it temporarily (Again, +1 at 3rd, to +5 at 17th). Because any other enhancements would put the Black Blade over the +10 equivalent cap at higher levels.
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On the Ultimate Eldritch Athame, if I understand it correctly, all it does is allow you to change the enhancements you paid for with your Arcane Pool Point(s), as long as you stay with enhancements within the value you can do.
Normally, you would have to spend another batch of points to change how your weapon s enhanced for the duration. This just lets you change it during the duration without additional point cost.
At the end of the duration, the enhancements go away, as normal.
But it means you can change the effects on your weapon to better tailor it against the specific opponent you are fighting, whether it is a human in heavy armor (Brilliant), or a golem (extra energy damage, keen) or something you hope to crit fast (vorpal) or an incorporeal undead (Ghost Touch).
Bane Blade and Ghost blade works differently. Read the text carefully and you'll notice the differences
Benefit: Whenever the magus enchants his weapon using his arcane pool, he may spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add the brilliant energy and ghost touch special abilities to the list of available options.
Benefit: Whenever the magus enhances his weapon using his arcane pool, he may spend 1 additional point from his arcane pool to add the bane special ability to the weapon.
Ghost Blade add to the list of options, meaning you actually have to chose it spending the relative amount of enhancment bonus. Bane Blade instead actually add up directly on the weapon itself, maning you don't have to chose it and it doesnt eat up plusses from your total (remember that you still can't surpass the +10 total cap on the weapon).
No Veldrin. Think it as if the weapon has 10 boxes, with each box being able to contein one plus equivalent ability. Now, your weapon is +5, meaning it has 5 box full and 5 boxes empty.
When you activate your arcane pool, you can spend 2 point to have it give to you Bane and other 5 box worth of stuff to fit into the weapon.
But the weapon has only 5 more box empty, so among those 6 thing (bane plus 5) you gotta chose only a maximum of 5 bonus to put into your weapon.
I suggest sticking to a +4 weapon to save money ^_^
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I suggest sticking to a +4 weapon to save money ^_^
Black Blades, from the Bladebound archetype, cost no money,m but automatically increment up the scale as the Magus gains levels.
At 3rd level, when the Bladebound Magus gains his Black Blade, it is a +1 equivalent weapon.
At 17th level, the Black Blade is, effectively, a +5 weapon before the Magus uses his arcane pool points to enhance it further.
At 17th level, as well, a Magus can use 1 point from his arcane pool to add +5 worth of enhancements to shi weapon. If the weapon isn't magical, the first +1 has to go to make it magical, the rest (or all of it if the weapon is already magical) can be used for special enhancements off a limited list.
There are various Magus Arcana that can add options to the list, which was where this discussion started.
Note, also, that the Black Blade is an intelligent weapon, which can cause other issues...