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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6023177" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm going to go against the general grain here and say I think the Crown is well named - I can think of few things more likely to create endless sorrows than this object.  I think an object like this would destroy not only everyone around it, but the user as well.  I think the object will be associated with an endless series of Greek tragedies.  I think this is the sort of artifact that would end up dominating a world's history, and be seen as the world's greatest curse - sort of like the Coke bottle in 'The Gods Must be Crazy'. There are of course ways to make it even more hideous, and as an artifact goes this is a very bare bones description.  All artifacts in my opinion need multiple primary and secondary powers, as well as multiple malevolent effects and side effects.If I was designing such an item, I think I'd want to make the mind control effect either immediately or ultimately involuntary.  The person wearing the crown doesn't decide to invoke the power, everyone he looks at eventually becomes unservingly worshipful of him.And if I was designing a malevolent effect for the crown, the one I'm most attracted to at the moment is the idea that the wearer becomes paranoid, and begins to interpret even the slightest dissent, unconformity, and independent initiative as evidence of hidden disloyalty.</blockquote>