Crown of Horns

The Crown of Horns is an evil, intelligent artifact of great power from the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. Forged by Myrkul, the former god of death, it carries with it a long history of corruption and tragedy.

At one point, the Crown possessed Laeral Silverhand, one of The Seven Sisters, and was sundered by her husband, the archmage Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun, who locked its pieces away within the heavily-protected walls of his tower. However, when Myrkul died at Midnight's hand during The Time of Troubles, the god tore the broken shards of the Crown from Blackstaff Tower, reforged it in a new shape, and infused it with the remains of his sentience before teleporting away. To this day, Myrkul, through the Crown, has been spreading evil through the Realms, tormenting members of the Church of Cyric as well as hapless innocents.

The Crown of Horns appears as a silver circlet with a black diamond set on the brow and four bone horns mounted around its edge. It imbues the wearer with several considerable powers, including the fear aura of a lich, spell resistance 25, rebuke or command undead as a 6th-level cleric, Teleport without Error once a week, a Cone of Undeath every ten minutes, and the unique property Myrkul's Hand, a powerful necromatic ability. On the negative side, the Crown has a tendency to strongly influence that action of the wearer, changing his alignment to neutral evil and gradually turning him into an undead, among other things.