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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has the [[Evil Hand|Hand]] and [[Evil Eye|Eye]] of Vecna. One can give one's own eye and hand to use these artifacts, but you have to cut off your hand or gouge out your eye to use it, and [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]].
** Oh yeah, and both of the above artifacts ''will'' eventually result in you being absorbed into [[Evil Sorcerer|their original owner]].
** And there's a story about [[The Head of Vecna]], which is supposedly used in the same way, but doesn't actually do what the user expects. It does, however, do ''[[Too Dumb to Live|exactly]]'' what anyone with an ounce of sense expects. Even if it ''did'' work as advertised, it would still be a tremendously stupid idea to use it. His ''hand'' turns you evil, imagine what his ''brain'' would do.
** Another Artifact of Doom associated with Vecna is the ''[[Evil Weapon| Sword of Kas]]'', a weapon he made and gave to his second-in-command, Kas the Bloody Handed. Kas turned against him, and the resulting battle between the armies of the two evil beings killed both of them, leaving only the Sword and Vecna's Hand and Eye behind. Both were [[Not Quite Dead]], of course; Vecna, as stated, became a demigod, while Kas became a very powerful vampire. The Sword of Kas is said to be a potent weapon for anyone who would oppose Vecna, but it is incredibly evil, and a hero who tries to use it for this purpose risks turning into a bloody, merciless warlord like Kas himself. The sword is also the only way to permanently destroy the hand and eye of Vecna.
** Evil-aligned artifacts in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' generally act like this; the ''Book of Vile Darkness'' [[Sourcebook]] lists some, and is named after a particular example.
** 4e has taken this to its logical extreme with the Heart of the Abyss; a shard of [[Made of Evil|pure evil]]. [[Satan|Asmodeus]] stole a ''sliver'' off the shard, crafted it into a rod, and used it to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|kill the strongest of the gods]]. The [[Evil Versus Evil|Blood]] [[Forever War|War]] fought between the [[Lawful Evil|devils]] and [[Chaotic Evil|demons]] was spawned by this; Asmodeus wants the rest of the shard for himself, and the demons want the piece he stole back.
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** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=227302 Worldslayer]. "Whenever equipped creature [i.e. creature wielding the sword] deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than Worldslayer."
* The Black Scrolls in the ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'' [[Collectible Card Game]] and tabletop RPG are immensely powerful magical scrolls that corrupt any who study them. In fact ''anything'' (including people, places and objects) that has enough of the [[The Corruption|Shadowlands Taint]] does so, and various artifacts bear the Taint. These include the Bloodswords and the Anvil of Despair, just to name two.
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