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[Neonivek]

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While this thread is all but alive. It has become too large to update the front page. Feel free to contribute and please be aware that several artifact effects and specific artifacts are not on the front page.

Total Artifact Count: 721

Artifacts are currently uninteresting and bland. This won’t always be the case with both the v1 artifact arc and the v2 magic arc.  This topic’s goal is to try to come up with as many interesting effects for artifacts as possible. I will try to occasionally update this thread from time to time.

For those who don’t know, this is a redo of an earlier topic I created. What happened is it became so large and scattered I could never tell what artifact types needed filling out or what artefacts were already done. I have also added to the current artifact list to the move here.

The Link to the Original Thread: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=5834.0

This Topic isn’t just for my creative bantering. Post your own artifacts, effects, or mechanics. All contributions I have not made are highlighted green with the person’s name in ( and ). Also you will notice I split this topic up into MANY parts. Well that is because I hit the posting limit VERY FAST! I am currently converting some of the previous artifacts people have suggested in the old topic and it will be up eventually.

As always never judge an artifact by its name but by its effect.

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Effects: Current Count 28

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-Seal of Friendship: If given to a Caravan it will greatly boost your relationship with that civilization. This will even go beyond what the race would normally allow.
-Weightless: The object is weightless or at least lighter then usual.
-Warm: The Object gives off heat giving warmth in cold climates, though somewhat risky if you’re going glacier.
-Menacing: These make attackers more fearful and easier to drive away.
-Paragon: As long as this item exists all items of the exact same type will always have a minimum quality level
-Of Happiness: Using the object brings great joy and counts as an additional positive memory
-Sentient: The Artifact in mind has the soul (or mind) of the being made to create it and thus has a limited influence over what happens to it
-Bleeding: The artifact will constantly bleed
-Vomit Inducing: Those who see the artifact will usually vomit
-Fruit Tree: The Object is a plant and produces unique fruit. Though if it is safe to eat is another story as the fruit can be poisonous or contain powerful curses.
-Sphere Absorbing: The Object absorbs the sphere around it and gains/loses powers accordingly.
-Chaotic: The artifact isn't stable. It is always changing by the phases of the moon.
-Seeker: The artifact cannot be stolen or given away, when the owner dies or the artifact is lost the object disappears until it finds a owner it deems as worthy. Though that could be easier said then done.
-Weaponised: The artifact has acceptable weapon attributes though it doesn’t mean it is any lighter.
-Morph/Return: The object can become a creature whos only motive is to return to its owner. If said creature dies then the artifact becomes dormant for a set time. This creature is usually the crafter's favorite animal but can also be themselves, their spouse, or an image of their god
-Insect Appeal: The object in question attracts insects, bugs, and spiders of the vermin variety even when there is no way for them to get at the artifact.
-Ghost Bound: Owners of the Artifact always become ghosts often of great power.
-Fetish: The artifact can always be linked to a ghost no matter their cause of death.
-Buried: Upon the death of the user the artifact disappears. It will always be found later in their coffin.
-Daemonic Communion: The holder of the artifact is always within contact with a demon. The demon can use this contact to influence the holder for better or worse.
-Organic: The artifact otherwise appears to be living, images move and wood appears barklike.
-Ascension: The Owner (or creator) will ascend to the heavens/godhood once a condition has been met (such as death)
-Simple: The artifact harnesses efficient and simple design that will appear ordinary to all those without the eye for detail.
-Degeneration: The artifact appears to degenerate over time but without any sort of penalty. Rotten artifact chairs are just as comfortable as the day they were made.
-Sweet Smell: The artifact emits sweet smells like flowers, cookies, or pine. This is more of a descriptor then an effect.
-Finder: Some artifacts can never truely be lost. If tossed into a Volcano, Bottomless pit, or bottom of the ocean it will without fail find another master.
-Lost: Some artifacts can never truely be kept. If the artifact loses its owner or becomes lost it travels to another location likely to never be seen again.
-Beacon: The artifact emits a pillar of light for everyone to see. This light in fact comes from the sky and radiates down onto the artifact in question.

Conditions: Current Count 3
--Any effect that limits an artifact’s usefulness by putting conditions and costs on its use. These costs need to be disconnected from the user’s wellbeing or else they are detriments.

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-Sacrifice: To work the artifact requires a ritual sacrifice
-Blood On/Off: The artifact requires to be covered in blood to function
-Night: The artifact can only be used under the shade of night

Detriments: Current Count 35
--A Detrimental effect. They may be useful but only while the user resists its effect.

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-Leak: The Artifact leaks Sphere energy of death, fire, and many other detrimental energies.
-Demon Linked: The artifact's existence keeps a demon or appropriate power from being slain entirely.
-No rest for the wicked: Owners who die holding this artifact are instead dirrectly sent to heck to be tortured forever by demons.
-Ghostly: The object is barely tangible and shifts in and out.
-Forbidden Knowledge: When the user finally comes to know the full extent of the artifact's power it leads them to death, insanity, or monsterism unless they can resist.
-Unfathomable: Any failed attempt to identify the use of this artifact wracks their brain causing insanity or at worst it causes their head to explode.
-Count Down: Upon the first use of the artifact the user has a limited time to live before they die from mysterious circumstances unless cured.
-Deathly Shrieks: The artifact gives off shrieks that plagues the mind of the user driving them further insane
-Death Bind: If possession of the artifact should pass from one person to another then the previous owner will instantly die.
-Countdown: Those who use the artifact have a period of time to life until they drop dead.
-Aging: The artifact causes the owner to age twice as fast
-Aging 2: The artifact causes the owner to age at a rate of one year everyday.
-Aging 3: For every use of the artifact the user ages a year
-Sickly: Those who hold the artifact can never recover from diseases or resist contracting them.
-Loyalty: This artifact pledges your loyalty to a powerful creature such as a megabeast, demon, or god. They are able to communicate to you and give you orders through the artifact. If they feel you havn't made strides to fulfil their wishes they can also impart punishment of pain and injury or if they have even less patience they could simply slay you.
-Infertility: Those who have owned this artifact are incapable of having kin except through adoption.
-Hideous: You slowly become hideous. People will avert their gazes and those with a weaker stomach may vomit. This is culturally dependent.
-Beacon of Justice: You become incapable of attacking anyone who isn't interested of attacking you. This unfortunately includes animals and trees.
-Wound: You gain a wound, usually a flesh wound, that will never heal.
-Freezing: No coat or suit can protect you from the elements.
-Hibernation: Every slumber becomes longer and longer until you arn't sleeping for hours but days, months, or even years.
-Eternal Slumber: Every time the wielder slumbers a counter ticks down. Eventually the holder will simply sleep forever unless cured. They will cease to age or require nourishment.
-Statue: Your flesh is slowly replaced with metal or stone slowing you down. When this transformation is complete you become a statue.
-Lifespan Devour: For every use of the artifact the user lives one year less
-Sacrifice: The artifact is inert unless a sacrifice is made to it in which case it remains active for a day.
-Forgotten: Everytime you use the artifact someone forgets about you.
-Sanity Devour: The Artifact eats bits of your sanity every use.
-Transformation: The artifact contains the template of a creature. Every use you start to become more and more like this creature eventually losing your mind. Should your mind be totally lost you effectively die.
-Leprosy: The artifact takes a body part with every use. It could start with your toes and fingers and eventually devour your arms and legs.
-Depending Dependent: The artifact has an Avatar that represents its personality and interests. The avatar can prevent you from using an artifact if you don't fulfil its needs, its death also prevents you from using the artifact. An example is a small girl who would demand you deliver onto it jewelry, gold, and food.
--It is entirely reasonable that this cost could in fact be a benefit. A powerful loyal Avatar could be a power in it of itself.
-Slumber: For every use your next slumber extends by a single day.
-Blood: Every use of the artifact drains blood directly from your body.
-Will Activated: The artifact takes a piece of the owners willpower to function.
-Isolated: In order to function the artifact erases one of the relationships of the individual every use. These relationships can be recovered but it would be as if you never met.
-Daemon Doppelganger (SirHoneyBadger): Everytime this artifact is used a demonic doppleganger in imitation of someone the wielder knows is created. These doppelgangers have their own agendas but will genuinely wish to keep up their deception usually resulting in the death of the original.
-Demanding (Droid): Just like a noble, this item can make mandates and demands. If they aren't followed its mood decreases. If they are satisfied its mood improves. If it goes crazy then it will become animated and either go on a rampage or try to destroy itself until it calms down, if it ever calms.

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Menacing Spikes: Total Count 13

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-Razor: The Spikes remain dangerous even while left upright causing those who walk through to be cut to ribbons.
-Ensnare: Spikes come from everywhere and become imbedded in the victim’s flesh preventing them from moving forward.
-Explosive: There are so many spikes rolled into this device it virtually explodes with it causing those beside it to be struck.
-Antlion: The spikes have a mysterious force about them that causes those near the spike to be drawn in every time it surfaces.
-Automatic: The spike works its own without the need for a lever.
-Disarming: Clothes and weapons easily become disarmed in this trap.
-Friendly: The Spikes cannot harm those of your society/party or your allies.
-Horror: The Spike takes the skull of everyone it kills and with each one it grows in freight. Skulls of particularly powerful or willful individuals are still capable of speech.
-Tripping: Those struck become prone almost automatically.
-Powerful: The spike lunges with great power, it blasts back those around it and those who take a direct hit and somehow survive can find themselves thrown high into the air only to be splat upon a ceiling or ground.
-Blood Letting: The Spikes drain the blood out of those it strikes and eradicates organs that somehow get separated by its owner.
-Organful: The Spikes have an uncanny ability to take vital organs or even limbs with it.
-Application: The Spike can be attached to any object permanently to transform it into an artifact or to give an existing artifact an extra ability.

Mechanisms (Traps): Total Count 13

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-Invisible: the Trap will not show to enemies even after being seen set off
-Thief Proof: the trap/plate can now be set off by thieves.
-Boulder fall trap: Stone fall trap now has the power of a collapsing ceiling. Not only deadly to the recipient but the sound causes incredible pain to those in the area
-Rearm: The Trap will rearm itself over time without the need of a mechanic
-Attractive: The Trap (or trigger) will attract enemies towards it
-Multi: All traps carry multiple weapon materials.
-Amputation: The trap always takes out a limb or organ even if it does no damage.
-Poisonous: The trap carries poison
-Empathy: Enemies who see their ally get hit by the trap will receive damage as well
- Powerful (Lyrax): If used in a weapon trap, the trap cannot get jammed.
- Switches (Lyrax): If used in a lever, the lever pulls itself.
- Durable (Lyrax): No matter what it's made of, it is now magma-proof.
- Motivated (Lyrax): The device it is placed into produces power

Mechanisms (Bridges): Total Count 13

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-Rainbow: The Bridge is otherwise physical for people on your side, but those who traverse on it may find themselves falling to their doom
-Troll: The bridge is protected by a guardian who will protect it forever (In fact I am starting to see a trend)
-Fairy: The Bridge seems to cause enemies to slow down when they traverse upon it as well as making them somewhat less effective in combat.
-Protective Mist: Carrivans that go over the bridge are covered in a mist that prevent enemies from spotting them
-Underworld: Occasionally beings disapear upon crossing the bridge, only to appear as a zombie or skeleton somewhere else
-Daemonic: The Bridge occasionally spawns demons or monsters from nowhere.
-River of Blood: Water running under the bridge transforms into blood
-River of Death: Water running under the bridge turns into a poisonous and disease ridden black goo
-River of Purity: Water and Lava running under the bridge turns into cool pure water
-Eyes: Anything that goes over the bridge will be revealed even if sneaking
-Hidden Village: The Bridge connects to a village at a certain time that otherwise doesn't exist. They can trade with your Fortress.
-Cross Country: The Bridge connects to another section of the world, bridging the two.
-Of the Gods: The Bridge connects to the god and thus is a religious receptacle. Even if connected to a fake god it occasionally gives gifts.

Mechanisms (Levers): Total Count 6

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-Empathic: The Lever pulls itself when you wish it to
-Siege: The Lever can connect to siege weapons and aim perfectly
-Strings: The lever is connected to a leader of your choice, allowing you to alter their personality at will
-Reverse Switch: The Lever balances sieges so that the differences between your numbers will switch
-Self Destruct: Anything the lever is connected to will explode when pulled
-Trap Door: When pulled an enemy will fall into nothingness

Mechanisms (Corkscrew): Current Total 1
---Note: These are also acceptable as Corkscrew artifacts

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-Screw of Spewing (ShadowClasper): When put into a screw pump, the liquid will be launched X number of squares in the direction being pumped

Cages (Traps): Total Count 6

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-Wheeled: The Trap has a relaxed aim and will strike an enemy if they are close to the area.
-Giant: It is capable of trapping all enemies in a area of effect spawning extra cages as needed.
-Subjugate: those trapped by the cage are brought under your control near instantly
-Attractive: Creatures are attracted to your trap and will even lie under it in order to be caught.
-Chambered: The Cage can catch multiple enemies continuously if it is set up as such.
-Masochism: The Cage will slowly kill those inside however it will periodically drop meat, bones, skulls, and blood to much greater degrees then one would produce from such.

Cages (Furniture): Total Count 15

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-Sparring: Dwarves when looking at the cages will occasionally spar with the creature inside gaining combat skill
-Imitation: Dwarves learn skills from caged creatures such as swimming from fish.
-Diagrammed: Anything made from the same creature type will always be of a minimum quality.
-Sociology: Your dwarves will gain bonus fighting the same creature as the one captured.
-Butcher: The Cage shreds those inside and heals them at the same time giving a continuous amount of meat and bones and making the prisoner insane. Death will always occur eventually.
-Monsterous: The Cage devolves the prisoner into a hideous beast barely resembling the creature who once was.
-Heck: The Cage is a door to the underworld and anyone who is imprisoned inside eventually finds themselves there.
-Return: Those who die in prison find themselves an undead servant of the owner.
-Ghostly: Ghosts, souls, and spirits are capable of being imprisoned inside.
-Horror: The Cage fills with nightmares from the prisoner's imagination which eventually rip him appart. These nightmares however are not anymore friendly to you then the prisoner but luckly they are in a cage. At least for now.
-Recoil: Creatures who attack the cage feel spikes dig into their skin which could eventually kill them.
-Rotting: Creatures inside the cage constantly rot until there is nothing left but an excellent fertilizer.
-Soul Wrack: The Cage attacks a creature's mind until they are nothing but a lifeless puppet. Those who die this way don't become ghosts and Demons cannot come back to life.
-Black Icor: Those inside the cage have their blood slowly replaced by a Black toxin eventually killing them. This toxin can however be extracted and used where it is as destructive as the prisoner was healthy.
-Demanding: The Cage asks for the most innocent and pure hearted individual in a city to be caged forever or it will bring bad fortune. The Prisoner's fondest wishes materialise into boons for the fortress such as fortune, food, animals, or people. When the prisoner dies naturally the cage once again becomes hungry.

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Weapon General: Total Count 46

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-Friendly: The Weapon cannot harm other dwarves. Valuable for training and Ballista ammo.
-Vengeance: If anyone strikes down the Dwarf/Adventurer who holds this it will chase down the enemy and relentlessly attack until they die. In Adventure mode it will kill whoever kills you and will be recorded in his history.
-Digging/Woodcutting: This weapon can be used to dig or cut despite not being the appropriate tool.
-Zombie: The weapon makes those slain by it instantly rise as a zombie
-Death Curse: Those struck by the weapon suffer wounds every night until they are killed. Ordinary people fall instantly but that strong could live indefinitely
-Bone Cutter: The weapon is completely unimpeded by bones and thus will cut right through them
-Sickening: The weapon carries a deadly disease that spreads to anyone struck with it.
-Severance Package: Severed parts will come to life and attack your target
-Automatic: Upon striking the victim the weapon will act on its own and attempt to strike the victim down.
-Grave: Those killed by the weapon are transformed into a glorious burial monument to themselves
-Monster: For everything killed by this weapon a monster will take its place (WOO!!!)
-Demonic Renewal: When the weapon successfully slays a hundred victims, a demon shall arise!
-Consume: Those slain feed the user’s gullet.
-Acid Blood: Blood shed from the victum is acidic and will burn, the user may or may not be immune to this however.
-Death Slaying: The weapon cannot harm the living, only the dead
-Growing: The Weapon continuously gets stronger with every kill. When the weapon reaches its peak it gains a unfathomable ability.
-Forgotten: The Weapon often can kill someone and cause everyone they ever met to forget they existed, the perfect kill. While it can protect you from the law it can also make villages forget about the beast they just asked you to slay.
-Record Keeper: The weapon records upon it every creature it has ever been used to slay.
-Splintered: The weapon is covered by constantly replenishing fine needles and break off and lodge themselves in enemy wounds.
-Shedding Pierce: Upon piercing an enemy the weapon is easily removed, in its place is a thin metallic shaft of similar properties to the weapon. A Barbed arrow would leave a barbed shaft..
-Cutting Wind: Attacks with the weapon creates a wake of slashing wind causing more wounds.
-Lesion: Strikes leave behind deep penetrating cuts causing lesions to appear on deep tissues and organs. The wounds themselves are minor, though accumulating, but can penetrate any armor.
-Splintering: The weapon is fragile and breaks into razor sharp pieces at the least bit of force. It recollects itself immediately. A double edged sword
-Sheet Ice: The weapon leaves behind a thin layer of ice wherever it strikes. Mostly harmless, with exception to a slight case of frostbite, but multiple strikes can impede the movement of enemies.
-United We Fall: Attacks against a leader such as a general or king are also made against all subjects in sight of the wielder.
-Honourable: If the wielder challenges, or is challenged, by someone to a duel. This weapon grants immunity to both challenger and challenge from cheating such as traps, extra opponents, or poisoned weapons.
-Coward-Bane: Those who run away from the wielder of this weapon suffer its curse. Depending on the artefacts nature it can cause them wracking pain or even slay them instantly.
-Coward’s Reward: When the wielder strikes a target and then escapes, while the enemy is fighting fit and still hostile, this weapon will slay them from afar.
-Scholar’s Sword: This weapon swings with the intricate knowledge of the universe able to piece the strongest of steel with the lightest of touch. As such this weapon is powered more by intelligence and academia instead of muscles and prowess.
-Giant: The weapon is exceedingly large, three to hundreds of times larger then the original, but is as easy to wield as an ordinary weapon. For larger creatures then the creator, this weapon has the advantage of being much easier to wield then weapons of similar size.
-Immutable: This wielder’s swings are always at full strength. Exhaustion, illness, and injury does nothing to lessen the blows.
-Snake: The weapon occasionally coils like a whip unexpectedly. It can wrap around a parry or block to strike down foes.
-Transforming: The Wielder can call the name of any weapon they know of. The artifact transforms into it.
-Creeping: When striking the enemy vines, fungus, or snakes bind and inhibit the enemy's movement
--Creeping+: The Creep can also damage, suffocate, or drag the enemy to the ground
-Entry: When striking a constructed Wall, a door temporarily appears which you may walk through.
-Bloody: The Weapon causes the enemy to bleed in excess for a prolonged time.
-Final Strike: When killed the wearer gets an instant attack on the killer.
-Willess: The Weapon attacks the opponents will to fight. Those who lose it cannot fight.
-Pyre: Those destroyed by the weapon explode into a pillar of fire.
-Warping: The weapon warps whatever it strikes making armor and even flesh weaker.
-Eternal Rival: Somewhere in the world is another. Those who hold onto these weapons will be forced to fight an endless battle.
-Slick: The object cannot become stuck nor can it be grabbed by anyone other then the holder
-Ridged: The object becomes stuck much more often, even ones that normally cannot, when successfully retrieved it deals damage as it saws the opponents insides.
-Eihmarijar: Those slain by the weapon protect the wearer using their ghostly forms.
-Body Language: The weapon has or even is a creature's Head or Arm and thus also includes their natural attacks with artifact results
-Multiplication: A single weapon strike with the weapon hits multiple times. Though the force of the blow is lessened.
-Sealing: When “Stuck” in an enemy they can no longer move or act. However they are for all intents and purposes in Stasis.
-Shifting Weight: The Weapon has an increased weight for damage purposes only. It could allow devastating megaton strikes with a mace.
-Innocent: The weapon refuses to strike anything but attackers. It can physically stop attacks, fly out of your hand, or apply equal damage to holder as they do to the target.
-Phantom Hold: The weapon may continue to be held even after a creature has lost their hand.
-Progenitor Strike: The kin of those slain develop a disease that may slay all of them. If it is a creature that has a creator then it harms that creator.
-Foe Wails: The weapon emulates the voice of those destroyed by it and screach out threats, screams, and wails of its previous victums.
-Homewrecker: The weapon can cut the victum's links to those they care about as easily as it does flesh. For every strike someone who knows the victum will completely stop caring for them.
-Heavenly Diplomacy: This artifact denies the gods retribution upon the wielder for anyone killed by this artifact.
-Unpredictable: The weapon doesn't follow the swings of the weilder giving it an erratic almost random pattern making it very difficult to block. Unfortunately it makes it almost incapable of parrying. Unpredictable weapons also are harder to weild, a weapon the wielder is barely capable of holding will easily slip out of their hands or harm the weilder.
-Great Hero: When called upon the weapon overrides the weilders senses and takes control weilding itself with great ability and control until all enemies have fallen. It should be said that these artifacts tend to value victory over self-preservation.
-Exemplar: The weapon is considered the perfection of design, if used as a template any weapons made in its style the
-Soft Bonus: Soft materials such as cloth, gold, or silver are strengthened to the point where they can stand up the mightiest of steels.
-Teacher: The Artifact comes with its own style which it bestows onto its owner should they practice with it.
-Combat Mastery: The Artifact teaches the holder the ins and out of combat. In addition to whatever skill the artifact uses it also teaches other combat skills such as punching, kicking, grabbing, throwing, and other unrelated skills. This could be represented by a voice emanating from the weapon or wisdom spontaneously learned by the holder.
-Child Bearer: Those Slain with this artifact become children, if they cannot be children they simply die, who are loyal to their new father/mother. They lose their memory and skills however but for all intents and purposes they are the bearer's children.
-Cupid: The weapon/arrow does no damage instead it forges a relationship between the bearer and the victum. Eventually the victum will fall hopelessly inlove with the bearer, if the victum of this effect has yet to be harmed by the bearer then they will stop attacking as well.
-Soul Weight: For everyone you slay with this artifact an invisible weight is put upon you.
-Champion (SomGuye): This weapon seeks a champion worthy of its blade and will stay with them for life. To ensure the competency of its champion it increases the skill of anyone it chooses.
-Vengeance (DanielLC): This weapon is more effective against the species that killed the original owner

Ranged Weapon: Total 24

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-Arrowless: The Bow creates phantom ammo that can fire indefinately even without ammo.
-Reloading: The bow reloads itself at different speeds allowing an increased fire rate.
-Weakness: The bow automatically aims for the least armored sections of a creature.
-Burst: The Bow can load multiple arrows to an extent and fire them out all at once striking multiple enemies multiple times.
-Port: Wherever the arrow lands is where you will be.
-Conserving: Arrows that survive will return to the bow
-Luck Advantage: The Bow instantly reloads if the last shot was a hit.
-Sniping: If the enemy is unaware an attack from the bow will become a peircing headshot that ignores armor. Only powerful or brainless creatures can survive this.
-Multitargeting: The bow can attack multiple enemies with one shot.
-Conserving: Arrows only diminish if they break, which they do so less, unbroken arrows simply return to the quiver.
-Sky peirce: If clouds are overhead an arrow can be shot to cause it to rain. If it is sunny it can cause it to rain fire instead.
-Ignores Cover: The Arrow goes through everything and ignores fortifications to strike the target.
-Message: The Bow can shoot messages potential many folds.
-Perspective: The Bow can fire a “Location” beacon. When firing on an enemy it uses the Beacon's location as its origin.
-Unorthodox ammo: The Bow can load something different such as Arrows, Bolts, Ballistae Ammo, Severed Disks, Stones, or weapons. It doesn't make the objects any lighter.
-Charge: The Bow can be strung back much further then others of its type and thus can increase its damage on instead.
-Creepy Reload: Bones can be directly loaded into the crossbow forming bone bolts
-Soul Reload: Creatures killed by the Bow create ammo
-Assistant: When firing on a creature there is a chance that a phantom will also fire at the creature.
-Floating Assistant: The Bow can float and fire on creatures for you. It can hold ammo similar to a weapon trap.
-Spherical Ammo: The Bow absorbs the energy of the world around it and focuses it into a single shot. This arrow has a different effect depending on the Sphere. A Luck Arrow always seems to hit its mark while a Fortress Arrow creates a wall around it.
-Alcoholic: The Bow fires continuous streams of alcohol that can enter a creature's body and make them drunk rather quickly
-Celestial Shot: When the Sun is in view it is capable of firing arrows of light that deal piercing and heat damage. When the Moon is in view it fires arrows that deal Slashing and Cold damage. If it is overcast it simply shoots lightning bolts.
-Star shot: The Bow is capable of firing into the cosmos and injuring the ruling star of a selected creature. This gives them crippling bad luck and can even doom them to an early death. If gods existed they may despise the use of this weapon.

Ammo: Total Count 15

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-Worm: The arrow is like a living creature, when struck it digs around the creature causing damage in numerous places (Causes the current damage Arrows do)
-Pin: The Arrow is capable of causing knockback. If the creature happens to strike a solid object it will become pinned unless it can remove the arrow.
-Second Chance: When you miss with the arrow it will fire itself, as if you did so, from where it dropped at the enemy.
-Return: The arrow will return to you instantly after shot
-Leech: The arrow when stuck sucks the blood and energy from its target until removed. Which can be difficult.
-Gripped: The arrow can be removed easily, it however will take something with it on the way out. Better hope it isn't one of your organs.
-Boulder: The arrow transforms into a large boulder mid-flight. It loses its Piercing damage but instead gains a deadly bashing attack.
-Scythe: The Arrow transforms into a curved blade mid-flight. It loses its piercing damage but instead gains a deadly slashing attack.
-Caltrops: The Arrow lays a field of dangerous blades across the floor harming those who tred upon it.
-Weighty: The arrow after firing is very heavy. If stuck in a creature it can be enough to slow them down to a crawl.
-Ghost: The Arrow can pierce everything but only does damage to a creature's soul as a result.
-Peanut Butter: When fired the arrow will stick to the roof of a creature's mouth disabling firebreath and biting attacks unless they wish to risk piercing their skull. (Don't ask)
-Vermin Swarm: After a creature is hit with the arrow it transforms into a swarm of vermin who proceed to annoy or even attack the creature struck.
-Eye Shot: The arrow when fired becomes controlled by you as if it was you. It can move around allowing you to see through it. When it attacks a creature it is as if you fired an arrow at it.
-Portal: If the arrow strikes anything that can open: Door, Mouth, Chest, backpack, ect. It will open. It also causes vicious bleeding in creatures as it “Opens” their wounds.

Axes: Total 14

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-One Swoop: The axe can chop trees in one strike.
-Recycling: Trees fell by this axe regrow in a short period of time.
-Elven: This Axe harms no trees, it instead gives you wood for every few trees you chop with it. Creatures in harmony with nature can feel no wrath towards the holder of this.
-Petrify: The Axe can occasionally mix the wood with mineral from the earth. This causes the wood to become hard as stone.
-Deforestation: This axe can shop several trees at once making one Woodsmen worth several.
-Efficient: There is nothing lost in the chopping process as all fruit, sap, and other products are taken from the tree during the chopping process.
-Life Draining: The Axe sucks the life from the trees it cuts and infuses it with the holder allowing them to recover from wounds quicker.
-Sphere Draining: The axe transfers the plant sphere to the wielder giving them appropriate abilities and detriments.
-Tree Fell: You may attack enemies with the axe if they are a square away from a tree. It will appeal as if the tree itself was attacking.
-Tree Eyes: You may see as if you were standing in the place of any tree touched by this axe.
-Wood Destroyer: All wood is as weak as talc to this artefact. You can chop through wooden walls, elven armor, and wooden creatures as if they weren’t there.
-Grower: The Axe can grow trees usually of the type favoured by the creator but sometimes they can be fantastical trees that grow their favourite food or made of their favourite material (though it bestows no additional ability to chop said tree).
-Training: The Muscles of the person who chops with this axe are increased many times what would otherwise be normal. Woodsmen can easily become stronger then any non-artifact enhanced members of their society just by doing their job.
-Pine Scented: The Axe carries the smell of pine giving pleasant thoughts to all who smell it. In Adventure mode it can ease diplomatic situations.

Picks: Total 32

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-The Standard: This pick bestows the Dwarven speedy digging ability. This is a common ability held by almost all artifact picks.
-Survey: The pick sends vibrations deep into the earth sending signals to the holder. The holder can see what special ores, gems, or other rare minerals are within the walls. Those with a more powerful connection to the artifact can see even deeper.
-Tireless: Digging through the earth is as easy as walking the holder of this pick finds it simple to dig even through the hardest metals though they find it no faster. It can come at the cost of strength training.
-Supported: The Pick occasionally strengthens the walls around it giving the areas increased stability as if a support was built nearby.
-Immortal: The holder of this pick is immune to collapsing walls, metallic based toxins, and natural gases as well as tolerance to heat and cold.
-Fling: The Pick can mine almost immediately and fling the results in a desired direction.
-Aquifer Break: The pick can remove the aquifer status of tiles it removes allowing access to deeper tunnels through the earth.
-Memory: The pick has the ability to bypass any material it mined from the ground. This allows it to dig through the same ores much more easily and to strike through even the strongest plates with relative ease.
-Tunnel through Air: You may select a location within sight and dig through the air. You arrive in that location as if you tunnelled through solid rock to be there. Good in an emergency but abuse can leave you tired and helpless.
-World Travel: If there is a direct path of earth between two locations you may dig there at incredible speeds. This type of travel is usually safer unless you fall victim to one of the many underground dwelling creatures. This tunnel usually disappears soon after.
-Roof Collapse: As long as there is a roof directly over your head you may bring it onto your enemies. Floor tiles are destroyed but walls remain.
-Other worlds (Planar Arc): The Pick has the ability to dig tunnels to other worlds. This is an arduous task that can take many years to complete and there are no guarantees of safety.
-Treasure Finder: The Pick has an internal sense of hidden treasures deep underground and leads them to it. There is no differentiation between safe and dangerous treasures so it can just as easily lead them to the chamber of a great megabeast simply by the golden necklace it wears around its neck.
-Godly Treasure Finder: Those who find favour with a god, whether it exists or not, may find treasures underground matching the purview of said god. The treasure is usually equal to the fervour.
-Harmony: Subterranean creatures ignore the holder and creatures treat the holder as one of their own. This however works both ways as the holder finds it difficult to attack or even be hostile to subterranean creatures.
-Ascension: Only a follower of an earth-sphere god (or perhaps a darker god) may create this artefact. When they reach legendary status the holder of this object may dig deep beneath the earth and ascend into godhood. They will then show up as a god within the legends folder.
-Finished: The Pick occasionally turns ores into bars and gems into cut stones.
-Resourceful: When mining extra pieces of ore can sometimes be found from deposits.
-Memory: You can pick someone’s mind for memories removing and destroying ones of your choice. Some of these picks also produce a memory web from these memories that can be woven into garments as powerful as the memory. This process is intrusive however and dangerous to the one being exposed to it. It can also occasionally spawn Nightmares of malicious contempt for all things living.
-Exorcist: You can dig into someone’s soul and remove a foreign being. This is a dangerous process that can destroy the target’s soul or simply bring forth the being in physical form to squash the artefact holder.
-Helpers: The Pick Axe is accompanied by several mindless drones who aid its master in digging through the earth. They are excellent for digging but not much else.
-Closure: The Pick can chose to allow sections dug to close within a set time allowing the artefact holder to use tunnels to escape enemies.
-Smooth (Droid): Areas mined by this pick are smoothed.
-Shattering (Droid): Has a small chance (1/7 or 1/100) to dig out an adjacent square in addition to the one intended. This is usually a bad thing, but with a high skilled miner this only happens in directions that are designated.
-Carving (Droid): Areas mined are sometimes engraved with images. The images depend on wielder or the mood that created this artifact.
-Transformative skill (Droid): When mining out a section of rock the wielder of this artifact occasionally digs out additional stone, gems, and metals with the value being determined by the skill of the wielder.
-Stone to flesh (Droid): Rock is mined to yield MEAT!
-Water mining (Droid): Water adjacent to a square mined freeze, so channels of ice can be carved in lakes or oceans. Does not ensure that it doesn't melt later though. Does not freeze current square, that would be bad.
-Lava mining (Droid): A stronger version of Water mining, cools lava down to form obsidian.
-Bleeding (Droid): Leaves mined walls and floors bloody.
-of Trinkets (Droid): Instead of a rock, sometimes rock crafts are yielded. The quality of the good is determined by the mining skill.
-of Snakes (Droid): Occasionally spawns snakes (or other vermin) when used.
-Flesh to stone (SirHoneyBadger): Creatures killed by this pick in combat have their corpses transformed into stone statues of a quality based on the skill of the Miner

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Armor: Total Count 14

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--Some of these can apply to shields. Expect repeats between Shield and Armor.
-Organ Replacement: Organs no longer can be struck and limbs can no longer be severed. (only for appropriate part, a Boot won’t protect your brain).
-Invincible: Has a chance outside of your skill set to deflect a blow.
-Stretch: Can fit anyone regardless of size
-Ricochet: the Armor has a chance of sending an attack back to its source.
-Sealed: The armor seals open wounds preventing bleeding
-Healing: The armor mends the wounds it protects
-Defence of Intangibility: Occasionally attacks pass through the wearer
-Perfect: Occasionally the armor will perfectly deflect an attack.
-Maximum: The armor deflects any attack that would instantly slay the wearer
-Haze: The armor blends into the scenery making called shots difficult.
-Ghostly Sacrifice: Upon the death of the wearer, the armor absorbs their soul and brings them, as well as all their possessions, to life creating a living being of metal. If slain the artifact returns to its blank slate.
-Magnetized Retract: Metallic weapons that attempt to strike the armor are repelled, swings slow down or against weaker enemies it can prevent them from even attacking. Ranged attacks are much more difficult to aim.
-Magnetized Attack: Metallic weapons that strike the armor have a chance to become harmlessly stuck.
-Shattering Impact: Weapons that strike this armor are overcome with a powerful force that can shatter them. It has more of an effect on smaller weapons.

Shields: Total Count 24

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-Motionless: The Shield cannot be moved by anything it blocks, protecting the user.
-Wall: With a command a shield can grow until it becomes a wall, shielding you from any blows. If you command it back to normal size while next to it, it will fall squarely in your hands.
-Protection of Awe: Any attack blocked by the shield has a chance to awe the target, preventing them from moving as they can do nothing but stare at your shield.
-Martr: If the user should die while holding this shield, the shield will die instead, shattering into explosive shards often destroying your attackers. The shield will come back into existance upon the true death of the weilder.
-Strategy: The Shield is an expert in protection and can impart its weilder with that knowledge giving them a bonus in battle should they listen, but it also knows exactly where any attacker is as well as the way out of a building.
-Shield Maiden: The Weilder may designate a target. They may now defend the target as if they were them. Though this doesn't allow you to also take wounds as if you were the target.
-Blocker: Those you target with your shield cannot move from their location without first dealing with your shield. This shield also prevents enemies from moving throughs or run bys during a successful block unless they are ranged.
-Lover's Shield: The Shield is only as powerful as the strongest possitive relationship with those around you. Surrounded by nothing but enemies and this shield is as powerless as a washcloth.
-Ultimate Defense: You can sacrifice everything for defense removing your ability to move and even attack. Unintelligent enemies may strike you until they are too exhausted to fight but intelligent ones usually will understand what is happening. Great for escorts.
-Penance: Gazing into the shield will rush the target with feelings of uncontrollable guilt according to their crimes. Ordinary criminals would likely reel but demons would laugh off these effects as it only makes them experience commiting the crimes.
-Fanged Shield: The Shield is designed with the bust of a creature of some sort. Upon a successful block or back the shield's bust will attempt to bite down, usually grapping it in the process. Some shields of this sort can also be fed or speak to impart information.
-Commander's Shield: The Shield is rather ordinary in terms of defense but it occasionally blocks attacks for everyone in the squad or party proportional to the holder's skills.
-Condemned: Everytime the shield successfully blocks an opponents attack it focuses on them. After enough focus the shield will grab onto the opponent with ghostly arms and pull their soul into the shield. This shield occasionally wails with those inside the shield.
-Bloody: An unusually fleshy shield resembling the flesh of some creature such as a human or dwarf. When the shield blocks a slashing or peircing attack blood with gush forward covering attackers, or anyone unfortunate enough to be in the path, with blood possibly blinding them. If the flesh is of a creature with poisonous, acidic, freezing, or melting blood then this will too.
-Shield of holding: The shield is just a rather large ring that doesn't seem like it could block anything. However, anything passing into the shield is harmlessly absorbed. Disarms with the shield also share this quality. The User may take any object absorbed by the shield at any time.
--Shield of Retraction: Similar to the above except instead of removing objects he instead unleashes them outwards in dangerous torrents of random objects.
-Multi-directional: The Shield is no less efficient at stopping multiple attacks as it is against one.
-Follow up: After blocking an attack the shield holder may chose to instantly transport themselves to the attacker, as well they may instantly follow up this teleport with an attack.
-Fall Back: If the user wishes to, enemy attacks cause the user to harmlessly be knocked back a number of spaces. The only thing the user has no control over is the dirrection.
-Full Strength: No matter the condition of the wielder; injured, paralyzed, in pain, asleep, or unconscious; they may always block with the shield as if they were in perfect condition and at the ready.
-Deadly Compromise: When fighting with an enemy, you may throw this shield to the ground to also force the enemy to do the same.
-Ablative Shield: Everyday the shield has a nearly perfect chance to block an attack. Everytime after that however it melts away little by little losing block ability until it becomes a handle.
-Social Shield: The Shield can block insults, rumors, and taunts, or rather your ability to be affected by them.
-Torro: After blocking an attack the user may transport themselves to any location next to the enemy. The enemy also has a chance of becoming disoriented and lose sight of the defender. This has no effect on ranged attacks unless done so in melee range

Helmets: Total Count 1

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-Commanding Presence: While a commander wears this, those under him will not receive bad moods from death during battles or sieges.

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Clothes: Current Count 1

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-Clothes of Living On (DanielLC): The wearer takes the guise of the original creator of this artifact, taking their identity and even their greatest skill

Shirts: Total Count 7

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-Poison Gorge: The user's stomach protrudes as he becomes a cauldron of toxic materials. The owner can drink poisons to enhance their toxicity and their vomit is so poisonous that it becomes a lethal attack.
--Bulimic: The User's Stomach Protrudes and they gain the ability to vomit over long distances with great force. This however is no less uncomfortable then it is normally, though it can be done much more easily.
-Leper: The User's Skin resembles the undead and they carry the aura of death around them. The undead give them no heed and creatures of death become friendly. The Downside however is that diseases and curses emanate from your body while wearing it, turning you into a walking plague.
-Skeleton Costume: A Cryptic design calls forth macrebre energies as your bones start to grow out of your body and around your flesh.
-Demon Costume: You mock demons and call on great strength. This however makes you a target of the demons who will go at any length to rend you asunder.
-See Through: The person's outer flesh becomes invisible making treatment and diagnosis much more simple. Not for the feint of heart.
-Spikes: Wearing the shirt causes painful spikes to protrude from their body, the pain eventually goes away if the user survives, the spikes make formidable weapons and turn grapples into painful attacks.

Boots/Shoes: Total Count 50

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-Flaming Wake: The Shoes emit burning flames and may persist for a time after.
-Ice Wake: The Shoes are freezing cold and turn water to ice as you walk near it, it is cold enough to even harm unprotected individuals around them or protected individuals who walk directly into its icy wake.
-Grass Walker: As long as the wearer has their feet planted squarely on grass they will be seen by all others as a harmless tree.
-Sensitive shoes: Anything around the wearer that walks on the ground can be sensed. It doesn’t aid in identifying it however.
-Faster and Faster: The wearer runs faster and faster for as long as they may run in a single direction.
-Phasic: Those who walk in these boots barely exist. They are difficult to see and difficult to harm. Though luckily for everyone else the wearer also has trouble affecting the real world.
-Weightless: You exhibit no force onto the ground in which you walk. No pressure pad can detect you, no carriage feels your weight, you make little to no noise, and with some difficulty you can walk on water or any liquid for that matter. Your footprints are difficult to see but they otherwise still exist.
-Sprint: If time is spent getting into a running position, the user can run with great speed for a period of time.
-Ledge: The Boots treats an edge as if it was one space further allowing the user to stand on air. They may still “Move down” from that edge. As well the user may cross tightropes and other narrow paths as easily as if it was a open field.
-Relative Speed: When selecting a target the boots allows you to match the speed in which the target can travel.
-Air Running: The user may run in air for a period of time treating it as if it was solid ground. After said period though the user falls possibly to their death
-Jumping: The user may jump great heights and fall from great heights as well as long as they can land on their feet.
-Tireless: Running, Walking, Jumping, Swimming, and kicking are as easy for you to do as breathing. You will never tire doing those.
--Travel: Running, Walking, and Swimming do not tire you and you do not need to sleep. This greatly enhances how far one may travel in a day.
-Grave Dirt: You leave behind dirt as you walk. At anytime you wish you can will the hands of the dead to attempt to pull those on this dirt to their graves. Stronger enemies may only be held up or ignore this effect in full.
-Boots of Instant Travel: The boots have the ability to transport the wearer to anywhere he has been before within running distance.
-Puppet Boots: The boots have the ability to control the boots of everyone around you and must do the exact same actions your boots do. You may even walk them off cliffs if they cannot remove theirs in time.
-Shifting Walk: When you chose to do so you move shifting in and out of reality. This makes it very difficult for ranged attacks to strike you or for enemies to predict your movements. As well you may randomly not trigger traps.
-Total Freedom: Doors means nothing to the wearer of these shoes. They may pass through any kind of door as easily as if it had been open.
-Wake of Knowing: You always have knowledge of any location you have walked to with these shoes on. Nothing can hide in these locations even if you didn't notice it the first time through. There is however a limit to this.
-Planted Teleport: You may designate a location by marking it with your shoes. When you desire so you may teleport back to that single location.
-Hoofed: Upon wearing these boots they disappear and you become like a Centaur. You may carry more, are tougher to knock down, run twice as fast, and you regain any lost limbs by reusing the artifact. You may drop this effect at anytime.
-Pack mule: You can carry as much weight as possible without limiting your movement speed or being extra strenuous. It doesn't help if you cannot move with the weight or protect your spine from snapping in two.
-Speed Demon: Your attack speed and movement speed are determined by the highest of the two. Turning quick creatures into devastating monsters.
--Balanced Speed: Your attack speed and movement speed are the average of the two.
-Dodging: It becomes incredibly easy to dodge making multiple attacks as easy to dodge as one and any surprise attack, if noticed, as easy to dodge as if it were seen in advance.
-Time Shoes: Within a period of time, everyone begins to move at a speed equal to the difference between your walking (sneaking) and running speed. You cannot run during this period of time.
--Time Stop: Within an area you stop all time. You may move a specific distance at which time, time will begin moving once more. You can do nothing but move, look, think, or affect yourself during this effect.
-Safe Travels: The wearer of these boots are not only less likely to get into trouble during travel, but they are more likely to find stashes of food or wandering merchants.
-Rail Road: If your feet are planted firmly on the road your speed increases to unfathomable levels.
-Font of Life: Plants and trees seem to burst to life as the wearer walks by. Invaluable to farmers
-Font of Death: Dying creatures cannot hold onto life as someone wearing these shoes walk by. Their remaining life force only bolstering the powers of the shoes.
-Safety Shoes: Things that would harm the wearer, via the feet, do not. Pressure plates, Lava, hot coals, caltrops, Ice, as well as anything that would strike the bottom of the foot will harmlessly bounce off. It doesn't protect the User's feet however.
-A Leg to stand on: This is a single boot. When one is placed upon the foot another will appear on the other leg, even if the other leg didn't exist previously.
-Move Through: The Boots allows the user to become temporarily insubstantial in order to move a total of two spaces. Should they be unable to complete the journey they will return to their original location with sizable wounds.
---Originally conceived as a “Only Vs. Enemies” which it can be. Vs. Door and Vs everything also work.
-Dream Walker: The boots allows the wearer to walk while in their dreams. They may use this to transport themselves to another persons dreams, though they have no idea whos it is until they get there, at which point when awoken they will appear right beside them.
-Mirror Wake: As you walk a duplicate of your form appears in each location. You may chose to take actions in each of those locations as if you were there. However enemies may also attack these duplicates and do damage to you as if you were there, gaining all benefits from doing so. Duplicates are unable to move, should they somehow be moved from their locations then they harmlessly disappear.
-Transformation: Your feet turn into hoofs, talons, or even spikes of which you can use to attack enemies with. Some have other uses, for example Talons can latch onto enemies.
-Prehensile: These boots seem to be more like mittens, however upon wearing them your legs and feet gain the dexterity of an arm as well as the ability to grasp and use objects. It also allows you to easily keep balance with one leg but not to run with one leg.
-False Get away: When you chose to the boots create phantom footprints going in many directions. This makes it very difficult to track the user.
-Tree away: The boots allow the user to walk inside trees, keeping them safe from enemies assuming they don't know the user is inside. They may also use this to walk through trees.
-Corpse Away: The boots allow the user to walk into corpses. They are safe for as long as the corpse is undisturbed.
-Gallant: The boots allow the user to always project the form of gallantry by preventing dirt to stick to their person.
-Perfect Balance: The wearer can never become prone while wearing these shoes even if they willingly wish to do so. One of the more immediate downsides is that swimming becomes very slow and sleeping is fairly unpleasant.
-Optimal Effort: No injury or condition beyond chopping a leg off, or intentionally moving slowly, can decrease the user from moving full speed.
-Unfathomable Dodge: The user has the ability to dodge any attack thrown at them. Even if they normally couldn't clear the distance by moving them to the closest safe location. Effectively it allows the wearer of these shoes to dodge such things as cave ins, though it doesn't necessarily put them in the wanted location. This even works on grapples, allowing the user to “Dodge” the grapple itself.
-Of the Forest: While your feet are planted firmly on grass your speed increases accordingly
-Speed: You run faster
-Climbing: You never fall during a climbing attempt and may climb any object even if it would normally be impossible.
--Spider Climb: You may walk on any surface as if it were the ground.
-Jump Warp: When the wearer jumps he always appears where he was going to land.

Gloves/Gauntlets/Mittens: Total Count 19

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-Competency: Anyone wearing these gloves are considered competent in anything they do that involved hands. It doesn't affect their true skill however.
-Dream Grabber: You can put your hand into someone's head and pull out a dream or nightmare in physical form. As with other artifacts of this type it doesn't need to be appropriate to its original form, a nightmarish Fly can be much larger and formidable then an ordinary one.
-Voice Grabber: If you make a successful grapple onto someone's throat you may pull their voice out. Voices need to be stored in glass or gem containers or else they return with a loud scream. Voices can also be exchanged.
-Memory Grabber: If you grapple someone's head you can either take their happiness or their sorrows with obvious effects. Along with the benefits of forcing someone to tantrum these memories can also be sold and used to give other people possitive or negative memories.
-Skill Stealer: You may pull out a bit of someone's skill dirrectly from their brain, you have little control over what comes out, this gives you a boost in whatever skill you happened to pull out assuming it is greater then your own. This causes brain damage and those who suffer it do not live long.
-Friend Stealer: You may pull the friendship or companionship from an enemy's heart, they must have a heart for this to work, instantly severing the relationship. You may then apply it to someone else, likely yourself.
-Hand Protector: The glove protects the wearer from harm by anything they hold including enemies in grapples or artifacts that curse the wielder.
-Robbing: When the wearer steals from someone it creates a temporary duplicate in its place that shatters after a few minutes. This duplicate is perfect.
-Robbing Blind: If you suffer a permanent disability that an enemy does not you may instead inflict it upon them to cure yourself. You can cure lost limbs and organs but not injuries or illnesses.
-Robbing Blind +: You may steal limbs and organs from an enemy and transplant them into yourself, as well you may remove your own limbs.
-Theft: The gloves can steal objects from individuals that they do not have on them at the time such as coins or furniture.
-Heart Throb: The Gloves can rip the heart out of an individual. Instead of dying they instead become eternally loyal to the one who holds their heart. This heart isn't their true heart but a gruesome representation. Should the heart be destroyed they develop an irrational hatred of the one who stole their heart.
-Withering Touch: Things in your hand wither away instantly
-Alas poor Yeoric: When a skull is held in your hands it will speak to you as if it was that person in question
-Detachable: You are able to detach your wrists and move your hands around if need be
-Clawed: Your hands transform into dangerous claws
-Tentacle: Your hands transform into tentacles, Snake Bodies, or Monkey Tails excellent for grabbing people but they lack the fine movement of fingers.
-Suffocation: A grapple with the gloves on is always a suffocating grab.
-Surgeon: The Gloves allow almost any part of the body (Skull, Liver, Toe) to be a valid target to "Rip out".

Cloak: Total Count 10

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-Disguise of Age: The Cloak allows the user to shift to any stage of life with all the bonuses and penalties this would bring. As an added bonus hatched creatures can even chose to become reborn removing any and all permanent injuries and scars. There is a danger however, any shift to an age of baby or earlier carries the risk of permanent amnesia, this counts as a Game Over in adventure mode.
-Disguise of Death: The Cloak allows you to guise yourself as the last creature you slain. Assuming no one knows they are dead the bearer can even live out their lives as the diseased.
-Disguise of Gender: It allows one to assume the guise of the opposite gender at will with all appropriate appearance modifications. In some species where gender differences are sizable this can prove to be a great advantage. Gender altered individuals are infertile unless they are capable of self-reproduction.
-Perfected Cloak: This cloak is perfect in design. No one can identify the person wearing this cloak, as well no liquid may ever touch the flesh of the one wearing it.
-Deflection: The cloak can keep projectiles out as easily as it does the rain. It is very likely to deflect projectiles that come from behind.
-Disguise of Majesty: Those who don the cloak of majesty are seen by others as wearing only the most expensive and lucrative of clothing even if it would be impractical or impossible. Examples would include shirts of spun gold studded with Sapphire.
-Disguise of Poverty: The cloak allows the user to guise himself in poverty. His clothes become that of peasant folk all moldy and worn. This is even powerful enough to disguise expensive armors.
-Disguise of Stupidity: While worn people see your every move and every vowel as incredibly stupid. This would seem like a disadvantage, and in many ways it is, however it also has the effect of making it difficult for others believe you did anything requiring intelligence or skill such as an assassination.
-Disguise of Professionalism: While wearing the cloak you may chant the profession you wish to emulate and everyone will see you as if you were a member of that profession. This also works for Royalty but it cannot disguise one as a specific person making it dangerous to attempt.
-Disguise of Shadows: The wearer becomes like the shadows. Anytime the user is surrounded by darkness they become almost invisible. As well it is impossible to identify the person wearing this cloak in any condition.

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Rings: Total Count 12

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-Soothsayer: Within the gemstone there predicts the time of death of those around him. What they don't know is the ring doesn't predict the future but in fact makes it happen. Those who cannot avoid this fate simply die off.
-Fleshed: The Ring removes the need for flesh allowing the user to degenerate into a living skeleton if it so happens. This effect isn't permanent so ill fortune beholds a skeleton who has their hand chopped off.
-Disease Transfer: When laying their hands on a diseased or injured being the ring absorbs it. It then must be transferred into something else within a set time or else the user will befall the same fate as the original victim.
-Doctor: The Ring allows the user to see death and destruction and thus anyone who holds this knows exactly what is ailing the victim.
-Become Thyself: The ring forces mental and physical changes in the wearer eventually transforming them into that of its creator. Adventurer's who befall this fate are unplayable as it constitutes non-standard death.
-Culture of Death: The User gains delight in the death, harm, and illness of others but suffers displeasure at seeing people born, cured, or healthy.
-Touch of Death: The Wearer's touch causes a wracking pain to slay the target.
-Fake Death: The Ring allows the wearer to fake their death when they fall unconscious. Though this doesn't help against enemies that eat, maim, or vandalise corpses.
-Invisibility (Raving Maniac): The person who wears the ring will temporarily become invisible
-Psychic (Raving Maniac): The wearer gains the ability to read and control the thoughts of others
-Connectivity (Raving Maniac): The ring gives its bearer unnatural long-life
-Corrupting (Raving Maniac): The mind of the bearer of the ring shall become more twisted and evil over time

Crowns: Total Count 33

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--Some of these are appropriate for other kinds of headgear.
-Ruler of Waters: The Wearer can breathe water
-Ruler of Air: The Wearer has limited flying ability
-Ruler of Dwarves: If the leader wears this then dwarves are less likely to tantrum. In Adventure mode it makes dwarves more co-operative and more likely to give you aid.
-Ruler of Goblins: This powerful artifact makes Goblins ignore you and be pleasant. However it has no effect over demons that ignore this effect.
-Ruler of Fire: You no longer are burned by Lava or normal fire. But Fire based attacks are still harmful
-Crown of Seasons: On the appropriate season the wearer gains great powers
-Ruler of Ice: You are immune to the cold; if you are frozen you will thaw when appropriate.
-Wrath: The crown can shoot blasts of pure wrath upon your enemies harming them.
-Heir/Husbandry: All Children born from the being wearing this are born with impressive skills and attributes.
-Dominance: Has the occasional chance of forcing the enemy/animal under your control
-Ruler of Nature: Animals will ignore you
Bracelet:
-Lucky Star: Those wearing this receive incredible luck effectively rising their success rates.
-Power Band: This increases the wearer’s strength many times.
-Reptilian Regeneration: You heal at an incredible rate and can regrow bodyparts. Can cause side-effects.
-Salt-bangle: The wearer may safely drink salt-water
-Command Curse: A specific range of cursed beings are under your control such as zombies.
-Command The Ill: Those who are suffering from an illness are under your command. This lasts for as long as they remain ill.
-Death Siphon: Living things around you start to wither and die, however your wounds heal faster as a result
-Over Glorious: You become so stunning that those around you have their eyes explode
-Insanity Stare: The wearer's gaze can drive victums insane
-Without Morals: The wearer becomes uninhibited and is able to eat or do anything without being inhibited by moral or taste regard.
-Brain Dead: The Wearer has sevearly reduced mental capacities... Horrible for adventurers but great for overly demanding nobles
-Hungry: The Crown will attempt to climb up to someone's head and eat their brains
---Note: The Below were made with Masks in mind
-Plague: Those who behold the wearer are afflicted with constant vomiting, festering sists, and oozing eyeballs. These symptoms only last as long as the wearer is in the area but is more then enough to make them an easy target.
-Demon Power: The wearer's face becomes that of a powerful demon. They can from then on eat living targets and using their flesh to add on to their own. Increasing their mass, muscles, and power. This Hunger increases with their size eventually turning them into a true demon of Gluttony. Removing the mask can cause the user to explode due to their excess weight.
-Mariachi: The Bones of the fallen spring to life and dance around the wearer. It is quite entertaining to those who can get around the disgust.
-True-Self: The Mask gives the user attributes set according to their personality giving them grotesk features as their body is warped. Their likes and dislikes become facial features while their lazyness could give them an obese body.
-Phantoms: The artifact gives one control over their very nightmares. When commanded to it sends horifying projections, as according to the user's fears, to strike down attackers. The Nightmare's strength doesn't match their counterpart thus even a fly could be a giant firebreathing monster.
-Eerie Perfection: The Wearer slowly starts to become perfect having perfect skin, grace, and speach. It however is so much so that it puts those around them off making them untrusting and can even drive them insane. Removing the artifact can be traumatic.
-Wound Command: Those wounded in presence of the wearer find that they cannot heal easily often dying from blood loss.
-Ghost Communion: The wearer can speak and interact with ghost somewhat normally and force them to be tangable where ordinary methods can slay them.
-Death Eater: When someone dies around you, you swallow that energy. This energy can be used to make you more resistant to death or to inflict death onto others.
-Death Command: The user is able to refuse death of others allowing them to come back to life at a future date. This would be powerful if beings usually die immediately after missing important bodyparts or being trapped in coffins.
---The Above were made with masks in mind

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Coffins: Total Count 37

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-Eternal Loyalty: A Dwarf buried in this coffin will occasionally come back to life as a ghost and perform occasional services for dying or desperate dwarfs (it will feed a starving dwarf or wrestle attacking goblins). In Adventure mode you can speak to the Coffin to obtain information on the fort.
-Tribute: The Coffin occasionally spawns something of interest as a gift from the afterlife. If the person was a Farmer you could receive a plant, if he was a king perhaps a gold crown.
-Moving on: It has the occasional chance to negate grief caused by death. They will still receive the memory but will not care “My Wife died today in a lava accident, it was sad but I moved on”
-Dream Walker: In relation to dreams (when it comes out). The person inside has a chance to come into a person’s dreams and improve their mood.
-Hungry: Enemies passing by this coffin may get swallowed whole (as if it was a trap). It will show their names. It can still be used as a Coffin and can include multiple bodies.
-Creepy: The Coffin will give out Dwarf bones occasionally if someone is buried.
-Resurrection: Anyone placed in this Coffin will resurrect in a years (or more) time. In Adventure mode you could find yourself brought into this coffin.
-Reincarnation: When someone is placed into this Coffin a random tame animal pops out.
-Second Chance: These Coffins are a portal to the afterlife, those placed in them whether living or dead have a chance to fight their way back to life. In Fortress Mode, having a body fail to come back to life should be the same as being unable to burry someone as their corpse will be lost.
-Necrotic: Every once in a while the coffin will bring back someone placed inside as a zombie or skeleton. They are loyal to the owner of the coffin, even if it is an entire civilisation, but will become savage and uncontrollable if rejected.
-Dead Men tell no tales: The Coffin speaks with the knowledge of those buried inside it
-Pomegranates: The Coffin occasionally spews forth various kinds of food and fruit that satiate those who eat it. Though anyone who eats this food may not pass through to the afterlife and will become a spectre
-Dead Sleep: Those who sleep inside this coffin appear dead and wake in wondrous moods. You can sleep in the coffin for an indefinite period of time as aging, hunger, and even wounds stop while inside.
-Tomb of Heroes: This Coffin rejects any body placed inside unless they were a great hero. When in dire straights the Coffin may bring forth the greatest heroes of the civilisation to defend the fortress, or in adventure mode the hero himself. If the coffin should be placed in a ruins then it will protect said ruins with powerful heroes until removed or retaken.
-Deathly trainer: Those who sleep in this coffin are visited in their sleep by the ghost of a great trainer to improve their skills. Though the trainer can do this by putting the sleeper through dangerous tests that could kill them in their sleep.
-Horrible Shreeks: The Coffin along with all others in the area scream haunting melodies and shreeks that drive those who hear it to suicidal madness. Those who die during this temporary insanity become ghosts.
-Fake Death: Upon entering the Coffin a duplicate of yourself will be sent out to the world. When it finally dies or is slain, you will step forth with the knowledge that rumors of your death have been greatly exaggerated.
-Inspirational: Only Heroes and Royalty will be accepted. Those around the coffin feel the greatness of those buried inside it and gain a moral bonus. It is proportional to the greatness of the body.
-Final Works: Only great craftsmen are accepted. Occasionally a voice will bellow out from this coffin that begs for a material or product. If given to the coffin it will eventually produce a complete object usually of masterwork quality. If they have yet to produce an artifact then this coffin can also produce an artifact of otherworldly qualities.
-Sleep Forever: If the coffin is tampered with in anyway it will release a noxious fume that causes those who inhale it to fall asleep forever. They never awaken and only die if they are directly slain.
-Vengeance: When a corpse is placed inside the coffin a skeletal monstrosity of great power walks out and wages war with those responsible. It is a powerful being with the ability to pull people directly to the netherworld where they come back as its skeletal minions. If it succeeds then it crawls back into the coffin.
--Vengeance 2: When a corpse is placed inside this coffin, those directly responsible for the death of those inside will pass on in their sleep, or the next day.
-Ascension: Those placed inside the coffin, living or dead, have a chance at ascension by their god's right hand. Those who succeed may impart a gift on those of the living. Those who fail disappear.
-Martyr: The dead have more to give, if this coffin has a corpse inside then there is a chance that when someone is about to die that they will live, entirely cured and healed, instead. In Adventure mode, burying a team mate inside one of these gives you, and someone in your party, a chance to live. In both cases it consumes the corpse.
-Body to Wander: The Coffin has great pull on ghosts. If a ghost wishes to they may use this Coffin to gain a corporeal body. In Adventure mode this can allow you to recruit ghosts.
-Malicious: The Coffin is perpetually surrounded by powerful phantasms that delight only in the murder and mutilation of others. Their wounds however are only temporary as those they slay will come back to life in whole. This however taxes the mind of those who experience this driving them insane or even mindless at this point they become Phantasms as well.
-New Life: Those buried in this coffin give birth, gender ignored, to a great child prodigy.
-Tree Life: A person buried inside is transformed into an unknown seed that represents them.
-Deathly Travel: Anyone who crawls inside this coffin may travel to any other coffin in the world. This is a one way transportation and it doesn't guarantee that they will be capable of escaping once there.
-Once More: If the owner of the coffin is slain they may come back once more, usually in a hideous shell of a form. The second time they come back barely as a recognisable corpse.
-Never Lost: The owner of this coffin's corpse will always safely travel to this coffin.
-Artifact: When a body is placed inside the entire coffin as well as the body will transform into an artifact containing their soul.
-Object Reincarnation: Those placed in this coffin find themselves slowly transforming into a mindless object with power as strong as their soul, living or dead. Ordinary people become ordinary mundane objects. Powerful creatures such as megabeasts become lesser artifacts.
-Sight of the dead: While inside the coffin you may look through the eyes of any corpse.
-Puppeteer: While inside the coffin you may take control of any corpse. Though the condition of said corpse isn't necessarily great.
-Deathly whispers: While sleeping inside the dead whisper into your ears driving you insane. If you can resist insanity long enough you can gleam knowledge that only the dead are aware of.
-Eihmariar: While sleeping inside this coffin you can speak with the dead. If you can convince one to follow you back to the living, they are exceedingly sceptical so it is rather difficult, then they may come with you whole. This is once again insanity inducing so it should be used sparingly.
-Rejuvinating: The Coffin can heal the wounds of anyone placed inside safely. It however doesn't speed the time in which it takes to heal said wounds. Wounds that normally cannot be healed do so in a matter of years.

Universal Container: Total Count 1

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-Location location location: You can travel inside the object. Within it is a location flavored by the crafter where his favorite food grows on trees, where cities are populated by his favorite animal, and where the night is ruled by his greatest fears. It spawns creatures from that world in Fortress mode but it is otherwise not so useful anywhere else
-Hungry (Droid): Occasionally an edible (or leather or wood) item in this bin disappears.

Barrels: Total Count 11

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-Fishy: The Barrel is a viable fishing location with its own population of fish inside. If hit by a weapon a fish may be struck instead.
-Dwarven: Alcohol stored in this Barrel ages a hundred years for every year. Though so does everything else.
-Bottomless: The Barrel can hold many objects many times its own size and for less weight.
-Endless: The Barrel has another barrel inside once in a while that can be removed.
-Bloody Gemstones: When filled with blood gemstones placed inside absorb it creating Bloodstones of whatever gem was inside.
-Solar: When placed outside in the sun the barrel collects its rays and produces a liquid. This liquid heals those who dwell outside in the sun but can destroy those who live only in shadow. Elves gain the most benefit while Dwarves, especially those with cave adaption, will be slain almost instantly. It also gives the drinker blonde-white hair and tan-dark skin as if they were exposed to years of powerful sunlight.
-Moonlight: when placed outside in the moonlight the barrel collects its rays and produces a liquid. Civilised creatures who drink it become more animal like and can lose their sanity. Animals become more powerful and dominant.
-Sphere Collector: When in a sphere land it absorbs the energy and produces a liquid, this liquid has an effect depending on the sphere but is always dramatic.
-Rain: When it rains the barrel will become full no matter how light or its location. Particularly evil artifacts fill up with poisonous poluted water.
-Earwigs: The barrel is full of disgusting dire earwigs capable of drilling their way into your skull. Dangerous to use and horrifying to look at but also a suitable source of food.
-Fresh: Food never rots inside the barrel, Weapons never rust, and alcohol doesn't age.

Chests: Total Count 3

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-Mimic: Thieves who try to steal from this Chest get their arm chopped off. Not friendly in adventure mode.
-Set’s Chest: The chest cannot hold anything, but anyone who opens it is forced inside where they are trapped until they die from starvation, suffocation, age, or even the implosion of being forced inside a chest. After which it may be opened safely to remove the corpse.
-Memory Chest: Dwarves will occasionally store their happy and unhappy thoughts inside this chest. You can give them to other dwarves. In Adventure Mode these contain information on the Fortress

Waterskins: Total Count 3

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-Purification: Stagnant water is no longer a concern
-Endless: It can hold much more water then it should be capable of while not weighing more.
-Torrent: When applied on an enemy it drowns them.

Mugs: Total Count 14

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-Nectar of the Gods: Drinking from the mug makes the drinker more alert and awake.
-Alcoholic: Any water placed into the mug will become alcohol
-Vampiric: If blood is placed into the mug, drinking the blood will heal wounds
-Blessed: Water drunk from the cup will cure curses
-Cup-o-Love: Two people who share the cup will fall in love with each other
-Chicken Soup: The mug's contents have the quality of making the wearer
-Black Death: Water placed into the mug becomes pitch black becoming a poisonous and diseased
-Solar Powered: The Mug has the ability to collect Sun/Moon light, which upon drinking bestows a blessing/curse according to the sun/moon's associated gods.
-Insulated: The Mug can carry Ice or Lava carefully
-Power Drink: The Mug can absorb people's blood, soul, or essence which empowers the drinker
-Form stealer: If someone's blood is placed inside the mug, you will take their form
-Sacrificial Sustenance: The Mug will cut you open and give you water
-Water Stealing: The Mug will suck water from a target for you to drink
-Toast: During a toast someone gains supreme social ability

Armor Stands: Total Count 4

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-Deadly: Villains who approach the armor stand have a chance to have themselves sucked into the stand and shredded into macabre armor killing them. This armor is usually poorly made.
-Deadly Bones: Villains who approach have their bones ripped out and worn by the stand.
-Sympathetic: The Armor Stand's owner gains the benefit of the armor placed upon it in the form of a force projection. The force is weightless and is just as hard though it has none of the armor's abilities.
-Dream maille: As the owner sleeps the stand creates armor according to the user's wishes. It could be as poor as a wooden cloth or as powerful as Adamantine. This armor however cannot exist outside the owner's body or next to the stand as it isn't real.

Bucket (Well): Total Count 6

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-Timmyless: Dwarves no longer fall down the well
-Alcoholic: Well water has a chance to be alcoholic (or is alcoholic)
-Wishing: One of the Dwarves’ possessions has a chance to transform into the material of his liking.
-Charity: The Well will cost money though penniless dwarves may still use it.
-Misty: The Well produces a mist that makes dwarves happy
-Healing: The Well has especially powerful healing properties

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Statues: Current Total 8

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-Living: When placed down the statue comes to live and is considered a fully functional member of society if a bit powerful. More useful as a soldier then a worker.
-Tinkling/Spitting: The Statue gives off water, effectively making a nice fountain.
-Magna Carta: If placed in a Noble’s room it eases on mandates and penalties become more relaxed.
-Guard: The Statue will alarm you of enemies or dangerous animals as if they were the appropriate Dwarf.
-Watching: Attacking enemies have a chance to go mad and attack their own. Does not deactivate in Adventure mode
-Morph: That statue constantly shifts its shape and becomes an entirely different statue
-Living Animal: An Animal statue that comes to life and acts loyally to whomever tames the beast. If abandoned they tend to become inconsolably enraged often becoming mindless monsters in the process.
-education (Eerr): semi-intelligent animals and sentient creatures are forced into worship of your gods from the statue and decide to live with your group

Doors: Current Total: 5

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-Thief Proof: Thieves such as kobolds cannot instantly open these doors and you will get an alert when they attempt to do so.
-Magic Portal: It has a chance of instantly sending a Dwarf instantly where he needs to go.
-Acceleration: Dwarfs who pass through this gate have increased speed for a short period of time.
-Vicious: Enemies who pass through this door have a chance to be attacked
-Speaking: They Console Dwarves and make them more happy. In Adventure mode they can be used to gain information on the fort by speaking to them.

Floodgate: Current Total 8

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-One way: Dwarves can pass through this floodgate though water cannot.
-Empathic: The gate can be opened and closed by a dwarf with but a thought.
-Shallow: The gate can control the flow of water and can flood the area only 1/7th the way up. It does the same for Lava but is not as useful.
-Processing: When used for water it occasionally will drop fish, when used with Lava it will occasionally drop Obsidian.
-Lifeguard: The Floodgate will spew out a dwarf who fall into the waters and has a chance to save a dwarf who falls into Lava.
-Inhale: The Floodgate can force enemies into the Water or Lava
-Dam: The Floodgate produces power
-Necromantic gate: The Gate when opened occasionally spawns skeletons under your control. They give negative thoughts to dwarves and can cause tantrums over time if not placed out of sight.

Beds: Current Total 6

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-Catnap: Dwarves barely have to touch this bed to gain benefit of a full night sleep
-Sleepwalking: Dwarves that fall asleep will walk in their sleep towards this bed.
-Sleepwalking 2: Dwarves that use this bed will walk to a location where they are needed.
-Sexuality: Dwarves that sleep in these beds have a chance to have a child with someone they have a relationship with even if it isn’t up to lover.
-Spartan (bad name): Dwarves who sleep in this bed are tougher until their next nap.
-Silent: Dwarves won’t complain about noise while sleeping in this bed.

Chairs: Current Total 11

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-Massage: Dwarves receive some sleep while sitting upon this chair allowing them to work longer
-Magisterial: Has the occasional chance to eliminate a demand made by its Noble owner.
-Transporter: It will transport dwarfs to its location if they tend to use it for food or other reasons.
-Escape Route: When enemies travel into the room the dwarf inside will be teleported to a safe location.
-Buttons: This Chair can be linked to traps and works like a speedy lever.
Table:
-Generous: The Table occasionally creates a meal for a Dwarf to eat
-Speed Dating: Parties are much quicker but no less effective allowing dwarfs to get back to work quickly
-Drunken: Those attending a party involving this table will get drunk
-Fine: Meals eaten on this table are always considered of the finest quality.
-Clay board: Occasionally when used a dwarf will also create a “Clay” craft
-Blueprints: A Dwarf that eats on this table occasionally come up with a blueprint and the next object they create will be of masterwork quality.

Chains (Animal): Current Total 12

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-Tangled: The chain also grapples enemies while the animal attacks
-Retributive: The being that kills the animal held by this chain will itself be chained
-Immortality: Animals attached to said chain will never age
-Supreme Immortality: As with above except if they die, they will rise again in a year’s time
-Evolution: An animal chained will slowly grow in power and size
-Shambling: The chain’s rattling occasionally drives enemies away or insane
-Invisible: The chain always seems to have an animal attached that will attack enemies
-Invisible 2: The animal attached to the chain will be ignored.
-Friends Forever: Animal killed while attached to the chain will revive as a member of the undead, though once killed after that they are gone forever.
-Incentive: An animal will occasionally walk up to this chain and tie itself up pledging its loyalty towards you
-Anthropomorphic: Animals attached to the chain gain the ability to wield weapons and wear armor and in Adventure mode they gain the ability to speak to reveal information on the fort and others.
-Humanoid: You may chain humanoids that will loyal as long as they are on the chain. They can be saved by their allies. A Kobold can be saved by a Kobold but not a Goblin

Chains (Prison): Current Total 3

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-Revolving: Sentences are short and sweet and effective.
-Community Service: Dwarves will still proceed to work but won’t be as effective.
-Tough lessons: Dwarves sentenced will train in combat or mining.

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Books: Current Total 16

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-Random Facts: Everyday the book will tell a random historical event
-Manual: The book can teach a skill if time is spent reading from it
-Mesmerising: Those who read from the book are forced to read it with no break until they finish it or die
-Dull: Reading the book to others forces them into slumber
-Death words: Reading the book to others causes them to die
-Hearsay: If told the name of someone you know, it reveals their history as well as their current location.
-Entrapment: The book can suck someone in and trap them between the pages. They are in stasis.
-Holding: The book can effectively hold one object on each page
-Lifelike: The book spawns objects, beings, and effects from its pages. What comes out depends on its genre.
-The Stages of Loss: The book has a chance of over-riding a tantrum
-Romance Novel: A Dwarf who reads the book has a chance to become pregnant
-Emotional: The book, depending on the genre, can make readers very happy or sad.
-Living: The book is alive and sentient. It records any historical events it experiences.
-Lost Knowledge: The book contains knowledge of history that has long since been lost.
-Boundless: The book can hold an unlimited number of pages of history and gains no weight.
-Atlas: The book contains the map of the entire world

Large Gems: Current Total 11

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-Demon Stone: This gemstone has no power on its own however if a demon is slain and this gemstone is bathed in its blood it traps its soul. The demon can speak and use mental abilities, if it has any, while inside the stone.
-Ghost Stone: This Gemstone traps spirits during an exorcism. They can speak inside the stone but its real use is the moaning of the entrapped spirits can cause insanity to those who listen.
-Thief Stone: Harmless in itself it is however unnaturally attractive to thieves. Those who steal it have a horrible fate befall them and the stone is given back to the owner the next day.
-Eye of seeing: Speak the name of anyone who know and you may see through their eyes.
-Stability: When emplaced on ones head it causes their mental balance to become perfected. They cannot suffer hardship nor have their mind torn asunder.
-Sunstone: The gem absorbs light from the sun, moon, or stars (or some otherworldly source) and can release it for a set period illuminating the way. The light is the same as the source.
-Healing Stones: When implanted upon an injured body it prevents further complications though they will still need to heal normally.
-Wrath: This red stone when activated replaced the targets eye. Those who you stare at feel a burning sensation and may spontaneously combust.
-Heartstone: This stone replaces the user’s heart. Their blood becomes manifold and they become almost incapable of bleeding to death or taking damage to the heart.
-Perfect Diamond: The holder of the stone often becomes immutable. Occasionally attacks to them simply do no harm and are brushed off easily. Depending on the force of the swing it can even destroy the weapon of those who attack you.
-Promise Stone: When given to another they are yours forever, captured by the thralls of love. The owner is incapable of giving the stone away unless they fall out of love with the giver.

Instruments: Current Total 29

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-Call forth the sun: Wakes everyone who can hear the music. Useful in sieges
-Moonlit Song: Puts enemies to sleep
-Inspiring: Those who hear the song get temporary positive memories and have a chance to go into trances
-Perfectly Horrible: The Instrument causes intense pain even to the point of unconsciousness.
-Crescendo: Creatures who hear the music find themselves becoming more deadly then before. Most artifacts of this type cannot tell the difference between friend and foe.
-Tempo: Those who hear the music must obey the tempo. Everyone who hears the music has their speed become that of the player. The Music player can also pause everyone until they run out of air though even the music player can’t take actions during that time.
-Chorus: When played the instrument records that instant in time for a period. If the instrument is played again in that time then it will reset just like the Chorus repeats.
-Chorus Weaker: When played the instrument records the state of all creatures in the area. When played again in a set time the creature’s states will be
-Cacophonic Note: While playing the user can intentionally use sour notes to cause enemies to become confused and make often cataclysmic mistakes.
-Harvest Jig: Plants grow faster when listening to the music.
-Lasting: Those who listen to the music of this instrument will hear it constantly. If the music is good they will be elated for weeks, if the music is bad they can go insane.
-Echolocate: Those who play are aware of where the music goes as if they were there themselves. It also can sense the presence of Ores and gemstones through walls.
-Know thy Audience: If playing for someone the one who is playing gets intimate knowledge of the listener including their opinion of the performance.
-One Man Band: The instrument plays an Orchestra of music as if played by a symphony of equally skilled patrons with equally crafted instruments. Another possible use is it can fool listeners into believing a room is filled with more people then there really is.
-Town Drums: Loud pair of drums, those who hear the music know that everywhere the music touches belongs to the Fortress/City/Cave. This shifts the odds in the favor of any battle taking place within the sound of the drums. It also however angers creatures who live within the music causing them to come forth and attack.
-Awe: Those who hear this music are stricken with awe and drop what they are doing or even holding.
-Harmful Vibrations: The sounds from this instrument are normally harmless, however it causes metal to vibrate violently turning a metal clad warrior into pulp.
-Calling: Allies and Pets can always hear the music played by this and can follow the music to go back to the player if they wish to be there. Powerful versions of this artifact can also allow your allies to step out of your dreams after a night of sleep.
-Pied Piper: Chose a sweeping category for the music such as human or vermin. Those who hear the music are enticed to follow even through dangerous or scary locations. Though realistically it can get tiring over long distances.
-Of the Dance: Those who hear the music are force to dance to the best of their ability. Those particularly skilled at dancing will feel no impediment to course activities, though who are unskilled, such as most of the world, will find it difficult to do even the simplest of actions correctly. Creatures incapable of understanding dance are immune to this effect.
-Majesty: A Noble music that can win the favor of any king or those of the ruling class. Excellent for getting appeals.
-Taming: The instrument can be used to tame animals who can hear the music.
-Soothing: Those who hear the music have a difficult time carrying on aggressions. Diplomacy is suggested before they remember why they were so angry at you.
-Eat splitting: Enemies who hear the music have their ears bleed. This is painful but deafness quickly ensues. Its main purpose however is to force them to bleed to death. Creatures with no ears or hearing are thusly immune to this effect.
-Weak Sleep (Droid): all near the user other than the user fall asleep unless they are fully rested and alert. It can also immobilize an enemy, but once they wake up it will not affect them again for several hours.
-of Silence (Droid): This instrument makes no sound, but makes a zone of silence around it, quieting all sound sources within its radius.
-of Laughter (Droid): all nearby uncontrollably laugh. This laughter could bring happyness or even insanity depending on the nature of the instrument.
-of Sorrowful Reflection (Droid): all nearby weep as they remember all the sad things they know of. While listening, bad thoughts expire more quickly.
-Voice of the Fallen (Droid): The instrument makes no noise, but if there are any skulls, severed heads or corpses nearby they cry out to the unheard and unliving melody.

Anvils: Current Total 29

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-Flaming: The Anvil doesn’t require fuel to function.
--Buildup: The Anvil sometimes alleviates the requirement of fuel.
-Excellence: The Anvil produces equipment one quality higher than normal.
-Mark: All products made by the Anvil have a masterful engraving increasing the worth.
-Warping: The Anvil is capable of hammering Stone, Wood, and Bone as easily as metal.
-Phantom: The Anvil sometimes fulfils orders on its own.
-Master: The products created are stronger than usual almost universally
--Flameheart: Weapons made deal slight secondary heat damage
--Glacierheart: Weapons made deal a slight secondary cold damage
-Hungry: The Anvil unlocks a Unique Strange mood where a Dwarf forges himself into a Blacksmith object
-Efficient: The Anvil uses less material then usual
-Soul Metal: Allows the option to forge prisoners whom give metal equal to the strength of their soul.
-Bloodmetal: Occasionally it will wound the blacksmith but will use a blood metal which is a powerful metal.
-Dream: The owner of the Anvil will occasionally dream up objects that are crafted by the anvil made of impossible materials.
-Warrior: Blacksmith’s who use the Anvil grow strong and powerful and resistant to intense flame
-Tempered: Objects made by the anvil are heat resistant.
-Reforging: It allows you to replace the skin and bones of a dwarf with a selected material, a mixed blessing.
-Statue: It allows you to turn captives into statues for all eternity
-True Power of XXXX: A Select material is empowered when made on the Anvil
-Garnishing: Objects created on the Anvil occasionally are studded, spiked, and banded by a mysterious force
-Memory Warp: It allows you to craft the memories of a dwarf as if it was a metal
-Automated: The Anvil is sentient and loyal to its owner, it forges for them on its own and has its own stats. It can also speak and will tell history if found in Adventure mode.
-Immortal Blacksmith: As long as a blacksmith uses the Anvil, he will live on and thusly cannot age to death.
-Replacement: The Anvil replaces any body part lost by its owner with an iron replacement, even Organs. Said organs however will be useless.
-Deathnet: If a Dwarf in a mood cannot complete their object the Anvil will devour them whole and produce said artefact.
-Artifact Maker: The Anvil increases the Artifact Cap on fortresses and allows the owner to overcome the one artifact per lifetime rule. Adventurers find that they can make an additional artifact when inspired by this artifact even if their race would otherwise be incapable of creating artifacts.
-Holy Blessing: Devoted to the creator’s god it blesses objects made from it according to the god’s spheres.
-Metal Demon: Every once in a while someone will come under a strange mood and create a body part on the anvil. Once all bodyparts are created a metallic monster or demon will come forth and the anvil will remain dormant until said demon is slain. This could be positive or negative.
-Repair: Objects are instantly restored at little cost when worked on upon this anvil

Engravings: Current Total 7

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-One at a time: A artefact can only have one owner, whose name appears on the artifacts engraving, and will only work for said user.
-Time Keeping: The Engraving will always keep perfect time
-X-ray: When placed against a wall the engraving will depict what is immediately behind it
-Population count: The artefact always can tell the population of the town your in
-True Name: The artefact reveals the real name of who your looking at
-Seeking: The object seeks a type of being, it will show its direction or location. This usually appears on artefacts that are specialised in fighting it.
-Map: The Engraving is a map of the world

[Neonivek]

OTHER: Current Total 62

Devices:
---Devices are artifacts that represent knowledge of science far beyond was is capable of being known. They are objects that can only be created through the artifact system.

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-Gyro: When this device is held it spins at such speed that it becomes impossible for it not to right itself. The Holder becomes incapable of becoming prone for better or worse.
-Super Cooling: A Orb that projects a mysterious ray onto a creature. It appears unharmed but for every action it takes it gets colder and colder until they shatter.
-Ultra-vibrations: A large metallic staff with two prongs that when struck upon an object it creates violent sonic vibrations in the air. Creatures who experience these vibrations lose all sense of balance and suffer nausea. This is capable of knocking out weaker creatures.
-Cuffs: These odd restraints are woven in such a way that any failed attempt to break out of them causes them only to become tighter. This can continue until their hands are crushed into lumps of gore.
-Shock Absorber: This device is a thin plate that absorbs blows. It can then release the energy onto a target. If it however absorbs too much energy it may cause a spontaneous release creating a violent explosion.
Living Water: A being comprised entirely of water. You may send it towards an enemy to fill its lungs with water or you may drink from its being. It replenishes its mass everytime it passes by a stream.
-Infinite Complexity Device: An object containing infinitely complex machinery of such fine detail that it baffles the mind. So much so that those looking at the device risk pure insanity. Those who stave off insanity find a world of technical knowledge at their finger tips.
-Heatsink (SomGuye): This Object can infinitely absorb heat, and does not release any of its own. It must be set to absorb a specific amount of heat and can even freeze the area around it if it is set to maximum.
-Heater (SomGuye): This Object forces the ambient temperature to a number set by the holder. It can be set high enough to boil water or melt rocks but doesn’t offer the owner any protection.

Alchemical Stones:
---Function: Alchemical stones are artefacts in it of themselves, they can only be worked on by a Legendary skilled craftsmen and produce artefacts in return who share similar but not same traits. When used for artefacts themselves they always produce powerful artefacts.

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-Stone of Immortality: The holder of the stone cannot age.
-Stone of Wealth: The Holder overwhelms merchants and forces them to give discounts or free objects
-Purity Stone: When placed into a liquid it purifies it.
-Lucky Stone: The Holder seems to be better at everything
-Ward Stone: The holder never seems to be attacked in the wild and armies seem to avoid scouts.
-Elven Stone: The holder is at peace with the wilderness and natural animals do not impede the holder.
-Movestone: When thrown, the previous holder teleports to its location.
-Boulder Stone: When thrown the stone turns gigantic and crushes the enemy.
-Inner Beast: When swallowed the user turns into a hideous monster
-Stone Stone: If the stone touches bare skin it turns the being into stone

Contracts/Treaties:
---Contracts are Artifact unique objects. They aren’t created outside of the artifact system. Some of them have conditions for them to function.

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-Creature: A specific creature or class of creature won’t attack you.
-Civilisation: A civilisation won’t attack you.
-Element: A type of elemental damage cannot damage you. (mind you.. You will suffocate in magma)
-Death: The holder of the contract will not die but can be defeated. (However, it likely has conditions)
-Age: The holder cannot age
-Servitude: The Contract summons a creature who serves you.
-Peace Treaty: The Contract sometimes can override a siege, ambush, or encounter
-Magna Karta: The Contract can sometimes override a failed mandate or demand
-Royal Proclamation: The Holder is destined to become king/queen

Recipes/Food:

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-Stonesoup: A Freeform Recipe. It allows Rocks and Sand to be proper ingrediants though it must be accompanied by real ingrediants.
-Monster Stew: A Specific Recipe. When this stu touches someone it attempt to devour them whole. The Stu becomes Dormant afterwords and can be eaten as a filling meal.
-Chicken Noodle: A Specific Recipe. Those who drink this meal find their immune systems strengthened to the point where they can fend of diseases and toxins for a period of time.
-Buffet Buffer: A Freeform Recipe. A Heavy plate taking a long time to prepare with many ingrediants. However when eaten everyone within sight also recieves the filling effect of the recipe.
-Aphrodisiac: When eaten someone becomes pregnant. Either the eater, if female, or someone the eater knows, if male.
-Stuffing: The food causes the eater to bulge and become huge. This recipe is incapable of being remade until the eater is slain.
-Diplomatic: If used in diplomatic proceedings it carries a lot of weight. People will end sieges after eating these and Megabeasts would even consider an alliance.
-Antidote soup: A Soup made with many toxins. It however cures those who drink it of the exact same toxins they are drinking. It ignores the One-each limit.
-Majesty Meal: A meal so delicious that it often makes a noble forget all about a mandate or demand they previously made.
-Fortune Cookie: A Cookie that has a random effect on those who eat it.
-Frog Froth: A meal made of amphibians that can allow a limb to be regenerated. The actual meal is rather vial and the regeneration process is quite painful. There are rumors that eating too much of this can cause your skin to develop infections as it turns green.
-Nightvision Meal: Made of Onyx and Carrot this meal bestows the ability to see well in the dark for a month.
-Jade Soup: Made of many expencive jades and mercury base. Those who drink it and survive its toxicity, which is a heroic feat in it of itself, find their lifespan increased 10 times over. Immortal creatures who drink it have their bodies strengthened a bit.
-Rusty Soup: Made of Iron this meal prevents the entropy of skills and abilities for a month after consumption.
-Comfort Food: Those who eat this meal find themselves to be at room temperature no matter where they go for a month after eating.
-Marrow: This meal allows bone, skull, and tusk to be an appropriate ingrediant.
-Calcium: A drink brewed. Its main ingrediant can be anything from cloth to steel however when drank the drinker's bones become that material making anything but hardened metals a silly prospect.
-Troll Stew: A meal of Trolls. It carried a pungent smell that repells other creatures but it's main purpose is to be drank causing the user to gain some strength and recover from wounds faster. Unfortunately it also gives them a pungent oder and oozing sores making them easy to find and hard to be with.
-Canible Stew: A Recipe often looked down upon. Those who eat this ignore the ingrediants no matter what it inside even if it is their own flesh or that of their mother. It can also be used to eat Vermin.
-War Meal: When used in diplomacy it makes the opposition angry to the point where they are willing to wage war with you at all costs. Individuals who eat it are thrown into a blind rage.
-Rage Mutton: A Mutton that causes those who eat it to go into a Berserk Rage. A great boon to an adventurer.
-Blessed Meal: A Freeform Recipe. This meal confers bonuses specifically from what ingrediants you use. Ordinary creatures and plants give slight bonuses. Megabeasts, Powers, Spherical Creatures, and rare plants however can bestow great and esoteric powers.
-Rotless: Food created by this recipe doesn't rot. Though it may not be a good idea to rely on such.
-Acidic: When eaten the acid in your stomach becomes overpowered allowing it to be used as a weapon. Multiple uses of this food however can cause it to eat through your stomach effectively killing you.
-Stone Soup the Second: When eaten your flesh becomes as hard as stone.
-Herbal Tea: A Healthy meal that lessens all pain that occurs in a month's time.
-You are what you eat: Depending on the ingrediants your character gains the traits of the ingrediants such as appendenges of the animals. This however is taxing on the eater's mental state and they can effectively become an animal. Adventurer's who befall this fate become unplayable.
-Solar/Lunar Soup: This allows Solar/Lunar light to be an appropriate ingrediant. How much it feeds you depends on how your live. Dwarves with Cave adaption will starve to death immediately after eating a solar meal.
-Kids Meal: Those who eat this find themselves to have a body of a child. Their age remains the same but their lifespan extends by the years between childhood and adult.
-Emptyness: For the next day your character will be constantly hungry and capable of eating everything in sight. However everything he eats will add up and be stored for later.
-Buggy: A meal of Vermin creatures. They pass through in and out of your body and you gain the ability to not only control but to see through them. This however can be traumatic.
-Demon Soup: a recipe made by demons by pouring their blood in the recipe. Those who drink it find themselves gaining demonic attributes and features. This however forces them under that demon's control. Those who gain this recipe can use a dead demon's blood for a safer alternative assuming the demon doesn't come back to life.
-Filling (Craftling): Makes the dwarf fuller for longer
-Smells good (Craftling): Gives dwarves minor happy thoughts by smell alone
-Too tasty (Craftling): Fills the dwarf that consumed it with thoughts of the most delicous meal ever. May lead to insanity

[Craftling]

A small Artifact idea: Artifact Farms.
Basically anything grown on this plot will be either:
Nourishing: Makes this Dwarf big and strong and gives him more hairs on his chest.
Massive: Is an insanely big plant that could feed many.
Fertile: This plant has grown out of the patch and is starting to get out of control...
Compact: Looks small but has more food than it lets on.
Sentinent: Looks like your fortress just made a friend...
New Species: Congratulations! You have just discovered a new plant. Now you just have to find someone to find out what it tastes like.

[Neonivek]

Thanks Craftling for opening up my thread with a post of artifact farms.

Well I have been waiting for inspiration and hopefully I have saved enough to get out these ideas.

Statues
-Servant: The statue is a servant loyal to owner. It can cook and clean without the assistance of tools and will never tire from the effort. If ownerless the statue will seek out an owner on its own.
-Stone Body: A Lifeless statue with the ability to absorb the soul of another and come to life. If created through dark or macabre moods it instead takes on the soul of that individual. Upon destruction it releases its soul and turns back into a lifeless statue.
-Wisdom: A statue of supernatural memory and intelligence who gathers information. It can be engaged in conversation and it has no qualms with sharing the knowledge it has gained over years or centuries, though not all statues are willing to give up this information freely, some wish for knowledge in return or perhaps a test.
-Champion: If asked to do so the statue will come to life and assault the one who asks it so. A deadly opponent but those who defeat the statue are rewarded. The reward is usually combat skill but more esoteric versions of this statue could reward individuals with gold, servants, or new forms, though these greater rewards come with greater challenges. No matter how many times a statue is challenged it only gives its reward once.
-Charity: The statue is in the form of a giving creature or fruitful tree. Occasionally the statue will drop fruit for hungry individuals.
-Status: The statue is in the shape of an important immortal individual. The statue will change according to the creature. What it wears, the injuries is has gained, even if it is living or dead will be shown on the statue.
-Avatar: The statue brings words from its patron god/goddess. If the god doesn’t exist or is incapable of intelligent thought then it will pose as them.
-Dancing: The statue moves and dances often to eerie disembodied music entertaining everyone who gazes upon it.
-Pristine: A Statue of such beauty it stuns those who glance at it. Those exposed to the statue regularly can build a resistance. This beauty is not natural and ignores cultural preferences.
-Inspiring: The statue inspires all those around it to further acts of greatness.
-Testing Guardian: The statue stands and guards the area around it according to requirements set with its creation such as a pure heart, true warrior, or great wealth. Those who attempt to pass by the statue without fulfilling these requirements are struck down by the statue’s powers.

Door
-Storage: The door leads to a mysterious storage facility that doesn’t exist in the world. You may store a vast amount of objects within the door.
-Two Gates: When created the door splits into two. The doors will always lead to the other no matter how far they are apart.
-Random Transport: Upon entering the door the individual gets transported to another door, at random, at another part of the world. It can be used as a trap or as a method of random adventures.
-Friendly: Upon passing through the door an enemy of the owner is mentally assaulted. If successful the enemy is incapable of seeing those within as anything but friends and allies.
-Recall: The owner has the ability to transport to the door if they are within a specific distance.

Hmm not as good as I think it could be, but I need to post here at some time. Tell me what you think

[orbcontrolled]

Door
-Recall: The owner has the ability to transport to the door if they are within a specific distance.

Variation: The owner/creator/person-associated-with-it can, if he wants to, open any normal door in the world, walk through it, and emerge from the artifact door.
The pathfinding for something like this might be... impractical though.

[Nivim]

 Please generalize, and refine the list (it's huge, and doesn't need to be). We know that spheres will be used, so start trying to figure things out based on spheres, as opposed to specific effects. Dwarf Fortress aims to be procedural, but almost all of these are described on the basis of being coded individually. For instance, just for "Conditions" you state three very specific effects, when you should simply say:

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Sacrifice - Consumes an object or monster, either may be of a specific type based on sphere.
Coverings - An artifact may work only if it has a certain covering, or may stop working if it has a certain covering.
Time - An artifact may be limited to certain times based on day/night cycle, dates, moon phases, or seasons.

Now each one covers every one of its type, as opposed to just an example.

 I also disagree with your pre-existing attempt at generalizing, as making effects specific to certain types of items only matters in some situations. Instead, try to create categories by what an enchantment requires to function; such as the Mimic effect under chests could conceivably be transferred to every item with an opening (from mugs to drawers to beds and barrels).
 I estimate you can compact this entire list into two or three posts using such systems.

[Neonivek]

1) Dwarf Fortress aims to be procedural, but almost all of these are described on the basis of being coded individually.

2) Now each one covers every one of its type, as opposed to just an example.

3) I also disagree with your pre-existing attempt at generalizing, as making effects specific to certain types of items only matters in some situations.

4) I estimate you can compact this entire list into two or three posts using such systems.

Alright I cut what you said up

1) I can understand what you are saying and quite early on in the old thread we hit the point where we realised that a lot of these

Some artifacts do have some degree of generalisation though it is mostly for conditions, impact, and the like specifically because I didn't want to explode the list to a certain extent.

2) Yes I do that to some extent (though I find that some people prefer to be more specific). Though if generalised too much this list pretty much becomes entirely about generalisations.

3) Some effects make much more sense with specific objects. A sword that can hold objects is a power in a sense. Though a backpack that can hold items probably should have more access (unless the sword builds off of the power of being able to hold objects) to carrying enhancements.

That and if I only used generalised categories then this entire list would be a blob of three categories.

4) Probably much shorter then that. In fact I probably could sum up most of these in maybe 10-20 effects if I try hard enough. Though that wouldn't be very satisfying or helpful.

Thanks for your response Nivm, Ill give it some thought. It would still take me a very long time to cut the list down if I made the attempt and I would still need to keep it ungeneralised enough to be interesting. I'll consider it.