Crown of Horns 846082 222495080 2008-06-29T17:22:40Z George Burgess 205776 disamb {{Notability|Proposed|[[Wikipedia:Notability (fiction)]]|date=January 2008}} {{FR-in-universe|object = a fictional artifact}} {{Nofootnotes|date=February 2008}} {{context}} {{dablink|For the final volume of the ''[[Bone (comics)|Bone]]'' series, see ''[[Crown of Horns (book)]]''.}} The '''Crown of Horns''' is an evil, intelligent [[artifact (fantasy)|artifact]] of great power from the [[Forgotten Realms]] [[Dungeons & Dragons]] [[campaign setting]]. Forged by a Netherese arcanist and enchanted by [[Myrkul]], the former god of the dead, it carries with it a long history of corruption and tragedy. At one point, the Crown possessed Laeral Silverhand, one of the [[Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms)|Seven Sisters]], and was sundered by her husband, the [[Wizard (Dungeons & Dragons)|archmage]] [[Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun]], who locked its pieces away within the heavily-protected walls of his tower. However, when Myrkul died at Midnight the Mage's hand during the [[Time of Troubles (Forgotten Realms)|Time of Troubles]], the god tore the broken shards of the 'Crown' from Blackstaff Tower, reforged it in a new shape, and infused it with the remains of his sentience before teleporting away. To this day, Myrkul, through the Crown, has been spreading evil through the Realms, tormenting members of the Church of [[Cyric]] as well as hapless innocents. The Crown of Horns appears as a silver circlet with a black diamond set on the brow and four bone horns mounted around its edge. It imbues the wearer with several considerable [[necromancy|necromantic]] powers - including the unique "Myrkul's Hand" property - but has a tendency to strongly influence that action of the wearer, changing his alignment to [[Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)#Neutral Evil|neutral evil]] and gradually making him into an [[Lich (Dungeons & Dragons)|undead creature]], among other things. The Crown of Horns was last seen in the possession of a [[yuan-ti]] pureblood named Nhyris D'Hothek, who disappeared from his haunts in [[Skullport]] in 1370 [[Dalereckoning|DR]], after the Crown transformed him into a lich. People and creatures who have remained dedicated to Myrkul after, or have become dedicated to him since his demise, devote themselves to him through the Crown of Horns and are known as 'Horned Harbingers' - Nhyris included{{Who|date=February 2008}}. The statistics for the Crown can be found in the Forgotten Realms 3rd edition book 'Magic of Faerun'. ==References== *City of Splendors boxed set (1994) *Volo's Guide To All Things Magical (1996) *Magic of Faerun (ISBN 0-7869-1964-7, 2001:August) [[Category:Forgotten Realms]] [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons magical items]] [[fr:Couronne à Cornes]]