The Crown of the Shadow Lions is a black circlet of obsidian with four sharp points rising above it. Inlaid into this circlet are Shadow Lions, carved from dark gold and onyx. The Crown is sized for an adult Keldian to wear.
If someone dons the crown they will be caught under its spell and will believe that it is their right to rule all those that they come into contact with. The crown furthers this belief by gifting the wearer with amazing social bonuses. They gain +2 Intelligence, +2 Spirit, +2 Presence and +2 Status so long as they continue to wear the Crown. Once the Crown is removed all of these bonuses become penalties for a period of a month, and the wearer is consumed with a desire to put the Crown back on again. Those who have found the Crown in the past quickly come to rule everyone around them, inciting both fear and envy. Unfortunately for the would-be king the powers of the Crown are doomed to fail at some crucial point, with the bonuses immediately converted to penalties as if the Crown had been removed. Anyone under the Crown's influence at this point immediately turns on their former leader, and the Crown inevitably changes hands or vanishes in the resulting turmoil, only to reappear at a later date.