ARTIFACT APPENDIX- CJ1 The Vandaled Lands

The Imperators Eye- also known as the Eye Of The Brass Elophant (6000 gp): 

In the ancient era, the use of this device was strictly prohibited. The round brass device is an artificial eye equipped with a special glinting lens. Touched to the forehead, it sinks within the skull to embed itself, allowing perfect vision even in total darkness. The eye’s energy can be charged by sapping the life force of others, by emitting a golden light beam draining 3d6 Hp from the subject. Victims permanently lose 3 Hp, which the owner gains temporarily.

At 0 Hp, the eye drains all remaining life energy, transferring it to the owner and killing the subject. Although there are no theoretical upper limits to the life drain effect, the human organism cannot always cope with the excess energy, and so the sentience within the eye will begin a transmutation of the physical form so that it may cope with the influx of power. However, if the eye receives insufficient nourishment, it will devour the user’s brain and nervous system – warning signs include a feeling of pressure within the forehead, and brass colored veins protruding from the flesh.

If the cursed god Mnoyór The Despoiler is freed, he will stop at no end to obtain the Eye, thus increasing his power.

The God-box of Zoforon the Great (3000 gp): 

A communication link to a (hopefully intact) subterranean databank located far below the sands of Ran Popal, deep within the Cyclopean Depths of the fabled City Of Brass. Activating the box awakens the A.I sentience in charge of protecting the City Of Brass from intruders. The box answers questions put to it, although its terminology, wording and reference points may not be perfectly clear for men of the current era. The database may have its limitations and it may be malfunctioning in both obvious and subtle ways. Finally, there is no intelligent actor behind the responses: precise and appropriately worded questions are indispensable to receive useful and relevant answers from the A.I.