All the artifacts in my game tend to be terribly powerful McGuffins that have serious drawbacks. My favorite is the Green Fugue, an ancient Chinese Sword that will duplicate its user while in combat. Practical upshot of this weapon is that you get to play two identical versions of yourself in combat where otherwise you might be overpowered. The _downside_ is that if one of them dies...well, that one is just as much you as the other. Time to reach for a new character sheet. Another is a gun that bleeds chi from the user for the rest of the session in return for embuing its target with that person's memories from the previous significant shift. It only works on people who've not been exposed to the Netherworld. It was said to have been made by The Lover, one of the original Silver Dragons, when he had been Unstuck but could not bear to bring his true love into the Secret War.
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