Favorite artifacts

[Vicious Love]

The Forbidden Light. Style, power, and suicidal blaze of glory. I mean, wow. It's a chunk of the sun, the epitome of Power Man and Even God Were Not Meant to Have, and everything in the cosmos, including the Horrors, wants it. It's also one of the few items that really conveys a sense of Godlike power. "Right, men, fall in, lances at the ready, we'll just be cresting this hill here and OHSWEETPRETENDERMYEYES!"
On that same note, the Unquenched Sword. Free Heat From Hell!
The Sword of Aurgeimer is practical AND stylish, as is the Armor of Virtue(The better part thereof, apparently).
Kurgi's Gift is pretty sweet. When better targets fail to present themselves, I use it to strike at Undersea provinces which I can't actually conquer, out of sheer spite. Then I send a water mage in to claim the unoccupied land, but that's really more of an afterthought. It's the spite that counts.
Caractor, Nethgul, and both unique eyes are useful AND amazingly fun, as is Percival the Pocket Knight, though he does seem kind of sissified, considering the lower level Bottle of Living Water. Still, protection 30 is nothing to scoff at.
Last of all, the Chalice and Gate Stone are absolutely, positively indispensable.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Vicious Love:
The Forbidden Light. Style, power, and suicidal blaze of glory.

Damn, how did I forget that one?

[Taqwus]

Chalice, Soulstone, Gate Stone, Magebane, Aegis, Sun Slayer (Area DEATH), Amon Hotep, Hammers of the Forge Lord and the Cyclops are lovely.
The Soulstone is particularly nifty during storms as its one of the few ways for a non-Air-strong nation to get troops instantly to the enemy's flanks, and they're great distractions.
Armor wise, Monolith Armor is fun for a 0-enc fighter, and Asfetik's is spiffy for those that care about both high prot and MR.

[LintMan]

Originally posted by Vicious Love:

Kurgi's Gift is pretty sweet. When better targets fail to present themselves, I use it to strike at Undersea provinces which I can't actually conquer, out of sheer spite. Then I send a water mage in to claim the unoccupied land, but that's really more of an afterthought. It's the spite that counts.

I've never understood the use of Kurgi's Gift. How exactly does it work that you can use it to clear out an underwater province?

[Endoperez]

Gift of Kurgi lets you Send Lesser Horror for free.