Often has An Aesop on how power corrupts and over-reliance on technology/magic is a bad thing.
Still think it's worth the risk? Think you can handle it? After all, once you realize how evil it is, all you have to do is get rid of it or destroy it. This may be explicitly stated as one of its powers in the case of the Artifact of Attraction. The artifact will often make this conflict escalate to a Hate Plague with deadly consequences. There will be a conflict among the heroes, between those who say they should dare to use its power and resist or purify the corrupting effects and those who feel it should be destroyed or sealed. Therein lies the irony: if people would just leave the damn thing alone, it would be harmless, but since Evil Feels Good, some idiot will inevitably try it out and doom us all. Nonetheless, it is incapable of action on its own its power lies in manipulating its user to act for it. Its threat is ever constant, whether destroying those it directly opposes, or consuming those who dare use it from within with dark whispers of power. This item has a palpable presence beyond merely being a device.
It may also cause Great Insanity, death, or worse. It is the threat of corruption and falling to The Dark Side. The Artifact of Doom is an unusual villain in that it is a (seemingly) inanimate object that somehow manages to be pure evil.
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