Staff of Loki

*This is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*

**Loki's staff** (called Lævateinn in Norse mythology) is one of the Norse mythical weapons linked to the Stones of Power. It is located on the sixth and final island.

## Unlocking

To find this item, player must reach 6th island and find Loki's shrine (shown on picture). It is recognized by two large serpents coiled around boulders with Kaunan rune (ᚲ), each having a crown on their heads, hissing and facing the statue of Loki himself with horned helmet in the middle.

Unlike previous magical items that require coins and gems, Loki's shrine demands the Crown itself. This is possible only by emptying a pouch and aggro-ing a greedling from the portal and intentionally letting them punch the player.

If player manages to successfully place a crown onto Loki's hands, the shrine will glow light-blue and white and they will be transformed into Greedling. Whatever actual Greedling nearby will ignore them and go after the crown, but they will be unable to reach it. By pressing W key on keyboard, player transforms back into human, staff shows up from the sky and can be picked up with one coin as well and shrine itself giving back their crown.

This is the most difficult magical item to obtain because the crown's flying distance and direction is very random and it can result in Game Over if it misses Loki's statue and lands on Greedlings instead.

It is recommended to go after this item during the day when their numbers are manageable, as well and having Thor's hammer equipped to prevent greedlings from reaching the crown if it lands in the wrong way.

## Ability

By pressing the Monarch ability key/button, the player can transform into one of the Greed creatures, causing actual Greed to stop attacking them and accepting them as their own. However, humans will treat the transformed monarch like actual Greed and start attacking them if they reach the wall. While in this form, access to the purse is disabled and the player picks up coins in the same way that Greed do. Transformation is dispelled either by sustaining enough damage to kill their Greed form or if player presses the Monarch ability key again. During night raids of Greed, the player can highlight one of Greed and transform into one of them. Their transformed form's health depends on which type of Greed they've chosen.

In one of the recent updates, the staff was given a new power that makes the staff much more useful and worth the risk. You can now transform into any Subject with all their accompanying abilities. You can transform into any subject and do anything they can. Press the Drop key to attack, and hold it down for a special ability.

There is no cooldown time on the staff and it can be used at any time.

The transformed Monarch can change job by performing actions that would turn one subject into another, for example, picking up a coin as a vagrant will turn the player character into a villager.

## Trivia

* In actual Norse mythology, Loki is a jötunn adopted by Æsir tribe of the gods, and he is referred to as the trickster deity, neither explicitly good nor explicitly evil, with ability to transform into any living being regardless of species and gender. He also is father of world serpent Jörmungandr, monstrous wolf Fenrir, and in form of mare, he gave a birth to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
* Lævateinn in actual Norse mythology is Loki's weapon crafted by him. It is mentioned in Fjölsvinnsmál in Poetic Edda. The type of this weapon has never been confirmed by historians due to difficulty of translation - some are assuming that it's a throwing dart, others as a wand or a staff while some others as a sword.
* Snakes on the in-game shrine are possibly referring to the snake in Norse lore about the punishment of Loki for insulting the gods, where he was bound to a boulder with the entrails of his son Nari and had a serpent placed above his head drip venom on him. His spouse Sigyn would then place a bowl above Loki's head to prevent venom from dripping on him, but when she was carrying away a full bowl, venom would drip on Loki's head and causing him to spasm so violently that it would create earthquakes in Midgard, the human world.