The Crown of Saint Edward
[ The Crown of Saint Edward 
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|---|---|
| Base item | helm of telepathy |
| Affiliation | |
| When carried | |
| When worn | extrinsic telepathy |
| When invoked | (none) |
| Base price | 5000 zm |
| Weight | 50 |
The Crown of Saint Edward is the yeoman quest artifact in SLASH'EM. It is a lawful helm of telepathy which also provides magic resistance and half spell damage when carried.
Strategy
For yeomen
As is true for other roles whose quest artifacts provide magic resistance, yeomen will not want to rely on the Crown as their only source of magic resistance. Losing your only source of magic resistance to a (now magic resistant) Wizard of Yendor can be a game-ending mistake. Most yeomen will probably want to wear the Crown, however, since the extrinsic telepathy is useful and most yeomen are unlikely to be spellcasters.
For others
In SLASH'EM, the Crown is one of three lawful quest artifacts which provide magic resistance, the other two being the Orb of Detection and the Sceptre of Might. In vanilla, a player considering wishing for another role's quest artifact for magic resistance would normally choose the Sceptre, as it is lighter and gives you slotless, hungerless conflict and a potent weapon in addition to magic resistance. In SLASH'EM, one might consider the Crown instead for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the Sceptre has been downgraded from doing double damage against cross-aligned monsters to merely doing an extra 5 damage, making it a mediocre as artifact weapons go. Secondly, SLASH'EM tends to contain more high-level spellcasters. Half spell damage greatly lessens the impact of their psi bolt and curse items spells. One should weigh these benefits against the Sceptre's conflict, which remains quite useful in SLASH'EM.
