A cursed ring from the Volsunga Saga that brings immense wealth and power but also doom to its owners.

Forged by Sauron to dominate all other rings of power, it corrupts anyone who seeks to wield it, symbolizing the temptation of absolute control.

The central artifact of the myth, representing divine authority, psychic wholeness, and the covenant between the individual soul and the ultimate source of order.

The symbol of divinely-sanctioned authority and the focused will that channels higher law into manifest action; it represents the covenant between the human and the transcendent.

The cyclical, encompassing nature of the thalassocracy’s influence, a dominion that ruled not land but sea-lanes, a binding circle of alliance and control that had no beginning or end.

An object of binding and control, representing the human attempt to constrain and command vast, autonomous psychic forces.