In CHIKARA Kayfabe, it was a Norse Mythological artifact with the power to control minds. The catch is that there was a curse on whoever kept it, since it was supposed to be only used once and then given away. In the storyline, UltraMantis Black and CHIKARA Commissioner Bob Saget (yes, Bob Saget) had brokered a deal to send Chris Hero (Chris Spradlin) to wrestle for Dr. Cube in Kaiju Big Battel in exchange for Cube giving Mantis the Eye. Mantis wanted it as a means to exact revenge on his former Dark Breed tag team partner Hallowicked (Robert Goodwin), since Hallowicked had left the team and turned tecnico (face/good guy) at the start of 2006. At CHIKARA Tag World Grand Prix 2006- Night I, with Mantis injured and Blind Rage (Timothy P. Vassa) having "retired" again, Hallowicked was left without a partner. Names were drawn and Delirious (William Hunter Johnston) ended up as the replacement partner for the tournament. Mantis used the Eye on Delirious to force him into the Order of the Neo-Solar Temple. Mantis would cut promos about how, despite his belief in the supernatural, he did not believe in the "curse" associated with the Eye. This would come back to haunt him for the next seven years, first with the debut of Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes at the end of the 2009 Season Finale Chikara: Three-Fisted Tales (2009), then five years later at Chikara: Tomorrow Never Dies (2014) when Delirious used the Eye to turn Hallowicked and Frightmare against Mantis, then a third time at Chikara: Disk (2016) in 2016 when Hallowicked and Frightmare used it on Mantis, causing Mantis to become possessed by Nazmaldun, the mysterious entity Hallowicked and Frightmare follow.
Well, same name, but, in the Baldur's Gate (1998) series, it is used for powering religious-based weapons, not for the mind control purposes in CHIKARA.
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