Major

Note: Order is always from left to right.

Armour

Major Armour

Name: Armor of Chaos
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also grants them Order Ward.

Name: Armor of Death
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also grants them Life Ward.

Name: Armor of Life
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also grants them Death Ward.

Name: Armor of Order
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also grants them Chaos Ward.

Name: Breastplate of Regeneration
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also regenerates 20 hit points plus 2 per level.

Name: Brimstone Breastplate
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also grants them Fire Shield.

Name: Dragon Scale Armor
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 25. Also grants the wearer the Fire Resistance ability.

Name: Gryphonheart's Plate Mail
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 30.

Name: Scale Mail of Strength
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 10, and also increases their Melee and Ranged Attack by 10.

Name: Unnatural Armor
Slot: Torso
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Defense by 20, and also grants them Nature Ward.

Clothing

Major Clothing

Name: Robe of the Guardian
Slot: Shoulders
Description: The hero is immune to the damage taken from the first three attacks of each combat.

Name: Mantle of Spell Turning
Slot: Shoulders
Description: The hero gains 70% magic resistance.

Helms

Major Helms

Name: Helm of Command
Slot: Head
Description: All friendly targets get +20% to their Melee and Ranged Attack, +20% to their Melee and Ranged Defense, and +1 to their speed.

Name: Helm of Power
Slot: Head
Description: The hero gains +20 spell points and regenerates 4 extra spell points per day.

Name: Seaman's Hat
Slot: Head
Description: The hero gets no penalty for disembarking or boarding a ship.

Miscellaneous

Major Miscellaneous

Name: Fizbin of Misfortune
Slot: Neck
Description: Casts Misfortune on all enemy targets as long as a hero has it equipped.

Name: Mirror of Revenge
Slot: Neck
Description: The hero gains the Magic Mirror ability (same as the Chaos Magic spell).

Name: Shackles of War
Slot: Backpack
Description: No army may retreat or surrender during combat.

Name: Maranthea's Mug
Slot: Backpack
Description: Gives all friendly targets +3 morale.

Ring

Major Ring

Name: Ring of Regeneration
Slot: Left or Right Hand
Description: Restores 20 hit points plus 2 per level of the hero (rounded down) per round of combat.

Shields

Major Shields

Name: Lion's Shield of Courage
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Increases the Melee and Ranged Defense of all friendly creatures by 40%. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Name: Shield of Chaos
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Gives all friendly targets Order Ward and +30% to their Melee and Ranged Defense. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Name: Life Shield
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Gives all friendly targets Death Ward and +30% to their Melee and Ranged Defense. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Name: Death Shield
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Gives all friendly targets Life Ward and +30% to their Melee and Ranged Defense. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Name: Shield of Order
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Gives all friendly targets Chaos Ward and +30% to their Melee and Ranged Defense. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Name: Unnatural Shield
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Gives all friendly targets Nature Ward and +30% to their Melee and Ranged Defense. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Name: Dragon Scale Shield
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Gives all friendly creatures +30% to their Melee and Ranged Defense and the Fire Resistance ability. It also gives the hero +3 Melee and Ranged Defense.

Shoes

Major Shoes

Name: Boots of Travel
Slot: Feet
Description: Gives an army +50% movement on land.

Name: Boots of the Explorer
Slot: Feet
Description: Gives an army the ability to ignore all terrain penalties.

Name: Winged Sandals
Slot: Feet
Description: Gives all friendly creatures +2 movement in combat.

Staves

Major Staves

Name: Saint Ranan's Staff
Slot: Left Hand + Right Hand
Description: Doubles the effect of all healing spells. Resurrects 20% of all killed creatures after combat, fractions always rounded down. Uses both the left and right hand slots.

Name: Staff of Death
Slot: Left Hand + Right Hand
Description: Gives the hero plus 50% to the damage and power level of Death spells. Uses both the left and right hand slots.

Name: Staff of Wizardry
Slot: Left Hand + Right Hand
Description: Reduces the mana cost of all Order spells by 50%. The minimum cost of any spell is 1 point. Uses both the left and right hand slots.

Name: Staff of Power
Slot: Left Hand + Right Hand
Description: Reduces the cost of all spells by 1/3. The minimum spell cost is one point. Uses both the left and right hand slots.

Name: Staff of Summoning
Slot: Left Hand + Right Hand
Description: Reduces the cost of creature summoning spells by 50% with a minimum cost of 1 point.Uses both the left and right hand slots.

Name: Mayhem Staff
Slot: Left Hand + Right Hand
Description: All Chaos direct damage spells do 50% more damage. Uses both the left and right hand slots.

Texts

Major Texts

Name: Tome of Order
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all Order Magic spells. The hero must have the corresponding Order Magic skills to cast the spells.

Name: Tome of Nature
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all Nature Magic spells. The hero must have the corresponding Nature Magic skills to cast the spells.

Name: Tome of Life
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all Life Magic spells. The hero must have the corresponding Life Magic skills to cast the spells.

Name: Tome of Death
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all Death Magic spells. The hero must have the corresponding Death Magic skills to cast the spells.

Name: Tome of Chaos
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all Chaos Magic spells. The hero must have the corresponding Chaos Magic skills to cast the spells.

Name: Master's Spellbook
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all third level spells. The hero must have the appropriate magic skills to cast the spells.

Name: Guildmaster's Compendium
Slot: Left Hand
Description: Contains all fourth level spells. The hero must have the appropriate magic skills to cast the spells.

Weapons

Major Weapons

Name: Tynan's Dagger of Despair
Slot: Right Hand
Description: Targets struck with this weapon receive maximum negative morale as the Death spell, Sorrow.

Name: Axe of Legends
Slot: Right Hand
Description: Increases the hero's Melee Attack by 8. Friendly targets gain +40% melee and ranged damage.

Name: Flaming Sword
Slot: Right Hand
Description: Increases the hero's Melee Attack and Melee Defense by 3. In addition, the hero does 30 hit points of Fire damage plus 3 per level of the hero.

Name: Sword of Swiftness
Slot: Right Hand
Description: Increases the hero's Melee Attack and Melee Defense by 6. The hero also gains an extra melee attack.

Name: Soul Stealer
Slot: Right Hand
Description: Increases the hero's Melee Attack and Melee Defense by 4. For every 2 hit points of damage done, the hero gains 1 hit point.

Name: Spear of the Centaur
Slot: Back
Description: Increases the hero's Melee and Ranged Attack by 8, and all friendly ranged creatures suffer no penalty when fighting hand-to-hand.

Name: Emerald Longbow
Slot: Back
Description: Increases the hero's Ranged Attack by 30.

Thanks to The_Hydra (Heroes 5 Content Admin, Heroes Community Moderator) for making the artifacts pages.