I think the world gate/life portals are made by artifacs rather than being artifacts themselves, I see how it's needed to create a world but I wouldn't consider it an artifact.
Staff of Armadyl, I am quite sure it was made by Armadyl for a couple of reasons;
-The name: we have seen the Stone of Jas, it was called the Stone of Jas and not the fist of Guthix / eye of Saradomin variant. If the staff were from another origin than the hands of Armadyl himself, it would have at least been hinted by something which isn't the case. It is called the staff or Armadyl by every npc that knows about it, any book or tome you can find about it and I haven't heard of a J mod calling it different.
- The dragonkin were able to shatter the Staff, if it were an artifact of the elder gods wouldn't it have been a little harder than a simple slash? I know that the kin are extremely powerful but this was way too easy.
- Compared to the Stone and the Kiln, it had 0 security. a couple of lvl 60 armadyl guards? Enslave a race for the Stone, bunch of tokhaar Jads @ the kiln and 'the' staff doesn't even get one decent guard? It was stolen from an empty temple in the 2nd age (not important enough to guard by Armadyl himself?) Zamorak only won by chance while it was stuck in Zaros' back, you can steal it as easily as stealing a cake (during temple of ikov quest) and Lucien didn't even dare to challange you at the end of while Guthix sleeps. I'm sorry but this staff doesn't have the world-creating capacity over it.
- Armadyl is the God of justice and he must have had reasonable power looking at the floating citadels and his loyal followers the aviantese, he made the hilt for the Armadyl godswword why couldn't he have created the Staff? As far as I know, the Staff isn't all-powerful, it's rather a vessel of power. Like how Zaros' power was transported to Zamorak when they were both impaled. Armadyl created the Staff as it was able to drain Zaros so he could be killed. It was made for the ocasion!
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