weapon designs

These are a few of the inital designs for the princes potential weapons, since he is a mage one of the most obvious of choices would be the staff; however before settling with that I wanted to explore some other potenial ideas.

Grimoire - Text books of magic, I really liked the idea of a book containing such magical secrets and has much more history behind than a staff, it makes it seem much rarer and difficult to obtain. Plus it isn't commonly used as opposed to staves.
Chains - Aside from books and staves it got a bit complicated to think of other ideas for weapons that would suit the prince. Chains have the association of binding or blocking something away, so I thought perhaps something along the lines of an enchanted chain could work.
Lantern- I liked the idea of a lantern as it seems like a usher of the dead, or some kind of leader to show the way. I always thought of lanterns as mystical an ominous.