When you grasp the staff, the faerie queen's sense starts to go... well, haywire. One, two, three times it attempts to identify the staff, only to have its "gaze" slide off the rod uselessly... until it finally seems to stop seeing the staff completely. After a good minute, the only thing you can get from the fae queen is a sense of brokenness, like the item that you're holding literally isn't all there...