Elemental
The elemental is a monster class that appears in NetHack, and is represented by the uppercase E glyph (E). Elementals are designated internally by the macro S_ELEMENTAL.[1]
The monster class contains the following monsters:[2]
Contents
Common traits
Except for the stalker, all elementals are mindless, unsolid and amorphous.
Generation
Elementals generated on their corresponding Elemental Plane will have three times the normal amount of hit points.[3]
Minus the stalker, elementals do not leave behind corpses upon death.
History
The elemental monster class is introduced in NetHack 3.0.0 with the exception of the stalker: it first appears in Hack for PDP-11 (a variant of Jay Fenlason's Hack) but is not moved to the monster class until NetHack 3.3.0, which is the first version to repurpose its former I glyph to indicate the last known position of any invisible monster.
Variants
SpliceHack
SpliceHack introduces many new monsters to the monster class:
SpliceHack also adds the scroll of elementalism, which can summon a random elemental.
Encyclopedia entry
Elementals are manifestations of the basic nature of the
universe. There are four known forms of elementals: air, fire,
water, and earth. Some mystics have postulated the necessity
for a fifth type, the spirit elemental, but none have ever
been encountered, at least on this plane of existence.
