Zruty

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The zruty is the only member of the z zruty monster class.

Zruty get two hit attacks and a bite attack. They seem to have no special abilities.

Zruty do not appear to exist outside of NetHack. The Tatra Mountains, however, exist in the border of Poland and Slovakia, so the origins of zruty could be in Polish or Slovakian mythology.

On this web forum, someone has posted what appears to be the full text of a book called Vampires of the Slavs, which includes this quote: "The Slovaks have their Zruty, or Ozruti, who are wild and gigantic beings, living in the wildernesses of the Tatra Mountains." The similar phrasing suggests that this book is the origin of the monster and of the in-game description.

According to a discussion from [[1] The forms "ozruty" and "zruty" are in fact plural forms with "ozruta" or "zrut" being the correct singular forms.

Encyclopedia entry

The zruty are wild and gigantic beings, living in the
wildernesses of the Tatra mountains.

SLASH'EM

In SLASH'EM, zruties are moved to the apelike creature monster class as Y, to compensate for the addition of "Zouthern" (Australian) animals.

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