Aleax

A Aleax
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Weapon 1d6, weapon 1d6, kick 1d4

A Aleax
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Weapon 1d6, weapon 1d6, kick 1d4
Base level	10
Base experience	298
Speed	8
Base AC	0
Base MR	30
Alignment	7 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	Cold, shock, sleep, poison
Resistances conveyed	None
An Aleax: has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. can see invisible creatures. does not eat. (*) can follow you to other levels. is nasty. can pick up weapons and food. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. does not appear in Gehennom. never leaves a corpse.
Reference	monst.c#line1078

The Aleax, A, is a humanoid angelic being that appears in NetHack. It is the only humanoid angelic monster that is a valid polymorph form.

Generation

Aleaxes are rarely generated randomly and will never appear in Gehennom. They may appear as lawful minions; randomly generated Aleaxes will be peaceful towards lawful characters with good alignment record.

They are generated with a blessed erodeproof long sword and a non-cursed erodeproof large shield. There is a ¹⁄₂₀ chance that the sword will be converted into either Demonbane or Sunsword (if the chosen artifact does not exist yet), and a ¹⁄₄ chance the shield will instead be a shield of reflection.

Variant

UnNetHack

In UnNetHack, an Aleax behaves more like the D&D Aleax (as described below), and will be generated wearing an erodeproof +0 copy of all of the player's equipment and weapons; artifacts will be converted to their base item.

Origin

In Dungeons & Dragons, an Aleax is an avatar of a deity sent to punish a specific mortal; the Aleax takes on the target's exact appearance and carries identical equipment.

Encyclopedia entry

An Aleax, according to the AD&D Fiend Folio, is a creature that
looks exactly like the character, and is sent by the character's
god to punish alignment violations. Obviously - and luckily - in
Nethack this is not the case.

This page may need to be updated for the current version of NetHack.

It may contain text specific to NetHack 3.6.4. Information on this page may be out of date.

Editors: After reviewing this page and making necessary edits, please change the {{nethack-364}} tag to the current version's tag or {{noversion}} as appropriate.