Elf-noble

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@ elf-noble / elf-lord / elf-lady
Difficulty 11
Attacks

Weapon 2d4 physical, weapon 2d4 physical

Base level 8
Base experience 123
Speed 12
Base AC 10
Base MR 20
Alignment -9 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means) 2 (Quite rare)
Genocidable Yes
Weight 800
Nutritional value 350
Size Medium
Resistances sleep resistance
Resistances conveyed sleep resistance (53%)

An elf-noble:

Reference NetHack 5.0.0 - include/monsters.h, line 2670

An elf-noble, @, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. The elf-noble is an omnivorous human-like monster that is a stronger type of elf and is a lord to elvenkind: male elf-nobles are known as elf-lords, while female elf-nobles are known as elf-ladies. Elf-nobles are strong, and like most elves they have infravision and the ability to see invisible, can be seen via infravision, and will collect items such as weapons, armor and food that they come across.

An elf-noble has two weapon attacks and possesses sleep resistance.

Eating an elf-noble corpse or tin has a 8⁄15 chance (53%) of granting sleep resistance.

A hero that is polymorphed into an elf-noble will have their strength set to 18, which matches the maximum strength of an elven hero, rather than 18/** like other strong monsters.[1][2]

Generation

Randomly-generated elf-nobles are always created as peaceful towards elven heroes, and will occasionally be created peaceful towards chaotic humans. A Woodland-elf, Green-elf or Grey-elf can grow up into an elf-noble of the matching gender, and an elf-noble can grow up into an elven monarch of the matching gender.[3]

Hostile elf-nobles can be generated by a hostile monster that casts the summon nasties monster spell, and will also appear in place of elven monarchs if elven monarchs are genocided or considered out-of-depth for that summoning.[4][5]

Elf-nobles are eligible for offensive, defensive and miscellaneous items, and are generated with elven equipment like other elves.[6]

  • They have a roughly 1⁄2 chance of being given torso armor that has a roughly equal probability of being either an elven mithril-coat or an elven cloak.
  • They have a roughly 1⁄2 chance of being given an elven leather helm, and otherwise have a 1⁄4 chance (effectively 1⁄8) of generating with elven boots.
  • They have a roughly 1⁄2 chance of being given an elven dagger.
  • They will be given one of the following sets of items, with an equal probability of each set:

Strategy

Groups of elf-nobles can be quite dangerous to a mid-game hero: even individual elf-nobles with bows and arrows can pepper you with several shots per round from a distance, and with their multishot bonuses they can easily rack up significant damage on their own while possibly supplementing other elves that serve as melee threats. Furthermore, they may generate with potions of gain level that cause them to grow up into elven monarchs with even better arrow-firing output. Their ability to ignore Elbereth like most elves also makes them dangerous to encounter via the summon nasties spell, even if they lack the threat level of elven monarchs in that regard.

History

The elf-noble first appears in NetHack 3.0.0 as the elf-lord: from this version to NetHack 3.6.7, including some variants based on those versions, elf-lords are exclusively-male monsters, and a hero that polymorphs into an elf-lord has their strength set to 18/** as with other strong monsters. NetHack 5.0.0 makes changes to monster titles and growth via commit 0c3b9642 so that elf-lords and several other monsters have female counterparts, and implements gender-neutral terms for such monsters as a whole—they also lower the strength of the elf-noble's polyform via commit b6a3d4b9, which is done to maintain congruence between non-player monsters and their player counterparts.

Variants

Some NetHack variants grant elf-nobles and other elven monsters AC bonuses for wearing racial equipment. NetHack variants created prior to NetHack 5.0.0 may also make their own adjustments so that female counterparts to elf-lords are properly named and generated.

GruntHack

In GruntHack, elf-lords are replaced by the lord and lady racial monsters, which can be elven.

UnNetHack

In UnNetHack, a hostile elf-lord is generated within the fort's main hall on the third map of Fort Ludios during level creation.

dNetHack

In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, female elves will grow up into elf-ladies rather than elf-lords.

An elf-lord is always generated on the level containing the magic portal to the Mordor Ruins Quest, and some may appear within the branch itself:

  • The River Ford level has a 3⁄4 chance of generating an elf-lord in the forest on the west side during level creation.
  • An elf-lord is among the group of elves generated at the west edge of the Elven Forest level during level creation, where they are placed opposite a horde of Mordor orcs and other monsters led by a Nazgul.

Elf-lords may appear among the court of a throne room ruled by an Elvenking or Elvenqueen.

SpliceHack

In SpliceHack, the monster is known as the elven noble, with a male elven noble known as an elven lord and a female nobles known as an elven lady.

EvilHack

In EvilHack, the monster is known as the elven noble, with the same gendered titles as in SpliceHack.

As in UnNetHack, the third map of Fort Ludios generates a hostile elven noble within the fort's main hall.

Hack'EM

In Hack'EM, the monster is also known as the elven noble, with the same gendered titles as in SpliceHack and EvilHack.

References

  1. ↑ src/polyself.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 1087-L1088
  2. ↑ src/polyself.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 1100-L1118
  3. ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 2136-L2151
  4. ↑ src/wizard.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 42
  5. ↑ src/wizard.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 553-L569
  6. ↑ src/makemon.c in NetHack 5.0.0, line 226-L256: Default equipment for elves
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