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Umbire the Phantom: /* Rituals */ potholes et. al.

2025-07-04T06:59:26Z

‎Rituals: potholes et. al.

Netzhack: Relieved us all of a "respectively".

2019-03-20T17:32:56Z

Relieved us all of a "respectively".

Netzhack: /* Main Dungeon */ "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

2016-12-26T11:35:17Z

‎Main Dungeon: "chance to" = opportunity; "chance of" = probability

Thrawcheld: /* Rituals */ dropping items on an altar breaks atheist conduct

2016-01-18T01:46:10Z

‎Rituals: dropping items on an altar breaks atheist conduct

Jubilex: /* Rituals */

2015-09-20T20:19:23Z

‎Rituals

Julesd: /* Above the first level */

2014-11-25T12:38:04Z

‎Above the first level

24.13.200.117: /* Rituals */

2014-11-21T02:12:34Z

‎Rituals

74.105.70.245: /* Parameters */ Fixing grammar.

2014-08-10T05:45:33Z

‎Parameters: Fixing grammar.

50.192.103.89 at 14:12, 16 January 2014

2014-01-16T14:12:20Z

Prometheus77: /* Altars */ wikilink sacrificing

2013-05-15T18:21:20Z

‎Altars: wikilink sacrificing

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 [[Prayer]] (#pray) may cause beneficial outcomes, from restoring your [[hit points|HP]] to uncursing your item or making water holy. However, prayer never improves your relationships with your god. For example, if your god is angry with you, you cannot mollify him or her by prayers. There are several conditions that must be met for prayer to be safe.
-[[Sacrificing]] (#offer) a corpse on a [[alignment|coaligned]] altar (e.g. lawful altar if you are lawful) can improve your relationships with your god, including your luck. It can also grant you an artifact weapon. Sacrificing on a coaligned altar is always safe, provided that you are not sacrificing a coaligned unicorn (white for lawful, gray for neutral, black for chaotic), a former pet of yours, or a member of your own (starting) race. (The last is safe for chaotic players, but the other two are not.) Sacrificing on an altar that is not coaligned may convert it (if your alignment is positive and you are not in [[Gehennom]]) or may instead lower your luck; if your alignment is not positive it may instead convert [[you]]. (Converting before the [[Quest]] makes it [[unwinnable|impossible to win]] the game.) Finally, sacrificing the [[Amulet of Yendor]] on the coaligned altar on the [[Astral Plane]] wins the game.
+[[Sacrificing]] (#offer) a corpse on a [[alignment|coaligned]] altar (e.g. lawful altar if you are lawful) can improve your relationships with your god, including your luck. It can also grant you an artifact weapon. Sacrificing on a coaligned altar is always safe, provided that you are not sacrificing a coaligned unicorn (white for lawful, gray for neutral, black for chaotic), a former pet of yours, or a member of your own (starting) race. (The last is safe for chaotic players, but the other two are not.) Sacrificing on an altar that is not coaligned may convert it (if your alignment is positive and you are not in [[Gehennom]]) or may instead lower your luck; if your alignment is not positive it may instead convert [[you]]. (Converting before the [[Quest]] makes it [[Unwinnable|impossible to win]] the game.) Finally, sacrificing the [[Amulet of Yendor]] on the coaligned altar on the [[Astral Plane]] wins the game.
-[[Turn undead]] (#turn) allows [[Knight]]s and [[Priest]]s to frighten or even destroy (if they are lawful or neutral) or pacify (if they are chaotic) nearby undead creatures by calling upon the power of their deity. It should not be confused with [[Spellbook of turn undead|the spell of turn undead]], which causes only minor damage to undead creatures. Like prayer, turning works only under specific conditions.
+[[Turn undead]] (#turn) allows [[Knight]]s and [[Priest]]s to frighten or even destroy (if they are lawful or neutral) or pacify (if they are chaotic) nearby undead creatures by calling upon the power of their deity. It should not be confused with the {{+ of|turn undead}} spell, which causes only minor damage to undead creatures. Like prayer, turning works only under specific conditions.
 To [[donate]] money (#chat), you must stand in the square adjacent to a peaceful priest in a temple. His alignment is not important. Donating 400 times your experience level (or more, but less than 600 times your experience level) grants or improves [[intrinsic protection]]. Other sums of money may grant temporary clairvoyance, improve your [[alignment record]], or exercise your wisdom. Donating $0 or less to a coaligned priest is a [[Bad Idea]]. For more information, see the chatting section in the [[Aligned priest]] article.

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 [[Prayer]] (#pray) may cause beneficial outcomes, from restoring your [[hit points|HP]] to uncursing your item or making water holy. However, prayer never improves your relationships with your god. For example, if your god is angry with you, you cannot mollify him or her by prayers. There are several conditions that must be met for prayer to be safe.
-[[Sacrificing]] (#offer) a corpse on a [[alignment|coaligned]] altar (e.g. lawful altar if you are lawful) can improve your relationships with your god, including your luck. It can also grant you an artifact weapon. Sacrificing on a coaligned altar is always safe, provided that you are not sacrificing a coaligned unicorn (white / gray / black for lawful / neutral / chaotic, respectively), a former pet of yours, or a member of your own (starting) race. (The last is safe for chaotic players, but the other two are not.) Sacrificing on an altar that is not coaligned may convert it (if your alignment is positive and you are not in [[Gehennom]]) or may instead lower your luck; if your alignment is not positive it may instead convert [[you]]. (Converting before the [[Quest]] makes it [[unwinnable|impossible to win]] the game.) Finally, sacrificing the [[Amulet of Yendor]] on the coaligned altar on the [[Astral Plane]] wins the game.
+[[Sacrificing]] (#offer) a corpse on a [[alignment|coaligned]] altar (e.g. lawful altar if you are lawful) can improve your relationships with your god, including your luck. It can also grant you an artifact weapon. Sacrificing on a coaligned altar is always safe, provided that you are not sacrificing a coaligned unicorn (white for lawful, gray for neutral, black for chaotic), a former pet of yours, or a member of your own (starting) race. (The last is safe for chaotic players, but the other two are not.) Sacrificing on an altar that is not coaligned may convert it (if your alignment is positive and you are not in [[Gehennom]]) or may instead lower your luck; if your alignment is not positive it may instead convert [[you]]. (Converting before the [[Quest]] makes it [[unwinnable|impossible to win]] the game.) Finally, sacrificing the [[Amulet of Yendor]] on the coaligned altar on the [[Astral Plane]] wins the game.
 [[Turn undead]] (#turn) allows [[Knight]]s and [[Priest]]s to frighten or even destroy (if they are lawful or neutral) or pacify (if they are chaotic) nearby undead creatures by calling upon the power of their deity. It should not be confused with [[Spellbook of turn undead|the spell of turn undead]], which causes only minor damage to undead creatures. Like prayer, turning works only under specific conditions.

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 ==== Main Dungeon ====
-Each non-maze, non-[[special level]] in the [[Dungeons of Doom]] above the [[Castle]] has a chance to feature off-temple [[altar]]s or at most one [[temple]]. Their [[alignment]] is independently distributed with equal chances of lawful, neutral, and chaotic. There are no altars in special rooms other than temples (shops, beehives, zoos etc.), or at special levels (Oracle, big room, rogue).
+Each non-maze, non-[[special level]] in the [[Dungeons of Doom]] above the [[Castle]] has a chance of including off-temple [[altar]]s or at most one [[temple]]. Their [[alignment]] is independently distributed with equal chances of being lawful, neutral, and chaotic. There are no altars in special rooms other than temples (shops, beehives, zoos etc.), or at special levels (Oracle, big room, rogue).
 Contrary to popular belief, a rooms-and-corridor type filler level can feature altars or a temple between Medusa's lair and the Castle.

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 === Rituals ===
-In NetHack, there are four religious rituals: [[prayer]], [[sacrificing]], [[turn undead]], and donating money to a priest.
+In NetHack, there are four religious rituals: [[prayer]], [[sacrificing]], [[turn undead]], and donating money to a priest. Dropping items on an [[altar]] while not blind also counts for the purposes of the atheist [[conduct]].
 [[Prayer]] (#pray) may cause beneficial outcomes, from restoring your [[hit points|HP]] to uncursing your item or making water holy. However, prayer never improves your relationships with your god. For example, if your god is angry with you, you cannot mollify him or her by prayers. There are several conditions that must be met for prayer to be safe.

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 [[Turn undead]] (#turn) allows [[Knight]]s and [[Priest]]s to frighten or even destroy (if they are lawful or neutral) or pacify (if they are chaotic) nearby undead creatures by calling upon the power of their deity. It should not be confused with [[Spellbook of turn undead|the spell of turn undead]], which causes only minor damage to undead creatures. Like prayer, turning works only under specific conditions.
-To [[donate]] money (#chat), you must stand in the square adjacent to a peaceful priest in a temple. His alignment is not important. Donating 400 times your experience level (or more, but less than 600 times your experience level) grants or improves [[intrinsic protection]]. Other sums of money may grant temporary clairvoyance, improve your [[alignment record]], or exercise your wisdom. Donating $0 or less to a coaligned priest is a [[Bad Idea]]. For more information, see the chatting section in the [[Aligned_priest]] article.
+To [[donate]] money (#chat), you must stand in the square adjacent to a peaceful priest in a temple. His alignment is not important. Donating 400 times your experience level (or more, but less than 600 times your experience level) grants or improves [[intrinsic protection]]. Other sums of money may grant temporary clairvoyance, improve your [[alignment record]], or exercise your wisdom. Donating $0 or less to a coaligned priest is a [[Bad Idea]]. For more information, see the chatting section in the [[Aligned priest]] article.
 Monsters cannot pray, sacrifice, turn undead, or donate money. (Players can still do these things while polymorphed, however.)

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 ==== Above the first level ====
-At the Astral Plane, there are three temples which are randomly assigned to lawful, neutral and chaotic alignments (one of each), and many off-temple aligned priests, some of them which are hostile.
+At the Astral Plane, there are three temples which are randomly assigned to lawful, neutral and chaotic alignments (one of each), and many off-temple aligned priests, some of which are hostile.
 Otherwise, there are no altars, priests, or temples.

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-''* There is an obscure bug certain favorable events occur most likely if your Luck is 7.''
+''* There is an obscure bug where certain favorable events occur most likely if your Luck is 7.''
 [[Alignment]] determines to which of three gods you serve. There are three alignments: lawful, neutral, and chaotic. Monsters, artifacts, altars and even the dungeon itself can have an alignment as well. Some entities loyal to [[Moloch]] are unaligned. You choose (or let the game pick) your starting alignment, however, not all [[role]]s can serve all gods. You can change it temporarily by wearing a [[helm of opposite alignment]], or permanently only once by sacrificing on a non-coaligned altar when your [[alignment record]] is negative. The [[Helm of opposite alignment|helm]] removes any intrinsic protection, and permanent change of your alignment additionally sets your alignment record to zero. If you permanently change your alignment before starting your quest, your quest leader will never send you to the quest, therefore you cannot win.

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 {{religion}}
-As [[NetHack]] is a fantasy adventure game, '''religion''' ties in closely with its occult themes and mythology. The very mission of the game is to recover [[The Amulet of Yendor]] for your god. This article is a portal to detailed articles about the religious aspects of the game which affect gameplay.
+As [[NetHack]] is a fantasy adventure game, '''religion''' ties in closely with its mythological themes. The very mission of the game is to recover [[The Amulet of Yendor]] for your god. This article is a portal to detailed articles about the religious aspects of the game which affect gameplay.
 ==General description==

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 There are three uses of altars:
 * If you drop items onto an altar while not blind, you will know their [[beatitude]]. Any altar can be used for this purpose. Note however that if you drop a fragile item (e. g. potion, mirror, crystal ball...) while levitating, it will break.
-* Sacrificing. There is no way to sacrifice unless you stay over an altar.
+* [[Sacrifice|Sacrificing]]. There is no way to sacrifice unless you stay over an altar.
 * Prayer. While you certainly can try to pray everywhere, prayers while standing on altar cause better or different outcomes.