The Silver Flame - Revision history

EasterlyIrk: clarify some minor rules

2026-01-18T11:04:41Z

clarify some minor rules

Umbire the Phantom: word choice

2025-06-02T22:37:10Z

word choice

Noisytoot: It's 10 insight now, not 20

2025-06-02T19:44:09Z

It's 10 insight now, not 20

Umbire the Phantom: follow up

2025-03-22T04:14:13Z

follow up

EasterlyIrk: note about devotion

2025-03-21T22:58:12Z

note about devotion

Umbire the Phantom: follow-up

2024-09-27T20:00:28Z

follow-up

EasterlyIrk: rules for boon eligibility

2024-09-27T14:30:06Z

rules for boon eligibility

EasterlyIrk: add the new major boons for sflame

2024-09-27T14:21:56Z

add the new major boons for sflame

EasterlyIrk: clarify thats an object property

2024-08-15T00:28:25Z

clarify thats an object property

Umbire the Phantom: cats

2024-05-25T13:08:43Z

cats

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 * If you are not on the same floor, it will report the location as (far) below or above you.
-* If you are on the correct dungeon level, it will instead report the cardinal direction of a specific square on that floor, e.g. "far to the west".
+* If you are on the correct dungeon level, it will instead report the cardinal direction of a specific square on that floor, e.g. "far to the west", "to the south", "two steps east and one step north".
 * If you are on the correct square, you can then follow the directions below to begin following the Silver Flame.
-==Sacrificing==
+==Basic mechanics ==
-To begin following the Silver Flame, you must have a suitable [[weapon]] or pair of [[gloves]]. The Silver Flame can only take up residence in suitable [[mithril]], [[silver]] and [[platinum]] objects&mdash;once it does so, your mirror will be converted to a purified mirror, which appears as a silver disk when unidentified. The Silver Flame-enhanced object will have "shining" prepended to their material, e.g. "shining mithril".
+To begin following the Silver Flame, you must have a suitable [[weapon]]. The Silver Flame can only take up residence in suitable [[mithril]], [[silver]] and [[platinum]] objects&mdash;once it does so, your mirror will be converted to a purified mirror, which appears as a silver disk when unidentified. The Silver Flame-enhanced object will have "shining" prepended to their material, e.g. "shining mithril". Acceptable items are any plausible weapon - so weapon-tools, gloves, boots (kicking) and helmets (headbutting) are accepted.
-Vanquishing certain monsters with a Silver Flame weapon has a chance of instantly sacrificing that monster to the Flame, preventing them from leaving a [[corpse]]; their inventory will be dropped as normal. A successful sacrifice this way [[anger]]s any non-lawful deity, unless you are a [[Binder]], [[Anachrononaut]] or an unaligned [[Madman]]&mdash;wearing a [[helm of opposite alignment]] to become lawful and sacrificing to the Silver Flame does not anger your god.
+Vanquishing certain monsters with a Silver Flame weapon has a chance of instantly sacrificing that monster to the Flame, preventing them from leaving a [[corpse]]; their inventory will be dropped as normal. A successful sacrifice this way [[anger]]s any non-lawful deity, unless you are a [[Binder]], [[Anachrononaut]] or an unaligned [[Madman]]&mdash;wearing a [[helm of opposite alignment]] to become lawful and sacrificing to the Silver Flame does not anger your god. Sacrifices will allow you to claim boons from the Silver Flame, but with diminishing returns for consecutive sacrifices.
 Care must be taken not to accidentally kill monsters in shops (particularly [[mimic]]s) this way if you lack the gold to pay for the destroyed corpse.
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 Consulting the Silver Flame and applying its boons does not break the [[atheism]] [[conduct]].
-All boons other than the burning aura & material conversion boons require that the item in question be made of silver, mithril or platinum. The boons will be temporarily deactivated if the material changes post-application (such as due to [[Mammon]]'s breath), but will remain dormant on the weapon until the material is changed back. Since the material conversion boons require that the item in question already be any metallic material, they cannot be used on non-metallic items (e.g. anything [[wood]]en or [[leather]]).
+All boons other than the burning aura & material conversion boons require that the item in question be made of silver, mithril or platinum. The boons will be temporarily deactivated if the material changes post-application (such as due to [[Mammon]]'s breath), but will remain dormant on the weapon until the material is changed back. Since the material conversion boons require that the item in question already be any metallic material, they cannot be used on non-metallic items (e.g. anything [[wood]]en or [[leather]]). All of the offensive boons (including the basic reflected silver flame property) merely require that the item in question be a plausible weapon, not strictly a weapon-class item - the same criteria as the initially offered weapon apply (weapon, weapon-tool, boots, gloves, helmet).
 ===List of minor boons===
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 | Burn aura || 10 || Unblesses and uncurses an item.
 |}
 ===List of major boons===
 This only becomes available once your devotion (lifetime total accumulated favor) reaches a specific level.
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 | Burn on a curse-proof glaze || 25 || Applies [[curse resistance]] to any suitable body armor.
 |-
-| Mirror-finish a surface || 50 || Applies [[reflection]] to any suitable weapon, body armor, or shield.
+| Mirror-finish a surface || 50 || Applies [[reflection]] to any suitable weapon, weapon tool, body armor, or shield. Unlike the offensive boons, gloves etc. are not acceptable.
 |-
 | Focus the light to reveal righteous wrath || 50 || Applies a property that boosts attribute-based damage bonus by 50% to gloves. For example, a one-handed weapon at 25 strength typically gets +8, which is now +12. You must remain a lawful character of at least pious [[alignment record]] to continue to benefit from this property.
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 | Focus the light to preserve life || 50 || Applies a property to an item that grants a [[life saving]] effect when wearing the item. Applicable to helms. The property will be consumed if the lifesaving effect triggers, but the item it was applied to will remain intact, and the property can be re-purchased for the cost of another major boon.
 |-
-| Focus the light to reveal mortality || 50 || Applies the ability to drain 1d2 levels from attacked monsters to gloves/boots/weapon. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
+| Focus the light to reveal mortality || 50 || Selected weapon drains 1d2 levels from attacked monsters. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
 |-
-| Focus the light to reveal true death || 50 || Applies double damage + 2d7 against [[undead]] to gloves/boots/weapon. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
+| Focus the light to reveal true death || 50 || Selected weapon adds an extra 2d7 + base damage as irresistible bonus damage against [[undead]]. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
 |-
-| Focus the light to reveal the unworthy || 50 || Applies double damage to [[minion]]s (including angels and other spiritual beings) and demons as disintegration damage to gloves/boots/weapon. Worn artifacts and disintegration-proof armor on the target are unaffected. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
+| Focus the light to reveal the unworthy || 50 || Selected weapon adds double base damage to [[minion]]s (including angels and other spiritual beings), demons and mortal races (intelligent living non-primordials) as disintegration damage to gloves/boots/weapon. Damage is converted into armor damage at a ratio of approximately 4 damage to 1 negative enchantment, destroying non-artifact non-disintegration-proof armor if it is reduced to 0 AC/DR. This will always add a minimum of half of the base damage dealt as bonus damage, even if all armor has not been fully destroyed. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
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 Vanquishing certain monsters with a Silver Flame weapon has a chance of instantly sacrificing that monster to the Flame, preventing them from leaving a [[corpse]]; their inventory will be dropped as normal. A successful sacrifice this way [[anger]]s any non-lawful deity, unless you are a [[Binder]], [[Anachrononaut]] or an unaligned [[Madman]]&mdash;wearing a [[helm of opposite alignment]] to become lawful and sacrificing to the Silver Flame does not anger your god.
-Care must be taken not to accidentally kill monsters in shops (particularly [[mimic]]s) this way, as you will be charged for the destroyed corpse.
+Care must be taken not to accidentally kill monsters in shops (particularly [[mimic]]s) this way if you lack the gold to pay for the destroyed corpse.
 ==Silver Flame boons==

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 ==Location==
-The Silver Flame is always located in the main branch of the dungeon, and can be sought out by [[apply]]ing a [[mirror]] at yourself while at over 20 [[insight]]: doing so will report the location of a "silver light", depending on where you are relevant to the cult:
+The Silver Flame is always located in the main branch of the dungeon, and can be sought out by [[apply]]ing a [[mirror]] at yourself while at over 10 [[insight]]: doing so will report the location of a "silver light", depending on where you are relevant to the cult:
 * If you are not on the same floor, it will report the location as (far) below or above you.

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 ==Sacrificing==
-To begin following the Silver Flame, you must have a suitable [[weapon]] or pair of [[gloves]]. The Silver Flame can only take up residence in suitable [[mithril]], [[silver]] and [[platinum]] objects - once it does so, your mirror will be converted to a purified mirror, which appears as a silver disk when unidentified. The Silver Flame-enhanced object will have "shining" prepended to their material, e.g. "shining mithril".
+To begin following the Silver Flame, you must have a suitable [[weapon]] or pair of [[gloves]]. The Silver Flame can only take up residence in suitable [[mithril]], [[silver]] and [[platinum]] objects&mdash;once it does so, your mirror will be converted to a purified mirror, which appears as a silver disk when unidentified. The Silver Flame-enhanced object will have "shining" prepended to their material, e.g. "shining mithril".
-Vanquishing certain monsters with a Silver Flame weapon has a chance of instantly sacrificing that monster to the Flame, preventing them from leaving a [[corpse]]; their inventory will be dropped as normal. A successful sacrifice this way [[anger]]s any non-lawful deity, unless you are a [[Binder]], [[Anachrononaut]] or an unaligned [[Madman]] - wearing a [[helm of opposite alignment]] to become lawful and sacrificing to the Silver Flame does not anger your god.
+Vanquishing certain monsters with a Silver Flame weapon has a chance of instantly sacrificing that monster to the Flame, preventing them from leaving a [[corpse]]; their inventory will be dropped as normal. A successful sacrifice this way [[anger]]s any non-lawful deity, unless you are a [[Binder]], [[Anachrononaut]] or an unaligned [[Madman]]&mdash;wearing a [[helm of opposite alignment]] to become lawful and sacrificing to the Silver Flame does not anger your god.
 Care must be taken not to accidentally kill monsters in shops (particularly [[mimic]]s) this way, as you will be charged for the destroyed corpse.
 ==Silver Flame boons==
-Every sacrifice increases your standing with the Silver Flame in the form of favor, which is not reported to the player directly. You can consult the silver flame by applying your purified mirror. If you have less than 50 favor, nothing happens and [[#Messages|a message]] is printed. Otherwise, a menu of boons is displayed for you to select. When you have at least 50 favor(the minimum for to claim a minor boon), the mirror will appear as "glinting". When you have enough devotion (lifetime favor) to claim a major boon, this will change to "shining". Note that even though some minor boons cost less than 50 favor, you must still have 50 favor to select any.
+Every sacrifice increases your standing with the Silver Flame in the form of favor, which is not reported to the player directly. You can consult the silver flame by applying your purified mirror. If you have less than 50 favor, nothing happens and [[#Messages|a message]] is printed. Otherwise, a menu of boons is displayed for you to select. When you have at least 50 favor (the minimum required to claim a minor boon), the mirror will appear as "glinting"&mdash;when you have enough devotion (lifetime favor) to claim a major boon, this will change to "shining". Note that even though some minor boons cost less than 50 favor, you must still have 50 favor to select any.
-The base favor gained from a sacrifice to the Silver Flame is equal to the monster's difficulty. This is modified by two factors - your insight, and the amount of favor you currently have. The formula is <code>(value * insight)/(insight + current favor)</code>. This means that at 10 insight (the minimum to join the Silver Flame cult), if you already have 50 favor, you will only get {{frac|6}} of the favor you would gain if you had 0 favor stored. At higher insight, this ratio gets better, but even at 50 insight you only gain {{frac|2}} of the value you'd otherwise get. This means it is essential to spend your favor as frequently as you can to get major boons, since favor accrued suffers harsh diminishing returns with favor banked and major boons require increasingly high lifetime favor acquired totals to unlock.
+The base favor gained from a sacrifice to the Silver Flame is equal to the monster's difficulty. This is modified by two factors: your insight, and the amount of favor you currently have. The formula is <code>(value * insight)/(insight + current favor)</code>, meaning that at 10 insight (the minimum to join the Silver Flame cult), if you already have 50 favor, you will only get {{frac|6}} of the favor you would gain if you had 0 favor stored. At higher insight, this ratio gets better, but even at 50 insight you only gain {{frac|2}} of the value you'd otherwise get. This means it is essential to spend your favor as frequently as you can to get major boons, since favor accrued suffers harsh diminishing returns with favor banked, and major boons require increasingly high lifetime favor acquired totals to unlock.
 Consulting the Silver Flame and applying its boons does not break the [[atheism]] [[conduct]].
-All boons other than the burning aura & material conversion boons require that the item in question be made of silver, mithril or platinum. The boons will be temporarily deactivated if the material changes post-application (such as due to [[Mammon]]'s breath), but will remain dormant on the weapon until the material is changed back. Since the material conversion boons require that the item in question already be any metallic material, they cannot be used on non-metallic items (e.g. anything wooden/leather/etc.).
+All boons other than the burning aura & material conversion boons require that the item in question be made of silver, mithril or platinum. The boons will be temporarily deactivated if the material changes post-application (such as due to [[Mammon]]'s breath), but will remain dormant on the weapon until the material is changed back. Since the material conversion boons require that the item in question already be any metallic material, they cannot be used on non-metallic items (e.g. anything [[wood]]en or [[leather]]).
 ===List of minor boons===

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 ==Silver Flame boons==
-Every sacrifice increases your standing with the Silver Flame in the form of flame credits, which are not reported to the player. You can consult the silver flame by applying your silver disk: if there are not enough flame credits, nothing happens and [[#Messages|a message]] is printed. Otherwise, a menu of boons is displayed for you to select.
+Every sacrifice increases your standing with the Silver Flame in the form of favor, which is not reported to the player directly. You can consult the silver flame by applying your purified mirror. If you have less than 50 favor, nothing happens and [[#Messages|a message]] is printed. Otherwise, a menu of boons is displayed for you to select. When you have at least 50 favor(the minimum for to claim a minor boon), the mirror will appear as "glinting". When you have enough devotion (lifetime favor) to claim a major boon, this will change to "shining". Note that even though some minor boons cost less than 50 favor, you must still have 50 favor to select any.
 Consulting the Silver Flame and applying its boons does not break the [[atheism]] [[conduct]].
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 ===List of major boons===
-This only becomes available once your total accumulated credit reaches a specific level.
+This only becomes available once your devotion (lifetime total accumulated favor) reaches a specific level.
 {| class="wikitable"
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 ==Messages==
 {{message|<monster> burns from within, consumed by silver fire!|A monster was killed by a Silver Flame weapon.}}
-{{message|The silver flame is distant and uninterested.|You applied your silver disk, but did not have enough flame credits.}}
+{{message|The silver flame is distant and uninterested.|You applied your silver disk, but did not have enough favor.}}
 {{variant-343}}
 [[Category:dNetHack cults]]

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-'''The Silver Flame''' is a lawfully aligned [[Cult (dNetHack)|cult]] in [[dNetHack]].
+'''The Silver Flame''' is a lawfully aligned [[Cult (dNetHack)|cult]] in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]].
 ==Location==
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 Consulting the Silver Flame and applying its boons does not break the [[atheism]] [[conduct]].
-All boons, other than burning aura & the material conversion boons, require that the item in question be made of silver, mithril, or platinum. The boons will be temporarily deactivated if the material changes post-application (such as due to [[Mammon]]'s breath), but will remain dormant on the weapon until the material is changed back. The material conversion boons require that the item in question already be any metallic material, and therefore cannot be used on wooden/leather/etc. items.
+All boons other than the burning aura & material conversion boons require that the item in question be made of silver, mithril or platinum. The boons will be temporarily deactivated if the material changes post-application (such as due to [[Mammon]]'s breath), but will remain dormant on the weapon until the material is changed back. Since the material conversion boons require that the item in question already be any metallic material, they cannot be used on non-metallic items (e.g. anything wooden/leather/etc.).
 ===List of minor boons===
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 ! Boon !! Cost !! Description
 |-
-| Burn on a curse-proof glaze || 25 || Applies curse resistance to any suitable body armor.
+| Burn on a curse-proof glaze || 25 || Applies [[curse resistance]] to any suitable body armor.
 |-
-| Mirror-finish a surface || 50 || Applies reflection to any suitable weapon, body armor, or shield.
+| Mirror-finish a surface || 50 || Applies [[reflection]] to any suitable weapon, body armor, or shield.
 |-
 | Focus the light to reveal righteous wrath || 50 || Applies a property that boosts attribute-based damage bonus by 50% to gloves. For example, a one-handed weapon at 25 strength typically gets +8, which is now +12. You must remain a lawful character of at least pious [[alignment record]] to continue to benefit from this property.
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 | Focus the light to share burdens || 50 || Applies a property that boosts your carrying capacity by 20%, up to +200 carrying capacity. Applicable to suitable boots. You must remain a lawful character of at least pious [[alignment record]] to continue to benefit from this property.
 |-
-| Focus the light to preserve life || 50 || Applies a property that grants a lifesaving effect when wearing the item. Applicable to helms. The property will be consumed if the lifesaving effect triggers, but the item it was applied to will remain intact, and the property can be re-purchased for the cost of another major boon.
+| Focus the light to preserve life || 50 || Applies a property to an item that grants a [[life saving]] effect when wearing the item. Applicable to helms. The property will be consumed if the lifesaving effect triggers, but the item it was applied to will remain intact, and the property can be re-purchased for the cost of another major boon.
 |-
 | Focus the light to reveal mortality || 50 || Applies the ability to drain 1d2 levels from attacked monsters to gloves/boots/weapon. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
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 | Focus the light to reveal true death || 50 || Applies double damage + 2d7 against [[undead]] to gloves/boots/weapon. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
 |-
-| Focus the light to reveal the unworthy || 50 || Applies double damage to minions (including angels and other spiritual beings) and demons as disintegration damage to gloves/boots/weapon. Worn artifacts and disintegration-proof armor on the target are unaffected. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
+| Focus the light to reveal the unworthy || 50 || Applies double damage to [[minion]]s (including angels and other spiritual beings) and demons as disintegration damage to gloves/boots/weapon. Worn artifacts and disintegration-proof armor on the target are unaffected. The weapon in question must already be imbued with the Silver Flame via the minor boon.
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 | Smelt away immobility || 50 || Sets any metallic object's material to mithril
 |-
-| Spread the reflected silver flame || 25 || Imbues any suitable weapon, pair of gloves or mirror with the Silver Flame
+| Spread the reflected silver flame || 25 || Imbues any suitable weapon, pair of gloves or mirror with the Silver Flame. This is identical to the effects of the first weapon sanctified, granting it an object property that sacrifices certain slain monsters to the Silver Flame.
 |-
 | Burn aura || 10 || Unblesses and uncurses an item.