Aleax
A Aleax | |
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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:
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Reference | monst.c#line1078 |
An Aleax[1], A, is a humanoid angelic being that appears in NetHack. It is the only humanoid angelic monster that is a valid polymorph form.
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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 normally 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.
Strategy
Aleaxes are one of the few sources of reflection in the game. Since they are slow, they are usually not threatening to a player who is deep enough to encounter one, and even lawful characters who encounter peaceful Aleaxes may want to kill them for a chance at their shield.
Variants
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, the Aleax behaves similarly to how it does in Dungeons & Dragons (as described below), and will be generated with erodeproof +0 copies of all of the player's equipment and weapons worn at that time; 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
Said to be a doppelganger sent to inflict divine punishment
for alignment violations.
Notes
- ^ In Dungeons & Dragons, the proper pluralization of Aleax is Aleaxi[1]. However, in NetHack 3.6.6 code "Aleaxi" is not in the list of irregular plurals[2], and so NetHack pluralizes Aleax as Aleaxes. This article follow NetHack's convention.
References
- ↑ David "Zeb" Cook (1994). Planescape Campaign Setting, Monstrous Supplement. Edited by David Wise. (TSR, Inc), pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-1560768340.
- ↑ src/mondata.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 760