Center of All

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The Center of All, ", is a monster that appears in dNetHack. It is a powerful unique Rilmani that guards the First Key of Neutrality.

The Center of All is permanently invisible, and has every form of elemental resistance available alongside magic resistance and reflection; like an iron golem, it is slowed by lightning and healed by fire attacks. Center of All has three weapon attacks, can cast from the same pool of monster spells as the Aurumach Rilmani, and can throw cursed loadstones that deal d30 damage and have a 13 chance to add that loadstone to the target's inventory instead of it dropping to the floor.

Generation

The Center of All is generated randomly as part of normal monster generation:

  • If the player has not entered the the Sum of All when the Center of All is generated, it will be peaceful towards you and level teleport away after enough time.
  • Once you enter the Sum of All, the Center of All will become hostile regardless of its location and will no longer level teleport away, though it will not level teleport(but he won't levelport to you either).

The Center of All is generated with armor and weapons similar to those of Aurumach Rilmani: +4 large concordant gear, including a golden bardiche, leather armor, a golden war hat, a pair of low boots, leather gloves, and a robe.

Strategy

Center of All can easily surprise players who do not have the ability to see invisible, and its access to the Aurumach Rilmani spell list can be quite lethal for characters without the proper resistances. The concordant property on the Center of All's armor doubles that item's DR when hit by a non-neutral monster, but halves DR versus neutral monsters.

Though the Center of all is slow, it can still deal serious damage in melee and with its thrown loadstones, which can quickly weigh down and immobilize you.

Encyclopedia entry

Compass all the planes,
and yet you will never find
creation's heart
[ riff on a Planescape Haiku, originally by Ecco-Mono ]