Center of All

" Center of All
Difficulty	22
Attacks	Weapon 2d8 physical, Weapon 2d8 physical, Weapon 2d8 physical, Spellcasting 2d8 magical, Arrow 1d1 loadstone

" Center of All
Difficulty	22
Attacks	Weapon 2d8 physical, Weapon 2d8 physical, Weapon 2d8 physical, Spellcasting 2d8 magical, Arrow 1d1 loadstone
Base level	18
Base experience	539
Speed	10
Base AC	−8
Base MR	100
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	5800
Nutritional value	0
Size	large
Resistances	fire, cold, sleep, shock, poison, acid, petrification, magic, reflection
Center of All: can survive underwater. does not breathe. is mindless. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. has a thick hide. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is neither male nor female. is normally generated hostile. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. never leaves a corpse. resists death magic. cannot be tamed. does not naturally regenerate HP.

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 nearly every form of resistance property 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 ¹⁄₃ 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 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 ]