Priestess of Ghaunadaur
| C priestess of Ghaunadaur (No tile) | |
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| Difficulty | 25 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d10 physical, offhand weapon 1d10 physical, bite 3d8 corrosion, kick 1d1 webbing, Spellcast 0d8 clerical spell, Passive 2d12 acid |
| Base level | 18 |
| Base experience | 635 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 2 |
| Base MR | 10 |
| Alignment | -15 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 3000 |
| Nutritional value | 500 |
| Size | medium |
| Resistances | sleep resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | sleep resistance (+10,000) |
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A priestess of Ghaunadaur:
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A priestess of Ghaunadaur, C, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. The priestess of Ghaunadaur is a form of drider, an always-female centauroid demihuman with a drow's humanoid torso and a spider-like animal body. As indicated by her name and the encyclopedia entry, she serves Ghaunadaur, a god of fallen stars, slime, outcasts, and the discarded—her counterpart is the priest of Ghaunadaur, which is a form of shoggoth.
Priestesses of Ghaunadaur are strong omnivores that will pick up gold and other items they come across, and can be seen via infravision. They can see via darksight and use it to track the hero and other monsters. Their physical appearance may trigger the "arachnaphobia" madness, causing them to take 1⁄4 damage from wands and explosions that a hero or monster with the madness uses against them. A priestess of Ghaunadaur can reach level 30.
A priestess of Ghaunadaur has similar attacks to those of a drider: a weapon attack, an offhand weapon attack, and a kick attack that can trap its target in a web. Unlike the drider, the priestess of Ghaunadaur has a stronger bite attack that inflicts corrosion rather than poison, and also has an acidic passive attack and the ability to cast clerical monster spells once per round of attacks. Priestesses of Ghaunadaur boast skilled prowess in martial combat, and possess sleep resistance along with a weakness to iron.
Eating a priestess of Ghaunadaur's corpse or tin, or quaffing her blood, grants temporary sleep resistance for a duration of 10,000 turns before physical size modifiers.
Generation
Priestesses of Ghaunadaur are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always hostile.
Priestesses of Ghaunadaur naturally can be generated as minions of Ghaunadaur, and a temple to Ghaunadaur generated outside of the Astral Plane has a 1⁄2 chance of a peaceful priestess of Ghaunadaur tending to the altar.
A priestess of Ghaunadaur may be generated as the guard of a magic item vault, including the ones placed within the Avatar of Lolth's lair if it appears as the second Abyss level.
Priestesses of Ghaunadaur can be generated among the plague victims that are carried within sacks by hill giants on the Drow Healer quest, as well as those encountered in shackles outside sacks.
Priestesses of Ghaunadaur can appear among the prisoners of a throne room ruled by any of the following monsters: a drow matron, an embraced drowess, a Y-cultist patron, or the Avatar of Lolth.
Origin
Encyclopedia entry
Ghaunadaur, god of fallen stars, slime, outcasts, and the discarded, is a peripheral member of the drow pantheon. He is worshiped mainly by disaffected drow, especially those warped into punishment forms and exiled by Lolth. The most powerful droven followers of Ghaunadaur are often former priestesses of Lolth, warped into drider form after failing one of their goddess's many tests.
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