White naga (notdNetHack)

N white naga (No tile)
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Bite 2d3 physical, targeted gaze 1d3 frost

N white naga (No tile)
Difficulty	6
Attacks	Bite 2d3 physical, targeted gaze 1d3 frost
Base level	4
Base experience	64
Speed	12
Base AC	4
Base MR	0
Alignment	-4 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	Yes
Weight	3000
Nutritional value	800
Size	huge
Resistances	cold resistance, poison resistance
Resistances conveyed	cold resistance, poison resistance
A white naga: cannot pick up items. has no hands. has no limbs. has a slithy or serpent-like body. has a thick hide. can lay eggs. is omnivorous. is strong. can be seen through infravision.

This article is about the adult monster in notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. For the juvenile and adult forms of the monster in other variants, see white naga.

A white naga, N, is a type of monster that appears in notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. The white naga is a reptilian and demihuman omnivore that is an adult form of naga with an affinity to cold, and it is oviparous and can be seen via infravision.

A white naga has a normal bite attack and a single-target gaze attack that inflicts cold damage, and possesses cold resistance and poison resistance.

Eating a white naga corpse or tin has a ¹⁄₅ chance each of granting cold resistance or poison resistance.

White nagas can be warded by a fourfold Elder Elemental Eye.

Generation

Randomly-generated white nagas may be created as peaceful towards chaotic heroes.

¹⁄₁₀ of monsters randomly generated in the Ice Caves adventure branch will be white nagas.

Origin

The Nāga (feminine "Nagi") are a supernatural race of half-human half-serpent beings that can occasionally take human form, and hold cultural significance in the folkloric traditions of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures over the past two millennia. Nagas also appear in Dungeons & Dragons.

Their most common depiction is that of a snake with a human head, which the default tileset of NetHack draws from—other iconographic depictions portray them as human from the waist up and snake from the waist down, wholly human with snakes on the heads and necks, or even as common serpents. Various south and southeastern Asian cultures also portray Nāgas as having multiple usually-serpentine heads.

Encyclopedia entry

The naga is a mystical creature with the body of a snake and the head of a man or woman. They will fiercely protect the territory they consider their own. Some nagas can be forced to serve as guardians by a spellcaster of great power.

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