Acererak

L Acererak
Difficulty	33
Attacks	Weapon 4d4 physical, Touch 5d6 life drain, Cast 0d0 mage spell, Gaze attack 2d6 life drain

L Acererak
Difficulty	33
Attacks	Weapon 4d4 physical, Touch 5d6 life drain, Cast 0d0 mage spell, Gaze attack 2d6 life drain
Base level	25
Base experience	957
Speed	15
Base AC	-9
Base MR	99
Alignment	20 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1200
Nutritional value	100
Size	medium
Resistances	fire, cold, sleep, shock, poison, petrification
Resistances conveyed	fire, cold
Acererak: can survive underwater. does not breathe. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. can see invisible creatures. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is undead. is male. is normally generated hostile. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. can pick up magical items. wants the Amulet of Yendor. wants your quest artifact. wants the Amulet of Yendor, the Bell of Opening, the Book of the Dead, the Candelabrum of Invocation, and your quest artifact. has infravision. can leave an old 1 corpse. resists death magic.

Acererak, L, is a monster that appears in dNetHack and SlashTHEM. He is a powerful lich that serves as the Binder quest nemesis in all of his appearances, and guards the Bell of Opening alongside the Binder quest artifact.

Generation

In dNetHack, it is possible to have the quest artifact, The Pen of the Void, well before you encounter Acererak; this is because the Pen is also the Binder's first sacrifice gift. Regardless of how it is first obtained and when, defeating Acererak restores the Pen to its double-bladed form, making it a double damage weapon and increasing the effects of spirits bound into it. Defeating Acererak also teaches you his seal, so you can bind him as a spirit.

Strategy

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Origin

Acererak the Devourer is a character that originates from the Greyhawk setting of Dungeons & Dragons. He was a cambion, a demonic offspring of a powerful summoned balor named Tarnhem and a human woman. Ten years after his conception, she is killed by a torch-wielding mob, and the young half-demon is rescued by Vecna; the Whispered One kills his advisors when they urge him to kill the child, and instead takes on Acererak as an apprentice. The ten-year-old Acererak loathed life and looked forward to becoming undead like his master; during Vecna's siege of Fleeth, the lich is severely wounded and rescued by Acererak, earning him a promotion.

At some point, Acererak moves to the Vast Swamp where he constructs a lair for himself, best known as the infamous Tomb of Horrors; Acererak also builts a subterranean temple complex in the name of Orcus, burying its architect and all of its workers within. He then fully succumbs to the lure of lichcraft and has himself buried in the labyrinthine tomb, where he achieves demilichdom and leaves his body behind for the planes beyond. The sequel module Return to the Tomb of Horrors retcons this, instead portraying the Tomb as an anetchamber to Acererak's true dwelling - a lost city on the Negative Energy Plane's border, where he plotted to fuse his essence with the plane and gain multiversal control over all undead.

Acererak is thwarted by the player adventurers and destroyed; in the 3rd edition of D&D, he lingers on after his passing as a vestige that can be summoned and bound by Binders, the basis for his role as the Binder quest nemesis.