Aleax

A Aleax
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Weapon 1d6, weapon 1d6, kick 1d4

A Aleax
Difficulty	12
Attacks	Weapon 1d6, weapon 1d6, kick 1d4
Base level	10
Base experience	298
Speed	8
Base AC	0
Base MR	30
Alignment	7 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	Medium
Resistances	Cold, shock, sleep, poison
Resistances conveyed	None
An Aleax: has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. can see invisible creatures. does not eat. (*) can follow you to other levels. is nasty. can pick up weapons and food. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. does not appear in Gehennom. never leaves a corpse.
Reference	monst.c#line1078

The Aleax, A, is a humanoid angelic being that appears in NetHack. It is the only humanoid angelic monster that is a valid polymorph form.

Generation

Aleaxes are rarely generated randomly and will never appear in Gehennom. They may appear as lawful minions; randomly generated Aleaxes will be peaceful towards lawful characters with good alignment record.

They are normally generated with a blessed erodeproof long sword and a non-cursed erodeproof large shield. There is a ¹⁄₂₀ chance that the sword will be converted into either Demonbane or Sunsword (if the chosen artifact does not exist yet), and a ¹⁄₄ chance the shield will instead be a shield of reflection.

Variants

UnNetHack

In UnNetHack, the Aleax behaves more like the D&D Aleax (as described below), and will be generated wearing an erodeproof +0 copy of all of the player's equipment and weapons at that time; artifacts will be converted to their base item.

Origin

In Dungeons & Dragons, an Aleax is an avatar of a deity sent to punish a specific mortal; the Aleax takes on the target's exact appearance and carries identical equipment.

Encyclopedia entry

Said to be a doppelganger sent to inflict divine punishment
for alignment violations.