Aleax
A Aleax 
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| 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 |
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An Aleax:
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| Reference | monst.c#line1078 |
An Aleax[1], A, is a humanoid angelic being that appears in NetHack. It is the only humanoid angelic monster that is a valid polymorph form.
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Generation
Aleaxes are rarely generated randomly and will never appear in Gehennom. Randomly generated Aleaxes will be peaceful towards lawful characters with good alignment record. The Aleax may also appear as the minion of a lawful god.
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 on generation 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.
Strategy
Aleaxes are one of the few sources of reflection in the game. Since they are slow, they are usually not threatening to a player who is deep enough to encounter one, and even lawful characters who encounter peaceful Aleaxes may want to kill them for a chance at their shield.
Variants
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, the Aleax behaves similarly to how it does in Dungeons & Dragons (as described below), and will be generated with erodeproof +0 copies of all of the player's equipment and weapons worn 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.
Notes
- ^ In Dungeons & Dragons, the proper pluralization of Aleax is Aleaxi[1]. However, in NetHack 3.6.6 code "Aleaxi" is not in the list of irregular plurals[2], and so NetHack pluralizes Aleax as Aleaxes. This article follow NetHack's convention.
References
- ↑ David "Zeb" Cook (1994). Planescape Campaign Setting, Monstrous Supplement. Edited by David Wise. (TSR, Inc), pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-1560768340.
- ↑ src/mondata.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 760
