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. It can occasionally appear as a lawful minion, or can be found generated randomly outside of Gehennom. It is also the only humanoid angelic monster that is a valid polymorph form.

Aleax are generated with blessed erodeproof long swords and non-cursed erodeproof large shields. There is a 1/20 chance that the sword will be converted into either Demonbane or Sunsword (if these don't exist yet), and a 1/4 chance the shield will instead be a shield of reflection.

Mythology

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. For this reason, NetHack's Aleax imitates you when you #chat to it.

In UnNetHack it does exactly that, wearing a fixed +0 copy of all of the player's equipment and weapons. Artifacts will be converted to the base item.

This page is a stub. Should you wish to do so, you can contribute by expanding this page.