Dread seraph

Z dread seraph File:Dread seraph.png
Difficulty	27
Attacks	Reach 8d8 physical, Reach 8d8 physical

Z dread seraph File:Dread seraph.png
Difficulty	27
Attacks	Reach 8d8 physical, Reach 8d8 physical
Base level	54
Base experience	3820
Speed	16
Base AC	−10
Base MR	125
Alignment	20 (lawful)
Frequency (by normal means)	1 (Very rare)
Genocidable	No
Weight	2300
Nutritional value	900
Size	huge
Resistances	cold, sleep, disintegration, poison, petrification, level drain
Resistances conveyed
A dread seraph: can fly. can survive underwater. does not breathe. is mindless. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. can see invisible creatures. can teleport. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is undead. is an overlord to its kind. is normally generated hostile. wanders randomly. is nasty. is strong. waits for you to come. has infravision. does not appear in Gehennom. appears only in Gehennom. never leaves a corpse. resists death magic. resists level drain. cannot be tamed.

Dread seraphs are monsters in dNetHack. They are found sealed in walled-off, undiggable sepulchers in the Dungeons of Doom. Approximately ¹⁄₈ of dungeon levels below level 13 will contain a sepulcher.

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For most of the game, dread seraphs will lie dormant in their sepulchers, though their presence on a level causes corpses to rise from the dead as zombies or skeletons. Once the player kills the Wizard of Yendor or picks up the Amulet of Yendor for the first time, the dread seraphs will wake up. When the player next visits a level containing a dread seraph in a sepulcher, an earthquake will occur and a chasm will open, freeing the seraph.

Most of the interesting properties of dread seraphs come from their songs; they use one of them every several turns:

• All creatures on the level are affected by a kind of death magic. Players who resist take 1d(m_lev) damage.
• Revives all corpses on the level.
• Confuses, stuns, and berserks all monsters on the level. Players hallucinate and are confused and stunned.
• Causes an earthquake, creating pits which contain newly generated monsters.
• Locks all doors and containers on the level, and creates new locked doors in doorways.

If a dread seraph drops below ¹⁄₄ of his maximum HP or becomes crazed, it will begin to pray. After 5 moves, it will be restored to full health and cured of any status ailments. At the same time, it will apply a studied debuff to you, equal to its monster level (typically 54). Unlike players, the seraph is not invulnerable while praying.

Dread seraphs have significant health pools (1500+) and take ¹⁄₄ damage from weapon attacks, so it is usually a better idea to leave the level than to try to kill one.

Players killed by a dread seraph appear as skeletons in bones files.