Greater pegasus

u greater pegasus File:Greater pegasus.png
Difficulty	22
Attacks	Kick 2d8, Kick 2d8, Bite 4d6

u greater pegasus File:Greater pegasus.png
Difficulty	22
Attacks	Kick 2d8, Kick 2d8, Bite 4d6
Base level	20
Base experience	642
Speed	24
Base AC	-6
Base MR	90
Alignment	0 (neutral)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1800
Nutritional value	350
Size	Large
Resistances	sleep, poison
Resistances conveyed	None
A greater pegasus: can fly. has no hands. is an animal. can lay eggs. regenerates HP quickly. is herbivorous. is not a valid polymorphable form. is normally generated peaceful. can be tamed by feeding. wanders randomly. is nasty. is strong. has infravision. can be seen through infravision.
Reference	EvilHack 0.8.3 - monst.c, line 1248

A greater pegasus, u, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack. It is a fully-grown pegasus that is the strongest non-unique monster in the unicorn or horse monster class.

A greater pegasus has two kick attacks and a strong bite attack, and possesses sleep resistance and poison resistance.

Generation

Greater pegasi are not randomly generated, and are not valid forms for polymorph. A pegasus can grow up into a greater pegasus.

The greater pegasus cannot be targeted for genocide.

Strategy

For riding-capable characters, the greater pegasus is one of the best steeds: it can be easily raised from a regular pegasus in almost no time at all, and its magic saving throw of 90 gives it a stellar defense against certain magical effects compared to the previous growth stage - this also makes it harder to zap with beneficial wands such as speed monster. As a herbivorous monster, it can also be difficult to find intrinsic-granting corpses.

A greater pegasus equipped with Ithilmar is protected from most of the misfortunes that can befall a steed of any power level: Ithilmar blocks digestion instadeath as spiky barding does, confers magic resistance and reflection, prevents beheading, and renders the wearer completely immune to starvation, conflict or untaming from being mounted or else left on another floor.

Encyclopedia entry

The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When
        Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had
        had intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang
        forth from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter
        obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed to have made
        his appearance near the sources (pegai) of Oceanus.
                [ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]