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The '''incantifier''' is a starting race available in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]], [[notnotdNetHack]], and [[SlashTHEM]]. Incantifiers are beings that are made of magic, and are considered [[Human (monster attribute)|human]] and part of the {{monclass|@}} [[monster class]]. They can be any alignment or role.

According to the dNetHack text:
{{guidebook|Incantifiers eat magic, not food, and do not heal naturally.}}
Source: DnD Planescape, Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour

==Racial benefits and restrictions==
===Recovery===
Incantifiers do not recover [[hit points]] (HP) or [[energy]] (Pw) over time; in fact, they lose energy instead of [[nutrition]]. Incantifiers can gain energy by draining certain magical items, a special racial ability. Other than that, they can only gain hit points and energy through magical means or gaining levels.

===Intrinsics===
Incantifiers begin the game with [[intrinsic]] [[magic resistance]].

While incantifiers cannot eat [[corpse]]s in order to gain other intrinsics, they are able to gain intrinsics (but not nutrition) by draining potions of monsters' blood, which can be created [[Potion of blood (SlashTHEM)|in both SlashTHEM]] and in [[Potion of blood (dNetHack)|the dNetHack series of variants]] by [[applying]] a [[tinning kit]] to the corpse of a monster that has blood&mdash;in SlashTHEM, they are one of only three races that can create potions of blood with a tinning kit. Remember that incantifiers count as human, and draining a potion of blood from any human monster is [[cannibalism]].

Incantifiers can also gain intrinsics by [[Eating jewelry|eating rings and amulets]], and can eat any magical jewelry regardless of its material, since they are actually draining the jewelry's magic, not physically consuming the item. Their chance of gaining intrinsics and the intrinsics that they ''can'' gain are the same as for any other race. Incantifiers also gain energy from eating jewelry, and should take care not to overeat while trying to acquire intrinsics in this way.

All intrinsics gained via eating jewelry are permanent, except for drain resistance gained via eating an amulet of drain resistance.
While it is mostly obvious which intrinsics can be acquired from which piece of jewelry, a [[ring of free action]] can confer sleep resistance when eaten.

===Enchantment sense===
Incantifiers are sensitive to the magic contained in items. They can always see the [[enchantment]] level of [[weapons]] and [[armor]] and can tell if [[wand]]s are out of charges.

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===Eating magic===
Incantifiers are magivores. They consume magic to live. Everything that causes a gain or loss of nutrition causes incantifiers to gain or lose energy instead. Incantifiers have vastly greater maximum energy than other [[race]]s, starting with over 1,800 and gaining much more per [[experience level]].

With a few exceptions, incantifiers do not eat [[comestible|food]]. Instead, the {{kbd|e}}at command allows them to drain items of their enchantment, gaining energy in the process. Incantifiers can drain positively enchanted weapons (except [[stackable]] weapons, to prevent players from using stack enchantment to create a virtually inexhaustible power supply) and armor, charged wands, [[spellbook]]s, [[ring]]s, [[amulet]]s, and [[scroll]]s. Each drained enchantment point of weapon or armor is worth around 250 energy, as is each drained scroll, spellbook, ring or amulet. Each wand charge is worth around 50 energy. On weapons and armor this has the same effect as casting [[drain life]] on the item. On spellbooks it increments the read counter, like studying the spell, turning them into blank paper when it reaches maximum. Scrolls are turned blank immediately and wands are merely emptied. Rings and amulets are destroyed.

Incantifiers can #[[untrap]] magic, polymorph, teleport, and level teleport traps (but not magic portals). Untrapping one of these traps grants 500 energy.

Incantifiers may [[choke|die of overeating]], the same as any other race, though they explode rather than choke. They will become satiated at about half their max energy, but can continue "filling up" to the maximum safely - but not a single point further!

Incantifiers are not able to drain artifacts.

[[ring of slow digestion|Rings of slow digestion]] have no effect on incantifiers when worn, but can be drained for energy as with other rings.

Having low energy does not count as [[trouble]], so incantifiers cannot have their energy restored by their god through prayer.

The only exceptions to incantifiers' prohibition on normal food are corpses and tins which can provide energy when eaten, specifically: newt, aoa, and aoa droplet. Incantifiers can drain these items for energy as if they were magical, destroying them. These items can even be drained safely when it would put the incantifier over their maximum energy, causing their maximum energy to increase instead of causing the incantifier to explode.

===Spellcasting===
Incantifiers are innately very adept at [[spellcasting]], even more so than wizards. No matter their role, all incantifiers have a number of advantages in this regard.

Incantifiers begin the game with very high [[attribute#intelligence|intelligence]] and their spellcasting stat is always intelligence, regardless of role.

Incantifiers begin the game knowing the spells [[Force bolt]] and [[Healing]], although they are not necessarily skilled at casting them.

Spellcasting has no nutrition cost for incantifiers.


In dNetHack, incantifiers get +1 to their skill cap in all seven schools of magic. In SlashTHEM, they can reach [[expert]] in all seven schools of magic. Their initial skill level in each school is still determined by their role.

When wearing a [[cornuthaum]], incantifiers gain its beneficial effects, as if they were wizards.

===Maximum attributes===
{|class="prettytable"
!Character<br />[[race]]
!Strength
!Dexterity
!Constitution
!Intelligence
!Wisdom
!Charisma
|-
|Incantifier
|18/**
|18
|18
|18
|18
|18
|}

==Starting inventory==

Incantifiers always begin the game with a [[spellbook of force bolt]] and a [[spellbook of healing]] in addition to any [[spellbooks]] that their role normally begins with. If the starting inventory for your role already includes a spellbook of force bolt ([[wizards]]) or a spellbook of healing ([[healers]] and possibly [[monks]]), it is replaced by a random spellbook from a school that is not restricted for your role.

For most roles, incantfiers begin the game with a [[robe]] instead of the role's usual [[body armor]] or [[cloak]] and [[food detection|scrolls of food detection]] in place of regular food; in [[SlashTHEM]], the [[Robe (SLASH'EM)|robes]] are the same as in [[SLASH'EM]] and other descended variants. The details of substituted items and affected roles are listed in the following table:

{| class="prettytable"
! Regular item                  !! Substitute                   !! Affected roles
|-
| [[Cloak of magic resistance ]] || [[Robe]]                     || [[Wizard]]
|-
| [[Cloak of displacement]]     || [[Robe]]                     || [[Ranger]]
|-
| [[Leather armor]]             || [[Robe]]                     || [[caveman|Caveman/cavewoman]], [[rogue]], [[valkyrie]]
|-
| [[Leather jacket]]            || [[Robe]]                     || [[Archeologist]], [[pirate]]
|-
| [[Ring mail]]                 || [[Robe]]                     || [[Barbarian]]
|-
| [[Splint mail]]               || [[Robe]]                     || [[Samurai]]
|-
| [[Food ration]]               || [[Scroll of food detection ]] || [[Archeologist]], [[barbarian]], [[monk]], [[noble|nobleman/noblewoman]], [[valkyrie]]
|-
| [[Cram ration]]               || [[Scroll of food detection]] || [[Binder (dNetHack role)|Binder]], [[pirate]], [[ranger]]
|-
| [[Tripe ration]]              || [[Scroll of food detection]] || [[Binder (dNetHack role)|Binder]]
|-
| [[Banana]]                    || [[Scroll of food detection]] || [[Pirate]]
|-
| [[Orange]]                    || [[Scroll of food detection]] || [[bard|Troubadour]], [[monk]]
|- 
| [[Potion of fruit juice]]     || [[Scroll of food detection]] || none
|-
| [[Potion of booze]]           || [[Scroll of food detection]] || [[bard|Troubadour]], [[pirate]]
|}

Notable exceptions:
*Incantifier [[knights]] start with their usual [[chain mail]] instead of a robe
*Incantifier [[binder (dNetHack role)|binder]]s start with their usual [[leather cloak]] instead of a robe
*Incantifier [[healer]]s start with their usual [[User:Chris/dNethack/dNethack Items#Body Armor|healer uniform]] instead of a robe
*Incantifier [[noble]]s start with their usual array of gender-specific fancy duds, none of which are replaced with a robe
*Incantifier [[bard|troubadour]]s start with their usual leather cloak instead of a robe
*Incantifier [[tourists]] start with their usual random [[food]] assortment, none of which is changed into scrolls of food detection. You can eat your [[Scroll of magic mapping|scrolls of magic mapping]] if you get desperate.

==Encyclopedia entry==
{{encyclopedia|
Several centuries ago, there existed a faction, now almost entirely extinct, called nowadays 'The Incantifers', then simply as The Magicians or The Wanters. They believed that magic, specifically arcane magic, was the key to power, indeed the only power that mattered in the multiverse. Gain enough knowledge of magic and skill in it and you could do anything. Even challenge The Lady....

According to legend, at least two members of the Wanters tried just that. They died, horribly and spectacularly. Legend also says that one of them almost succeeded.

Then one day, they vanished. Cutters looked up one morning and the Tower Sorcerous, the faction headquarters of the Wanters was simply gone. Nearly all of their members vanished with it, though a scant few remain to wander the planes.
{{right-align|[ Shemeska's Story Hour, by Todd Stewart ]}}
"They all ate magic. They ate other people's magic. Spells, items, anything they could buy, steal, or otherwise get a hold of. This place is sealed off from everything. There's no way out and you've got an entire faction of magic eating wizard suddenly bottled up with each other and no food source... except each other."
{{right-align|[ Shemeska's Story Hour, by Todd Stewart ]}}
}}
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