Kathryn the Ice Queen
Kathryn the Ice Queen, @, is the boss of the Ice Queen's Realm branch in EvilHack. She cannot truly be killed - upon her defeat, she becomes the much more powerful Kathryn the Enchantress, but also becomes peaceful. Kathryn cannot be tamed or genocided in either form.
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| Difficulty | 36 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 3d4, Touch 8d8 cold, Spell-casting 3d8 (clerical), Spell-casting 3d8 |
| Base level | 32 |
| Base experience | 1561 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 80 |
| Alignment | A_NONE |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | petrification, sleep, cold |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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Kathryn the Ice Queen:
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| Reference | EvilHack - monst.c, line 3123 |
Generation
Kathryn the Ice Queen is always found inside her castle on the third and final floor of the branch, and resides within the left inner chambers. She will always generate hostile, and is guarded by Bourbon and Ozzy; they generate peaceful, but will become hostile and protect her once she is attacked.
Strategy
The Ice Queen form has ascension-level gear and the full range of monster spells to cast at her disposal, with her attack choices tending more towards a cold-based offense. In short, cold resistance is especially important here (as well as for the branch overall) along with acid resistance to blunt the worst damage from her acid blast spells.
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| Difficulty | 104 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 10d10, Spell-casting 10d10 (clerical), Spell-casting 10d10 |
| Base level | 47 |
| Base experience | 2856 |
| Speed | 9 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 100 |
| Alignment | 15 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | petrification, sleep, cold, fire, electricity, poison, acid, disintegration, psychic |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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Kathryn the Enchantress:
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| Reference | EvilHack - monst.c, line 3136 |
Generation
Kathryn the Enchantress always appears after her Ice Queen form is defeated, and will always be generated peaceful.
Strategy
In this form, Kathryn has almost every resistance available in the game alongside attacks and spells that can easily cleave through most of a character's HP even after buffing it with several full healing and nurse dances. As such, she is orders of magnitude more difficult than any other monster in the game, and practically impossible to defeat in normal play.
While setting her off is easily avoidable with most roles, she does not like Infidels in the slightest: if you defeat her previous form as an Infidel, she will generate peaceful as normal, but will turn hostile on her own unless you leave within a certain amount of turns.
Origin
Kathryn is the daughter of EvilHack's developer, and her companions Bourbon and Ozzy are based on the family's dogs. As implied by the encyclopedia entry, she is also somewhat based on the White Which from the Chronicles of Narnia books by C. S. Lewis.
Encyclopedia Entry
"The White Witch? Who is she?"
"Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb.
It's she that makes it always winter. Always winter and
never Christmas; think of that!"
"How awful!" said Lucy.
Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches
of snow grew smaller. Every moment more and more of the trees
shook off their robes of snow. Soon, wherever you looked,
instead of white shapes you saw the dark green of firs or the
black prickly branches of bare oaks and beeches and elms.
Then the mist turned from white to gold and presently cleared
away altogether. Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down on
to the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky
between the tree tops.
[ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,
by C.S. Lewis ]
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