Manes
i manes 
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|---|---|
| Difficulty | 3 |
| Attacks |
Claw 1d3, claw 1d3, bite 1d4 |
| Base level | 1 |
| Base experience | 8 |
| Speed | 3 |
| Base AC | 7 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | -7 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 100 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | Small |
| Resistances | Sleep, poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A manes:
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| Reference | monst.c#line498 |
The manes, i, is a minor demon that appears in NetHack. It is considered nonliving, but not undead. Manes can grow up to become lemures[1].
Generation
Manes are frequently generated in large groups.
Strategy
Manes are very weak and slow, although their three attacks are more than their ostensibly more difficult relative, the lemure. Individually, they are usually very easy to defeat for all but the weakest of characters; however, swarms of them can overwhelm weaker characters since their three attacks can hit for up to 10 HP total per manes.
These will likely be the first set of monsters where getting into a corridor or door is employed as a tactic; this prevents more than one of them from approaching at a time, making dispatching them much easier.
Origin
In Roman mythology, manes (MAH-nays) are the spirits of the dead. The word manes is Latin, and has a singular form, manis,[2] but the singular is not used for the meaning specific to these spirits; in English the word has no singular, and so NetHack just uses manes for the singular as well. Compare lemure.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, manes hit as a +1 weapon but are otherwise unchanged. This property could theoretically make them useful pets for hitting monsters with the opposite property, but the difficulty of taming them combined with their slow speed means that even pacifists will likely look for better options.
Encyclopedia entry
The gnats of the dungeon, these swarming monsters are rarely seen alone.
References
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