The Mantle of Knowledge
[ The Mantle of Knowledge 
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| Base item | helm of brilliance |
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| Base price | zm |
| Weight | 40 |
The Mantle of Knowledge was the Monk quest artifact in NetHack Plus and SLASH 6. Its base item was a helm of brilliance.
In addition to increasing the wearer's wisdom and intelligence, as a helm of brilliance, the Mantle granted magic resistance and extrinsic ESP while carried. When invoked, the Mantle boosted the user's energy, similar to the Mitre of Holiness.
Legacy
When the Monk role was first included in vanilla, in NetHack 3.3.0, the quest artifact was the arguably more desirable Eyes of the Overworld, which grant a new property: astral vision. The earliest versions of SLASH'EM adapted the 3.3.0 code, so the Mantle was supplanted by the Eyes in the SLASH lineage as well.
Since then no variant based on NetHack or SLASH'EM has included the Mantle.
References
- SLASH 6 include/artilist.h#line 340
- SLASH 6 src/artifact.c#line 1170
