The Silver Flame

The Silver Flame is a lawfully aligned cult in dNetHack.

Location

The Silver Flame can be sought out by applying a mirror at yourself while at over 20 insight. It will report the location of the silver light as e.g far below you, which means it is somewhere on a deeper dungeon level. It is always found in the main dungeon, never in its branches. As soon as it begins reporting a cardinal direction, e.g "far to the west", you have reached the right dungeon level. Find the right square and apply a mirror at yourself again. If the Silver Flame takes up residence in one of your weapons, your mirror will be converted to a silver disk.

Sacrificing

To begin following the Silver Flame, you must have a suitable weapon or pair of gloves. It can only take residence in suitable mithril, silver and platinum objects, after which they have "shining" prepended to their material, e.g "shining mithril". Vanquishing monsters with a Silver Flame weapon has a chance to sacrifice specific monsters, outputting "<monster> burns from within, consumed by silver fire!". The monster will not leave a corpse but drop their carried items normally.

A successful sacrifice angers any non-lawful deity, unless you are a Binder, Anachrononaut or an unaligned Madman. Wearing a helm of opposite alignment to become lawful to sacrifice does not anger your god.

Consulting the Silver Flame and applying its boons does not break atheism.

Flame boons

Every sacrifice increases your standing with the Silver Flame in form of flame credits, which are not reported to the player. You can check your status by applying your silver disk, which either outputs "The silver flame is distant and uninterested." when your flame credits are too low or displays a menu to select a boon.

Checking your silver disk is never detrimental.

List of minor boons

Boon	Cost	Description
Smelt away impurity	50	Sets any metallic object's material to silver
Smelt away imperfection	50	Sets any metallic object's material to platinum
Smelt away immobility	50	Sets any metallic object's material to mithril
Spread the reflected silver flame	25	Imbues any suitable weapon, pair of gloves or mirror with the Silver Flame
Burn aura	10	Unblesses and uncurses an item.

List of major boons

This only becomes available until your total accumulated credit reaches a specific level.

Boon	Cost	Description
Mirror-finish a surface	50	Applies reflection to any suitable armor or weapon
Burn on a curse-proof glaze	25	Applies 20% curse resistance to any suitable armor. Can be applied to weapons, but does not do anything.
Focus the light to reveal mortality	50	Drains 1d2 levels from the attacked monster
Focus the light to reveal true death	50	Deals double damage +2d7 to undead
Focus the light to reveal the unworthy	50	Deals double damage to minions (including angels and other spiritual beings) and demons as disintegration damage. Worn artifacts and disintegration-proof armor by the target is unaffected.