Wizard of Yendor
@ Wizard of Yendor 
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| Difficulty | 34 |
| Attacks |
Claw 2d12 amulet-stealing, spell-casting |
| Base level | 30 |
| Base experience | 1386 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | -8 |
| Base MR | 100 |
| Alignment | -128 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | Fire, poison |
| Resistances conveyed |
Fire, poison, teleport control
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The Wizard of Yendor, @, is the guardian of the Book of the Dead. He resides in his tower in Gehennom. You must get the Book of Dead from him before you can descend to Moloch's Sanctum and get the Amulet of Yendor from the high priest of Moloch.
When you manage to get the Amulet, the Wizard of Yendor will start causing trouble to you. He resurrects as a little stronger incarnation every time you kill him, level teleports after you, summons nasties and tries to steal the amulet. Perhaps the most menacing spell the wizard can cast is Double trouble, which creates a clone of the wizard himself.
The wizard can and will follow you up to the Elemental Planes. However, he will not appear in the Astral Plane.
Strategy
Many players choose to zap a wand of death at the wizard instantly every time he reappears. However, if you are low of charges on your wands, you may want to take him out by conventional means or, for example, stone him. Watch for the Elvenkings the wizard likes to summon — they are represented by the same magenta @ symbol as the wizard. It is annoying for one to realize that they have lost a charge of the wand of death for the wrong monster.
History
The Wizard of Yendor first appeared in Hack 1.0.2.
Through NetHack 2.3e, he appeared in a 1x2 room in the center of the maze, which also contained a hell hound (that did not have a breath weapon) and the Amulet of Yendor. The room had no doors and was surrounded by a moat. His symbol was 1, rather than @.
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Fake Wizard rooms had a demon (generic in this version) instead of the Wizard, and a fake Amulet.
From NetHack 3.0.0 through 3.0.10, the Wizard lived in a larger tower, now also accompanied by a vampire lord.
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Fake Wizard rooms had a randomly chosen demon prince, or demon lord if no demon prince was available, or a random demon if demon lords are also gone. (All eight modern named demons existed, and occurred only in fake Wizard rooms or when summoned.)
Starting with NetHack 3.1.0, the Amulet is now given to the high priest of Moloch, and the Wizard instead carries the Book of the Dead. The 3.0.x-style Wizard room still exists as the room in which the Wizard lives, and as the two "fake Wizard" levels.
