Wraith (monster class)
- For the monster, see Wraith.
The weaith is a monster class that appears in NetHack, and is represented by an uppercase W glyph (W). Wraiths are designated internally by the macro S_WRAITH.[1]
The monster class contains the following monsters:[2]
- W barrow wight
- W wraith
- W Nazgul
Common traits
All wraiths are chaotic-aligned humanoid undead monsters of human size, and move at the same base speed as an unhasted, unburdened player. They possess a drain life attack, are unbreathing, and have resistance cold, sleep and poison. Wraiths are always generated hostile, can be genocided, and will follow the player between levels.
Players killed by a member of the wraith class rise as a wraith monster in any bones file created.[3]
Generation
Wraiths are the second quest enemy class for Priests and Wizards.[4][5]
Variants
xNetHack
In xNetHack, the ghost monster class is folded into the wraith class to reduce the number of punctuation-based glyphs.
References
- ↑ include/monsym.h in NetHack 3.6.7, line 63
- ↑ src/monst.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1884
- ↑ src/end.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 513: players killed by a W rise as a wraith
- ↑ src/role.c in NetHack 3.6.6, line 301: Priest quest monster classes
- ↑ src/role.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 565: Wizard quest monster classes
