The Mitre of Holiness

[   The Mitre of Holiness
Base item	helm of brilliance
Affiliation	lawful Priest intelligent
When carried	fire resistance
When worn	half physical damage from undead and demons (Priests only) protection (+1 to MC up to MC3)
When invoked	energy boost
Base price	2000 zm
Weight	40

The Mitre of Holiness is the Priest quest artifact. It is the prize for completing the Priest quest, and is lawful for wishing purposes. Its base item type is a helm of brilliance.

Effects

When carried, the Mitre of Holiness confers fire resistance. When worn, it also provides the normal effects of a helm of brilliance, as well as extrinsic protection - augmenting your magic cancellation as a ring of protection, but not cumulative with one. If the wearer is a Priest, they also take half physical damage from all undead monsters and major demons - this property does not stack with other half physical damage sources. When invoked, you get an energy boost equal to half of the difference between your maximum power and your current power, with a cap of 120; if it would have given you less than 12 energy, it fully refills your energy instead.

The Mitre of Holiness is defined by the game as doing double damage to undead, and thus cannot be used by a player polymorphed into an undead creature. It does not do double damage to undead when used as a weapon in practice, however, due to the game not checking for artifact damage bonuses when fighting with objects that aren't valid weapons.

Strategy

See also: Invoke § Optimum invocation schedule

History

In NetHack 3.4.3 and variants based on it, The Mitre of Holiness does not provide protection.

Variants

xNetHack

In xNetHack, The Mitre of Holiness is removed; the Priest quest artifact is now a modified version of the Sceptre of Might.

FIQHack

In FIQHack, the Mitre of Holiness allows prayer in Gehennom, including the ability to turn undead.