Unique monster

Unique monsters are monsters that are generally only generated once, the exception being the Wizard of Yendor.

List of unique monsters

The following is at least a partial list of unique monsters:

• @ Wizard of Yendor
• Quest leaders
• Quest nemeses
• V Vlad the Impaler
• @ Croesus
• @ Medusa
• @ Oracle
• The High priest of Moloch or the three aligned high priests (though high priests can also be created by an aligned priest growing up)
• Major demons:
  • & Yeenoghu
  • & Juiblex
  • & Asmodeus
  • & Orcus
  • & Baalzebub
  • & Demogorgon
  • & Dispater
  • & Geryon
• Riders:
  • & Death
  • & Famine
  • & Pestilence

SLASH'EM

SLASH'EM features the following new unique monsters:

• Ruggo the Gnome King
• The Rat King
• Kroo the Kobold King
• Grund the Orc King
• Nightmare
• Beholder
• Vecna
• Jumbo the Elephant
• One-Eyed Sam, shopkeeper of the Black Market
• Aphrodite
• Girtab
• Shelob
• The Largest Giant
• Pegasus
• Doctor Frankenstein
• Frankenstein's Monster
• Deferred Lovecraftian unique monsters:
  • Father Dagon
  • Mother Hydra
  • Cthulhu (replaces the high priest of Moloch in SLethe)

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