Broken shadow

broken shadow File:Broken shadow.png
Difficulty	13
Attacks	Touch 1d1 paralysis, Touch 1d1 slowing

broken shadow File:Broken shadow.png
Difficulty	13
Attacks	Touch 1d1 paralysis, Touch 1d1 slowing
Base level	10
Base experience	287
Speed	3
Base AC	10
Base MR	0
Alignment	−10 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	0
Size	medium
Resistances	cold, sleep, disintegration, poison, petrification, level drain, disease
Resistances conveyed
A broken shadow: can fly. can phase through walls. can survive underwater. does not breathe. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. does not have a solid form. can see invisible creatures. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is undead. is normally generated hostile. wanders randomly. can follow you to other levels. is nasty. has infravision. never leaves a corpse. resists death magic. resists level drain. cannot be tamed. does not naturally regenerate HP.

The broken shadow is an undead monster added in dNetHack. Broken shadows are visually identical to shades and have paralyzing and slowing touch attacks like shades, but they are slower than shades and their attacks are less powerful.

Binders will return as broken shadows in bones files.

References

• dNetHack u_init.c line 1393