Cauchemar
| u cauchemar (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 10 |
| Attacks |
Kick 1d10, Bite 1d4 poison |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | 69 |
| Speed | 24 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | -9 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 1800 |
| Nutritional value | 350 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | poison |
| Resistances conveyed | poison (+20%) |
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A cauchemar:
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| Reference | EvilHack - monst.c, line 1176 |
A cauchemar, u, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. Cauchemars are herbivorous and domestic horse-like monsters that serve as the chaotic equivalent of the warhorse and possess most of the same qualities.
A cauchemar has a kick attack and a poisonous bite attack, and possesses poison resistance.
Eating a cauchemar corpse or tin conveys 20% (1⁄5) additional poison resistance.
Generation
Cauchemars may be generated as peaceful for chaotic characters. A (greater) nightmare can grow up into a cauchemar.
Cauchemars appear among the random u that are part of the second quest monster class for Infidels and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Infidel quest.
Origin
Cauchemar is simply the French word for nightmare, deriving from French words meaning "pressure" (cauche) and "evil spirit" (mar). Like the English word nightmare, cauchemar originally referred to sleep paralysis, only later acquiring the sense of an unpleasant dream. Also, like the English word, it is etymologically unrelated to mare, meaning "female horse".
Encyclopedia entry
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule--
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE -- Out of TIME.
[ Dream-Land, by Edgar Allen Poe ]
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