Chaos

& Chaos
Difficulty	20
Attacks	Weapon 4d4 physical, offhand weapon 4d4 physical, Claw 4d4 quest artifact theft, Claw 4d4 quest artifact theft

& Chaos
Difficulty	20
Attacks	Weapon 4d4 physical, offhand weapon 4d4 physical, Claw 4d4 quest artifact theft, Claw 4d4 quest artifact theft
Base level	16
Base experience	545
Speed	9
Base AC	-3
Base MR	99
Alignment	-15 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	4350
Nutritional value	400
Size	huge
Resistances	fire resistance, cold resistance, sleep resistance, disintegration resistance, shock resistance, poison resistance, acid resistance, stoning resistance, level drain, immunity to sickness
Resistances conveyed	poison resistance
Chaos: can see invisible creatures. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is a human. is a demon. is male. is neither male nor female. is normally generated hostile. is nasty. can pick up weapons and food. wants the Amulet of Yendor. wants your quest artifact. wants the Amulet of Yendor, the Bell of Opening, the Book of the Dead, the Candelabrum of Invocation, and your quest artifact. has infravision. can be seen through infravision. appears only in Gehennom. never leaves a corpse. resists level drain.

This article is about the monster in dNetHack and its variants. For the alignment as a whole, see chaotic.

Chaos, &, is the quest nemesis of the Chaos Temple Quest in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. He is a human-turned-major demon who guards The Black Crystal and the third Key of Chaos, and is an overlord to his kind. Chaos is breathless, capable of flight with his wings, can see invisible, is capable of seeing in the light and the dark, can be seen via infravision, has basic skill in martial combat, and can destroy doors and tear through webs. Chaos has 13 points of AC, all in the natural category, along with 5 points of natural damage reduction.

Chaos is covetous and desires the Crystals and the hero's quest artifact. Chaos also gains additional abilities depending on whether or not the guardians of the other four Crystals are slain:

• Normally, Chaos has a weapon attack, a second offhand weapon attack, and two claw attacks that can steal quest artifacts from the hero, and ²⁄₃ of the time he will instead cast a monster spell arcanely using two different spell lists.
  • The first list uses the following spells in order: Blizzaga, Thundaga, drain ability, cure self, Firaga, ice storm, haste self, and Flare.
  • The second list uses the following spells in order: earth crack, fire pillar, geyser, and poison gas.
• If Lich, the Fiend of Earth is still alive:
  • The weakening spell is replaced with a touch of death.
  • The ice storm spell used in the first spell list is replaced by warp blades.
  • The earth crack spell is replaced by Flare.
• If Kary, the Fiend of Fire is still alive:
  • Chaos gains additional weapon attacks.
  • His base speed is raised to 12.
  • The fire pillar spell has a ¹⁄₂ chance of being replaced with the stun monster spell.
• If Kraken, the Fiend of Water is still alive:
  • Chaos gains a passive attack that chooses randomly from an unholy-damage bite, a study-inducing gaze, a clerical monster spell that has an equal probability of being evil eye or curse items, and a blinding venom spit attack with an equal probability of each.
  • The geyser spell is replaced by an ice storm spell.
• If Tiamat, the Fiend of Wind is still alive:
  • Chaos gains 6 points of natural AC.
  • Chaos can deflect non-futuristic projectiles by changing their trajectory.
  • The poison gas spell is replaced by a plague spell.

Chaos has every resistance property minus magic resistance and reflection, and has a weakness to silver like other demons.

Chaos is poisonous to eat and grants poison resistance when eaten, which primarily comes up if he is subjected to the spirit Ahazu (whose abduction ability ignores detrimental effects of eaten monsters).

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