Elder Elemental Eye
- For the related spirit, see Nudzirath.
In dNetHack, notdNetHack, and notnotdNetHack, Elder Elemental Eye is a ward which scares elemental, fungoid creatures, dragons, undead, energetic creatures, and planar creatures when engraved on the floor. The elder elemental eye can be reinforced up to 7-fold, with each level of reinforcement taking 10 strokes to draw. With a fast engraving tool each reinforcement takes 1 turn, or 5 turns with a slow engraving tool. It gains no secondary effects at higher levels of reinforcement.
The following classes of monsters are warded by the elder elemental eye:
- F fungus or mold
- E elemental except E dream quasielemental
- X xorn except X bestial dervish and X ethereal dervish
types of monsters:
- lesser vortexes: v fog cloud, v dust vortex, v ice vortex, v energy vortex, v steam vortex, v fire vortex
- self-destructing eyes or spheres: e gas spore, e freezing sphere, e flaming sphere, e shocking sphere, e ballistospore, e sphere of force
- vegepygmy: g vegepygmy, g vegepygmy shaman, F gray fungal tower, F rusty-gray mold
- dragons: D tiny pseudodragon and D pseudodragon
- fey: l ethereal filcher, n swamp nymph
- major demons: & priest of an unknown god, & Zuggtmoy
monster templates:
Additionally, the following monsters are warded by a 4-fold elder elemental eye:
- N naga
- L lich
- D dragon except: D Chromatic Dragon, D Platinum Dragon
- . ghost except: . being of Ib, . priest of Ib
- V vampire except: V moon flea, V star vampire
- M mummy except: M strange corpse, M mummified android, M mummified gynoid, M Nitocris, M Ghoul-queen Nitocris, M rotting monk
- W wraith except: W unbodied, W silverfire shadow's wraith, W Vechernyaya the Sun's Grave-keeper, W bright walker, W flaxen starshadow, W flaxen star-phantom
types of monsters:
- lights: y yellow light, y black light
- zombies: Z zombie, Z ghoul, Z hedrow zombie, Z skeletal pirate, Z hungry dead, Z skeleton, Z gnoll ghoul, Z phalanx, Z crow-winged half-dragon, Z legionnaire, Z dao lao gui monk
- pseudodragons: D riding pseudodragon, D large pseudodragon, D winged pseudodragon, D huge pseudodragon, D gigantic pseudodragon
- metroids: t baby metroid, t metroid, t alpha metroid, t gamma metroid, t zeta metroid, t omega metroid, t metroid queen
other monsters:
- shade
- & Orcus
- k winged kobold
- n neverwas
monster templates:
The following monsters are warded by a 7-fold elder elemental eye:
- i imp or minor demon
- & demon (monster class) except: & marid, & afreet, & chain devil, & interlocutor devil, & strange larva, & mail daemon, & djinni, & sandestin, & psychopomp, & Voice-In-Screams, & Good Neighbor, & Hmnyw-Pharaoh, & Great Cthulhu
- including most demon lords
- does not scare the riders
- 7 lawful angels and minions except: A weeping angel, 7 arcadian avenger
- 9 neutral angels and minions
- A chaotic angels and minions except A light-elf
- Including all Eladrin and their energy forms
- Including d aether wolf and their shapeshifter form, v aether cyclone
- " neutral outsiders except " Adamach
- K Keter Sephiroth except K chokhmah sephirah
types of monsters:
- all e autons
- dragons: D Chromatic Dragon, D Platinum Dragon
- W wraith: W flaxen starshadow, W flaxen star-phantom
- insectoids: C formian crusher, C formian taskmaster, C formian, a valavi, n thriae
- aphanacts: e aphanactonan audient, e aphanactonan assessor
- demonic animals: d hell hound, d hell hound pup, f hellcat, d Cerberus, u Nightmare
- elementals: E lethe elemental, E mortai
- yochlol: & Yochlol, and their three shapeshifter forms: @ unearthly drow, v stinking cloud, s demonic black widow
other monsters:
- @ transcendent valkyrie
- U aspect of The Silence
- G hellfire colossus and G hellfire orb
- C parasitized embraced alider
- C alider
monster templates:
Generation
Scrolls of elder elemental eye make up 5⁄36 (~13.8%) of all randomly generated scrolls of warding. Writing a scroll of elder elemental eye with a magic marker costs 8 charges. Scrolls of elder elemental eye can be wished for.
Rings have a base 1⁄12 (~8.33%) chance of being generated with a ward-engraving. 1⁄24 (~4.17%) of those rings will be generated with a elder elemental eye ward engraving. When wishing for a elder elemental eye engraved ring, if that ring would be generated with an engraving, it will have its engraving changed to an elder elemental eye.
The elder elemental eye appears in level 2 spellbooks and above. The odds of a spellbook containing an elder elemental eye ward are:
- Level 2 spellbooks: 1⁄16 chance (6.25%)
- Level 3 spellbooks: 1⁄15 chance (~6.66%)
- Level 4 spellbooks: 1⁄12 chance (~8.33%)
- Level 5 spellbooks: 1⁄4 chance (25%)
- Level 6 spellbooks: 1⁄9 chance (~11.1%)
- Level 7 spellbooks: 1⁄12 chance (~8.33%)
The elder elemental eye, along with many other wards, can be learned from the Necronomicon's option to "Study up on ancient warding signs".
Troubadours start the game with knowledge of the elder elemental eye.
Spellbooks given to roles at the start the game have a 1⁄8 (12.5%) chance of being warded with the elder elemental eye, in which case the hero will start the game with knowledge of the ward.
Description
Standing on a square with an elder elemental eye engraved prevents Pale Night's seduction attack.
1-fold elder elemental eyes appear as "an elder elemental eye" on the floor, and as a "x-lobed elder elemental eye".
Messages
The elder elemental eye is mentioned by name in the drow Healer quest and the drow racial quest:
Drow Healer quest:
- "This rod was gifted to Eclavdra while she served Zuggtmoy, demon
- lady of rot and corruption, then consort of the Elder Elemental
- Eye, the chained god Tharizdun, who seeks to consume all the
- worlds and all the gods thereof.
- Evlavdra and Zuggtmoy both betrayed the Eye, and each other, having
- planned from the beginning to use it for their own ends. Any
- interaction with the Chained One is perilous, however, and its
- service is not easy to foreswear. It was likely Tharizdun who
- sent the black tentacles that claimed Eclavdra as she lay dying. [...]
Drow shared quest:
- Eclavdra is fortunate to have been captured
- by the Eddergud, for her soul is marked by Tharizdun, and
- she was being followed by a spawn of Shothragot.
The shattered ziggurat cultists have special dialogue which references Nudzirath:
- Derettash neeb evah sdog eth fo staruggiz eth!
- "The ziggurats of the gods have been shattered!"
- Hgin si dne eth!
- The end is nigh!"
- Dlrow eth fo esab eth ta Erutcarf a si ereth!
- There is a fracture at the base of the world!"
- Uoy emusnoc llash Erutcarf eth!
- The fracture shall consume you!"
- Lla emusnoc llash Erutcarf eth!
- "The fracture shall consume all!"
- Gnidne si Noitatnemal fo emit eth!
- "The time of lamentations is ending!"
- Snruter Tsol eth!
- "The lost returns!"
- Nrober neeb sah Tsol eth!
- "The lost has been reborn!"
Rumors
- They say the elementals still fear their God.
- They say an Elder God once ruled energy and matter alike.
- They say that even the angels once trembled before the Ancient Eye.
- They say that the Queen of Fungi made a bargan with the Elder God.
Encyclopedia entry
Also known as the eye of the dragon, the eye is the holy symbol
of the Elder Elemental God, a mythic being that once ruled over
the earthly elements and reached for the heavens beyond.
The elder elemental eye can be drawn in six strokes, making
it very quick to engrave, and may be reinforced up to seven
times.
