Ilona Szilagy
V Ilona Szilagy 
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| Difficulty | 17 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 1d10 physical, bite 1d12 vampiric, spellcast 2d6 mage |
| Base level | 13 |
| Base experience | 459 |
| Speed | 16 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 80 |
| Alignment | -10 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | medium |
| Resistances | cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, death resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | none |
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Ilona Szilagy:
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| Reference | dNAO 3.24.0 - src/monst.c, line 5242 |
Ilona Szilagy, V, is a unique monster that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. Ilona Szilagy is an undead human and one of Vlad the Impaler's vampiric wives, making her a lord to vampire-kind: she is strong, unbreathing and amphibious, has flight and enhanced regeneration, can track the hero and see other creatures using normal sight and bloodsense, and can be seen via infravision. Ilona will seek out weapons, armor and other items to pick up, waits for the hero to approach her, and can follow the hero to other floors if she is adjacent. She can reach level 30 and has 6 points of AC in the 'natural' category.
Ilona Szilagy has a single weapon attack, a vampiric bite attack and the ability to cast one arcane spell during each of her turns, and she has a base attack bonus of +0.5 to-hit per level. Ilona possesses cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, and death resistance, and has a weakness to silver.
Ilona Szilagy can be warded by a fourfold Elder Elemental Eye.
Generation
Ilona Szilagy is always generated hostile. She is not a valid polymorph form or genocide target.
Ilona Szilagy is always generated in the central room at the top floor of the Windowless Tower, where she is placed on the rightmost square of the room next to Vlad (and opposite both Carmilla and Mina Harker) during level creation.
Ilona Szilagy is always generated with a long sword, a gentlewoman's dress, and a pair of low boots.
Ilona Szilagy never leaves a corpse upon death.
Strategy
While Ilona is individually on the weaker side, her ability to cast spells paired with the seduction theft of Mina and the seducing gazes of Vlad and Carmilla can leave the hero thoroughly disrobed and robbed of vital weapons and armor if a player is unwary or under-prepared. To that end, be careful that wands of striking or fire are not zapped at the doors to their room, even if you are only targeting the other vampires in the surrounding area—if they are destroyed, one of more of Vlad and his entourage may be able to see the hero from where they are meditating, usually becoming active much earlier than you want.
Origin
Justina Szilágyi de Horogszeg (before 1455 – 1497), born Ilona Szilágyi, was a Hungarian noblewoman who became the second wife of Vlad Dracula, Voivode of Wallachia (the prince better known as "Vlad the Impaler"). She was the daughter of Ladislaus or Osvát Szilágyi and thus a cousin of Matthias Corvinus, the King of Hungary: Corvinus first gave her in marriage to Wenceslas Pongrác of Szentmiklós, who had inherited estates in Upper Hungary (present-day Slovakia), but was forced to renounce them in exchange for landed property he and Justina jointly received in Transylvania following their marriage.
After Pongrác died in 1474, the widowed Justina married Vlad, whom Corvinus acknowledged as the lawful voivode of Wallachia in 1475. Vlad seized Wallachia in late 1476, but soon died in battle. To strengthen her claim to her Transylvanian estates, she married Paul Suki, who was related to the former owners of those territories. After the death of Suki, in 1479, Justina was married to John Erdélyi of Somkerék, until her death in 1497.
Encyclopedia entry
We do know that Vlad later married Ilona Szilagy, who was
related to Matthias Corvinus, the king of Hungary who had
placed Vlad under arrest following his escape from Wallachia
in 1462. It appears that Corvinus made an arrangement with
Vlad to restore him to his throne. To strengthen the bond,
Vlad was offered a royal bride.
