Lucifer (dNetHack)
& Lucifer 
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| Difficulty | 49 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 2d8 armor shredding, Weapon 2d8 armor shredding, Weapon 2d8 physical, Weapon 2d8 physical, Claw 2d8 Quest artifact theft, Single-target (active) gaze attack 8d8 random gaze type |
| Base level | 39 |
| Base experience | 2069 |
| Speed | 19 |
| Base AC | -13 |
| Base MR | 99 |
| Alignment | 10 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 3000 |
| Nutritional value | 0 |
| Size | large |
| Resistances | fire, cold, sleep, shock, poison, petrification
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Lucifer:
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Lucifer, &, is a defunct monster present in the code of dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. In previous versions of these games, he is tied to Apollyon, the similarly-defunct former 'nemesis' of the Law Quest.
Lucifer is a unique humanoid monster that is part of the demon monster class: he is strong, amphibious, breathless, thick-skinned, can see invisible, has infravision, can be seen via infravision, emits light, and will pick up weapons and other items. Lucifer cannot be made tame, and can turn traitor if somehow tamed.
Lucifer has two armor-shredding weapon attacks, two regular weapon attacks, a 'claw' attack that can steal the Amulet of Yendor, any of the invocation items, or the quest artifact of the hero's role, and a powerful single-target gaze attack that uses one of 16 random damage types: death magic, cancellation, paralysis, drain life, disenchantment, gradual stoning, luck-draining, confusion, slowing, stunning, blinding, fire, cold, shock, hallucination, and sleep; fire, cold and shock gazes each have a 2⁄19 chance of being selected per attack, while the other damage types each have a 1⁄19 chance of being selected.
Lucifer possesses fire resistance, cold resistance, sleep resistance, shock resistance, poison resistance, and stoning resistance, and is capable of reviving in a manner similar to the Riders: while he lacks a corpse to revive from and will die for good if he runs out of HP, he will return to full HP if disintegrated or digested, additionally instantly killing any monster that attempts to digest him. In addition to these, Lucifer also has death resistance at the time of his last appearance, though he no longer has it due to the changes to monster flags in subsequent versions.
Lucifer is poisonous to consume, which in theory applies if he is digested by another monster—this never comes up, due to the aforementioned immunity to digestion.
Generation
Lucifer is always generated as hostile, and is not a valid form for polymorph nor a valid target for a figurine or statue wish.
Lucifer is set to generate next to the hero on the Astral Plane at level creation if they killed Apollyon earlier in the game.
Lucifer does not leave a corpse upon death.
Origin
The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology: it appears in the Book of Isaiah in the the Vulgate and the King James Versions of the Bible as the Latin word lucifer, meaning "the morning star", "the planet Venus", or "light-bringing" (as an adjective)—it is a translation of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל (hêlēl, "Shining One"). As the Latin name for the morning appearances of the planet Venus, it corresponds to the Greek names Phosphorus (Φωσφόρος, "light-bringer") and Eosphorus (Ἑωσφόρος, "dawn-bringer").
The entity's Latin name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the Devil. Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage (Isaiah 14:12), where the Greek Septuagint reads ὁ ἑωσφόρος ὁ πρωὶ ἀνατέλλων, as "morning star" or "shining one" rather than a proper noun. As a name for the planet in its morning aspect, "Lucifer" (Light-Bringer) is a proper noun and is capitalized in English. In Greco-Roman civilization, it was often personified and considered a god and in some versions considered a son of Aurora (the Dawn).
Encyclopedia entry
I have haunted the tombs of the ages,
I have flown on the pinions of fear,
Where the smoke-belching Erebus rages;
Where the jokulls loom snow-clad and drear:
And in realms where the sun of the desert
consumes what it never can cheer.
I was old when the pharaohs first mounted
The jewel-decked throne by the Nile;
I was old in those epochs uncounted
When I, and I only, was vile;
And Man, yet untainted and happy,
dwelt in bliss on the far Arctic isle.
Oh, great was the sin of my spirit,
And great is the reach of its doom;
Not the pity of Heaven can cheer it,
Nor can respite be found in the tomb:
Down the infinite aeons come beating
the wings of unmerciful gloom.
