Pelias
@ Pelias 
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| Difficulty | 24 |
| Attacks | |
| Base level | 20 |
| Base experience | 583 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 90 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | poison resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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Pelias:
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| Reference | NetHack 5.0.0 - include/monsters.h, line 3473 |
Pelias, @, is the Barbarian quest leader. He is a strong, omnivorous human that can be seen via infravision.
Pelias has two strong weapon attacks. Like the quest guardian chieftains and Barbarian heroes, he has intrinsic poison resistance.
Generation
Pelias is always generated as peaceful, and is not a valid polymorph form or genocide target.
Pelias resides within the structure that sits on the west side of the Barbarian quest's home level, and is placed on the throne in the left half during level creation.[1]
Pelias is always generated with +5 chain mail and a +5 runesword.[2]
History
| @ Pelias
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| Difficulty | 22 |
| Attacks | |
| Base level | 20 |
| Base experience | 583 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 30 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | poison resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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Pelias:
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| Reference | NetHack 3.6.7 - src/monst.c, line 2841 |
Pelias is introduced with most other quest leaders in NetHack 3.1.0. From this version to NetHack 3.6.7, including some variants based on those versions, Pelias lacks a starting inventory and has much lower stats: 12 speed, an MR score of 30, a monster difficulty of 22, and a single 1d6 weapon attack. Angering or killing the quest leader also causes the game to become unwinnable in these versions, since the hero will either lose access to the magic portal that leads into their quest branch or else lose access to the lower floors of the quest.
NetHack 5.0.0 makes a major change to Quest mechanics via commit 20cbadcf: angering and/or killing quest leaders no longer makes the game unwinnable, and Pelias and other quest leaders are given increased stats and additional equipment to compensate.
Origin
Pelias shares his name with a character from The Scarlet Citadel, a Conan short story written by Robert E. Howard—the encyclopedia entry originates from its reprinting in the 1967 collection, Conan the Usurper. This Pelias is one of the rare sorcerers to ally with Conan: after Conan, king of Aquilonia, is betrayed and imprisoned within a Korshemish dungeon by the machinations of the Kothian wizard, he meets Pelias, a former rival wizard of Tsotha-lanti. Pelias frees Conan and helps him escape the dungeon, allowing Conan to regain his position as king of Aquilonia while Pelias later avenges himself against Tsotha-lanti.
Variants
NetHack variants based on versions prior to NetHack 5.0.0 often make Pelias and other quest leaders stronger than they are in those versions to accommodate the variant's changes to the Quest and its entry mechanics, and some of these changes are later incorporated into NetHack 5.0.0 itself.
SporkHack
In SporkHack, Pelias is buffed significantly from NetHack 3.4.3: his difficulty is increased to 24, his speed is increased to 15, his MR score is 90, and he has two 4d10 weapon attacks. He also gains flight, sleep resistance and stoning resistance.
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack, Pelias retains his statistics from NetHack 3.4.3, and always generates with +5 chain mail and a +5 runesword.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, Pelias has mostly identical stats to his appearance in NetHack 3.4.3, with his difficulty increased to 23 and an additional 0d6 monster spell attack. All 10 points of his effective 0 base AC are in the protection category. Unlike most other quest leaders, Pelias is not considered to be the same role as a Barbarian hero or his quest guardian allies.
Pelias is always generated with a blessed +7 two-handed sword, a blessed +5 robe and a blessed +5 pair of high boots.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, Pelias's stats are identical to NetHack 5.0.0, though his monster difficulty remains at 22.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, Pelias's stats and resistances are improved from the NetHack 3.6 series, and are identical to those of SporkHack minus the difficulty increase and flight.
Pelias always generates with +5 chain mail and a +5 runesword.
If The Ring of P'hul is successfully wished for by a non-Barbarian, there is a x⁄x+1 chance (where x is the amount of previous artifact wishes) of a hostile Pelias generating adjacent to the character with the artifact in his possession.
All of the above information also applies to Hack'EM.
Encyclopedia entry
Conan cried out sharply and recoiled, thrusting his companion
back. Before them rose the great shimmering white form of Satha,
an ageless hate in its eyes. Conan tensed himself for one mad
berserker onslaught -- to thrust the glowing faggot into that
fiendish countenance and throw his life into the ripping sword-
stroke. But the snake was not looking at him. It was glaring
over his shoulder at the man called Pelias, who stood with his
arms folded, smiling. And in the great, cold, yellow eyes
slowly the hate died out in a glitter of pure fear -- the only
time Conan ever saw such an expression in a reptile's eyes.
With a swirling rush like the sweep of a strong wind, the great
snake was gone.
"What did he see to frighten him?" asked Conan, eyeing his
companion uneasily.
"The scaled people see what escapes the mortal eye," answered
Pelias cryptically. "You see my fleshy guise, he saw my naked
soul."
