Priestess of Ghaunadaur

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A priestess of Ghaunadaur, C, is a type of monster that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. A priestess of Ghaunadaur is a form of drider that serves Ghaunadaur, a god of fallen stars, slime, outcasts, and the discarded, as indicated by the encyclopedia entry—her counterpart is the priest of Ghaunadaur, which is a form of shoggoth. Priestesses of Ghaunadaur are strong omnivores that will pick up gold and other items they come across, and can be seen via infravision. As a being with a humanoid torso and the body of a spider, the priestess of Ghaunadaur may trigger the "arachnaphobia" madness.

A priestess of Ghaunadaur has similar attacks to those of a drider: a weapon attack, an offhand weapon attack, and a kick attack that can trap its target in a web. Unlike the drider, the priestess of Ghaunadaur has a stronger bite that inflicts corrosion rather than poison, and also has an acidic passive attack and the ability to cast clerical monster spells. A priestess of Ghaunadaur possesses sleep resistance.

Eating a priestess of Ghaunadaur's corpse or tin, or quaffing her blood, grants temporary sleep resistance for a duration of 10,000 turns before physical size modifiers.

Generation

Priestesses of Ghaunadaur are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always hostile.

Priestesses of Ghaunadaur naturally can be generated as minions of Ghaunadaur, and a temple to Ghaunadaur generated outside of the Astral Plane has a 12 chance of generating a peaceful priestess of Ghaunadaur as the priest tending to the altar.

A priestess of Ghaunadaur may be generated as the guard of a magic item vault, including the ones generated if the Avatar of Lolth's lair appears as the second Abyss level.

Priestesses of Ghaunadaur can be generated among the plague victims that are carried within sacks by hill giants on the Drow Healer quest, as well as those encountered outside sacks.

Priestesses of Ghaunadaur can appear among the prisoners of a throne room ruled by any of the following monsters: a drow matron, an embraced drowess, a Y-cultist patron, or the Avatar of Lolth.

Origin

Encyclopedia entry

Ghaunadaur, god of fallen stars, slime, outcasts, and the discarded, is a peripheral member of the drow pantheon. He is worshiped mainly by disaffected drow, especially those warped into punishment forms and exiled by Lolth. The most powerful droven followers of Ghaunadaur are often former priestesses of Lolth, warped into drider form after failing one of their goddess's many tests.

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