Saint Michael
| A Saint Michael (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 40 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 4d6 physical, Weapon 4d6 physical, Claw 2d4 knockback, Spell-casting 4d6 (clerical), Spell-casting 4d6 magic missile |
| Base level | 77 |
| Base experience | ? |
| Speed | 14 |
| Base AC | -8 |
| Base MR | 90 |
| Alignment | 15 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | Unique |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | fire, cold, electricity, sleep, poison, stoning, magic |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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Saint Michael:
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| Reference | EvilHack v0.8.4 - monst.c, line 1536 |
Saint Michael, A, is a unique monster that appears in EvilHack. Saint Michael is the strongest of the angelic beings that can be encountered, and is an overlord to his kind. Saint Michael is capable of flight and regeneration, can see invisible, has infravision, can be seen via infravision, has improved accuracy, will seek out magical items and other objects to pick up, and can follow a hero to other levels if he is adjacent. Saint Michael presides over the realm of Purgatory, and must be defeated in order to access the magic portal to Sokoban and escape Gehennom—he cannot be pacified or made tame.
Saint Michael has two weapon attacks, a claw attack that can send the target flying, and the ability to cast one clerical monster spell and magic missiles during each of his turns. Saint Michael possesses magic resistance, fire resistance, cold resistance, shock resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, and stoning resistance.
Generation
Saint Michael is not a valid form for polymorph.
Saint Michael will always be generated hostile and asleep on the throne of the palace of Purgatory at level creation.
Saint Michael is created with 300 to 350 HP, and is always generated with a blessed and erosion-proofed silver runesword that has the fire object property and an enchantment ranging from +5 to +7 (with an equal probability of each)—he is also generated with an uncursed erodeproof +0 shield of reflection.
Saint Michael does not leave a corpse upon death.
Origin
Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith. The name is derived from Hebrew (מִיכָאֵל, Mīḵāʾēl, lit. "Who is like El [God]?"), with the earliest surviving mentions of him in third- and second-century BC Jewish works which were often (but not always) apocalyptic in nature—he is the chief of the angels and archangels and the guardian prince of Israel, and is responsible for the care of the people of Israel. Christianity conserved nearly all the Jewish traditions concerning him, and he is mentioned explicitly in Revelation 12:7–12, where he does battle with Satan, and in the Epistle of Jude, where the author denounces certain "ungodly persons" by contrasting them with Michael.
Encyclopedia entry
All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide
In Heaven, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell;
When thou attended gloriously from Heav’n
Shalt in the Skie appeer, and from thee send
The summoning Arch-Angels to proclaime
Thy dread Tribunal: forthwith from all Windes
The living, and forthwith the cited dead
Of all past Ages to the general Doom
Shall hast’n, such a peal shall rouse thir sleep.
[ Paradise Lost, by John Milton ]
