Valkyrie/EvilHack
In EvilHack, the Valkyrie is one of the roles from NetHack that is available to the hero.
Valkyries can be humans, dwarves, giants, or centaurs, and can be lawful or neutral. Unlike other roles and like in NetHack, they always start the game as female.
Starting equipment
Each Valkyrie starts with the following equipment:
- a +1 spear (wielded)
- a +0 dagger (alternate weapon)
- a +3 small shield
- 1-2 uncursed food rations
- an uncursed oil lamp (1⁄6 chance or 16.7%)
Dwarven Valkyries are given a dwarvish spear in place of the standard spear.
Valkyries start with knowledge of all non-magical weapons and armor, along with any applicable racial equipment.
The Valkyrie's default starting pet is a little dog or kitten with equal probability.
Intrinsics
Valkyries gain the following intrinsic properties upon reaching the given experience levels:
- Level 1: cold resistance
- Level 1: stealth
- Level 7: speed
Attributes
The Valkyrie's starting attributes are distributed as follows:
| Attributes | Strength | Dexterity | Constitution | Intelligence | Wisdom | Charisma | Remaining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum attributes | 10 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| Distribution percentages | 30% | 20% | 30% | 6% | 7% | 7% | |
| Mean w/ standard deviation (human) | 18/00.86±2.34 | 12.72±2.08 | 17.11±1.32 | 8.75±1.35 | 9.04±1.43 | 8.76±1.35 |
The means and standard deviations were calculated via simulation, whose source code can be found on the role article's talk page, and assumes that all given roles are played as humans—non-human races will have different attribute means as a result of different attribute maximums.
Skills
Valkyries have the following skills available to them:
| Valkyrie skills | |
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| Max | Skills |
| Basic |
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| Expert |
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Valkyries start with Basic skill in spears and daggers. They use the wisdom stat to cast spells, and their special spell is repair armor.
Special rules
Valkyries never fumble while walking on ice.
Valkyries have a +2 bonus to casting emergency spells.
If the wielded Mjollnir is thrown by a Valkyrie with 25 strength, it will return to their hand 99⁄100 of the time, and the Valkyrie will catch it 99⁄100 of the time unless they are impaired: if a Valkyrie fails to catch the returning Mjollnir, it has an equal chance of either landing at their feet or hitting them in the arm.
Rank titles
The status line displays one of the following ranks for the corresponding experience levels:
- XL 1-2: Stripling
- XL 3-5: Skirmisher
- XL 6-9: Fighter
- XL 10-13: (Wo)man-at-arms
- XL 14-17: Warrior
- XL 18-21: Swashbuckler
- XL 22-25: Hero(ine)
- XL 26-29: Champion
- XL 30: Lady/Lord
Gods
The Valkyrie pantheon is based on Norse mythology. Their first sacrifice gift is Mjollnir.
Quest
The Valkyrie's quest sees them fighting Lord Surtur for Gjallar, an artifact tooled horn. Gjallar grants warning, half physical damage and acts as a luckstone while carried. Applying Gjallar scares monsters and will wake up any sleeping monsters on the current level, and its scare radius is larger than a regular tooled horn—any monsters directly adjacent to the hero have a 1⁄5 chance of being stunned, and a non-Valkyrie hero blowing the horn may become temporarily deaf.
Strategy
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