Weredemon
| & / d weredemon (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 19 (demon) 16 (hell hound) |
| Attacks |
As demon: Claw 4d6, Bite 3d6 lycanthropy |
| Base level | 16 (demon) 15 (hell hound) |
| Base experience | 461 (demon) 364 (hell hound) |
| Speed | 16 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 60 (demon) 40 (hell hound) |
| Alignment | -7 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (hell hound) 1 (demon) |
| Genocidable | No |
| Weight | 1450 (demon) 600 (hell hound) |
| Nutritional value | 400 (demon) 300 (hell hound) |
| Size | Medium (demon) Large (hell hound) |
| Resistances | fire, poison, level drain |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A weredemon:
While in demon form, it also:
While in hell hound form, it also:
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| Reference | Hell hound form - EvilHack - monst.c, line 349 Demon form - EvilHack - monst.c, line 3305 |
The weredemon, &, is a monster that appears in EvilHack. It is a former lesser demon that has been infected by a werewolf, and is the most powerful type of lycanthrope present in the game. Weredemons are able to shift into a hell hound form, d, and can summon actual hell hounds and/or other demons to help them.
A weredemon has a claw attack and a bite attack that confers lycanthropy in their demon form, and has a bite attack that confers lycanthropy and a fire breath weapon in their hell hound form - this makes them one of the few lycanthropes to have an infectious bite in both forms. Weredemons possess fire resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, and a vulnerability to cold.
Generation
Randomly generated weredemons are always hostile, and are created in demon form. Unlike most other major demons, weredemons can randomly generate outside of Gehennom.
A weredemon does not leave a corpse upon death.
Encyclopedia entry
In 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day.
[ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ]
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