White naga (UnNetHack)
| N white naga (No tile) | |
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| Attacks | |
| Base level | 13
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| Speed | 14 |
| Base AC | 2 |
| Base MR | 40 |
| Alignment | 5 (lawful) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 2600 |
| Nutritional value | 400 |
| Size | huge |
| Resistances | cold resistance, poison resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | cold resistance (20%), poison resistance (20%) |
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A white naga:
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| Reference | UnNetHack commit f76e980 - src/monst.c, line 1925 |
- This article is about the adult monster in UnNetHack. For the juvenile and adult forms of the monster in other variants, see white naga.
A white naga, N, is a type of monster that appears in UnNetHack. The white naga is an adult naga that has an affinity to cold, and it is acidic like the black naga despite lacking either acid resistance or stoning resistance.
A white naga has a single bite attack and a cold spitting attack, and possesses cold resistance and poison resistance.
A white naga corpse is acidic to eat, and eating a white naga corpse or tin has a 1⁄5 chance each of granting cold resistance or poison resistance.
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Generation
White nagas are only randomly generated in Sheol, and normally-created ones may generate as peaceful towards lawful heroes. A white naga hatchling can grow up into a white naga.
Four white nagas are randomly placed on the bottom floor of Sheol at level creation.
History
The white naga first appears in UnNetHack version 5.1.0 via commit f3b005a.
Origin
The Nāga (feminine "Nagi") are a supernatural race of half-human half-serpent beings that can occasionally take human form, and hold cultural significance in the folkloric traditions of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures over the past two millennia. Nagas also appear in Dungeons & Dragons.
Their most common depiction is that of a snake with a human head, which the default tileset of NetHack draws from—other iconographic depictions portray them as human from the waist up and snake from the waist down, wholly human with snakes on the heads and necks, or even as common serpents. Various south and southeastern Asian cultures also portray Nāgas as having multiple usually-serpentine heads.
Encyclopedia entry
The naga is a mystical creature with the body of a snake and the head of a man or woman. They will fiercely protect the territory they consider their own. Some nagas can be forced to serve as guardians by a spellcaster of great power.
