White naga hatchling (UnNetHack)
| N white naga hatchling (No tile) | |
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| Attacks | |
| Base level | 3
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| Speed | 10 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 500 |
| Nutritional value | 100 |
| Size | large |
| Resistances | cold resistance, poison resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | cold resistance (10%), poison resistance (10%) |
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A white naga hatchling:
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| Reference | UnNetHack commit f76e980 - src/monst.c, line 1885 |
- This article is about the juvenile monster in UnNetHack. For the juvenile and adult forms of the monster in other variants, see white naga.
A white naga hatchling, N, is a type of monster that appears in UnNetHack. The white naga hatchling is a juvenile form of carnivorous naga that has an affinity to cold, and it is acidic like the black naga hatchling despite lacking either acid resistance or stoning resistance.
A white naga hatchling has a single bite attack, and possesses cold resistance and poison resistance.
A white naga hatchling corpse is acidic to eat, and eating a white naga hatchling corpse or tin has a 1⁄10 chance each of granting cold resistance or poison resistance.
Generation
Randomly generated white naga hatchlings may generate as peaceful towards neutral heroes. A white naga hatchling can grow up into a white naga, and can also hatch from white naga eggs.
White naga hatchlings are only randomly generated within levels and branches that are biased towards monsters of a particular alignment.
Strategy
Like red naga hatchlings, white naga hatchlings are somewhat slower than an unhasted hero at 10 speed, and are generally non-threatening—unlike the adult white naga, they are also more commonplace in aligned branches outside of Sheol, so a hero will typically see at least a couple before they reach the Valley of the Dead. White naga hatchling corpses can be a valuable early source of cold resistance and poison resistance: the corpse being acidic makes it somewhat hazardous for low-HP heroes, but will also prevent most meat-eating pets from stealing the corpse for themselves.
History
The white naga hatchling first appears in UnNetHack version 5.1.0 via commit 1ad3773.
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.
