Word of Creation
The Words of Creation are unique items that appear in dNetHack and notdNetHack, and act as the "artifacts" of the Chaos Quest's Mithardir variant. They are found on "metallic slabs" at various points in the quest, and must be read before they can be used. When read, each slab grants a passive bonus and an activated power, and unlike the syllables do not need to be identified first.
All activated powers have no range limit other than line-of-sight. All activated powers are quick to use: up to one may be used for free each move. Note that this is the same one-use-free resource that stethoscopes and syllables both use, so you may need to carefully chose which to spend your free action on!
The First Word of Creation/Blinding Glyph
Passive bonus: Intrinsic flying.
Activated power: The First Word is an AoE effect centered on you that illuminates the area around you, dealing damage to monsters caught in the light. The base damage is (lvl/2)d3 damage, but the die size is incremented by 3 if the monster fulfills certain restrictions. They are:
- is undead
- is a demon
- is primordial
- has a life draining or vampiric attack
- has a disintegration or archon fire attack
- belongs to the shade, wraith, or unknown abomination classes
Each category stacks, so you can deal pretty good damage against targets that meet 2 or 3 of those criteria. Aspects of The Silence in particular take (lvl/2)d18 damage (they are not undead, but they're demonic primordial aberrations that possess a vampiric attack and a disintegration attack).
The Dividing Word of Creation/Cerulean Glyph
Passive bonus: Intrinsic water-proofing.
Activated power: The Dividing Word fires a beam in a chosen direction that will remove water (leaving a pit, or just floor for shallow water) and damage monsters caught in the beam. The base damage is (lvl/2)d3, and this will also throw monsters to the side. There's a 5% chance of just bisecting a monster though (instantly killing it). This is often not terribly useful, but it can be used by ranged characters to create space/delay oncoming enemies and there's often no downside to using it early in a fight on the off chance the bisection effect triggers.
The Nurturing Word of Creation/Verdant Glyph
Passive bonus: Intrinsic hungerless regeneration for all pets.
Activated power: The Nurturing Word creates grass around you, in addition to heavily damaging aspects of the Silence, elementals, undead, and manufactured golems (clay, flesh, stone). The damage is (lvl/2)d12. If this damage kills the monster, a tree will be created on its square, and the items it drops will be buried underneath.
