God comparison

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List of gods

• Ashenzari, god of cursed divinations.
• Beogh, evil god of the orcs.
• Cheibriados, the slow god.
• Dithmenos, god of shadows and stealth.
• Elyvilon, good god of healing.
• Fedhas Madash, god of plants.
• Gozag Ym Sagoz, god of business and commerce.
• Hepliaklqana, god of ancestry and memory.
• Jiyva, chaotic god of slimes.
• Kikubaaqudgha, evil god of necromantic magic.
• Lugonu, chaotic evil god of the Abyss.
• Makhleb, chaotic evil god of bloodshed and destruction.
• Nemelex Xobeh, god of cards.
• Okawaru, god of battle.
• Qazlal, god of tempests.
• Ru, god of sacrifice and unmaking.
• Sif Muna, god of magic and mystical secrets.
• Trog, god of violence and berserk rage.
• Uskayaw, god of wild dancing.
• Vehumet, god of destructive magic.
• The Wu Jian Council, a council of formerly mortal martial artists.
• Xom, god of true chaos.
• Yredelemnul, evil god of death and undeath.
• Zin, good god of law and purity.
• The Shining One, good god of honourable crusades against evil.

Ability comparison

bold = An activatable ability

Comparison of abilities granted by gods

God	Piety - (0)	Piety * (30)	Piety ** (50)	Piety *** (75)	Piety **** (100)	Piety ***** (120)	Piety ****** (160)
Ashenzari	Use a scroll of remove curse to curse items of choice. Prevent outside sources of curses Detect curses on items Detect locations of portals Map terrain outside of LOS Detect monsters outside of LOS Detect items outside of LOS Improved trap detection Identify monsters' weapons, armour, and wands	Identify Armor See through walls	Identify Amulets and Rings Boosted skills when cursed	See invisible Clarity		Transfer skill points from one skill to another
Beogh	Chance of preventing lethal damage (not during penance) Experience is spread to followers		Smite enemies	Convert orcish followers Bless orcish followers	Recall orcish followers Gain orcish reinforcements if no followers are present	Walk on water Gift named followers with an item	Resurrect the corpses of orcs
Cheibriados	Slow movement Improved stats Slow everything adjacent to you	Slows metabolism and poison damage		Step monsters forward in time	Hurt everything faster than you in LOS	Skip yourself forward in time
Dithmenos		Surrounded by umbra	Step into the shadows of immobile monsters within your umbra	Bleed smoke when injured	Your shadow mimics your actions	Enter Shadow Form
Elyvilon	Chance of preventing lethal damage	Heal yourself a little Temporarily guarantee protection from lethal damage	Heal other creatures (may pacify them)	Remove status effects, restore stats, cure rot	Heal yourself a lot	Temporarily increase maximum HP/MP
Fedhas Madash	Decompose corpses into toadstools; rots zombies and ghouls Turns all plants friendly Walk through plants Shoot through plants	Evolve plants into allies using rations	Call sunlight, drying water	Grow plants using rations	Summon ballistomycete spores from corpses	Call rain, creating water
Gozag Ym Sagoz	Monsters leave gold instead of corpses Detect gold and shops Pay for potion effects Fund the opening of new shops Bribe monsters of a particular branch into not attacking you or joining you
Hepliaklqana	Maximum HP reduced by 10% Pick the name and gender of your ancestor Recall your ancestor		Choose your ancestor's background (Knight, Battlemage, or Hexer)	Switch your ancestor with another creature	Heal your ancestor and temporarily grant them increased damage, spell power, and AC	Drains creatures next to your ancestor after it swaps with another creature
Jiyva	Turns all slimes and eyeballs neutral Shuffles your stats Creates neutral jellies and eats off-level items Protects you from slimy walls	Summon a neutral jelly to devour items Gain nutrition when slimes eat items	Gifts random mutations Grants resistance to corrosion	Gain MP when slimes eat items	Turn enemies into slimes Gain HP when jellies eat items	Remove a random bad mutation	Taking heavy damage creates slime allies Removes the walls of the Slime Pits rune vault
Kikubaaqudgha		Summon corpses Gifts a low-level Necromancy spellbook	Grants protection from Necromancy miscasts and death curses	Gifts a mid-level Necromancy spellbook	Grants some resistance to Torment	Invoke Torment using a corpse	(Once only) Receive either the Necronomicon or a pain brand on weapon
Lugonu	Safely unwield weapons of distortion	Depart the Abyss	Blink yourself and monsters around you	Banish monsters to the Abyss	Corrupt current level	Banish yourself to the Abyss	Find the Abyssal rune more easily (Once only) Receive distortion brand on weapon
Makhleb		Gain HP from killing	Fire a random low-level beam	Summon an average-strength demon	Fire a random high-level beam	Summon a powerful demon
Nemelex Xobeh	Gifts decks of cards Improved card power			Choose a card from the first three in a deck	Deal four cards from a deck in a single turn	Sort the first five cards in a deck
Okawaru		Increase physical combat skills		Receive ammunition as gifts		Double attack speed Receive weapons and armour as gifts
Qazlal	Immunity to all harmful clouds.	Passively create elemental clouds around you, adding SH and generating noise.	Smite an area with random elemental damage	Convert nearby clouds to elementals	Permanent Repel Missiles, and taking fire, cold, electric, or physical damage has a chance to grant +rF, +rC, +rElec, or +3AC respectively	Randomly smite many areas in LOS with random elemental damage
Ru	Make personal sacrifices to gain piety	Attacks against you sometimes falter or are redirected to enemies	Enemies attacking you suffer bad status effects	Regain HP and MP, and cure "restraint" status effects	Leap 3 tiles and damage enemies near your landing point	Deals heavy damage and random status effects to enemies in LOS
Sif Muna		Cast a spell even without enough MP, but briefly disables spellcasting	Grants protection from miscast effects	Regain MP at will	Forget spells at will		Receive spellbooks as gifts
Trog	Turn spellbooks into clouds of flame Protects allies from abjuration May extended berserker rage when killing Grants protection from paralysis after berserking	Go berserk	Increase regeneration and magic resistance	Receive ammunition as gifts	Summon a berserk ally	Receive weapons as gifts
Uskayaw		Deal damage to adjacent creatures	Pass through and confuse a line of creatures	Paralyzes enemies in your line of sight	Enemies that take damage spread some of that damage to nearby creatures	Blink to and instantly kill a monster
Vehumet		Receive destructive spells as gifts Gain MP from killing		Reduced chance of miscasting destructive spells	Increased range of destructive spells
Wu Jian Council	Deal 120% attack damage when moving directly toward an enemy	Deal 80% attack damage when moving adjacent to an enemy and pin them in place	Jump off a wall and attack all enemies next to where you land (takes two turns)	Gain two instantaneous moves and boosts damage of martial attacks		Grants the player a halo, summons opaque clouds, and grants a slaying bonus
Xom	Special, see Xom#Acts
Yredelemnul		Animate a corpse or skeleton	Temporarily reflect incoming damage Recall undead allies	Animate all corpses in sight Receive undead servants as gifts	Drain life from all living beings in sight	Curse a living being to become your slave when killed
Zin	Chance of preventing lethal damage Grants increasing protection from mutations Grants increasing protection from Hell effects	Inflict random status effects on enemies; more effective against evil and chaotic enemies	Increase stats and gain resistance to poison and status effects	Create temporary prison around enemy		Create temporary sanctuary from danger	Potions of mutation only remove mutations
The Shining One	Chance of preventing lethal damage Grants increasing protection from negative energy Protects allies from abjuration Blesses allies that make kills	You and your allies gain HP/MP from slaying evil monsters Surrounded by halo	Create divine shield		Call down a blast of holy energy	Summon friendly Angel or Daeva	(Once only) Receive holy wrath brand on weapon

See Also

• Piety
• Choosing a god
• Gods