Ego

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Egos are special abilities and intrinsics found on weapons, armour, and other character items. When an item name shows as "+x foo of barring", the "of barring" is the ego. For example: boots of rampaging, war axe of electrocution.

Egos on weapons are often referred to as brands. This page focuses only on non-weapon egos; see the brand page for weapon egos.

Egos

Armour egos

Name	Effect	Inscription	Found On
Resistance	Gain 1 rank in fire resistance and cold resistance.	{rF+ rC+}	Robes, shields, scarves
Fire Resistance	Gain 1 rank of fire resistance.	{rF+}	All body armour, barding, shields Cloaks found in Volcano
Cold Resistance	Gain 1 rank of cold resistance.	{rC+}	All body armour, barding, shields Cloaks found in an ice cave
Poison Resistance	Gain poison resistance.	{rPois}	Shields, cloaks, all body armour other than robes
Positive Energy	Gain 1 level of life protection.	{rN+}	All body armour, shields
Preservation	Gain corrosion resistance	{rCorr}	Cloaks
Protection	Weapon: temporarily gain +7 AC after striking an enemy. Shield: gain +3 AC.	{Protect} or {AC+3}	Weapons, shields
Willpower	Gain +40 willpower.	{Will+}	All body armour, cloaks, hats
Strength	Gain +3 strength.	{Str+3}	Gloves
Dexterity	Gain +3 dexterity.	{Dex+3}	Gloves
Intelligence	Gain +3 intelligence.	{Int+3}	Helmets, hats
Rampaging	Adds an additional tile of movement when moving directly towards an enemy.	{rampage}	Boots, barding
Flight	Can be evoked for indefinite flight.	{+Fly}	Boots, barding
Stealth	Gain +50 stealth.	{Stlth+}	Cloaks, boots, barding
See Invisible	Gain see invisible.	{SInv}	Helmets, hats
Archmagi	Boosts spell power for all spells.	{Archmagi}	Robes
Ponderousness	Increases movement delay by 0.1 (10% slower for most species).	{ponderous}	Plate armour
Reflection	Reflects any blocked physical or magical ranged attacks back at the attacker.	{reflect}	Shields
Hurling	+4 slaying to Throwing weapons.	{hurl}	Gloves

Animal skins and crystal plate armour won't generate with egos outside of certain vaults. Dragon scales can never generate with egos (though they can have rF+, rC+, etc. as artefact properties).

Scarf egos

Scarves have a unique list of egos, some only found on scarves.

Name	Effect	Inscription
Harm	Increases damage dealt and taken.	{Harm}
Invisibility	Can be evoked for invisibility, but each attempt drains the wearer. Remaining invisible increases magic contamination.	{+Inv}
Repulsion	Lowers to-hit of ranged attacks.	{repulsion}
Resistance	Gain 1 rank in fire resistance and cold resistance.	{rF+ rC+}
Shadows	Reduces LOS range by 1 tile.	{shadows}

Orb egos

These egos can only be found on orbs.

Name	Effect	Inscription
Energy	On successful spell cast, 20% to refund MP. On spell miscast, 100% to refund MP. Increases spell failure rate.	{energy}
Guile	Reduces willpower of you and enemies by 80 (Will--).	{guile}
Light	Gives you a 3-tile halo, revealing invisible enemies, increasing to-hit against anyone but you, decreasing your stealth.	{light}
Mayhem	On kill, 50% chance to send another enemy into frenzy.	{mayhem}
Wrath	On melee hit, 20% chance to inflict berserk on yourself.	{*Rage}

History

• Prior to 0.28, archery was an ego instead of hurling; also 5 new orb egos were added.
• Prior to 0.27, hats and gloves could not get the stealth ego. Running could be found on boots and bardings.
• 0.26 added the rampaging and shadows egos, caused the invisibility ego to drain the user, and renamed magic resistance to willpower.
• Prior to 0.25, spirit shield could be found as an ego on scarves.
• Prior to 0.15, the archery ego penalised melee (-1,-1) and gave more accuracy than damage (+5,+3).
• The preservation ego was removed in 0.15, and returned in 0.25.
• The jumping ego was added for boots in 0.14 and removed in 0.16.