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==Useful Info==
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'''Diamond obelisks''' are extremely rare [[statue]]s, most often found in circular [[vault]]s in the later parts of the game. They cannot move and have no attacks to speak of, but they are nearly invulnerable and surrounded by an endless windstorm effect, similar to the [[Tornado]] spell. At the far end of the vault is a single item of [[acquirement]] quality, but getting past them can take a ridiculous amount of firepower.
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|flags={{Stationary flag}}<br>{{No exp gain flag}}<br>{{No poly flag}}<br>{{Artificial flag}}
 
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|resistances={{Negative energy resistance 3}}, {{Torment resistance}}, <br>{{Rot resistance 3}}, {{Wind resistance}}, <br>{{Drown resistance}}
 
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{{Flavour|This obelisk seems to be for all practical purposes indestructible. You better find a way around... it might even provide one.}}
 
  
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==Useful Info==
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If you step into the tornado, expect to be swirled about uncontrollably, taking a fair amount of damage every turn. The only way to exit the tornado is to step onto an empty square - if you find yourself lucky enough to be at its edge. Thankfully, you can also [[blink]] or [[teleport]] out.
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'''Diamond obelisks''' are uncommon [[statue]]s found in circular [[vault]]s in the later parts of the game. They cannot move and have no attacks to speak of, but they are nearly invulnerable and surrounded by an endless windstorm effect, similar to the [[Tornado]] spell. At the far end of the vault is a single item of [[acquirement]] quality, but getting past them can take a ridiculous amount of firepower.
 
  
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If you step into the tornado, expect to be swirled about uncontrollably, taking a fair amount of damage every turn.  The only way to exit the tornado is to step onto an empty square &ndash; if you find yourself lucky enough to be at its edge.  Thankfully, you can also [[blink]] or [[teleport]] out.
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They can also be found near [[Qazlal]] shrines, safely locked away behind stone walls.
  
 
==Tips & Tricks==
 
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*Characters without food clocks can hammer away at them with spells, but this will take literally thousands of turns to succeed.
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*The tornado is completely predictable. If you don't make any movement while you are being transported, leaving the tornado is a very easy task.
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*Air elementals are immune to wind attacks. [[Summon Elemental|Summonning]] a few dozen of them over a couple hundred turns will work. [[Haunt]] is also possible, but will take many more castings over a much longer period of time, since nothing it generates is wind-resistant.
 
 
*While characters under the effect of Tornado are immune to enemy Tornadoes, this windstorm will still affect you normally.
 
*While characters under the effect of Tornado are immune to enemy Tornadoes, this windstorm will still affect you normally.
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[[File:Qazlal_obelisk.png|thumb|Shrine of Qazlal featuring a diamond obelisk]]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:05, 9 May 2026

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diamond obelisk I Diamond obelisk.png
HP 6336-12768
HD 8
XP 0
Speed 10 (stationary)
AC 12
EV 1
Will Immune



Resistances rPois+++
rDrown
rMiasma
rN+++
rTorm
rPetrify
rVortex
Vulnerabilities None
Habitat Land
Intelligence Human
Uses Starting equipment
Open doors
Holiness Non-living
Size Large
Type diamond obelisk, diamond obelisk
Flags Unbreathing
Stationary
No experience gain
Harmless
No poly
A towering obelisk surrounded by a powerful storm.

“As one example of the meanings inherent in a form, let us examine a particular
form of vertical stone marker, variously called stele, obelisk, standing-stone,
and memorial column. These have been historically and commonly used to
commemorate honored phenomena. So, when a people wish to remember an important
relationship, event or personage, a location is dedicated to it and often
marked with an enduring and aspiring vertical form or sets of them. In natural
language, a vertical stone means: an aspiring connector between us (on earth)
and an ideal (up there); that we ‘stand up’ with pride about this honored
phenomenon. The marker is a symbolic inhabitation of the place it occupies. Its
size and workmanship is a sacrifice of much work and resources to a memory. It
is a strong suggestion (because we left it to them and it is of durable
material) that future people also give honor to the memorialized phenomenon.
When we use this particular physical form of the vertical marker, both its
historic use as an honorific and its meanings in natural language may well send
a message that this is an honored place, a place about a ‘good’ both in our
culture and in the culture of future observers.”
-“Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant”, Sandia National Laboratories report. 1993

Useful Info

Diamond obelisks are extremely rare statues, most often found in circular vaults in the later parts of the game. They cannot move and have no attacks to speak of, but they are nearly invulnerable and surrounded by an endless windstorm effect, similar to the Tornado spell. At the far end of the vault is a single item of acquirement quality, but getting past them can take a ridiculous amount of firepower.

If you step into the tornado, expect to be swirled about uncontrollably, taking a fair amount of damage every turn. The only way to exit the tornado is to step onto an empty square - if you find yourself lucky enough to be at its edge. Thankfully, you can also blink or teleport out.

They can also be found near Qazlal shrines, safely locked away behind stone walls.

Tips & Tricks

  • The tornado is completely predictable. If you don't make any movement while you are being transported, leaving the tornado is a very easy task.
  • While characters under the effect of Tornado are immune to enemy Tornadoes, this windstorm will still affect you normally.
Shrine of Qazlal featuring a diamond obelisk
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