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+}	Body armour (only 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}	All body armour (other than robes), cloaks, shields
Positive Energy	Gain 1 level of life protection.	{rN+}	All body armour, shields
corrosion resistance	Gain corrosion resistance	{rCorr}	Cloaks, Shields
Protection	Shield: gain +3 AC. Weapon: temporarily gain +7 AC after striking an enemy.	{Protect} or {AC+3}	Shields, weapons
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}	Hats, helmets
Rampaging	Adds an additional tile of movement when moving directly towards an enemy.	{rampage}	Boots, barding
Flight	Grants flight while equipped.	{Fly}	Boots, barding
Stealth	Gain +50 stealth.	{Stlth+}	Boots, barding, cloaks
See Invisible	Gain see invisible.	{SInv}	Hats, helmets
Archmagi	Boosts spell power for all spells.	{Archmagi}	Body armour (only robes)
Ponderousness	Increases movement delay by 0.1 (10% slower for most species).	{ponderous}	Body armour (only chain mail, plate armour), Tower shields
Reflection	Reflects any blocked physical or magical ranged attacks back at the attacker.	{reflect}	Shields
Hurling	+4 slaying to Throwing weapons.	{hurl}	Gloves
Archery	Halves armour encumberance penalties for ranged weapons.	{Archery}	Heavy armour (Chain mail and Plate armour only)
Command	Gives Summoning spells a success chance and spellpower bonus based on your Armour skill.	{Command}	Heavy armour (Chain mail and Plate armour only)
Death	Gives Necromancy spells a success chance and spellpower bonus, but makes all non-Necromancy spells cost as much HP as they cost MP.	{Death}	Heavy armour (Chain mail and Plate armour only)
Resonance	Gives Forgecraft spells a success chance bonus and also increases the damage of the wearer's melee attacks based on their Forgecraft skill.	{Resonance}	Heavy armour (Chain mail and Plate armour only)
Sniping	It increases your damage by an additional 50% with ranged and thrown weapons against incapacitated (asleep, paralysed, petrified, confused or netted) targets.	{Snipe}	Hats
Ice	It enhances your Ice magic.	{Ice}	Hats and Helmets
Air	It enhances your Air magic.	{Air}	Cloak
Fire	It enhances your Fire magic.	{Ice}	Gloves
Earth	It enhances your Earth magic.	{Earth}	Boots
Light	Gives you a 3-tile halo, revealing invisible enemies, increasing to-hit against anyone but you, decreasing your stealth.	{Light}	Helmet

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.	{+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

Orbs also have a unique list of egos, these can only be found on orbs.

Name	Effect	Inscription
Attunement	Doubles the enhancer effects of magical staves, and gives magical staff melee hits a chance to recover 1-3 MP.	{Attunement}
Energy	On successful spell cast, 20% to refund MP. On spell miscast, 100% to refund MP. Increases spell failure rate.	{energy}
Glass	Has a chance to inflict Vitrify on enemies when damage is dealt, the chance of which scales with evocations.	{Glass}
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}
Mesmerism	Inflicts dazed when hurt in melee, and recharges by standing still. Daze duration, cooldown, and effect radius scale with evocations.	{Mesmerism}
Pyromania	Boosts Fire Magic and may cause a 3-tile explosion when an enemy is killed with a non-weapon attack (spells, wands, abilities). Trigger chance and damage scales with evocations.	{Pyromania}
Stardust	Upon spending MP for the first time in a battle, conjures several shooting stars around the player, which behave like foxfires but knock enemies back upon contact and can be shot through. The number of shooting stars created scales with the MP used, and the damage scales with evocations. Recharges after returning to full MP and spending a few turns out of sight from enemies.	{Stardust}

History

• In 0.34 various new egos were added to heavy armour, orbs and auxillary armours. The Preservation ego was simplified to be corrosion resistance.
• 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. Flight needed to be evoked instead of being permanent.
• 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.