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.
• Elyvilon, good god of healing.
• Fedhas Madash, god of plants.
• Jiyva, god of slimes.
• Kikubaaqudgha, evil god of necromantic magic.
• Lugonu, evil god of the Abyss.
• Makhleb, evil god of chaos and violence.
• Nemelex Xobeh, the trickster god.
• Okawaru, god of battle.
• Qazlal, god of tempests.
• Sif Muna, god of magic and mystical secrets.
• The Shining One, good god of honourable crusades against evil.
• Trog, god of violence and anger.
• Vehumet, god of destructive magic.
• Xom, god of true chaos.
• Yredelemnul, evil god of death.
• Zin, good god of law and purity.

Ability comparison

* = An activatable ability
^ = Activated by praying

Comparison of abilities granted by gods

God	Piety - (0)	Piety * (30)	Piety ** (50)	Piety *** (75)	Piety **** (100)	Piety ***** (120)	Piety ****** (160)
Ashenzari	^ Convert scrolls of remove curse into curse scrolls Prevent outside sources of curses Detect curses on items Detect portals Map terrain outside of LOS Detect monsters outside of LOS Detect items outside of LOS Improved trap detection Identify egos	Identify Armor	Identify Weapons, Amulets and Rings Boosted skills when cursed	See invisible Clarity	* See through walls	* Transfer skill points
Beogh	^ Bless orc corpses for piety Chance of preventing lethal damage (not during penance) Experience is spread to followers	Improved AC and SH	* Smite enemies	Convert orcish followers Bless orcish followers	* Recall orcish followers Gain orcish reinforcements if no followers are present	Walk on water
Cheibriados	Slow movement Improved stats * Slow everything adjacent to you	Slows metabolism		* Step monsters forward in time	* Hurt everything faster than you in LOS	* Move to nowhere and let time pass
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	^ Sacrifice weapons/ammunition Detect evil weapons Chance of preventing lethal damage * Lesser healing of monsters (may pacify)	* Lesser self-healing * Temporarily prevent lethal damage	* Remove status effects, restore stats, cure rot	* Greater self-healing * Greater healing of monsters (may pacify)		* Increase maximum HP/MP
Fedhas Madash	Turns all plants friendly Walk through plants Shoot through plants ^ Decompose corpses, causing toadstools to grow	* Evolve plants into allies using fruit	* Call sunlight, drying water	* Grow plants using fruit	* Summon giant spores from corpses	* Call rain, creating water
Jiyva	Turns all slimes and eyeballs neutral Protects your items Shuffles your stats Creates neutral jellies and eats off-level items	* Summon a neutral jelly to devour items Gain food when slimes eat items	Gifts random mutations Grants resistance to corrosion ^ Halt slimes from eating items	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 slimes Removes the walls of the Slime Pits rune vault
Kikubaaqudgha	Increases your available HP when using Death's Door	* Summon corpses	Gifts a low-level Necromancy spellbook Grants protection from Necromancy miscasts and death curses		Gifts a mid-level Necromancy spellbook Chance to prevent sickness when casting Haunt Grants protection from Torment	^ Invoke Torment using a corpse	(Once only) Receive either Necronomicon or permanent pain-branded weapon
Lugonu	^ Sacrifice corpses for piety 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	^ Sacrifice corpses for piety	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	^ Sacrifice items Gifts decks of cards Improved card power	* Draw from a deck in your inventory	* Look at the first two cards of a deck	* 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	^ Sacrifice corpses	* Increase physical combat skills		Receive ammunition as gifts		* Double attack speed Receive weapons and armour as gifts
Qazlal	Cannot be harmed by clouds you create by any means.	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.
Sif Muna		* Recover MP at will	* Forget spells at will		Grants protection from miscast effects		Receive spellbooks as gifts
The Shining One	Chance of preventing lethal damage Grants protection from negative energy	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 Protects allies from abjuration Bless allies	(Once only) Receive holy wrath brand on weapon
Trog	^ Turn spellbooks into clouds of flame Protects allies from abjuration Extended berserker rage when killing Grants protection from exhaustion after berserking	* Go berserk	* Increase regeneration and magic resistance	Receive ammunition as a gift	* Summon a berserk ally	Receive weapons as gifts
Vehumet		Receive destructive spells as gifts Gain MP from killing		Reduced chance of miscasting destructive spells	Increased range of destructive spells
Xom	Special, see Xom#Acts
Yredelemnul		* Animate a corpse or skeleton	* 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 Chance of protection from mutation Chance of protection from Hell effects	* Inflict random status effects on enemies	* Increase stats, satiation, and resistance to poison and status effects	* Create temporary prison around enemy		* Create sanctuary of protection	(Once only) Cure all mutations

See Also

• Piety
• Choosing a god