Invisibility (ego)

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When activated it hides its wearer from the sight of others, but also increases their metabolic rate by a large amount.

Wearing equipment with the invisibility ego grants you the Evoke Invisibility ability, allowing you to turn invisible at will. Although it requires a high Evocations skill to use reliably or for a long duration, there are no penalties for failing to evoke it, so even unskilled characters can make some use of it. However, invisibility's benefits come with significant hunger and magic contamination costs, and are less dramatic than one might expect. See the Invisible article for details.

This ego also grants its wearer the ability to become visible at will, a useful option when trying to minimize magic contamination.

The invisibility ego can be found on:

• Cloaks

Desirability

Although not without its uses, invisibility is perhaps the least useful cloak ego. It provides no passive benefits, and its active ability is duplicated by a ring, a potion, a wand, and a spell. Stabbers might use it until they find another reliable source of invisibility, and characters who haven't found better rings can use it for moderate benefits in combat, but eventually you'll likely prefer a poison or magic resistance cloak, or perhaps an interesting artefact.

History

Prior to 0.16, this was called the Darkness ego.