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[[Image:Spectral kraken.png]] Krakens | [[Image:Spectral kraken.png]] Krakens | ||
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[[Image:Spectral naga.png]] Nagas | [[Image:Spectral naga.png]] Nagas | ||
Revision as of 21:48, 3 May 2013
| A hideous glowing apparition.
"On the hungry craving wind |
A form of derived undead, spectral things are the phantasmal spirits of slain creatures. Like other undead creations such as zombies or skeletons, spectral things are slower and weaker than the original creatures they were made from and have the standard undead resistances to cold and negative energy. Unlike zombies or skeletons, spectral things retain their original intelligence, can use stairs, come with draining-branded attacks, and take damage normally, meaning they can eventually regenerate. They can also levitate and see invisible creatures.
They are occasionally seen in The Crypt, and can be summoned through through the Death Channel spell, though these summoned spectral things are only temporary. Yredelemnul's Enslave Soul invocation can also give you a single permanent spectral thing that retains all of its former powers. The mid-game unique Nergalle is capable of summoning large numbers of spectral orcs, which will often be armed with reaching-capable polearms.
Spectral things are somewhat less durable than skeletons or zombies, but their increased intelligence, ability to follow you between levels, and ability to heal all help make up for this. Their draining attacks can prove quite useful against enemies that do not resist them. On the other hand, your created spectral servants are only temporary (unless you're using Yredelemnul's invocation, which only allows for a single permanent servant at a time), making some of their benefits less useful in the long run.
Identifying Spectral things
Though spectral things will have different stats depending on what they were made from, Crawl tends to lump them together, making identification at a glance difficult. In console mode, all spectral things are represented by W; tiles mode is more accomodating, providing unique tiles for several categories of monster, but there are still a lot of possible variations within those categories. In either mode, you can always press x and highlight the spectral thing in question to determine exactly what type of monster you are dealing with.
Below are all the categories of spectral things in tiles mode:
Bats
Centaurs
Dragons
Drakes
Fish
Frogs
Humanoids (small)
Humanoids (large)
Hydras with one head...
...two heads...
...three heads...
...four heads...
...or five or more heads
Insects
Insects (winged)
Krakens
Lizards
Nagas
Quadrupeds (small)
Quadrupeds (large)
Snakes
Spiders
