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.
• Gozag Ym Sagoz, god of business and commerce.
• Hepliaklqana the Forgotten
• 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.
• Ru, god of sacrifice and unmaking.
• Sif Muna, god of magic and mystical secrets.
• The Shining One, good god of honourable crusades against evil.
• Trog, god of violence and anger.
• Uskayaw the Reveler, a god of wild dancing.
• Vehumet, god of destructive magic.
• Wu Jian Council, a council of formerly mortal monks.
• Xom, god of true chaos.
• Yredelemnul, evil god of death.
• Zin, good god of law and purity.

Ability comparison

* = An activatable ability

Comparison of abilities granted by gods

God	Piety - (0)	Piety * (30)	Piety ** (50)	Piety *** (75)	Piety **** (100)	Piety ***** (120)	Piety ****** (160)
Ashenzari	*Use a scroll of remove curse to curse items of choice. 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 monsters' weapons and wands	Identify Armor See through walls	Identify Amulets and Rings Boosted skills when cursed	See invisible Clarity		* Transfer skill points
Beogh	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	* Temporarily prevent lethal damage	* Lesser Healing * Divine Protection	* Heal Other (may pacify)	* Remove status effects, restore stats, cure rot	* Greater Healing	* 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
Gozag Ym Sagoz	Monsters no longer leave corpses, but gold Detect gold and shops * Pay for potion effects * Fund the opening of new shops * Bribe monsters of a particular branch into not attacking you or joining you
Hepliaklqana	Rank 1 Frail mutation Recall Ancestor Identity		Ancester Life: Knight Ancester Life: Battlemage Ancester Life: Hexer	Transference	Idealize	Beings near your transference will be drained
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	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	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		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	Gifts decks of cards Improved card power			* 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		* 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.
Ru	* Make personal sacrifices to gain piety.	Attacks against you sometimes falter or are redirected to enemies.	Enemies attacking you suffer bad status effects.	* Regain HP and MP, and cure "restraint" status effects (m. draining).	* Power Leap 3 tiles and damage enemies near your landing point (l. draining).	* Deals heavy damage and random status effects to enemies in LOS (h. draining).
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
Uskayaw		*Deal damage to adjacent creatures	*Pass through a line of creatures and leave those you pass through confused	*Enemies in your line of sight are paralyzed	*When enemies take damage they also deal a percentage of the damage taken to nearby creatures	*Blink to and instantly kill any targetable monster, monster must have emotions
Vehumet		Receive destructive spells as gifts Gain MP from killing		Reduced chance of miscasting destructive spells	Increased range of destructive spells
Wu Jian Council	Deal 120% attack damage when moving directly toward an enemy	Deal 80% attack damage when moving adjacent to an enemy and pin them in place	*Jump off a wall and attack all adjacent enemies to the landing site twice for twice as much time	*Two instantaneous attacks and your martial attacks are boosted		*Grants the player a halo and summons clouds that grant a slaying bonus
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
• Gods