Fedhas Madash

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"Spread life and death."

Fedhas is the god of plant and fungal life. Followers are forbidden from harming any species under Fedhas' protection. In return Fedhas grants a number of abilities that promote the growth of plant and fungi. These abilities may incidentally prove useful to adventurers. Plants and fungi will not attack Fedhas' worshippers without provocation. Fedhas' worshippers may walk through plants or fungi, and even fire missiles or spells through them without causing harm. Fedhas grants powers to temporarily grow a menagerie of plant allies whose strength and duration increase with Invocations skill. Worshipers may grow a protective wall of briar patches as well as ballistomycetes that fire damaging spores whose explosions confuse living creatures. Devout followers can overgrow a stretch of solid terrain with a cluster of plant allies or even summon a mighty oklob plant. Fedhas likes it when you kill living beings, you destroy the undead, you kill demons, you kill holy beings and you destroy nonliving beings. Fedhas dislikes it when you destroy plants.

Racial restrictions

Demigods are also unable to worship Fedhas (or any other god).

Appreciates

• Killing natural, undead, demonic, holy, or nonliving creatures.

Deprecates

• You or your allies destroying plants. (Piety loss)
• Attacking allied flora. (Piety loss)
• Allowing allied flora to die. Wandering mushrooms dying from running out of HD doesn't count. (Piety loss)

Given abilities

Piety level -: "Fungal"

• All plants are friendly towards you. (Passive). Note this includes strong monsters like oklob plants and thorn hunters.
• You can walk through plants, though it takes 50% longer than normal to do so. (Passive)
• You can fire through all allied plant-type creatures without harming them. (Passive)

Piety level *: "Green [Species]"

• No new abilities.

Piety level **: "Cultivator"

• Wall of Briars: Encircles yourself with summoned briar patches, which hurt any enemy that attacks them. It won't summon patches for enemies already next to you. (3 MP, 2-3 Piety)

Piety level ***: "Fruitful"

• Grow Ballistomycete: Summons a ballistomycete, which creates spores that explode and damage and confuse enemy monsters. If not careful, they will damage you! (4 MP, 4-6 Piety)

Piety level ****: "Photosynthesist"

• Overgrow: Transforms dungeon walls and trees into plant allies by using the Overgrow ability. This can override stone and metal walls. Higher invocations improve the selection of plants. (8 MP, 12-18 Piety)

Piety level *****: "Green Death"

• Grow Oklob: Grows an oklob plant, which are strong, long lasting, and corrosive allies. (6 MP, 6-9 Piety)

Piety level ******: "Force of Nature"

• No new abilities.

Higher Invocations boosts the HD of plants summoned by Fedhas, increasing their HP, damage, and firerate.

Punishments

Fedhas does not appreciate abandonment, and will call down fearful punishments on disloyal followers! It is Fedhas's considered opinion that offenders against the natural order (Fedhas) simply need more exposure to nature to realize the error of their ways. Accordingly, Fedhas provides said nature, in the form of pure elemental destruction, waves of giant spores rising from nearby corpses, and, for the truly incorrigible, surrounding rings of animate mushrooms and acid-spitting oklobs.

During penance, Fedhas will occasionally punish you with one of the following forms of divine retribution:

• The elements will be invoked against you. This equates to a random Ice Magic, Earth Magic, Fire Magic, or Air Magic miscast.
• Hostile plants (biased towards oklobs) will grow around you. This effect will only happen when abandoning Fedhas, never when simply under penance.
• Corpses in line of sight will produce hostile spores.
• All previously neutral or allied plants will also turn hostile upon abandonment or excommunication.

Strategy

• Be aware that your ability to fire through allied plants does not apply to every spell in the game; some will inflict friendly fire and cost you piety.
  • The following spells can pass through allied plants without harming them: Magic Dart, Shock, Sting, Mephitic Cloud, Stone Arrow, Bolt of Magma, Lightning Bolt, Venom Bolt, Iron Shot, Poison Arrow, and Lehudib's Crystal Spear).
  • The following spells will affect allied plants as described:
    • Orbs of Destruction cannot pass through.
    • Battlespheres' beams cannot pass through.
    • Fireball can pass through, but the resulting explosion will harm allied plants.
    • Hexes like Pain, Ensorcelled Hibernation, etc. can not pass through, though they will not affect the plant.
    • Fedhas protects allied plants from the clouds produced by Ignite Poison and Freezing Cloud, but not from Polar Vortex.
    • Fedhas protects allied plants from the explosions of Lee's Rapid Deconstruction but not from Fulminant Prism. Ignition never harms allies.
  • Static Discharge, Ozocubu's Refrigeration, Conjure Ball Lightning, Chain Lightning, Shatter, and Fire Storm will harm allied plants.

History

• Prior to 0.24, Fedhas did not allow the undead to worship them, and Fedhas abilities had a direct ration cost. In addition to that Fedhas' abilities were greatly reworked.
• Prior to 0.22, Evolution was granted at *, and Sunlight was granted at **.
• Prior to 0.21, Fedhas abilities used fruits rather than rations.
• Prior to 0.15, worshipers of Fedhas could not cast Sublimation of Blood without incurring piety loss and/or penance.
• Prior to 0.8, Decomposition was accomplished as an ability, not through prayer.