Angel

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holy monsters
angel AAngel.png
HP 83-118
HD 12
XP 2091
Speed 15
AC 10
EV 20
Will 128
Attack1 25 (hit: plain)
Attack2 10 (hit: plain)


Resistances rElec++, rPois+,
rN+++, rRot,
rHoly
Vulnerabilities None
Habitat Land
Intelligence High
Uses Weapons & armour
Starting equipment
Open doors
Holiness Holy
Size Medium
Type angel, angel
Flags Fighter
Speaks
Glows
See invisible
Flying
Silence immune
A divine warrior of The Shining One, it is a towering winged figure of unnatural beauty surrounded by an aura of brilliant white light. It appears to be weightless and quite agile while flying, despite wearing heavy armour.

Useful Info

Angels are the servants of the Shining One, often equipped with blessed weapons of holy wrath and capable of healing themselves. Even worse, striking one down may trigger the cleansing flame of the Shining One, causing an unavoidable blast of experience level-proportional holy damage that is extremely dangerous to wounded undead or demonspawn characters. On the other hand, followers of good gods may be deemed worthy, and the angel will be neutral toward you.

They are thankfully very rare, appearing only in the Abyss, holy Pandemonium and Ziggurat floors, or certain rare vaults in which the angel is harmlessly tucked away.

Spells

Spell set
Slot1 none
Slot2 none
Slot3 Minor Healing
Slot4 none
Slot5 Minor Healing
Slot6 Minor Healing


Tips & Tricks

  • Undead characters should keep their distance: either kill them from afar or run away.
  • Angels often carry sacred scourges or eudemon blades. If you're not undead or demonspawn, it may be worth killing them in order to steal these, as they are among the best weapons in the game. Just be sure to have an escape plan for when things go pear-shaped.
  • It's easy to avoid angels while wandering the Abyss. Just turn around when you see their 5-tile halo effect hit the edge of your LOS.

Variant Angels

Certain Zin altar vaults contain glowing angels. These are always behind transparent walls, so unless you let them out, the worst they can do is yell at you for being impious.

A divine agent of Zin, it is a towering winged figure with an aura of brilliant white light. This angel's face, though, is marked by a scowl, as if its zeal against any real or perceived vice overshadows its goodness.

History

Prior to 0.7, the cleansing flame you suffer when killing angels was significantly more powerful.