Gift
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When patronizing a particular god in Dungeon Crawl, you are sometimes rewarded with a gift from that god. These gifts tend to reflect the overall theme and character of the gift-giving deity, and are typically only rewarded to pious characters (i.e. those who have acquired a significant amount of piety) with some exceptions.
Although all the various powers and abilities a god provides his or her followers might well be viewed as "gifts" as well, Dungeon Crawl vernacular generally only refers to awarded items as gifts, although this too comes with exceptions and alternate uses.
See also Gift Timeout for more regarding these types of gifts
Gods which award gifts
- Although Ashenzari does not provide gifts in a traditional manner, he does provide various cursing scrolls (used to help followers gain piety) with the sacrifice of scrolls of remove curse.
- Beogh does not provide item gifts, but at high piety will allow a follower to gift an already possessed item of his or her own choosing to a particularly worthy ally.
- While Gozag Ym Sagoz does not provide any otherwise "free" gifts, he facilities the acquisition of virtually any item through direct purchase (e.g. potions) or with the purchase of shops.
- Jiyva the Shapeless does not provide traditional gifts, but at high piety will unlock the vaults at the bottom of the Slime Pits, providing access to many items (in addition to the slimy rune of Zot).
- Aside from the arguable "gifting" of corpses, Kikubaaqudgha gifts randart spellbooks containing necromancy spells. These are particularly notable, in that such gifts begin at relatively low levels of piety.
- Nemelex Xobeh will gift faithful followers many decks of cards, as his domain and powers are centered around such. This gifting is notable in that it may begin a lower levels of piety and increase as piety is gained.
- Sif Muna will gift very pious followers many spell books.
- With sufficent piety (at the same levels as Okawaru), Trog the Wrathful will gift ammo and fierce weaponry.
- While Vehumet does not gift items, beginning at a low level of piety, he will gift the opportunity to memorize various destructive spells.
- Xom the Unpredictable, as his title suggests, will unpredictably gift items, which are equally unpredictable in both type and amount.
- Yredelemnul does not gift items but will provide followers "gifts" of undead servants
