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*While Dithmenos doesn't mind you using [[Lightning Bolt]], he will object if you set a [[tree]] on fire with it. Air Elementalists of Dithmenos should be careful in wooded areas.
 
*While Dithmenos doesn't mind you using [[Lightning Bolt]], he will object if you set a [[tree]] on fire with it. Air Elementalists of Dithmenos should be careful in wooded areas.
 
*Bleeding smoke (with or without shadow form) can create large areas filled with smoke reducing sight to 2 spaces for a short time. This can give you the edge you need to escape from or close to ranged attackers or casters. (Almost all opponents require sight to cast spells, healing being a notable exception.) The downside is that you have to get hurt for the effect to trigger, but at high piety the effect will trigger reliably on nearly any hit.
 
*Bleeding smoke (with or without shadow form) can create large areas filled with smoke reducing sight to 2 spaces for a short time. This can give you the edge you need to escape from or close to ranged attackers or casters. (Almost all opponents require sight to cast spells, healing being a notable exception.) The downside is that you have to get hurt for the effect to trigger, but at high piety the effect will trigger reliably on nearly any hit.
*Shadow mimic is great for [[Enchanter]]s: In melee the shadow will often distract foes and deal minor damage, and while using enchanments your shadow will often give you a second cast on the target greatly increasing your odds of aplying the debuff. Shadow mimic is generally a nice passive buff on your characters offenses.
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*Shadow mimic is great for [[Enchanter]]s: In melee the shadow will often distract foes and deal minor damage, and while using enchantments your shadow will often give you a second cast on the target greatly increasing your odds of aplying the debuff. Shadow mimic is generally a nice passive buff on your characters offenses.
  
 
==History==
 
==History==

Revision as of 21:11, 6 July 2014

Version 0.14: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.
Dithmenos altar.png "Spread the eternal night."
Dithmenos the Shadowed desires all to be darkness. Followers of Dithmenos gain a strange and otherwordly affinity to the shadows of their environment. This god despises fire, the ancient enemy of the shadows, and forbids its use by worshippers; Dithmenos favours those who would instead destroy sources of light.

Followers of Dithmenos are constantly surrounded in an aura of shadow, the extent of which is reflective of their level of devotion. Dithmenos grants followers the ability to instantly step into the shadow of nearby creatures, provided the shadow is still enough to do so. Dithmenos protects followers by occasionally shrouding those struck by attacks in dark smoke. Sufficiently pious followers of Dithmenos will find their own shadow will begin to attack on its own, and eventually gain the ability to assume the form of a shadow themself.

Dithmenos likes it when you kill living beings, you kill the undead, you kill demons and you kill holy beings. Dithmenos especially likes it when you kill beings that bring light to the dungeon, through fire or other means.

Dithmenos dislikes it when you light up the dungeon through fire magic or other magical means.

Racial Restrictions

Demigods cannot worship Dithmenos (or any other god).

Appreciates

Deprecates

Given Abilities

Piety level (-): “Gloomy”

  • No granted abilities.

Piety level (*): “Aphotic”

  • Umbra - You are surrounded by an umbra which expands with piety. This aura cancels out haloes, increases your stealth, and decreases melee/ranged accuracy of most creatures by 1+1d4. Dithmenos makes you immune to the accuracy penalty.

Piety level (**): “Caliginous”

Piety level (***): “Darkened”

  • Bleed Smoke - The player occasionally bleeds smoke on taking sufficient damage. The cloud always triggers on a 50% maximum HP attack. The lower bound goes down linearly to 0 damage at 200 piety.

Piety level (****): “Shadowed”

  • Shadow Mimic - The player's shadow sometimes mimics melee and ranged attacks (except needles) and targeted spells (so long as they're not self-targeted). This happens 10% of the time at 4*, and 50% at full piety.

Piety level (*****): “Eclipsing”

  • Shadow Form - Turns you into a mass of shadows. Grants invisibility, immunity to poison, draining, torment, and hostile enchantments, and 50% damage reduction, but halves your melee damage and reduces your spell power. While in shadow form, you bleed smoke on every incoming attack, but doing so further drains your skills. (Costs 9 MP, 10-15 piety, yellow skill drain)

Piety level (******): “Eternal Night”

  • No new abilities.

Punishments

While under penance, Dithmenos will sometimes punish you with one of the following effects:

Strategy

  • While Dithmenos doesn't mind you using Lightning Bolt, he will object if you set a tree on fire with it. Air Elementalists of Dithmenos should be careful in wooded areas.
  • Bleeding smoke (with or without shadow form) can create large areas filled with smoke reducing sight to 2 spaces for a short time. This can give you the edge you need to escape from or close to ranged attackers or casters. (Almost all opponents require sight to cast spells, healing being a notable exception.) The downside is that you have to get hurt for the effect to trigger, but at high piety the effect will trigger reliably on nearly any hit.
  • Shadow mimic is great for Enchanters: In melee the shadow will often distract foes and deal minor damage, and while using enchantments your shadow will often give you a second cast on the target greatly increasing your odds of aplying the debuff. Shadow mimic is generally a nice passive buff on your characters offenses.

History

Dithmenos was added in 0.14.

Trivia

Initially, this god was called "Dithmengos" which is an anagram for "Dsomething", an early placeholder name for the new deity.