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, evil god of shadows and stealth.
• Elyvilon, good god of healing.
• Fedhas Madash, god of plants.
• Gozag Ym Sagoz, god of gold, business, and commerce.
• Hepliaklqana, god of ancestry and memory.
• Jiyva, chaotic god of slimes and eyeballs.
• Kikubaaqudgha, evil god of Necromancy.
• Lugonu, chaotic evil god of The Abyss.
• Makhleb, chaotic evil god of bloodshed and destruction.
• Nemelex Xobeh, god of cards.
• Okawaru, god of battle.
• Qazlal, god of tempests.
• Ru, god of sacrifice and unmaking.
• Sif Muna, god of magic and mystical secrets.
• Trog, god of violence and berserk rage.
• Uskayaw, god of wild dancing.
• Vehumet, god of destructive magic.
• The Wu Jian Council, a council of formerly mortal martial artists.
• Xom, god of chaos.
• Yredelemnul, evil god of death and undeath.
• Zin, good god of law and purity.
• The Shining One, good god of honourable crusades against evil.

Ability comparison

bold = 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	Curse an item of your choice, providing skill boosts Remove a cursed item by destroying it forever Identify all visible/collected items Detect portals on floor Detect monsters outside of LOS Detect items outside of LOS Map terrain outside of LOS Prevents random traps while exploring		See invisible	Clarity	Gain full vision of tiles outside of LOS
Beogh	Chance of preventing lethal damage (not during penance) Experience is spread to orcish followers		Smite enemies	Convert orcish followers Bless orcish followers	Recall orcish followers Gain orcish reinforcements if no followers are present	Walk on water Gift named followers with an item	Resurrect fallen orcs
Cheibriados	Slow movement Improved stats Slow everything adjacent to you	Slows damage from poison		Skip monsters forward in time	Hurt everything faster than you in LOS	Temporarily leave the flow of time
Dithmenos		Surrounded by an umbra	Step into the shadows of monsters within your umbra	Bleed smoke when injured	Your shadow mimics your actions	Enter Shadow Form
Elyvilon	Chance of preventing lethal damage	Heal yourself a little Temporarily guarantee protection from lethal damage	Heal and attempt to pacify other creatures	Remove status effects, restore stats, cure draining	Heal yourself a lot	Temporarily increase maximum HP/MP
Fedhas Madash	Turns all plants friendly Walk through plants Shoot through plants		Summon a ring of briar patches around yourself	Summon a ballistomycete	Turn a patch of walls into allied plants	Summon an oklob plant
Gozag Ym Sagoz	Monsters leave gold instead of corpses Detect gold Pay for potion effects Fund the opening of new shops Bribe monsters of a particular branch into neutrality or even alliance
Hepliaklqana		Maximum HP reduced by 10% Creates an allied ancestor Recall your ancestor Pick the name and gender of your ancestor	Choose your ancestor's background (Knight, Battlemage, or Hexer)	Switch your ancestor with another creature	Heal your ancestor and temporarily grant them increased damage, spell power, and AC	Drains creatures next to your ancestor after it swaps with another creature
Jiyva	Turns all slimes and eyeballs neutral Protects you from slimy walls Slimes can eat non-artefact items, granting piety; jellies can split when eating Creates neutral jellies if no slimes are present	Summon a neutral jelly to devour items		Gifts random mutations Shuffles your stats depending on your skills and equipment Grants resistance to acid and corrosion	Turn enemies into slimes	Taking heavy damage creates allied slimes Remove a random bad mutation	Removes the walls of the Slime Pits rune vault
Kikubaaqudgha		Summon corpses Gifts several low-level Necromancy spells	Grants protection from Necromancy miscasts and death curses	Gifts several mid-level Necromancy spells	Grants partial resistance to Torment	Invoke Torment using a corpse	(Once only) Receive either several high-level Necromancy spells or pain brand on weapon
Lugonu	Safely unwield weapons of distortion	Leave the Abyss	Blink yourself and monsters around you	Banish monsters to the Abyss	Corrupt current level, altering terrain and summoning neutral Abyssal creatures	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 bolt	Summon a powerful demon
Nemelex Xobeh	Gifts cards of power in three general decks (Destruction, Escape, Summoning) Draw a card from a deck			Choose a card from the first three in a deck	Deal four cards from a deck in a single turn	Choose five cards to form a seperate, ordered deck
Okawaru		Increase physical combat skills		Receive ammunition as gifts		Double attack speed Receive weapons and armour as gifts
Qazlal	Grants you and divine allies immunity to all harmful clouds.	Passively create elemental clouds around you, adding SH and generating noise.	Smite an area with random elemental damage	Convert nearby clouds into elementals	Permanent Repel Missiles Taking elemental damage (fire, cold, electric, physical) has a chance to grant temporary resistance	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 that harm you suffer status ailments	Regain HP and MP, and cure some "restraining" status effects	Leap up to 3 tiles and damage enemies near your landing point	Deal heavy damage and random status effects to all enemies in LOS
Sif Muna		Greatly increase your MP regeneration		Forget spells at will	Cast a spell from your spell library using Invocations to determine power		Receive spellbooks as gifts
Trog	Protects allies from abjuration May extend berserker rage when killing	Go berserk	Increase regeneration and willpower		Summon a berserk ally	Receive weapons as gifts
Uskayaw		Deal damage to adjacent creatures	Pass through and confuse a line of creatures	Paralyzes enemies in your line of sight	Enemies that take damage share that damage to nearby creatures	Blink to and instantly kill a monster
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	Jump off a wall and attack all enemies next to where you land (takes two turns)	Gain two instantaneous moves and boosts damage of martial attacks		Grants the player a halo, summons opaque clouds, and grants a bonus to slaying and evasion
Xom	Acts randomly at all times; see Xom#Acts
Yredelemnul		Animate a corpse or skeleton	Temporarily reflect incoming damage Recall undead allies	Animate all corpses in sight Receive undead servants as gifts	Drain life from all living beings in LOS	Curse a living being to become your slave when killed
Zin	Donate gold to gain piety Chance of preventing lethal damage Grants increasing protection from mutations Grants increasing protection from Hell effects	Inflict random status effects on enemies; more effective against evil and chaotic enemies	Increase stats and gain resistance to poison and status effects	Create temporary prison around enemy		Create temporary sanctuary from danger	Potions of mutation only remove mutations
The Shining One	Chance of preventing lethal damage Surrounded by halo Grants increasing protection from negative energy Protects allies from abjuration Blesses allies that make kills	You and your allies gain HP/MP from slaying evil monsters	Create divine shield		Call down a blast of holy energy	Summon a friendly Angel or Daeva	(Once only) Receive holy wrath brand on weapon

See Also

• Piety
• Choosing a god
• Gods