Death & Deities

This page is a basic breakdown of Death and Deities for new players.

I'm going to start to break more specific data onto additional new pages. Leaving it all in place below for now, while I continue offloading to:

• Deities -- This is the main source of specific info about deities, their benefits, how to favor, etc.
• Deity Directions -- This is directions to each Deity & Naos
• Priests -- This is about the roaming Priests which seemingly serve no purpose and are merely interesting.

I'm really trying not to do a full page on either Deity since that's redundant to RodPedia, but I do have more information, so not sure how I'll proceed quite yet.

Death

• Upon death, you will awake in the Temple of Notre Dame. See 'help map'.
  • To walk back to Darkhaven Square: #5 s; e; e; se
  • The Halls of Knowledge (where you may have been initially exploring upon first entering the game) is then: #3 e, s; d
• If you die while under level 10, you keep all your gear and can just get right back to doing whatever you were doing.

If you die after level 10, your corpse with all your gear remains where you died. 
You must retrieve your corpse so you can get your gear out of it.

Corpse Status

Your corpse will lay on the ground and slowly rot. If it rot's completely, it is gone, all your gear is gone, and you have lost everything.

• Rot Time: About 24 hours
• Reboots: Corpses DO save across the daily reboot (6am EST)
• Crashes: Corpses MAY (should) save in the event of a crash.... no promises.

So, you basically have 24 real-world-hours to go and get your shit out of your corpse, and you should hope the game doesn't crash in that time period.

Useful Command: remains

This command will show you the room location of your corpse, and its status as it rots.

Corpse Retrieval

Commonly called 'CR', you might chat "can someone help me with a CR?"

• Option 1: Walk back to where you died, get your shit from your corpse
  • You are naked. Go buy a light first. And maybe a recall scroll. Ideally, get something so you can hide/sneak and have invisibility cast on you. You should save/quit/relog so that any mobs which were aggro on you drop aggro.
  • This can be a real fucking pain. You might need someone else to come along to kill any mobs in the way.

• Option 2: Have your deity bring your corpse(s) right to you via 'supplicate corpse'
  • Requires being devoted to a deity, and having sufficient favor with that deity.
  • This is easy as shit. There are only about 1% of rooms/areas that are 'no supplicate'.

(There's also an Option 3: Have an immortal bring your corpse, in exchange for Glory... but that's not something newbs would do, so forget about that)

Deities

Which Deity Should I Pick?

There's a bunch, and they each have minor advantages but honestly if you are new don't bother with that shit yet, it's splitting hairs and not going to make a huge difference to your first characters (and you can change later anyways). For your first char you just want the easiest deities to 'favor up' with so you can supplicate your corpse whenever you die. Pick one of these:

For Good align: [A'enari]    (Works for most classes, dislikes Thieves however) 
For Evil align: [Vl'aresch]  (Also Neutral align chars)

I just use those on all my characters. I don't give a shit about the minor bonus's the other ones give you. The advantage of quick favoring and corpse retrieval with those is, to me, fucking worth it. Some random minor 5% this or that bonus isn't game breaking to me, I'm not living or dying because of those deity bonuses, so I'd rather get my corpse back and get back to work in under 2 minutes. The process of gaining favor with a deity is a bitch that can take a fucking while, that's not what I want to be doing with my time, let alone doing it under duress in the middle of a run or something.

When you've hit a new low in your own personal life, and truly 'give up', and are ready to look into the rest of the Deities you can check em out on the Deities page.

How to Devote to a Deity?

You devote to a deity by walking to their room or their naos and using the command 'devote <deity>'.

• Directions to each included on the Deity Directions page.

You can always view/check your own deity in the 'score' command output

You can see other players deities in the 'whois CHARACTER' command output

Favor

As you gain 'favor' with your deity you gain benefits.

• Supplicate command: Your deity will bring you 'stuff' (outlined below)
• Affects: At low/mid/max favor levels you gain some minor affects (See: Here)
• Resistance: At max favor level you gain a 10% resistance to something (See: Here)

How to Gain Favor?

After devoting, you can check 'score' to see your current favor level with your deity.

• For A'enari/Vl'aresch:
  • Each time you walk into their room you gain favor.
  • Use the links above, follow the dirs, then go e/w/e/w/e/w in/out of their room a bunch.
  • This method maxes out at "Praised" favor.

The "Praised" level is what you need to be at to 'supplicate corpse'. So, with these deities you essentially always have the ability to supp corpse, and then re-favor back up to Praised in like 30 second, and repeat that process of dying/supplicating/refavoring quite quickly.

• For Other Deities:
  • You'll need to get into the weeds to learn exactly what the deity likes/dislikes to learn how to favor up quickly.
  • I have that stuff spec'd out more in-depth Here

Favor Level Details

In-game, see 'help favor_levels'

In code, favor is a numeric value (players cannot see this, it's visible in the publicly released SMAUG code however).

loved          +2251 to +2500
cherished      +2001 to +2250
honored        +1751 to +2000
praised        +1501 to +1750
favored        +1251 to +1500
respected      +1001 to +1250
liked          +750  to +1000
tolerated      +251  to +750   <---500 range
ignored        -249  to +250   <---500 range
shunned        -250  to -749   <---500 range
disliked       -750  to -999
dishonored     -1000 to -1249
disowned       -1250 to -1499
abandoned      -1500 to -1749
despised       -1750 to -1999
hated          -2000 to -2249
damned         -2250 to -2500

Note how most ranges are 250 pts, except near the center where there are 500pt ranges.

How to detect "Full" Favor

While the highest favor level is "Loved", that itself is a range from +2251 to +2500 favor "points", and sometimes you want to be sure you are absolutely fully maxed on favor (+2500). This comes in to play with some things like creating the Super Sigils (outlined below) or other tasks about the realms.

Since you see special Resistance and Affects benefits at full max favor, just check for those:

• Run the 'aff by' command and look for the benefits outlined for your deity Here
  • Note you may want to dispel all other spells first to be sure what you're seeing is from your deity and not a spell or potion.

Favor Technical Details

The following actions will impact your favor. These are found in the older SMAUG code, some seem redundant - because they are, as newer code has been added into the game over time which now entail/encompass previous conditions, yet both remain active.

Theoretically all of the flavor text that outlines what deities "like/dislike" to gain favor should correspond to these.

• See Here for more info on how to gain favor with each Deity.

Action
Flee
Flee from race deity likes/hates
Kill a mob or player
Kill mob from race deity likes/hates
Sacrifice a corpse
Bury a corpse
Dig up a corpse
Cast an offensive spell (Not on self)
Cast a defensive spell on a player
Cast a defensive spell (Any)
Successfully Rescue or Aid
Steal, Broach, Pick exit or object
Backstab, Circle
Die
Die to a mob from race deity likes/hates

Supplication

The deity system allows you to use your deity to bring you a few things, via the 'supplicate' command:

See: help supplicate

Syntax: supplicate <THING>
         corpse   retrieves your corpse from supplicatable room(s)
         avatar   summons an avatar of your deity
         object   summons a sigil of your deity
         recall   sends you to your recall point (bypasses norecall flags)
         restore  completely restores hitpoints, mana, and movement

THING	Min Favor	Note
Corpse	Praised	If multiple corpses exist, they will ALL be brought to you
Object	Liked*	Sigils all have 20ac, Affect AC -20, and +1 to a stat.
Restore	Liked*	If you're about to die, try 'supp restore' to save your ass
Recall	Liked*	If you forgot a recall, or if you're about to die, try 'supp recall' to gtfo (Note: You'll lose a shit ton of xp)
Avatar	Liked*	The avatar is like a pet NPC that will fight with you, but they suck. The more useful thing to do with them is use them to mark a room in a maze.

For all of the "Liked*" the value required is actually in the upper portion of the "Liked" range, probably around +850. So, it's possible to be "Liked" but not liked ENOUGH to supplicate those.

Corpse

• Minimum Favor Required: Praised
• Favor Cost: 1000 (4 Favor Levels - Praised will drop to Tolerated, etc)
• Syntax: supplicate corpse
  • If you have multiple corpses out in the world, all of them will be brought to you.
• Restrictions: Some rooms/areas in the realms are "no-supplicate".
  • This means that if you die there you cannot use your deity to supplicate your corpse.
  • Take extraaaaa caution in these areas, as you will have to return there (buck naked) to retrieve your gear from your corpse if you die.

Don't forget that you can use the 'remains' command to check on your corpse(s), its location, and status of rotting.

Also.... note that your corpse is a thing that's laying on the floor. Don't supplicate corpse while you're in some place up in the air or your corpse will fall down until it actually hits solid ground. If that's more than 3 rooms, your corpse will explode and all your crap will be just laying on the ground there, free for anyone to pick up. Always supplicate corpse somewhere safe, on the ground.

Sigils

• Minimum Favor Required: Liked
• Favor Cost: 750 (3 Favor Levels - Praised will drop to Liked, etc)
• Syntax: supplicate object

Supp object creates a piece of equipment, always a light, always named "the sigil of <YOUR DEITY>"

• They are all identical in their basic specs (hp/mn/mv/ac)
• They each include a different STAT +1
  • See the "Sigil Stat" column Here

Object 'the sigil of DEITY' is infused with your magic...
It is a level 50 light, weight 1.
Special properties:  none
This light has a gold value of 0.
Affects hp by 20.
Affects mana by 20.
Affects moves by 20.
Affects armor class by -20.
Affects __STAT__ by 1.

Note that sigils are not in any way restricted as far as who can wear them. You do not need to be devoted to a specific deity to wear their sigil.

Sigil Renames

Sigils have a tiny bit of fun built into them as they can be upgraded twice.

The first upgrade merely renames the sigil to something slightly more interesting.

To upgrade:

1. Be at Max Loved favor
2. Have a sigil of your deity
3. Give the sigil to your Deity

There is a percent chance that your deity hands it back to you with a fun rename. See "Sigil Rename" column Here

Note that this does cost favor to attempt, similar to supplicating something, so you'll need to re-favor back to full Loved favor to try again.

Super Sigils

Once you have renamed a sigil, you can attempt to upgrade it a second time if you want.

• The Sigil will once again be renamed into its special Super Sigil name. (See "Super Sigil" column Here)
• Super Sigils have a great deal more stats on them than regular or renamed sigils. (See Below)

NOTE: Super Sigils are temporary items - they expire and go poof eventually (few hours).

The method to upgrade a Renamed Sigil into a Super Sigil is the exact same:

To upgrade:

1. Be at Max Loved favor
2. Have a Renamed Sigil of your deity
3. Give the Renamed Sigil to your Deity

Again, there is a percent chance your deity will turn it into a Super Sigil for you.

All Super Sigils have identical specs:

Object '__________' is infused with your magic...
It is a level 50 light, weight 1.
Special properties:  glow
Alignments allowed:  good
This light has a gold value of 800.
Affects affected_by by detect_hidden
Affects affected_by by detect_invis
Affects affected_by by detect_magic
Affects affected_by by detect_traps
Affects affected_by by detect_evil
Affects armor class by -50.
Affects moves by 30.
Affects mana by 30.
Affects luck by 2.
Affects hp by 30.

Restore

• Minimum Favor Required: Liked
• Favor Cost: 750 (3 Favor Levels - Praised will drop to Liked, etc)
• Syntax: supplicate restore
• Restrictions: no-supplicate rooms

This will immediately restore you to full health, full mana, full movement.

This is used to save your own ass if are in a fight and getting romped and are about to die.

Recall

• Minimum Favor Required: Liked
• Favor Cost: 750 (3 Favor Levels - Praised will drop to Liked, etc)
• Syntax: supplicate recall
• Restrictions: no-supplicate rooms

This is just a free recall.

Note that some rooms/areas which are 'no-supplicate' also prevent you from using 'supp recall' to exit those areas/rooms.

Avatar

• Minimum Favor Required: Liked
• Favor Cost: 750 (3 Favor Levels - Praised will drop to Liked, etc)
• Syntax: supplicate avatar
• Restrictions: no-supplicate rooms

This summons a level 15 NPC who is your little minion and can do stuff at your behest.

Ultimately these are not useful in fighting, and die quickly. They are MORE commonly used (its the ONLY time I've ever seen them used) to mark rooms in mazes that otherwise prevent you drop dropping items or creating magic springs/fires to flag a specific room. You can park a supplicated avatar in one of those rooms as a marker. Basically an easier method than bringing in another actual char (or where you must remain IP1).

How to Master Death

Death is simple, and easily rectified. You shouldn't be afraid to die. You should just be prepared correctly and it will be no big thang.

1. Devote to a Deity with very easy favor method (A'enari or Vl'aresch suggested for newbs)

2. Go visit them and walk in/out until you are at "praised" favor

3. Go explore and die

4. Do 'supplicate corpse' and 'get all corpse; wear all' a bunch to get all your shit

5. Immediately go back to the deity and re-favor back up to praised.

6. Return to Step 3.

As a NEW player, start there. Once you are more experienced, try some other deities and figure out how to quickly re-favor with them so you can die and supp corpse and re-favor quickly, then go explore and die as much as you want without fear.

Full Deities List

When you've decided that's it, you were never meant to marry, you might want to check out the table below which attempts to quantify all of the info known about Deities. For additional write-ups on each Deity please see Rodpedia

• Note: Where any Race/Class restrictions are listed, those mean the deity is restricted to ONLY THOSE races/classes so you MUST be one of those.

Deity	Theme	Race Restrictions?	Class Restrictions?	Prefers	Despises	Sigil Stat (+1)	Max Favor Resist	Max Favor Affect	Mid Favor Affect	Low Favor Affect	Gain Favor	Lose Favor
A'enari	Good	-	-	Devout	Evil/Neut, Drow	Int	Unholy	Scry	DetMagic	DetEvil	Visit, Bury Corpses, Help Others	Dig up corpses, Backstab/Circle, Flee, Visit Vl'aresch
Vl'aresch	Evil	-	-	Evil	Pixies	Wis	Holy	DetInvis	DetHidden	Unknown	Visit, Kill, Kill Pixies, Steal	Bury Corpses, Help Others
Bron'trel	Order	-	-	Humans	Half-Trolls,Thieves	Lck	Paralysis	DetHidden	DetEvil	Unknown	Kill, Kill Trolls	Kill Humans, Backstab/Circle, Flee, Visit LaChte
LaChte	Chaos	-	-	Evil/Neut	Dwarves	Dex	Drain	DetInvis	DetTraps	Unknown	Kill, Kill Dwarves, Thievery, Dig Up Corpses	Sac Corpses, Flee
Z'hyal	Sun	-	-	Devout/Neut	Evil, Vampires	Int	Fire	Fireshield	DetHidden	Infravision	Helping Others, Kill Vampires	Kill Humans, Steal, Flee
Gre'vos	Moon	Dwa,Elf,Hlf,Pix,H-Elf,H-Ogre,H-Trol,Gith,S-Elf,Drow,Gno	-	Evil/Neut, Vampires	Devout, Humans	Int	Acid	DetInvis	Unknown	Unknown	Kill, Kill Humans, Backstab/Circle, Sac Corpses	Kill Vampires
Mak'kor	Demons	Drow,Gith,H-Troll	Nep,Thi,Vam,Cle	Evil	Half-Elves, Clerics, Thieves	Con	Holy	Fireshield	DetTraps	DetHidden	Kill, Backstab/Circle, Dig Up Corpses, Offensive Magic	Sac Corpses, Flee
Bael	Death	Drow,Gith,Dragborn	Nep,Cle,Vam,War	Evil	Devout/Neut, Thieves	Str	Magic	Fireshield	DetHidden	Sneak	Kill, Sac Corpses, Dig Up Corpses	Killing Humans
Sarane	Feminism	-	-	Females ONLY	-	Wis	NonMagic	Protection	Float	Detect Evil	Kill, Kill Neanderthal, Offensive Magic, Backstab/Circle	Kill Harpies
Wirawyth	Battle	-	War,Ran,Pal,Bar	-	Drow	Con	Paralysis	Iceshield	Float/Fervor	Infravision	Kill, Kill Drow, Sac Corpses	Flee, Pick Lock
Estathius	Neutrality	-	-	Neut Gender ONLY, Human	-	Wis	Magic & NonMagic	Scry	DetEvil	DetMagic	Kill, Kill Undead, Sac Corpses	Kill Humans, Flee
Tempus	War	-	War,Bar	Wolves	Giants	Str	Paralysis	Berserker Rage	Fleetfoot	Unknown	Kill, Kill Giants, Sac Corpses	Kill Wolves, Use Magic, Flee, Die
Kardis	Sorrow	H-Orc,H-Ogr,H-Trol	-	-	-	Str	Pierce	DetInvis	Sneak	Unknown	Kill, Dig Up Corpses	Sac Corpses, Bury Corpses, Flee.
Adendra	Faith	Elf,H-Elf,Dwa	Pal,Cle,Dru	Elves	Evil, Trolls, Drow	Str	Poison	Protection	Resist POI 10%	Scry	Visit, Kill, Kill Trolls/Drow, Use Magic	Kill Elves, Flee
Shivvan	Sin	-	-	Evil	Good	Dex	Energy	Hide	Sneak	DetMagic	Visit, Kill, Backstab/Circle, Dig Up Corpses	Sac Corpses, Bury Corpses, Defensive Spells
Sh'Vath	Purity	Dwa,Gno,Pix	Dru,Cle,Ran	-	-	Cha	Drain	Protection	Fly	Infravision	Visit, Defensive Magic, Bury Corpses, Sac Corpses	Killing (No issue for archery/rangecasting kills)
Ghordhol	Wealth	-	-	Dwarves	Orcs	Cha	Slash	DetHidden	DetInvis	DetMagic	Bury Corpses, Steal, Kill Orcs , Give Ghordohl Gold*	Kill Dwarves
Keltas	Poor	-	-	Halflings	Goblins	Dex	Blunt	Invis	Sneak	DetEvil	Pick Locks, Kill Goblins	Kill Halflings
Kalerd	Summer	-	-	Pixies	Vampires	Con	Fire	Fly	Unknown	Unknown	Kill Vampires, Sac Corpses	Kill Pixies, Flee
Tierbaen	Winter	-	-	Vampires	-	Con	Cold	Fly	Hide	DetMagic	Kill, Use Magic, Sac Corpses, Backstab/Circle	Flee
Cawyn	Storms	Elf,H-Elf,S-Elf	-	-	Humans	Int	Electricity	Shockshield	Float	Sneak	Kill Human, Backstab/Circle	Kill Magicals, Flee
Sil-Galith	Mountains	Dwa,H-Trol,H-Ogr	-	-	Lizardmen	Str	Blunt	PassDoor	DetInvis	DetHidden	Kill, Kill Lizardmen, Sac Corpses	Kill Dwarves
Masefi	Wind	-	-	Pixie	H-Trolls	Dex	Electricity	PassDoor	Fly	Aquabreath	Kill H-Trolls, Flee, Flee Pixies	Kill Pixie, Die
Grishnakh	Orcs	H-Orc	-	-	Halflings	Str	Paralysis	Shockshield	Float	Unknown	Kill, Kill Halflings, Sac Corpses	Kill Orcs, Flee, Die, Backstab/Circle

• Additional Notes:
  • Estathius: Is not fooled by sex-change affects
  • Tempus: See 'Tempuran Slash'. Cast's sanc on you if you visit him at loved.
  • Shivvan: Gain favor by Visiting like A'enari/Vl'aresch but much harder to get to. Also, will steal your gold
  • Sh'vath: Gain favor by Visiting like A'enari/Vl'aresch, goes a bit higher to Cherished.
  • Ghordhol: Gain favor by Visiting and giving them gold. Approx 1m per favor level.
  • Kalerd: Gain favor by Visiting their Naos and examining the orb every 30-40 minutes.
  • Tirebaen: Gain favor by Visiting their Naos and examining the tureen every 30-40 minutes
  • Sil-Galith: Casts sanc, elemental shields, armor, bless, shield, and valiance on you if you pray to her ([See Here])