Death & Deities

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 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 I will list below, 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). You just want the easiest deities to 'favor up' with so you can supplicate your corpse whenever necessary. 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.

How to Devote to a Deity?

You devote to a deity by walking to their room and using the command 'devote <deity>'. (Click the A'enari/Vl'aresch links above for directions)

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

How to Gain Favor?

After devoting, you can check 'score' to see your current favor level with your deity. (See #Favor Level Details)

• 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.

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'enari or Vl'aresch

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.

Favoring Automation

OK fine, I'll do the work for you.... make aliases in your client that do something like this:

Generic Speedwalks

These just walk you to A'enari/Vl'aresch and in/out of their room a ton.

1. ALIAS {goaen} {#8 n;ne;w;n;ne;nw;e;ne;n;e;ne;#2 n;#2 ne;#2 e;n;ne;nw;w;#4 n;enter;ne;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w}

1. ALIAS {govla} {#42 w;#7 n;cauldron;s;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e;w;e}

• Note #1:' Walking to Vl'aresch frequently hits random mobs on the way, and will fuck up your speedwalk. You can craft another route along the Western Trade Route for safety, but I'm leaving that up to you.

• Note #2: I've put a ton of final e;w;e;w;e;w moves in those above, because I don't know how many it really takes, so you can fine-tune that.

TinTin Favor Code

• A slightly smarter idea can be done if you're running any client with MSDP support because it provides a 'favor' variable you can check.
  • For Tintin++ grab my MSDP Script

Create speedwalks so they terminate in the deity's rooms.

#ALIAS {goaen} {#8 n;ne;w;n;ne;nw;e;ne;n;e;ne;#2 n;#2 ne;#2 e;n;ne;nw;w;#4 n;enter;ne;w};
#ALIAS {govla} {#42 w;#7 n;cauldron;s;w};

Then I trigger upon the room names that Aen/Vla sit in to check msdp for favor, if I'm not praised or higher, move east/west again. That will retrigger the trigger, and this will continue until you are favored up and then recall (you'll also need a 'recall' alias).

 #ACTION {{Visions of sublime benevolence collide in an arc of rapture.|An insatiable entity breathes life into this mundane existence.}}{
                #IF {"$msdp_info[FAVOR]" != "{praised|honored|cherished|loved}"} {e;w};
                #ELSE {recall};
        }

Full Details

Honest to god the rest of this shit don't matter. Just use Aen/Vla and fuck it you're golden.

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.

Full Deities List

When you're ready for more overwhelming information, see https://rodpedia.realmsofdespair.info/wiki/Deity

• Note: Where any Race/Class restrictions are listed, those mean 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, Sac 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, Girth, H-Troll	Nep, Thi, Vam	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, Dragonborn	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])

Deity "Extras"

Some deities also have an "Extra" feature, typically a piece of eq, special potions, or abilities:

Deity	Extra	Note
Bael	cape of the lifeless void
Sarane	the ethereal veil of the siren
Kardis	Kardis's potion of black vapors	1.3m for 100x
Adendra	Adendra's rainbow elixir	400k for 50x. Also, visit her and 'pay homage' for 1 favor level.
Shivvan	Shivvan's staff of gluttony
Sh'vath	Eternal Youth	Visit her on a devoted character and she hands you this
Keltas	a beggar's potion of healing	750k for 100x.
Cawyn	Cawyn's anklet of storms
Masefi	The crystal prism of Masefi

Super Sigils

Sigils can be upgraded, twice. To upgrade:

1. Be at Max Loved favor
2. Have a regular sigil, and give it back to your Deity
3. Have an upgraded sigil, be at max favor, and give that back to your Deity.

This can be done twice:

1. The first time simply renames the sigil, it is otherwise unchanged.
2. The second time creates a 'super sigil' which is renamed and has more stats, but is a temporary object and will eventually 'expire' and go poof.

The names of these objects are as follows.

Deity	Rename	Super Sigil Name
A'enari	Aura of the Righteous	Benevolence (dev)
Vl'aresch	black depravity	Malignancy (evil)
Bron'trel	a precise brillance	?
LaChte	maelstrom of chaos	?
Z'hyal	flames of the sun	?
Gre'Vos	Deadly Night Shade	Moonlight
Mak'kor	Eyes of the Demon	?
Bael	life's finale	?
Sarane	chantilly lace	Femininity (no gender restriction)
Wirawyth	clashing swords	?
Estathius	Aura of the Abstract	Inertia (neut)
Tempus	None	None
Kardis	Grievance	Strife (neut/evil)
Adendra	creed	?
Shivvan	Inflamed depravity	?
Sh'Vath	Innocence	Purity (dev)
Ghordohl	a twinkling coin	Treasure
Keltas	beacon of hope	Mediocrity
Kalerd	summer sun	?
Tirebaen	ice crystals	EverWinter
Cawyn	a bolt of lightning	Tempest
Sil-Galith	heaven stone	Zenith
Masefi	the breeze	Hurricane
Grishnakh	(Grishnakh is OOG, so cannot visit to give sigil)

The 'Super Sigils' that I've seen all appear to have identical stats:

Object 'Benevolence' 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.

Priests

Some (each?) Deity has priests which wander around the realms.

Deity	Rename	Super Sigil Name

Favor 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.

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

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.