👉 A god can crown a pious and very lucky character once per game, which gives a title, nine permanent intrinsics, a gift that depends on the role and an extra weapon skill slot.
📋 Crowning Requirements
Crowning is one of the special favors a successful prayer can bring. You can be crowned only once, and only with an alignment record of at least 20 (Pious).
You also need Luck of at least +10, or +6 if you already have all the other gifts a god can give: intrinsic Telepathy, Speed and Stealth, and maximum divine protection. The favor is chosen by a random roll:
$\text{Result} = \text{random}\left(0, \lfloor \frac{\text{Luck} + 6}{2} \rfloor - 1\right)$
A result of 7 or 8 crowns you. If you already have all the other gifts, a result of 5 crowns you too.
📈 Crowning Chances
Your chances depend mostly on whether you have any troubles, such as hunger, low hit points or a status condition, when you pray.
Without Troubles
With no troubles, your god skips fixing them and goes straight to the favor roll. You do not need an altar, and your chances are the best you can get:
| Luck | Base Chance | Chance (All Gifts Maxed)* |
|---|---|---|
| +13 | 22.2% | 33.3% |
| +12 | 22.2% | 33.3% |
| +11 | 12.5% | 25.0% |
| +10 | 12.5% | 25.0% |
| +9 | 0% | 14.3% |
| +8 | 0% | 14.3% |
| +7 | 0% | 16.7% |
| +6 | 0% | 16.7% |
| ≤ +5 | 0% | 0% |
* The character already possesses intrinsic Telepathy, Speed, Stealth, and maximum divine protection.
With all gifts maxed, the chance drops from 16.7% to 14.3% when Luck goes from +7 to +8. At +8 the roll runs from 0 to 6 instead of 0 to 5, and only the 5 crowns you, so the chance falls from 1 in 6 to 1 in 7.
With Troubles
If you have troubles, such as wounds or hunger, a prayer usually just fixes them. To have any chance of crowning while in trouble, you must pray on a co-aligned altar. Without an altar the chance is 0%.
An altar inside a temple (a shrine) gives slightly better odds than an altar elsewhere.
| Luck | Base Chance (Altar) | Base Chance (Shrine) | Chance (All Gifts Maxed)* (Altar) | Chance (All Gifts Maxed)* (Shrine) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| +13 | 16.7% | 17.0% | 25.0% | 25.5% |
| +12 | 16.3% | 16.7% | 24.4% | 25.0% |
| +11 | 8.9% | 9.2% | 17.9% | 18.3% |
| +10 | 8.7% | 8.9% | 17.3% | 17.9% |
| +9 | 0% | 0% | 9.5% | 9.9% |
| +8 | 0% | 0% | 9.1% | 9.5% |
| +7 | 0% | 0% | 10.0% | 10.6% |
| +6 | 0% | 0% | 9.3% | 10.0% |
| ≤ +5 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
* The character already possesses intrinsic Telepathy, Speed, Stealth, and maximum divine protection.
The same drop from +7 to +8 shows here, for example from 10.6% to 9.5% on a shrine, for the same reason.
🧬 Intrinsics Granted
Crowning gives these intrinsics permanently:
- See invisible
- Fire resistance (Weak, 50%)
- Cold resistance (Weak, 50%)
- Shock resistance (Weak, 50%)
- Poison resistance
- Sleep resistance
- Death resistance
- Lycanthropy resistance
- Fear resistance
⚠️ Additional Side Effects
| Effect | Description |
|---|---|
| Skill Credit | Grants 1 extra weapon skill slot/credit. |
| Weapon Skill Unrestriction | Unrestricts the weapon skill of the gifted weapon. |
| ⚠️ Permanent Prayer Timeout Increase | Every later successful prayer adds a random amount of about 1000 turns (500 turns for a Priest) to the prayer timeout. |
👑 Crowning Titles
Crowned characters receive a special title depending on their alignment:
| Alignment | Title |
|---|---|
| Lawful | The Hand of Elbereth |
| Neutral | The Envoy of Balance |
| Chaotic | The Glory of Arioch |
✨ Crowning Gifts by Role
🏺 Archaeologist
| Alignment | Gift |
|---|---|
| All | Sickness resistance (intrinsic, helpful against mummy rot) |
| Lawful or Neutral | The Holy Grail (if it does not exist yet) |
⚔️ Barbarian, Caveman, Healer, Ranger, Rogue, Samurai
| Alignment | Gift Logic (in order of priority) | Unrestricted Skill(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Lawful | 1. Bless/enchant wielded The Katana of Masamune 2. Gift The Katana of Masamune 3. Transform wielded long sword to Excalibur 4. Gift Celestial silver long sword (+2 to +5, fire, mythic) |
Sword |
| Neutral | 1. Bless/enchant wielded Vorpal Blade 2. Gift Vorpal Blade 3. Gift Primordial long sword (+2 to +5, mythic) |
Sword |
| Chaotic | 1. Bless/enchant wielded chaotic artifact 2. Gift chaotic artifact (Stormbringer or Mournblade) 3. Gift Infernal long sword (+2 to +5, mythic) |
Sword, and Dual wielding (if Stormbringer/Mournblade) |
ℹ️ Note: For all of these roles, if the player character is a Gnoll, they will receive the Howling Flail instead of the alignment-specific artifact mentioned above, and they will unrestrict the Flail skill.
ℹ️ Note: The Caveman also receives a tame, saddled Tyrannosaurus rex (if pets are allowed), regardless of alignment.
🛡️ Knight
| Alignment | Artifact Gift | Steed Gift | Unrestricted Skill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawful | 1. Rhongomyniad 2. The Holy Grail |
Tame, saddled Ki-rin | Thrusting weapon |
| Neutral | - | Tame, saddled Roc | - |
| Chaotic | - | Tame, saddled Gorgon | - |
🥋 Monk
| Primary Gift | Fallback Gift (if primary already exists) |
|---|---|
| The Gauntlets of Yin and Yang | Belt of storm giant strength (or Belt of fortitude) |
⛪ Priest
Gifted a Golden chest containing alignment-themed gear:
| Alignment | Contents of Golden chest |
|---|---|
| Lawful | • Gown of the Archbishops • Mace of Banishment • Spellbook of Obliterate • Spellbook of Holy Word • 1 random spellbook (Summon Gold Dragon, Divine Mount, or Heavenly Army) |
| Neutral | • Robe of Magic Resistance • Staff of Life • Bracers of Reflection • Spellbook of Gaze of Petrification • Spellbook of Stick to Boa • Spellbook of Summon Elder Treant |
| Chaotic | • Robe of Magic Resistance • Mace of the Witch-King • Ring of the Serpent God • Spellbook of Finger of Death • Spellbook of Create Dracolich (or Create Elder Dracolich) • Spellbook of Greater Undeath Replenishment |
📸 Tourist
Gifted a tame Giant Luggage (summoned in a puff of smoke, if pets are allowed and Giant Luggage is not extinct) carrying:
| Item Category | Primary Gift | Fallback Gift |
|---|---|---|
| Vision | Blessed Eyeglasses of X-ray vision | Blessed Ring of X-ray vision |
| Speed | Blessed Speed boots | Blessed, +1 to +3 Elite Gloves of haste |
| Flight | Blessed Wings of flying | - |
| Cloak | Blessed Robe of eyes (if fewer than 3 of the above items received) | - |
| Weapon | 20 alignment-themed, lightning-enchanted Darts (+3 to +5) | - |
⚡ Valkyrie
Gifted a blessed, erodeproof, +2 to +5 weapon (a Dwarvish Axe if they are a Dwarf, or a Long Sword otherwise) with customized attributes:
| Alignment | Weapon Attributes |
|---|---|
| Lawful | Celestial silver/mithril weapon (fire, Asgardian, Giant Slaying) |
| Neutral | Primordial weapon (lightning, Asgardian, Giant Slaying) |
| Chaotic | Infernal weapon (cold, Jotunheimian) |
ℹ️ Note: The Valkyrie also receives a tame, saddled Pegasus (if pets are allowed) and unrestricts the Axe skill (if a Dwarf) or Sword skill (otherwise), regardless of alignment.
🪄 Wizard
Gifted a Golden chest containing:
- Robe of the Archmagi (blessed, +1 to +3, erodeproof)
- Staff of the Magi (blessed, +1 to +3, erodeproof)
- Blessed Magic Marker
- Spellbook of Greater Magic Missile (if not already known)
- Spellbook of Wish (if not already known)
- One random high-level spellbook (if not all are already known) from: Spellbook of Power Word Kill, Spellbook of Black Blade of Disaster, or Spellbook of Time Stop.