Large abomination

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large abomination X
HP	32-66
HD	11
XP	719
Speed	10 - 15
AC	11
EV	6
Will	100
Attack1	32 (hit: plain)
Resistances	rPois+++ rDrown rMiasma rN+++ rTorm
Vulnerabilities	Holy Silver
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Brainless
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Undead
Size	Large
Type	small abomination, large abomination
Flags	Evil Unbreathing

A hideous conglomeration of mangled body parts, possessed and altered in ways that challenge sanity. Each varies in speed, strength, or resilience by the nature of whatever unfortunates were used to make it. “No — it wasn't that way at all. It was everywhere — a gelatin — a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes — and a blemish. It was the pit — the maelstrom — the ultimate abomination. Carter, it was the unnamable!” -H.P. Lovecraft, _The Unnamable_. 1925.

Useful Info

Large abominations are enormous piles of roughly connected humanoid body parts, animated by necromantic and demonic forces. Because of the random approach to their creation, they have variable capabilities, with speed, AC, EV, and HP being different for each abomination. Even so, they always deal significant damage in melee, much more than small abominations are capable of, and the fact that they may have above-average speed can make them difficult to escape. They are commonly found in the Abyss, and some monsters may create them if they have access to sufficient corpses and the Twisted Resurrection spell. Large Abominations do not heal naturally, instead they regain hitpoints by fusing with crawling corpses and macabre masses.

Tips & Tricks

• One stat that isn't randomized is their willpower. Unfortunately, at 100, it is moderately high: don't expect wands to do much if you haven't trained Evocations. Similarly, those using Hexes at lower-than-average spell power may find they have some trouble affecting large abominations as well.

Alternate Tiles

Being haphazard collections of random body parts, large abominations can take many forms:

In console, they can be any manner of colors. Neither the alternate tiles nor colors indicate anything about their stats.

History

• Prior to 0.16, you could create your own Abominations by the means of the Necromancy spell Twisted Resurrection.
• Prior to 0.14, Abominations could heal naturally.