Re: Legends: The Nameless One

From: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 20:13:21 +0000

In article <1993Feb9.052203.3626@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
>Damn little is known about the Nameless One, so whatever you can find,
>please let us know; it'll be of general interest.  Here are the scraps
>I have, to get you started:
>
>There are some indications that this religion is more 'powerful' than
>the others in the game.  For instance, the variant game charged twice
>as many points to make a player Blessed or Favored of this religion.
>Also, some religious objects don't work on members of this religion.
>For example, I tried to use a Book of the Lady (which teaches spells,
>cures insanity, and converts to Valandara) on a member of this religion,
>and it failed.  That's about all I know.

The Nameless One is a generally nasty religion.  The spells offered are all
nasty spells, such as the plague/pox spells, greater curse, evil eye,
darkforce summoning, cause insanity, etc.  The holy symbol of the Nameless
One is really nice - +5STR, +5DEX, +5CON, +5PC, +2MR, +2SAR, +2 priest
levels, -5INF.

The Nameless One Blessed tree is more expensive, because it seems easier to
advance on this tree.  In RTI10, we have two characters who have already
progressed to the second rung, and we're only on turn 10 or so of the game.
Most religious RTI trees go "Blessed", "Favored", "Something" ("Spirit" for
Vol), then demigod.  The Nameless one tree merges with the Netherworld tree
for a while, then goes its own way.  First rung is "Dark Gods Favored", which
gives
	Blessed of Nameless One (Dark Gods Favored): +2STR, +2DEX, +3PC, -2INF,
			+3TAC, INV/DAM 2/2, +5 MR, +2 SAR, +80% AF, +2DF,
			no SA, no affliction

This is somewhat more powerful than other religious trees, but it still doesn't
compare to being a vampyre.  It then goes to Lesser Daemon and Greater Daemon,
but I'm not sure what happens then.  It's possible that the double cost is
because it goes to Daemon Lord before going to demigod status, making it a
five-tier tree, when the other trees are all 4-tier.  But even if it doesn't,
the third tier is greater daemon, which gives

Greater Daemon: +6STR, +6DEX, +30 PC, +9 TAC, +9 INF, +90% AF, +4MR,
			+4SAR, INV/DAM 5/5, SA 100, no affliction

And that's easily better than any other tree's third tier.  As an example,
here is the third tier of the Vol tree, "Spirit of Vol".  Note that Vol is
generally oriented towards combat.

Spirit of Vol: +20PC, +5TAC, +7DF, +7MR, +5SAR, +165%AF, DAM 5,
			INV <= 5, SA 100, no affliction

So Nameless one gives +10 PC, +6STR, +6DEX, +4TAC, +9INF over Vol, at the
price of 3MR and 75%AF.  I consider that a good tradeoff.  If you combine this
with two holy symbols, you'll see that a greater daemon priest of the Nameless
One gets +16 STR, +16 DEX (which adds 160%AF), +40PC, +8MR, +8SAR, +9TAC.
Pretty impressive.

Jim

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References

Legends: The Nameless One
aiko@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (aiko gieskens)
Mon, 08 Feb 1993 12:29:51 +0000
Re: Legends: The Nameless One
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Tue, 09 Feb 1993 05:22:03 +0000