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Asmodeus
Level 105
Armor Class: -7
Speed: 12
Magic Resistance: 90
Alignment: Lawful
Attacks:
- Claw: 4d4 ordinary physical damage
- Magic: 6d6 frost damage
Resistances:
- resists fire
- resists cold
- resists poison
Other attributes:
- can fly or float
- can see invisible creatures
- has humanoid head/arms/torso
- poisonous to eat
- players mayn't poly into one
- is a demon
- follows you to other levels
- always starts hostile
- monster name is a proper name
- strong (or big) monster
- extra-nasty monster (more xp)
- is an overlord to its kind
- always male
- would like to steal the amulet
- waits to see you or get attacked
- visible by infravision
- has infravision
It is said that Asmodeus is the overlord over all of hell.
His appearance, unlike many other demons and devils, is
human apart from his horns and tail. He can freeze flesh
with a touch.
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The evil demon who appears in the Apocryphal book of _Tobit_
and is derived from the Persian _Aeshma_. In _Tobit_ Asmodeus
falls in love with Sara, daughter of Raguel, and causes the
death of seven husbands in succession, each on his bridal night.
He was finally driven from Egypt through a charm made by Tobias
of the heart and liver of a fish burned on perfumed ashes, as
described by Milton in _Paradise Lost_ (IV, 167-71). Hence
Asmodeus often figures as the spirit of matrimonial jealousy
or unhappiness.
[ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ]
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