Bestiary/Betrayer

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Betrayer

General
Type	Construct
Category	Constructs
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−15,000
Fame	15,000
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	401–500
Dexterity	81–100
Intelligence	151–200
Hit points	241–300
Stamina	81–100
Mana	151–200
Damage	16–22
Armor	65
Resources
Carving	1 raw ribs

The Betrayer is a towering clockwork war machine from Blackthorn's forges. It casts spells as well as any mage, stuns with crushing blows and fills the air around it with poison gas.

Overview

• In-game name: a betrayer
• Corpse: a betrayer corpse
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights like a spellcaster (mage AI), mixing spells with melee.
• Bard skills: it can't be provoked, calmed with Peacemaking or discorded.
• Notoriety: it always shows as a murderer (red), so anyone can attack it freely.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	401–500
Dexterity	81–100
Intelligence	151–200
Hit points	241–300
Stamina	81–100 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	151–200 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	16–22
Armor rating	65
Fame / Karma	15,000 / −15,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Magic Resistance	120.1–130.0
Anatomy	90.1–100.0
Evaluating Intelligence	90.1–100.0
Meditation	90.1–100.0
Tactics	90.1–100.0
Wrestling	90.1–100.0
Magery	50.1–100.0

Abilities

Magic

It fights with the mage AI: it closes to melee range but casts between swings. Its Magery is 50.1–100.0 and its Evaluating Intelligence 90.1–100.0.

• Damage spells: Magic Arrow, Harm, Fireball and Lightning. A stronger one (with more Magery) can also cast Mind Blast, Energy Bolt, Explosion and Flame Strike.
• Other spells: about 1 cast in 8 is Poison (only if you aren't poisoned already). It may also Bless itself, curse you (Weaken, Clumsy, Feeblemind or Curse), drain your mana (Mana Drain or Mana Vampire) or Paralyze you.
• Healing: it cures itself when poisoned, and sometimes heals itself (Greater Heal when badly hurt), more often the higher its Magery.
• Dispel: with 151+ Intelligence it can cast Dispel on your summoned creatures (more reliably the higher its Magery).

Poison immunity

It is immune to all poison, so poisoned weapons, the Poison spell and poison potions do nothing to it.

Colossal blow

Each melee hit has a 30% chance to be a colossal blow: an extra weapon hit, and the target is frozen for 5 seconds ("You have been stunned by a colossal blow!").

Poison gas cloud

In combat (50% chance when it acts, then a 5–30 second wait), if its target is within 3 tiles and in sight, it releases a cloud that gives Deadly poison to everyone within 3 tiles: players, pets, summons and creatures on other teams.

Shared ability slot

Its colossal blow and its poison gas cloud are a single "pick one" ability group: whenever one or both can fire, the game picks one of the ones that can (equal weights).

Loot

Every betrayer carries:

• Gold: about 662–1,000 in total (from its "Filthy Rich" and "Rich" loot)
• 1 random gem (amber, amethyst, citrine, diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, star sapphire or tourmaline)
• 1 power crystal

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 7 chances, from about 33% down to 1% each)
• A musical instrument (about 3% or less)
• A music box gear for Dawn's music box (5% chance; 3 in 4 of those are a common tune, the rest uncommon)
• a Blackthorn welcome book (2% chance)
• A level 5 treasure map (1% chance)

The power crystals, arcane gems, clockwork assemblies and gears that Exodus constructs and golems carry are the parts a tinker needs to build a golem.

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 1 raw ribs

Tips

• Bring Greater Cure potions or a healer: its gas cloud gives Deadly poison to everyone within 3 tiles.
• Its Magery rolls anywhere from 50 to 100, so some betrayers cast much harder spells than others.
• It's immune to poison and can't be discorded, but provocation and Peacemaking still work.
• Every betrayer drops a power crystal, the hardest-to-get golem part.