                      Having your God crown you...
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                by Boudewijn Wayers (dedos4@win.tue.nl).


When you are in good standing with your god, when you pray a lot of
nice things can happen. On of these things, often not completely
understood by most hackers is that you may be crowned or named by your
god.

If this happens, you are not only granted a title, but some other
effects (most of them beneficial) happen as well. The title you will
gain is the following:

Lawful:  Hand of Elbereth
Neutral: Envoy of Balance
Chaotic: Glory of Arioch

Then, you gain some useful intrinsics (if you didn't have them already,
of course):

- cold resistance
- fire resistance
- poison resistance
- see invisible

Next, you may gain an item:

Lawful:  If you are wielding a long sword, it is changed into Excalibur.
Neutral: If you don't already have Vorpal Blade, you now do.
Chaotic: If Stormbringer does not exist yet in your game, you gain it,
         else, you gain a good non-artifact broadsword. Note that
         Stormbringer is difficult to control...

This weapon is blessed, uncorroded, made rust-proof and enchanted to +1
(if it was still at 0).

The last thing that is done is that your average prayer time-out (the
time you have to wait between prayers) is greatly increased. So, if you
already have a decent weapon and the above intrinsics, being named is
a BAD thing. If you pray often enough, it WILL happen eventually,
though.

Basically, when your god crowns you, it's his way of telling you: "I've
given you quite enough by now... Now bugger off and leave me alone..."

