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No ability

If you get this description, it is a bug.
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Spit Poison

Spit poison at a targeted monster.
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Sense Surroundings

Map your vicinity.
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Teleportation

Teleport yourself to a random location on the level.
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Blink ability

Randomly translocate a short distance.
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Breathe Fire

Breathe a blast of fire at a targeted monster.
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Breathe Frost

Breathe a blast of frost at a targeted monster.
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Breathe Poison Gas

Breathe a blast of poison gas at a targeted monster.
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Breathe Lightning

Breathe a blast of lightning at a targeted monster.
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Breathe Power

Breathe a blast of power at a targeted monster.
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Breathe Sticky Flame

Breathe a blast of sticky flame at a targeted monster. As the name suggests, sticky flame will stick around, so the monster may be covered in flames for several rounds until they eventually go out.
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Breathe Steam

Breathe a jet of steam at a targeted monster.
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Bat Form

Turn into a speedy vampire bat. In bat form, you can neither interact with items in any form (except picking them up or dropping them), nor cast spells. Note that Bat Form will decrease your current Strength while increasing your Dexterity. Thus, you won't be able to change form if your Strength is too low.

Vampires below experience level 10 will be unable to transform if wearing cursed equipment.
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Spit Acid

Spit acid at a targeted monster.
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# Both for Fly I and II.
Fly

Start flying.
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Summon Minor Demon

Summon a minor demon.
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Summon Demon

Summon a greater demon.
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Hellfire

Blast your enemies with hellfire.
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Torment

Torment yourself and the monsters around you.
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Raise Dead

Reanimate all corpses and skeletons in your vicinity as followers. Note that zombies and skeletons cannot leave the level they were created on.
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Control Demon

Temporarily enslave a demon.
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Gate Yourself to Pandemonium

Enter the chaotic realm of Pandemonium. Note that getting back might be more difficult.
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Channeling

Regain a small amount of magical energy.
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Throw Flame ability

Throw a blast of flame at a targeted monster.
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Throw Frost ability

Throw a blast of frost at a targeted monster.
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Bolt of Draining ability

Drain the life force of a targeted monster. This will reduce the experience you'll get from killing it.
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Release Delayed Fireball

Instantly release a previously memorised (delayed) fireball without additional cost in terms of magic or hunger.
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Self-Restoration

At the permanent loss of one magic point restore your Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence, and heal a large amount of rotted hit points.
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Device Recharging

At the permanent loss of one magic point recharge a wand or rod or enchant a weapon of electrocution.
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Evoke Sense Surroundings

Map your vicinity.
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Evoke Teleportation

Teleport yourself to a random location on the level.
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Evoke Blink

Randomly translocate a short distance.
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Evoke Berserk Rage

Go berserk. Going berserk greatly, if temporarily, increases your hit points and damage output in melee fights. It will time out quickly if you don't kill anything, but may be extended by multiple kills. While berserk, you cannot perform a number of actions such as, for example, (un)wield a weapon, quaff something, evoke wands or items, or cast spells. Such a rage is usually followed by deep exhaustion, a time during which you are slowed down, cannot berserk again, and occasionally even pass out.
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Evoke Invisibility

Turn yourself invisible for a limited amount of time. Turning invisible increases your magical contamination and may eventually cause glowing.
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Turn Visible

Turn visible again.
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Evoke Levitation

Start levitating. During levitation you can safely cross water and similar obstacles. Be warned, though, that levitation may time out at inopportune moments and cause you to fall to your death. While levitating, you cannot interact with items on the floor or pick them up.
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Stop Levitating

Stop levitating.
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End Transformation

Revert to your normal form, with a short delay.
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# Zin
Recite

Preach to monsters about Zin's laws which can lead to various results. It works best on humanoids, worse on undead and demons, and not at all on beasts.
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Vitalisation

Vitalise yourself. This will remove a negative affliction from you, or restore one of your attributes. In case neither of these is necessary, it will give you temporary boosts to your attributes instead.
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Sanctuary

For a short duration gain safety in a divine refuge. While you are inside the sanctuary, monsters will not attack you, but the protection will disappear at once should you breach the divine peace.
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Cure All Mutations

Cure all your mutations.
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# The Shining One
Divine Shield

Conjure up a divine shield that stacks with an ordinary shield and can be used even when wielding a two-handed weapon, as the Divine Shield is managed by the Shining One.
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Cleansing Flame

Invoke a huge blast of divine fury centered on you, severely damaging undead and demons. All other hostiles also take damage, if less so, whereas you and your allies are never affected.
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Summon Divine Warrior

Summon an Angel or Daeva, powerful warriors against evil. They may be blessed by the Shining One to stay longer or even permanently in this world.
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# Kikubaaqudgha
Receive Corpses

Create one or more reanimatable monster corpses near yourself. The number and freshness of these are dependent on Invocations skill.
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# Yredelemnul
Animate Remains

Reanimate a single corpse or skeleton as a follower. Note that zombies and skeletons cannot leave the level they were created on.
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Recall Undead Slaves

Recall your undead followers from anywhere on the level to your immediate surroundings.
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Animate Dead ability

Reanimate all corpses and skeletons in your vicinity as followers. Note that zombies and skeletons cannot leave the level they were created on.
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Drain Life

Heal hit points by draining the life force of the living monsters surrounding you.
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Enslave Soul

Mark a monster's living soul as ripe for the taking. Once the marked monster dies, its soul will be yours.

The soul will retain at least some of the monster's innate healing ability and faculties, and sometimes even the monster's equipment. However, only a relatively uninjured monster can have its soul marked, and only one soul can be enslaved at a time. Furthermore, both the duration of the mark and the chance that the enslaved soul will remain intact are dependent on Invocations skill.

Note that enslaved souls, whether twisted or intact, can follow you beyond the level they were created on.
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# Okawaru
Might

Temporarily increase your Strength and damage output.
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Haste

Greatly increase your movement speed. Hasting yourself will increase your magical contamination, and may eventually cause glowing.
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# Makhleb
Minor Destruction

Shoot a random harmful blast at the targeted monster.
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Lesser Servant of Makhleb

Summon a minor demon, with a chance of being hostile at low Invocations skill.
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Major Destruction

Shoot a random harmful beam or explosion at the targeted monster.
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Greater Servant of Makhleb

Summon a major demon, with a chance of being hostile at low Invocations skill.
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# Sif Muna
Channel Energy

Replenish your magical reservoir by an amount depending on your Invocations skill.
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Forget Spell

Forget any spell out of the ones you've currently memorised, so as to free memory to learn others.
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# Trog
Burn Spellbooks

Set all spellbooks within your field of vision on fire. The fire is fuelled by Trog's hatred, and Trog likes it most when you don't even care which books of madness burst into flames.
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Berserk

Go berserk. Going berserk greatly, if temporarily, increases your hit points and damage output in melee fights. It will time out quickly if you don't kill anything, but may be extended by multiple kills. While berserk, you cannot perform a number of actions such as, for example, (un)wield a weapon, quaff something, evoke wands or items, or cast spells. Such a rage is usually followed by deep exhaustion, a time during which you are slowed down, and cannot berserk again. Unlike other sources of rage, depending on your piety Trog may occasionally prevent you from passing out.
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Trog's Hand

Invoke a powerful regeneration ability which stacks with all other sources and even allows otherwise non-healing species to regenerate. This will also increase protection from magical effects.
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Brothers in Arms

Summon huge angry allies to wreak havoc.
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# Elyvilon
Destroy Weapons

Destroy all weapons on the ground. In order to prevent a weapon from being accidentally destroyed, use the !D inscription.
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Lesser Healing

Depending on your Invocations skill, heal a creature other than you by a small amount. Using this ability on hostile monsters will try to make them neutral. This works best on animals, worse on humanoids of your species, still worse on other humanoids, and worst of all on demons and undead. The chance for successful pacification depends on the healing power.

Whether the pacification succeeds or not, the invested food and magic point are lost. If it does succeed, the monster is healed and you gain half the monster's experience value and possibly some piety. Otherwise, the monster is unaffected and you gain nothing.

You can also heal allies and neutral monsters.
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Lesser Self-Healing

Depending on your Invocations skill, heal a small amount of hit points.
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Purification

Purge your body of bad effects such as sickness, poisoning, slowness, confusion and rotting.
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Greater Healing

Depending on your Invocations skill, heal a creature other than you by a moderate amount. Using this ability on hostile monsters will try to make them neutral. This works best on animals, worse on humanoids of your species, still worse on other humanoids, and worst of all on demons and undead. The chance for successful pacification depends on the healing power, so it is significantly better than using Lesser Healing.

Whether the pacification succeeds or not, the invested food, piety and magic points are lost. If it does succeed, the monster is healed and you gain half the monster's experience value and possibly some piety. Otherwise, the monster is unaffected and you gain nothing.

You can also heal allies and neutral monsters.
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Greater Self-Healing

Depending on your Invocations skill, heal a moderate amount of hit points. Roughly, Greater Healing will allow you to heal three times the amount of Lesser Healing at a slightly higher total piety cost.
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Restoration

Fully restore your Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence, and heal a large amount of rotted hit points.
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Divine Vigour

Depending on your Invocations skill, restore a large amount of, and temporarily increase, both your hit points and your magic points.
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# Lugonu
Depart the Abyss

Leave the Abyss to return into the branch and level you last were in when you left the dungeon.
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Bend Space

Bend the fabric of space around you, instantly translocating you a small distance, and possibly also translocating and damaging monsters in your vicinity.
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Banish

Attempt to banish a monster into the Abyss.
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Corrupt

Corrupt the current level by unleashing Abyssal energies on it. This will cause the level to largely change appearance, and will gate in demons from the Abyss bent on causing destruction. This will not work on levels already corrupted or in the Abyss.
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Enter the Abyss

Transfer yourself to Lugonu's realm instantly... at a cost.
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# Nemelex Xobeh
Draw One

Choose any deck in your inventory and draw a card from it.
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Peek at Two

Draw two cards from any deck in your inventory, look at them, and shuffle them back into the deck. The deck will be inscribed as containing those two cards, and, if they are different, this will identify the deck.
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Triple Draw

Draw three cards from any deck in your inventory, look at them, and decide which one to keep, discarding the other two.
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Mark Four

Draw four cards from any deck in your inventory, mark and remember them, so that you can tell when they are on top, and shuffle them back into the deck. The deck will be inscribed as containing those cards, and doing so will identify the deck.
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Stack Five

Draw five cards from any deck in your inventory, losing the rest of the deck. Look at the cards and sort them into any order you'd like. Subsequently, you can draw these cards in the order you chose.
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# Beogh
Smiting

Smite an enemy within your field of vision. This doesn't require a direct path, just seeing the enemy is enough.
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Recall Orcish Followers

Recall your orcish followers from anywhere on the level to your immediate surroundings.
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# Fedhas
Decomposition

Cause corpses in your field of vision to rapidly decay. Corpses with a monster on top of them will not be affected.
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Sunlight

Call sunlight down over a small area of the dungeon. Monsters illuminated by the light will be easier to hit. Water affected by the sunlight will evaporate. In particular, deep water will become shallow water, and shallow water will dry up completely, revealing the dungeon floor.
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Growth

Use fruit to grow a ring of plants around yourself. If a complete ring cannot be formed (because you do not have enough fruit), plants will grow on squares adjacent to you that are close to monsters. The plants you create gain bonus HP proportional to your invocations skill.
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Rain

Cause rain to fall around yourself, turning the dungeon floor into shallow water and shallow water into deep water.
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Reproduction

Create giant spores from corpses in your line of sight. The spores will explode, causing damage to you or your enemies.
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Evolution

Turn plants and fungi adjacent to you iinto stronger species. Upgrading fungi requires piety, upgrading plants requires fruit.
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# Cheibriados
Make Ponderous

Alter a piece of body armour of your choice so it slows the wearer down.  This is generally bad for hasty people, those who appreciate taking the time may benefit from Cheibriados's favour when they are not so fast.
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Bend Time

Slow down everyone who's standing just next to you.
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Slouch

Cause damage to everyone in sight who is moving faster than you.  Those magically hasted will be hurt particularly painfully.
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Step From Time

Remove yourself from the flow of time.  Things around you will happen at their usual busy pace, monsters will wander, perishable items will decay, plants will grow.  After some time has passed, you will return in the same state as the very second you departed.
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Renounce Religion

Renounce your faith. This will make your character leave your god (and usually anger said god).
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