Abilities

You can view your abilities by hitting C or by clicking the Self button.

See also Powers and Skills.

Wearing the helm of knowledge significantly increases the chance that Identification, Telepathy, and Swimming will be selected by the scroll of knowledge.

Ability	Source	Description
Acute senses	eat orange powder from an urn wear a ring of third sight	You can see invisible monsters.
Identification	read a scroll of knowledge	Allows you to automatically identify, and identify the quality of, all items. Gives immunity to the memory-loss attack of the pale moss. Allows you to see rings of delusion.
Levitation	read a scroll of knowledge polymorph into a flying creature	You hover just slightly above the terrain, thus avoiding most traps and obstacles.
Music	drink an alchemist potion	Allows you to choose your destination when using a glass ocarina. Improves the benefit of wooden flutes.
Sixth sense	eat a dead anssk	Causes a secondary bundle of nerves to grow parallel to the optic nerve. If you're blinded somehow, this alternate link-up will allow for limited "sight".
Swimming	reading a scroll of knowledge	Allows you to: Navigate water without a boat. Retrieve underwater items. Enter Mimer's Well to obtain Gjall.
Telepathy	read a scroll of knowledge	The ability to sense other minds, thus knowing the positions of hostile creatures before they are inadvertently discovered.
Throwing skills	successfully using the related weapon (increases per successful usage)	Practicing with each type of throwing/shooting weapon increases accuracy and power. See the Weapons page for exact values.
Weaponmaster	read a scroll of knowledge reach viking level 9 polymorph into a swordsman	Grants a chance for a second attack per round. Grants +5 damage to all weapon attacks. Grants additional +10 damage to the sai and katana. Grants a chance to "wound" attacked enemies for 21-35 bonus damage.