# The Mitre of Holiness

[   The Mitre of Holiness   

Base item

helm of brilliance

Affiliation

lawfulPriestintelligent

When carried

fire resistance

When worn

half physical damage fromundead and demons (Priests only)protection (+1 to MC up to MC3)

When invoked

energy boost

Base price

2000 zm

Weight

40

The Mitre of Holiness is the Priest quest artifact. It is the prize for completing the Priest quest, and is lawful for wishing purposes. Its base item type is a helm of brilliance.

Contents

1 Effects
2 Strategy
3 History
4 Variants

4.1 xNetHack
4.2 FIQHack

5 References

Effects
When carried, the Mitre of Holiness confers fire resistance. When worn, it also provides the normal effects of a helm of brilliance, as well as extrinsic protection - augmenting your magic cancellation as a ring of protection, but not cumulative with one. If the wearer is a Priest, they also take half physical damage from all undead monsters and major demons - this property does not stack with other half physical damage sources.[1]
When invoked, you get an energy boost equal to half of the difference between your maximum power and your current power, with a cap of 120; if it would have given you less than 12 energy, it fully refills your energy instead.[2]
The Mitre of Holiness is defined by the game as doing double damage to undead, and thus cannot be used by a player polymorphed into an undead creature. It does not do double damage to undead when used as a weapon in practice, however, due to the game not checking for artifact damage bonuses when fighting with objects that aren't valid weapons.

Strategy
See also: Invoke § Optimum invocation schedule
History
In NetHack 3.4.3 and variants based on it, The Mitre of Holiness does not provide protection.

Variants
xNetHack
In xNetHack, The Mitre of Holiness is removed; the Priest quest artifact is now a modified version of the Sceptre of Might.

FIQHack
In FIQHack, the Mitre of Holiness allows prayer in Gehennom, including the ability to turn undead.

References

↑ src/mhitu.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1707

↑ src/artifact.c in NetHack 3.6.7, line 1480: code for ENERGY_BOOST effect