The Avatar is the most powerful member of the hero forces in Dungeon Keeper, acting as the final boss of the game. He has a huge quantity of health and Defence, and he is also the strongest hero in terms of raw attack strength, making him very difficult to defeat if one does not know what they are doing.
Description[]
Avatar Portrait
Avatar in-game animation
| "The Greatest and Final Overlord of the Land who has to be killed to complete Dungeon Keeper." |
| — Dungeon Keeper Manual |
The Avatar is the strongest creature in Dungeon Keeper and your final opponent of the campaign. Incredibly powerful, with a wide selection of skills and nearly impossible to defeat, he makes a truly worthy foe, and an invaluable minion if you manage to convert him to your side.
When facing against him, brute force is the only option, as his truly staggering quantity of health makes casting spells too costly. On top of this, he has magical immunity to the Chicken spell and Disease deals such little damage it is hardly useful. Traps are barely effective against him, with the mighty Boulder Trap harmlessly exploding on contact. His weakness is the lack of the Rebound spell, so creatures capable of the Freeze or Slow spell will come in handy to fight him.
In the final level of the campaign, Skybird Trill, after defeating him once, he will be resurrected by his followers and so must be defeated again. If one can capture him alive and torture him until he converts, then the second fight will be much less trouble.
The Avatar appears again in Belial (according to The Deeper Dungeons manual, he was 'reincarnated by some misguided Knights'), but doesn't get resurrected when defeated.
Tables[]
- Main article: Query
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Speed: | 48 |
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Base Health: | 3000 |
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Base Strength: | 150 |
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Defence: | 120 |
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Base Skill: | 110 |
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Base Dexterity: | 180 |
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Luck: | 20 |
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Primary Job | Do Nothing |
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Base Research Skill | 3 |
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Base Manufacturing Skill | 1 |
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Training Skill | 4 |
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Training Cost /64t | 100 |
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Base Scavenging Skill | none |
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Scavenging Cost /64t | n/a |
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Praying Anger | -75 |
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Sleeping Anger | -1 |
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Sleep Recovery | 9 |
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Hunger | 4 / 10000t
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Base Wage | 1200 |
Notes[]
- High annoyance (+2250) to being slapped by the Keeper. Only the Horned Reaper is less tolerant of being slapped.
- Twice-normal resistance to torture (2000t).
- Dead-average walking speed of 48.
- Cannot be scavenged; this is implemented by giving the Avatar himself zero skill at the task.
Trivia[]
The Avatar as he appears in Ultima VIII
- The Avatar is the Champion of Britannia from the Ultima series of games; the sprite used for the Avatar is from Ultima VIII: Pagan.
- The Avatar can be seen in both the intro and outro of Dungeon Keeper:
| Intro | Outro |
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- It is possible that more than one Avatar exists in a dungeon, but all will have the creature name "Avatar".
- On Moonbrush Wood, Sleepiburgh, and Skybird Trill,[Citation needed] there are level script lines for taunts issued by the Avatar. They do not function, since the PRINT command was removed in the final retail build and only exists in certain prototypes. Lead programmer Simon Carter stated in an interview that these taunts came as printer printouts, and were removed because some players mistook them for real death threats.[1]
- Player owns 20 Creatures in Moonbrush Wood
- "I SENSE AN EVIL PRESENCE. The Avatar"
- Player owns 20 Creatures in Sleepiburgh
- "I KNOW THY NAME, I WILL DESTROY THY EVIL PRESENCE. The Avatar"
References[]
- ↑ Interview with Simon Carter discussing DK development, death threats, DK3 & more!. Keeper Klan (26 October 2013). Retrieved on 14 September 2021.
