Silva

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Silva is the goddess of nature, who protects all living things. Her earthly manifestation, located in the elven nation of Lunethia, is a giant holy tree which reaches the clouds. Her alignment is N+ (neutral leaning towards lawful).

Praying

Pleased:

• If hungry, raises your hunger level to Satiated. ("Your stomach feels full again.")

• If burning, douse you with water.

• Causes a horrendous earthquake that will crush enemies, detonate mines, break traps, cave-in the ceiling making new walls, and cause damage to existing walls and items if below ground, or
• summons friendly wolves if above ground.

Angry:

• Will polymorph you into a rat, jackal, or Mutant Ass.

Altars

The altar to Silva in Crystal Cave is one of the guaranteed altars of the game. There is also a priestess of Silva in New Attnam who will cure leprosy (20 gold), cure poison (5 gold), re-attach a limb (10 gold), or summon a new limb (20 gold).

Aligned Items

Offering these items to Silva at her altar will receive a greater bonus towards your relation with her:

• quarter staff
• belt of levitation

Or any item made of any type of wood or cloth, all fruits and vegetables, and most types of rock. See the List of materials for more details.

Trivia

• In v0.50, praying to Silva on GC6 lead to an infinite loop, crashing the game. That bug was since fixed.

• Silva was once known as Terra.