Arch dervish of the Sightless Way

The is the highest-tier creature that is part of a unique class of dervishes, along with the  and the. Dervishes are notable for the fact that they attack using psionic weapons, which target the victim's mental armor (MA) instead of the victim's traditional armor (AV). All dervishes can also teleport, and will often use teleportation to pursue their target.

The will always have a,  and  in addition to the weapon described below.

Weapons and Skills
When a is generated, the game will randomly select one of the following weapon skills for the dervish:

Dervishes can generate with some particularly dangerous skills, such as Decapitate or Swipe.

Psionic Weapon Base
Dervishes generate with a random weapon roughly based on their tier, to which the game will add the psionic modifier.

The weapon may be one-handed or two-handed, and can include artifact weapons such as the, , or.

The will be most likely to have a tier 8 weapon of the appropriate weapon type (about an 85-90% chance), or otherwise a tier 7 weapon of the appropriate weapon type (~8% chance). On very rare occasion, they may have a weapon of a lower tier.