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imp
Level 3
Armor Class: 2
Speed: 12
Magic Resistance: 20
Alignment: Neutral
Attacks:
- Claw: 1d4 ordinary physical damage
Other attributes:
- regenerates hit points
- wanders randomly
- follows you to other levels
- visible by infravision
- has infravision
... imps ... little creatures of two feet high that could
gambol and jump prodigiously; ...
[ The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany ]
An 'imp' is an off-shoot or cutting. Thus an 'ymp tree' was
a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed.
'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot of Satan,
but the distinction between goblins or bogles and imps from
hell is hard to make, and many in the Celtic countries as
well as the English Puritans regarded all fairies as devils.
The fairies of tradition often hover uneasily between the
ghostly and the diabolic state.
[ A Dictionary of Fairies, by Katharine Briggs ]
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