+5/+5 Hand ax "of the King"?!

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In article <6f06b1ee.0407260201.6f9f2d13@posting.google.com>,
Mechanoid <necromancer_90@hotmail.com> wrote:
// I have *never* seen the suffix "of the King" used on anything, randart
// or not... Unfortunetly, the character who found the +5/+5 hand ax of
// the king no longer lives (Goddamned Orc Priest smited me TWICE in a
// row, with the first removing 40 of my 50-something HP... Dirty
// bastard...) And i was wondering, what the hell does "of the king" do?
//
// I've looked through the weapon-brand spoilers... nothing.
// Artifact spoilers... nothing.

Well since it's a randart (there are almost 400 different possible
defined names in addition to randomly created ones... the list is
in randart.cc), it's not surprising that you can't find a spoiler on it.

// I'm begining to get the feeling i'll never know.

Well, you'd have to use the same compiler and hack a piece of code that
generates every seed (there are only 16777216 of then) on a +5,+5 hand
axe, and toss out any of those that doesn't get the "of the King" name.
That will at least give you all the things it could have been (but not
which one specifically since you'll probably have more than one).

It probably didn't do much, as those pluses would reduce the chances of
it gaining several things (and if it did get something, that would
increase the chance of something negative being added). If you really
did care, you should have looked at the item immediately once you had
identified it as an artefact or at least looked at the morgue file...
if it did anything exciting at all, it would have been listed.

Brent Ross