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'''Summons''' are creatures bound by magical forces, most often created by the [[Summonings]] school of spells. For the most part, summoned monsters function much like real monsters, with the following exceptions:
*They are worth no experience or piety, and leave nothing behind when slain.
*[[Vampiric]] weapons and [[Vampiric Draining]] don't work on them.
*They eventually "time out" regardless of their [[HP]], vanishing in a cloud of smoke.
**Summoned monsters immediately vanish upon the death of their summoner.
**Most player summons will vanish if angered.
**They are vulnerable to [[abjuration]] and [[Yara's Violent Unravelling]].
*They will not follow you up or down [[stairs]]. This allows you to flee hostile summoned units and return after sufficient time has passed. Your own summoned allies will disappear immediately when you change floors.
*Allied summons will not attack monsters outside of the player's [[line of sight]].

===Duration===
Summoned monsters are generated with a duration between 1 and 6. This value roughly corresponds to the following amount in [[decaAut]]s:<ref>{{source ref|0.32.0|mon-ench.cc|2371}}</ref>

# 9 decaAuts 
# 18 decaAuts
# 27 decaAuts
# 36 decaAuts
# 81 decaAuts
# 171 decaAuts

Some Summonings spells have a fixed duration. Other spells increase duration with power (spellpower, [[piety]], etc.).

===Summon Limit===
Most Summonings spells have [[Summoning#Summoning Limits|a cap on how many monsters]] you can sustain at any one time; exceeding the limit will cause the oldest monsters to time out almost immediately. Other sources of summons, like [[god]]s, [[evocable]]s, and the [[scroll of summoning]], are unaffected.

==Durable Summon==
{{flavour|This monster has been summoned in a durable way, and only partially exists. Killing it yields no experience or items, and it cannot be abjured.}}
A '''durable summon''', or monster that is '''durably summoned''', is similar to a summoned monster with a few notable exceptions:

*They never disappear.
*They are not vulnerable to [[abjuration]] or [[Yara's Violent Unravelling]].
*They will follow you up or down stairs.
*They ''can'' be targeted by Vampiric Draining.

Durable summons are most often used as punishments for the player; whenever from the [[divine retribution]] of several [[god]]s, or [[nameless horror]]s from [[miscast]] Summonings spells.

==Non-Summons==
The following effects are not summoned, despite sharing similarities:
*[[Malign Gateway]], which is immune to abjuration and will turn hostile over time. This is the only [[Summonings]] spell that doesn't create an actual summon.
*[[Derived undead]], created by [[Necromancy]]. They are still temporary when created by the player, vanishing if you enter another floor.
*[[Hornet]]s from a [[shambling mangrove]] or reinforcements from a [[doom hound]], which are completely non-summons and worth XP and piety as usual.

==History==
*Prior to [[0.29]], [[Uskayaw]] did not give piety for harming summoned monsters.
*Prior to [[0.28]], summoned monsters would steal [[XP]] proportional to their damage dealt (1/2 XP if you did no damage)
*Prior to [[0.25]], non-durable summons could not be affected by [[Inner Flame]]. In addition, most player-summoned creatures didn't vanish when they became hostile.
*Prior to [[0.19]], the [[mercenary card]] would create allied durable summons.
*Prior to [[0.18]], the [[warding]] intrinsic existed to counter (non durable) summons.

==References==
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