Overview
All special items of game, except boss obol’s.
What are special items ?
Special items are items received after praying at a Spiritual Shrine. They are placed in the slot adjacent to the spell slot, and are either lost upon death or destroyed after one use. Picking up a second special item will replace your first one.
Hermes’ Boots
Regular floor spikes can be walked on.
Charon’s Obol
Allows you to enter the castle without paying gold. It will be used the next time you enter the castle; you cannot choose not to use it.
Hedgehog’s Curse
Taking damage will result in a portion of your gold being dropped and scattered around you in the form of coins, much like a certain well-known blue hedgehog. A total of 50 coins are scattered, equivalent to the value of one diamond (500 gold with no Bounty bonus), and a corresponding amount of gold is removed from your total.
The amount of gold deducted is adjusted based on the current Bounty bonus, making it impossible to use the curse to gain money. The only exception is the additional Bounty added by New Game +2 and above, thus allowing the curse to be used to farm gold in those modes. Other than this, there is no known use of this item.
Gold is removed on the killing blow to a player. If Death Defy triggers then the dropped coins will be still inside the player when they are revived, and thus will be picked up immediately.
That’s a clear reference to the game Sonic the Hedgehog, where if you take damage, you lose your rings.
Calypso’s Compass
A compass appears at the top of the screen, pointing to the location of a secret room, When found, the secret room will appear as an otherwise unmarked area of a random room, but will display a “press up” icon when the player stands directly in front of it. The secret room will contain 2 chests, which are usually Blueprints or Stats Up. Once you leave the secret room, Calypso’s Compass disappears, even if you did not open the chests!
Multiple Compasses can be obtained in the same run. Each will point to a new secret room with unopened chests, even if a previous secret room has been found and looted.
The location of the secret room may change between save/quit and boss fights.
Nerdy Glasses
Corrects the Color Blindness, Stereo Blindness, Nearsighted, Farsighted, Nostalgic, and Vertigo traits; does not counteract Glaucoma or The One. It also makes hidden items visible and allows for the player to see the correct chest in Miserly Elf’s 3-chest gamble game.
Nerdy Glasses cannot be obtained from the shrine unless the player has one of the traits it corrects.
Helios’ Blessing (Most rare one)
Adds additional loot to enemy drops, causing enemies who wouldn’t drop anything to drop a minimum amount while increasing the amount of loot to drop for others, does not affect chests.
Hyperion’s Ring
Gives you a free Death Defy, allowing you to return to the game with a third of your health when you take a hit that would have killed you. Disappears after 1 use.
