Originally Posted by
auricbond
Some of you may remember that the spear of raw steel was an alleged third artifact reward from Kherab, but it didn't seem obtainable (presumably people knew of it from reading strings in the binaries), he stops at the second quest. You can read about at the old adom guidebook
here.
It seems someone went to the trouble of drawing art for this spear, you can see it in docs/items.html in the game directory. Why would they do that?
So now I'm wondering, has it been in the game all along? Unavailable due to a bug, or just noone figured it out? Or is it planned for the near future? (Maybe his third quest could be to slay the ice queen?-- who incidentally utters a similar message when she runs out of quests).
Well, it was in the game since 1.1.1. Either it was drawn simply because it was in the list of files, or we'll get a quest for it.
It's also pretty damn awesome as a weapon.
I like my women like my ADOM loot - hunted as treasure and in extra quantity.