A magic item with one of these suffixes modifies the player character's Life when the item is equipped.

Adding or removing the item will change both maximum and current life accordingly.

Removing a benefic Life item or wearing a cursed Life item when it would set the character's life to zero will kill the character in the dungeon, and set his life to 1 while in town. Dying this way will not make the character drop its equipment, but will still drop half of its gold.

A character having a maximum life of zero will still have its life set to zero. Prior to 1.6.0, when resurrecting in town with a maximum life of 0 or less, the character will die again.

Suffix Value Occurrence qlvl Base-Max Multiplier
the vulture -25 to -11 AS---J 4 -4
the jackal -10 to -1 AS---J 1 -2
the fox 10-15 AS---J 1 100-1000 2
the jaguar 16-20 AS---J 5 1100-2000 3
the eagle 21-30 AS---J 9 2100-4000 5
the wolf 30-40 AS---J 15 4100-6000 7
the tiger 41-50 AS---J 21 6100-10000 9
the lion 51-60 A----J 27 10100-15000 11
the mammoth 61-80 A----- 35 15100-19000 12
the whale 81-100 A----- 60 19100-30000 13