Gods work similarly to other roguelike games, each giving themed bonuses and penalties.
No class begins with a religion, and must instead find an altar. Each dungeon has up to three altars, each assigned to a randomly selected god. Stepping on the altar will display a brief flavor text description and the option to begin worship if you have not selected one yet.
Gods work much the same way in the beta version, but all the gods that are implemented have their boons and piety actions changed up, making them in some cases just slightly different (e.g. Tikki Tooki) and in others encouraging an almost entirely different playstyle than before (e.g. Mystera Annur). Some boons can even be used more than once, usually with an increased Piety cost each time; they will be marked "repeatable" on the chart below, usually with a cost of "X + Y*n Piety" (n being the number of times the boon has already been used).
In addition, no altars will spawn at the beginning of the game. Occasionally, the player will find a subdungeon with a particular challenge; this challenge, when conquered, will convert the player to the god they just discovered (even if they were already worshiping another one) and allow this god's altars to spawn in any dungeon. Altars will spawn based on the amount of gods you've unlocked. If you have 1-3, one god will spawn. 4-8 two gods will spawn. If you unlock your ninth god, you will have all three altars spawn.
Two other major changes have occurred to the way altars work. First is Desecration: If worshiping a god, you can smash up another god's altar to gain gain 30 piety (diminishes by 10 for each subsequent desecration) and immunity from the next three piety losses you would receive; in turn, however, the god whose altar you desecrated will punish you as if you had been a follower but reached 0 piety. Second, you can convert from any god to any other god, at any time, at the cost of half your piety (you must have at least 50 piety to do so). The exception is, naturally, if you destroyed an altar, in which case you can't damn well worship there, can you? Sometimes you can really be quite daft.
Initial worship
PUNISHMENT
- Removes 50% player physical and magic resistances
Preparation penalty
- 30% of the walls become unbreakable
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Destroy a wall
Cast BYSSEPS
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Gain a level
Use IMAWAL on an empty space
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Stone Soup
Stone Skin (repeatable)
- Cost: 15 Piety
- Destroys 3 nearby visible wall segments, gives 3 layers of Stone Skin (temporary 60% physical resistance) and permanent +3% magic resistance
Stone Form
- Cost: 25 Piety
- Destroys 10 nearby visible wall segments, grants Might (BYSSEPS) whenever a wall is destroyed, gives +5% magic resistance
Stone Fist
- Cost: 40 Piety
- Destroys 20 nearby visible wall segments, +50% knockback damage, gives +5% magic resistance
Stone Heart (repeatable)
- Cost: 10 Piety
- Destroys 15 nearby wall segments, lowers all visible enemy resistances by 5%, gives +3% magic resistance
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Initial worship
- Starting Piety: Killed enemies x2
PUNISHMENT
Preparation penalty
- 25% of enemies become Bloodless
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Attack with Lifesteal (once per monster)
Drink a Blood Pool
- +1 piety per level of blood tithe
Kill a non-undead monster
Convert HALPMEH or CYDSTEPP glyph
Convert health potion
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Kill an undead monster
Use a health potion
Use a HALPMEH or CYDSTEPP glyph
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Blood Curse
- Cost: Increases level by 1 (no stat increase, no HP/MP fill)
- +20 Piety
Blood Tithe (repeatable)
- Cost: 10 + 15n Piety, -5 Max Health
- Grants Sanguine (can suck up blood pool to heal 5% of max health), or boosts Sanguine by 5% if you already have Sanguine, +1 Base Damage
Blood Hunger (repeatable)
- Cost: 20 + 25n Piety, -20% to maximum resistances
- +1 Life Steal, +1 base damage
Blood Shield
- Cost: 40 Piety
- +15% to physical & magical resistances
Blood Swell (repeatable)
- Cost: 20 + 10n Piety
- Restore all HP, +1 layer of curse
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Initial worship
- Starting Piety: Always +5
- Free IMAWAL glyph on joining.
PUNISHMENT
- Inflicts 5 levels of Corrosion.
Preparation penalty
- Doubles number of plants spawned from boons
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Use IMAWAL on a monster
Use IMAWAL on a plant
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Kill a plant
Use Lifesteal
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Plantation (repeatable)
- Cost: 5 Piety
- Spawns a plant on each bloodstain (acid pools excluded) for 5 Piety each.
Clearance (repeatable)
- Cost: 5 Piety + 5n Piety
- Remove up to 10 random plants and restore 1 mana per plant removed
Greenblood (repeatable)
- Cost: 5 + 3n Piety
- Applies Corrosion to all enemies (on dungeon level) and removes a stack of Cursed. Spawns 3 random plants.
Entanglement (repeatable)
- Cost: 5 Piety
- All enemies are slowed. Spawns 5 random plants.
Vine Form (repeatable)
- Cost: 5 + 3n Piety
- Grants permanent +1 to damage reduction and +4 to health. Spawns 2 random plants.
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Initial worship
- Starting Piety: +5 per level
PUNISHMENT
- Removes all glyphs/items from inventory
Preparation penalty
- Piety gain per level up reduced to 0+2 stacking Piety
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Become Poisoned
Become Mana Burned
Kill any undead
Gain Level
Convert APHEELSIK or BLUDTUPOWA glyph
Convert a large item, a glyph or a health/mana potion
Convert a small item (excluding health/mana potions)
Burnt Offering (Monster had Burning applied upon dying)
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Use a Health or Mana potion
Use poison (Venom blade, APHEELSIK glyph)
Use lifesteal
Use the BLUDTUPOWA glyph
Drink a blood pool
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Humility
- Cost: 15 Piety
- Effect: Reduces player level by 1, but maintains health, base damage and XP
Absolution (repeatable)
- Cost: 2 + 2n Piety
- Effect: Removes one monster of same level or lower level from game (Exception: Undead, monsters on different dungeon levels), gain +4 Max HP and a Prayer Bead
Cleansing (repeatable)
- Cost: 10 Piety
- Removes Poison, Mana Burn, 1 level of Weakness and 1 level of Corrosion, applies Consecrated Strike buff (next attack deals Magical damage), receive a Prayer Bead
Protection (repeatable)
- Cost: 10 + 5n Piety
- Restores 35% Max Health and Mana, receive a Prayer Bead
Enlightenment
- Cost: 100 Piety
- Enchants all Prayer Beads in inventory, gain +1 Max HP, +1% bonus damage, +1% magic resistance, +1 XP and +10 Conversion Points per bead. Gain +5 Max Mana and all stacks of Curse removed.
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Initial worship
- Starting Piety: Random, based on player level
- Free WEYTWUT glyph on joining
MINOR PUNISHMENT
- Poison, mana burn, corrode, weaken, curse, or reduce HP to 1
MAJOR PUNISHMENT
- 50% chance of reducing HP to 1 and MP to 0 and of reducing max health, max mana and attack bonus by 33%.
Preparation penalty
- Removes one inventory slot
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Random actions
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Boons
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Randomly grants +2-4 Piety or MINOR PUNISHMENT from:
- Enemy reveal (except plants)
- Enemy death (XP-valuable)
- Successful dodge
- Item conversion
- Casting BYSEPPS, WONAFYT, WEYTWUT, GETINDARE, APHEELSIK, CYDSTEPP
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Petition
- Cost: 45 Piety
- Stops inflicting MINOR PUNISHMENT
Last Chance
- Cost: 1 Piety
- Drain remaining piety and use it making an X out of 100 roll. If you succeed your hp and mp are fully recovered.
Boost Health
- Cost: 20 + 25n Piety
- Destroy a health potion and gain +20 max health
Boost Mana
- Cost: 20 + 25n Piety
- Destroy a mana potion and gain +3 max mana
Chaos Avatar
- Cost: 80 Piety
- Gain a level, lose all corrosion and weakening, gain 100 conversion points, and all monsters have their resistances reduced by 20% (same screen only)
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Initial worship
- Starting piety: Number of previous glyphs cast
PUNISHMENT
- +15% to all monsters' physical and magical resistances
Preparation penalty
- Reduces Mystera's piety gain by 25%
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Use a glyph
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Kill an enemy that uses a magical attack
Become Mana Burned
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Magic (repeatable)
- Cost: 5 + 20n Piety
- +1 Max Mana
Refreshment
- Cost: 50 Piety
- Causes Glyph Conversions to restore 50% of max mana
Flames
- Cost: 20 Piety
- +1 damage/level for BURNDAYRAZ glyph attack, -50% bonus damage
Weakening (repeatable)
- Cost: 30 Piety
- -10% magic resistance to both player and all monsters on the current level
Mystic Balance
- Cost: 60 Piety
- All glyph ability costs are increased or decreased towards 5 by a maximum of 2 mana.
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The Pactmaker is not a religion in the same sense as the other eight deities. He allows one and only one Pact to be made with him, even if you are worshiping another god.
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Pacts
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Scholar's Pact
- On level up: -10 Piety, overheal and casts BYSSEPS
Warrior's Pact
- On XP kill: -3 Piety, +1 Max Health
Alchemist's Pact
- On health or mana potion use: -4 Piety, +3 Experience
Body Pact
- On damage (XP-valuable enemy only): -4 Piety, +1% physical & magical resistance
Spirit Pact
- On item conversion: -5 Piety, +15 bonus conversion points
Consensus
- Effect: +50 Piety, -50 max Piety
- Can be taken along with a pact if Consensus is taken first
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Initial worship
- Starting Piety: Enemies killed x2
PUNISHMENT
Preparation penalty
- All enemies become Cowardly
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Kill an enemy
Kill an enemy that uses magical attack
Convert a glyph
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Use a glyph
Convert Taurog's Equipment
- -10% attack bonus, but no piety loss
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Taurog's Blade
- Cost: 20 Piety, -1 Max Mana
- Obtain Taurog's Skullpicker (+5 Base Damage), +5% bonus damage
Taurog's Shield
- Cost: 25 Piety, -1 Max Mana
- Obtain Taurog's Wereward (-5 Damage Reduction), +5% bonus damage
Taurog's Helm
- Cost: 25 Piety, -1 Max Mana
- Obtain Taurog's Gloat (+15% magical resistance), +5% bonus damage
Taurog's Armour
- Cost: 25 Piety, -1 Max Mana
- Obtain Taurog's Will (+15% physical resistance), +5% bonus damage
Unstoppable Fury (repeatable)
- Cost: 20 + 10n Piety
- Gain Death Protection. Prerequisite: Must be equipped with all of Taurog's Equipment
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Initial worship
- Free GETINDARE glyph on joining.
PUNISHMENT
- All enemies (on all floors) gain First Strike, Weakening; all permanent Tikki Tooki boons except Tikki's Edge are removed
Preparation penalty
- All damage taken incurs a Piety penalty
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Likes
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Dislikes
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Boons
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Kill any enemy below your level
Dodge any attack
Poison an enemy
- +1 Piety (once per enemy)
Use WEYTWUT or WONAFYT glyph
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Get hit twice or more by the same monster
Trigger a death protection effect (occurs when lethal attack is survived, not on cast)
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Tribute (repeatable)
Tikki's Edge (repeatable)
- Cost: 25 + 25n Piety
- +1 to experience from all XP kills, +10 Gold
Dodging
- Cost: 25 Piety
- +10% Dodge, +10 Gold
Poison
- Cost: 15 + 10n Piety
- Gain 1 level of Poisonous strike
Reflexes (repeatable)
- Cost: 35 Piety
- Convert 1 Health potion to 1 Quicksilver + 1 Reflex potion
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