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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.

Some lesser divinities can also sometimes be encountered in subdungeons.

Piety and Altars

Piety is the spiritual equivalent of gold. You start with 0 Piety, and can never have less than 0. You can never have more than 100 Piety saved up, so any gains beyond this are wasted.

The number of altars in a standard dungeon depends on your kingdom. Initially, no altars will spawn. 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 worshipping 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.

Each altar has a 3x3 square of sparkles centred on it, coloured-coded according to the deity of the altar. You should learn the colours, as these give advance notice of which deity is present. Each sparkle disappears when stepped on, giving +1 piety (regardless of your current religious status).

If you are currently following a god, you can desecrate the altar of any other god (except for the Pactmaker's altar, which can never be desecrated). Doing so gains 30 piety (-10 for each subsequent desecration) and three indulgences, but you will suffer a punishment from the god whose altar you smashed, and the smashed altar will become unusable. The punishments vary from irrelevant to disastrous depending on the god and your overall strategy.

The principal way to gain piety is by performing actions your current god approves of. If however you perform a disapproved action, your god will 'fine' you a certain amount of piety. If you have indulgences, he/she will take off one of those in preference to fining you in piety, so it's a good idea to time your desecrations so that the indulgences allow you to avoid heavy fines. If you do not have any indulgences, nor enough piety to pay the fine, you will suffer your god's punishment (the  Paladin is exempt from this).

The Pactmaker uses Piety a little differently from the other gods. Whenever you perform the action associated with your Pact, the Pactmaker will try to take away the necessary Piety and give you the associated benefit. If you cannot afford the Piety cost, the Pactmaker won't deduct any piety and won't give you the benefit, but there is no punishment and the Pact remains active.

You must return to your god's altar in order to request boons from them. On some maps you will need to be careful about getting cut off from the altar.

Initial worship and conversion

You can only follow one god at a time, and at the start, you are not following any god. (Note: The Pactmaker cannot be followed, but you can take one of its Pacts regardless of whether or not you are following a god.)

If you are not currently following any god, you can start following a god at his/her altar. Depending on the god, you will receive an initial worship bonus in the form of piety and sometimes a free glyph.

If you are already following a god, and you are not a  Paladin, you can convert to another god with an intact altar (even a god you previously abandoned). You need at least 50 piety in the bank to convert, and you lose half of whatever you have when you convert. Converting does not give any of the initial worship benefits.

Main Gods

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).

Binlor Ironshield Initial worship Free PISORF glyph on joining PUNISHMENT Removes 50% player physical and magic resistances Preparation penalty 30% of the walls become unbreakable	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Destroy a wall +5 Piety Cast BYSSEPS +1 Piety	Gain a level -10 Piety Use IMAWAL on an empty space -5 Piety	Stone Soup Cost: 35 Piety Receive ENDISWAL glyph 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
Dracul Initial worship Starting Piety: Killed enemies x2 PUNISHMENT -20 Max Health Preparation penalty 25% of enemies become Bloodless	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Attack with Lifesteal (once per monster) +1 Piety Drink a Blood Pool +1 piety per level of blood tithe Kill a non-undead monster +2 Piety Convert HALPMEH or CYDSTEPP glyph +10 Piety Convert health potion +5 Piety	Kill an undead monster -5 Piety Use a health potion -5 Piety Use a HALPMEH or CYDSTEPP glyph -5 Piety	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
The Earthmother 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	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Use IMAWAL on a monster +10 Piety Use IMAWAL on a plant +5 Piety	Kill a plant -15 Piety Use Lifesteal -5 Piety	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.
Glowing Guardian 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	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Become Poisoned +2 Piety Become Mana Burned +2 Piety Kill any undead +1 Piety Gain Level +3 stacking Piety Convert APHEELSIK or BLUDTUPOWA glyph +10 Piety Convert a large item, a glyph or a health/mana potion +5 Piety Convert a small item (excluding health/mana potions) +2 Piety Burnt Offering (Monster had Burning applied upon dying) +1 Piety	Use a Health or Mana potion -10 Piety Use poison (Venom blade, APHEELSIK glyph) -10 Piety Use lifesteal -10 Piety Use the BLUDTUPOWA glyph -20 Piety Drink a blood pool -10 Piety	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 your level or lower from the game (exception: Undead, monsters on different dungeon levels, bosses), 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.
Jehora Jeheyu 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	Random actions		Boons
	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		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)
Mystera Annur 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%	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Use a glyph +(MP Cost / 2) Piety	Kill an enemy that uses a magical attack -5 Piety Become Mana Burned -(Mana lost + 1) Piety	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.
The Pactmaker 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.	Pacts
	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
Taurog Initial worship Starting Piety: Enemies killed x2 PUNISHMENT -40% bonus damage, enemies gain 10% magic resist Preparation penalty All enemies become Cowardly	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Kill an enemy +4 Piety Kill an enemy that uses magical attack +8 Piety Convert a glyph +10 Piety	Use a glyph -2 Piety per use Convert Taurog's Equipment (even if not actively worshiping Taurog) -10% attack bonus, but no piety loss	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
Tikki Tooki 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	Likes	Dislikes	Boons
	Kill any enemy below your level +5 Piety Dodge any attack +3 Piety Poison an enemy +1 Piety (once per enemy) Use WEYTWUT or WONAFYT glyph +1 Piety	Get hit twice or more by the same monster -3 Piety per hit Trigger a death protection effect (occurs when lethal attack is survived, not on cast) -10 Piety	Tribute (repeatable) Cost: 15 Gold +10 Piety 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

Choose your god

!!Warning!! That information provides some useful hints, but is not always of top accuracy. Veteran will probably disagree a lot with what is written there. But it still is a good start...

•  Binlor Ironshield: Binlor works as a source of magic resistance and resistance reduction, and is an okay source of piety. He grants a free PISORF on worship, which may be tricky to get piety with. You can get ENDISWAL for 35 piety, or can pick one up if it spawns making Extra Glyphs a good preperation to take if you plan on worshiping him. If you have the BLUDTUPOWA glyph then you can accumulate piety with Binlor faster than with any other deity. Constantly requesting Stone Skin and Stone Heart will allow you to rack up a great amount of magic resistance. Binlor is also a good desecration target, as long as you don't have any resistances. One downside to Binlor is that if the boss has high resistance, it's important you find the boss as soon as possible, as Stone Heart works on visible enemies only.
•  Dracul: Dracul is a good selection for most melee classes, due to how much health he can bring to the table. By conserving blood pools and exploiting his Blood Tithe boon, you can get the equivalent of a dozen Health Potions, even more if you're a Bloodmage. Unfortunately, he HATES all holy magic (HALPMEH and CYDSTEPP) so if you rely on these he is not a good choice. The other reason he's useful is for if Blood Shield boon, which stacks extremely well with the Dragon Shield, but has a high piety cost. His Blood Hunger boon works well for striker builds, since you can overheal using life steal.
•  The Earthmother: A somewhat useful deity by herself, but a great source of piety. The exp bonus from IMAWAL can work to your advantage, and you gain piety from it! Her Plantation boon allows you to get 100 Piety extremely easily, which can be used to convert to another deity. She also works well with The Pactmaker. As for her other boons, they provide decent leverage early game, but tends to fall off late game. Vine Form is a cheap source of HP at early levels. Clearance provides a cheap source of mana for the first few requests. Greenblood is a weak boon, but it's usable if you desperately need to get rid of curse. Entanglement can be used for cleaning up, since killing slowed enemies gives you an extra experience point. The Earthmother's also an easy desecration target, since a single Burn Salve negates her punishment.
•  Glowing Guardian: A powerful deity for every class except Bloodmage and Assassin, or Tri-Sword/Alchemist's Scroll builds. Worship him as early as possible to get the most piety out of him. Absolution is deceptively powerful, allowing gain a ton of max HP, although it costs 1/5 of an item slot and some potential XP. Enlightenment can be used to your advantage, providing a nice bonus to everything, plus a complete curse wipe. Unfortunately he hates potions, and converting in and out of him isn't a great option.
•  Jehora Jeheyu: A very strange god. His boons can be very powerful, but will deplete your potions so they must be used carefully. Piety gain is random; if you get lucky, he can give you inordinate amounts of piety. However, punishments are also at random! Try to get the Petition boon to end his punishments as soon as possible. Desecrating him is very risky. A desecration can destroy your run, or give you free piety. Desecrate only when desperate.
•  Mystera Annur: Mystera works well for certain strategies. Refreshment is a powerful boon, providing roughly 5-6 Mana Potions worth of mana, so saving glyphs for mana replenishment is crucial. Mystic Balance is a strong boon that allows for 5 MP fireballs and 8 MP CYDSTEPPs, although it fares poorly with other cheaper glyphs. Flames and Weakening is an option if you desperately need magic damage. Magic basically equates to 1 almost-free MP. Don't worship her if the dungeon is full of magical monsters or mana burners, however.
•  The Pactmaker: Not a real deity. The Pactmaker offers 5 pacts which decrease your piety, but give you god effects when certain things happen. If you cannot pay the piety because you have no other god, nothing happens. If you have a god, but can't pay the piety, you do not invoke the gods punishment. You can also use Consensus for instant piety gratification or for converting out of a deity. Works well with "piety farms" like The Earthmother and Taurog, as well as the Stone Sigil.
•  Taurog: Taurog is a good source of piety, and benefits classes that beg for physical damage, especially the Berserker and the Monk. However, the mana penalty can be crippling and his boons will fill your inventory and prevent you from purchasing other items from shops. With Taurog, you can either worship him full-time and abuse his Unstoppable Fury boon or grab a few of his items and convert out of him before the MP penalty cripples you.
•  Tikki Tooki: Good choice as a later game deity, as he enjoys you slaying lower level monsters, but a big no for tanks. His Dodging boon is useful, and Reflexes gives you two powerful potions at your disposal. Tikki's Edge can also be abused if you saved a lot of low-level monsters. Poison isn't particularly powerful, but the first shot basically pays for itself. The best part of Tikki Tooki is that his boons give you gold, so you can afford buying powerful items and abusing gold-consuming items like the Tri-Sword or Crystal Ball.

Lesser divinities

Some other divinities can be encountered in subdungeons. You can sometimes interact, or even worship them.

• The metal spider, in the Metal Spider Temple, who will reward you if you abandon some life.
• The mighty lost Lekon, who likes you to kill goats

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