Talk:Altars/@comment-5.173.168.56-20190201175608

I don't know why somebody even put this section here.

In general you can pray on ANY altairs to almost any god.

This increases Affinity with said god. When you use the Hexing altair (to curse equipment or learn skills using lesser souls) you exchange Lesser Souls (obtained by sapping a dead regular enemy with a Soul Stone) for skills, but you can only learn skills from the big bluish "circles" around some dispositions (like Domination, Love, Torment, Enlightment etc). You can only learn skills encapsulated in said circles.

Usually there are max 3 stages or ranges of said circles, so praying more to one god will give you no merit. I do not know if you lose any affinity by praying to other gods. But I did not experience it ever. Of course at DIFFERENT SHIRINES!

Other actions also influence affinity (usually positively, as I never saw an affinity drop) like making love (Bunny Orgy or Marraige), eating flesh (Wolf Orgy, but I'm not sure if Devour skill does anything here), doing missions for Cockroach King, sacrificing npc's at ritual sites (I once fed a Demon Kid to a cave dweller big mouth), blood sacrifice (require specific skill Blood Magic) and maybe choices ingame.

Speaking of Ritual Sites, the best skill to use there is "Blood Portal", which is a great way to teleport between levels (must unlock them first and establish a portal there). Beware of somebody (must be Enki) depleating one ritual site (cellar at lv1 or lv2) by doing some sacrifice there and rending it unusable.