The Echoes of Faydwer expansion introduced several new quest series regarding the return of the gods. These quests allow players to help the gods regain power in the lands, make sacrifices at that deity's altar in return for favor that can be used to call down miracles and the like, and so on.

Additional deities have been added at various time, and with the release of the TSO expansion, two more deities are being added (Anashti Sul and Rodcet Nife).

On top of the altars being quest rewards within the deity progression, there are carpenter-made versions of the altars. The common (tier 4) altars look the same as the basic altar rewarded in each deity quest line, and the rare (tier 7) "imbued" altars looks the same as the advanced altars that are given out later in each quest series. (The crafted altars reduce your purchase cost for blessings and miracles in comparison to the quested altars - see chart below the images for details.)

All crafted altars are no value. There is no status rent reduction tied to these house items. In addition, altars cannot be placed in guild halls, due to how the worship system is handled. However, with the release of the TSO expansion on November 18, 2008, there will be a "shrine" version of these altars that is purely decorative, for use in guild halls and homes alike.

No trade recipe books for the altars are sold on special Deity Historian NPCs at the BBM docks and in front of the Kelethin Library.

Common altars (level 35 recipes) use: 9 severed briarwood, 2 feyiron clusters, 1 etched leather pelt, 8 garnet sandpaper. The rare ("imbued") altars (level 65 recipes) use: 1 rough lumbered ebony, 14 rough lumbered rosewood, 3 adamantine clusters, 2 horned leather pelts, 20 acrylia sandpaper.

In each of the below images, the common altar is on the left, the rare version is on the right.

Brell Serillis	Cazic Thule	Innoruuk
Mithaniel Marr	Quellious	Rallos Zek
Solusek Ro	Tunare	Bristlebane (Added with GU38)
Bertoxxulous (Added with RoK)	Karana (Added with RoK)	Tribunal (Added with RoK)
Anashti Sul (added with TSO)	Rodcet Nife (added with TSO)

So, I Have an Altar - Now What?

This list also include the Blessed altar, a dropped altar that has the same graphic as the crafted rare imbued altar, and the Ordained altar. (The Ordained altar is a fabled no-trade drop from Mayong Mistmoore - thanks, Faush, for the added details!).

Shrines

The recipes are level 65, and require 3 rough lumbered rosewood, 2 adamantine cluster, 1 horned leather pelt and 10 acrylia sandpaper. The finished shrines have 100 rent status reduction when placed in a home.

Anashti Sul hand reaches out of basin, then retracts	Bertoxxulous liquid drips from fangs into basin
Brell Serilis smoke/steam billows out of the basin	Bristlebane coins rain into basin filled w/glittering gold
Cazic Thule purple smoke billows up from a blue flame	Innoruuk green smoke billows out of the basin
Karana Ball lightning in hands shoots lightning bolts at basin	Mithaniel Marr blue-white glow pulses from hands
Quellious golden glow above hands shoots out rays	Rallos Zek burning skulls bob in a ring of black smoke
Rodcet Nife golden light radiates out from bobbing disc	Solusek Ro scepter radiates light, flames slowly circle from both directions
The Tribunal swirling light above basin, , sparkling motes above that	Tunare blue butterflies flit about. Crown has circling golden light