Ritual

Feed the altars, earn an Audience with the King in the Mists, carry his Head through the Rite of the Nameless, and face the Bodach beneath Caer Tarth.

Start: Rituals in your maps
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The road to the Bodach

Seven stops, in order. Tick each one when you've done it in game.

0 of 7 done in game.

  1. Stop 1

    Ritual in a map

    Kill around an altar, activate it, and kill the revived monsters for Tribute.

    You finish every altar in one map.

    Taught in Rituals in your maps

  2. Stop 2

    Caer Tarth

    Aoife sends you to her home, the Ritual hub west of the starting town.

    You enter Caer Tarth.

    Taught in Caer Tarth, Aoife and the King in the Mists

  3. Stop 3

    An Audience with the King

    Offer leftover Tribute to the King until the bar fills.

    The Audience is in your inventory.

    Taught in Caer Tarth, Aoife and the King in the Mists

  4. Stop 4

    The King in the Mists

    In the Crux of Nothingness. Escape his vine maze, then finish him.

    The King is dead and his Head is in your inventory.

    Taught in Caer Tarth, Aoife and the King in the Mists

  5. Stop 5

    Rite of the Nameless

    Give the Head to Aoife and run five connected maps. Each final altar gives a piece of the effigy.

    You have five effigy pieces.

    Taught in The Rite of the Nameless

  6. Stop 6

    The effigy

    Place the five pieces on the effigy in Caer Tarth.

    All five pieces are on the effigy.

    Taught in The Bodach

  7. Stop 7

    The Bodach

    In the prison beneath Caer Tarth. Three phases, with the Three Sisters helping.

    The Bodach is dead and Aoife is at peace.

    Taught in The Bodach

The King in the Mists

Fought in the Crux of Nothingness, revealed with An Audience with the King. He drops the Head of the King, which begins the Rite of the Nameless.

He comes before the Rite, not at the end of it.

The Queen in the Mists

Optional. With the Mysterious Rites passive, 8% of Rituals are the Queen's Ritual: one altar summons her, and the Favour screens are bigger.

GGG says she can drop three corrupted Idols; the wiki says her Ritual offers them as Favours. Some guides say the King drops them. He doesn't.

Lessons

  1. Rituals in your mapsAltars, Tribute, Favours, the Ritual types and leftover Tribute.Up next
  2. Caer Tarth, Aoife and the King in the MistsThe hub, An Audience with the King, the King's maze and the Queen.Open
  3. The Rite of the NamelessFive connected maps, bosses that come back, and the effigy pieces.Open
  4. The BodachThe effigy, the prison beneath Caer Tarth, the fight and repeat keys.Open
  5. The RitePass it to light up the test node on the map.After the lessons

Tribute and Favours

Ritual is a crafting farm in disguise.

  • Every Favour is a Unique or an Omen. Buy them with Tribute from the monsters you kill twice.
  • Reroll or defer. The wiki says one reroll by default, and deferring costs 15% for a 10% cheaper Favour later.
  • Nothing is wasted. Leftover Tribute fills the bar toward An Audience with the King.
  • Parties since 0.5.5. Each player earns their own Tribute and gets their own smaller list.
Read the Omens lesson
Read “The Rite of the Nameless” as text

Begin the Rite

Bring the Head of the King to Aoife at Caer Tarth. That begins the Rite of the Nameless: one ritual that runs across a chain of maps instead of one.

Pick five connected maps

Choose five connected maps for the Rite; the Ongoing Chants passive makes it six. Each map after the first has extra modifiers that make it harder and its rewards better. The wiki says you can do them in any order.

  • Foretold Bounty: That map adds a named item to your first Favour screen. Pick it when: You want a specific item. The cost: It doesn't help the rest of the Rite.
  • Foretold Proliferation: Finishing that map adds a modifier to the other Rite maps. Pick it when: You want the whole chain richer. Do these first. The cost: The other maps get harder too.

Expect the bosses back

Each Rite map's last altar holds its map boss. Monsters from each ritual, the bosses among them, come back in the next map's ritual, so the circles get crowded and dangerous as the Rite goes on.

If it goes wrong: Some players rush each map's boss altar first so the bosses stack into later circles. It pays more, and it's how deaths happen.

Use the extra rerolls

The wiki says each Rite Ritual you finish gives you an extra reroll in every later Rite Ritual. By the last map you can reroll the Favour screen several times.

Collect the effigy pieces

Each Rite map's final altar gives one piece of the Bodach's key. Five maps, five pieces. Bring them back to the effigy in Caer Tarth.

Only one Rite can be active. The wiki says a new Head of the King wipes the old one, pieces and all.