Originium Altar

Originium Altar
In Other Languages
Chinese	源石祭坛 爱国者的源石祭坛
General Information
First appearance	Episode 07 Episode 08 (Patriot's, only)
Type	Static
Variants	Patriot's Originium Altar

“	Periodically emits Pulse Waves to the surrounding tiles, damaging both allied and enemy units.	”
	—Description of operations featuring the Originium Altar

The Originium Altar is a static device in Arknights. It is an apparatus used in ancient Sarkaz "cannibalism"/"witchcraft" rituals.

Originium Altars periodically releases a Pulse Wave that inflicts True damage to both friendlies and enemies in its wake. Therefore, it is prudent to deploy friendly units away from the Altars; otherwise, additional healing is required to mitigate the damage taken. Conversely, try to stall or redirect enemies inside the Altar's radius so that the Pulse Waves' damage will do most of the work.

“	Periodically releases gas in the surrounding 4 tiles, inflicting heavy damage to enemies.	”
	—R8-6 description

In R8-6, a Patriot's Originium Altar is present, which is identical to regular Originium Altars but its Pulse Wave deals much more damage and only affects enemies, albeit having a longer activation interval, and can be distinguished by having a brighter crystal.

Appearances

Main Theme	7-8 • 7-9 • 7-10 • 7-11 • 7-12 • S7-2 • 7-17 • 7-18 • H7-1 • H7-3 • H7-4
Story Collections	AW-1
Stationary Security Service	For Survival
Integrated Strategies	Altar of Craving • Beast Taming • Malady
Contingency Contract	Nameless Sanctuary
Trials for Navigator	Clash of Ideologies
Design of Strife	Rout of Smelted Soldiers

Stats

HP	ATK	DEF	RES
100	0	0	0
DP cost	Redeployment time	Block count	Attack interval
N/A	N/A	0	N/A

Skill

	Pulse Wave Auto Recovery Auto	□　　 　□□□　 □□■□□ 　□□□　 　　□
Effect
Emits a pulse wave in the surrounding 4 tiles, dealing 500 True Damage to all allied and enemy units; Certain enemies are strengthened		0	7	–

Friendly Unit.
HP	ATK	DEF	RES
100	0	0	0
DP cost	Redeployment time	Block count	Attack interval
N/A	N/A	0	N/A

Skill

	Pulse Wave Auto Recovery Auto	□　　 　□□□　 □□■□□ 　□□□　 　　□
Effect
Emits a pulse wave in the surrounding 4 tiles, dealing 2000 True Damage to all surrounding enemy units		0	15	–

Interactions

Enemy	Interaction
	Takes no damage from Originium Altars' Pulse Wave.
	Their attacks will permanently deal Arts damage instead of Physical when caught in an Originium Altar's Pulse Wave, which also deals no damage towards them.
	Their Arts waves' area-of-effect will be permanently extended to 2.5 tiles when caught in an Originium Altar's Pulse Wave, which also deals no damage towards them.