| “ | Periodically emits Pulse Waves to the surrounding tiles, damaging both allied and enemy units. | ” |
| —Description of operations featuring the Originium Altar |
| “ | Periodically releases gas in the surrounding 4 tiles, inflicting heavy damage to enemies. | ” |
| —Description of operations featuring Patriot's Originium Altar |
The Originium Altar is a static device in Arknights. It is an apparatus used in ancient Sarkaz "cannibalism"/"witchcraft" rituals.[1]
Originium Altars periodically releases a Pulse Wave that inflicts Pure 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 Pure damage taken. Conversely, try to stall or redirect enemies inside the Altar's radius so that the Pulse Waves' Pure damage will do most of the work.
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 |
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| Vignettes | AW-1 |
| Integrated Strategies | Beast Taming • Malady |
| Trials for Navigator | Clash of Ideologies |
Stats[]
| HP | 100 |
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| ATK | 0 |
| DEF | 0 |
| RES | 0 |
| Aggression level | 0 |
| DP cost | – |
| Redeployment time | – |
| Block count | – |
| Attack interval | – |
Skill
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Pulse Wave Auto Recovery Auto Trigger |
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| 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 | 100 |
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| ATK | 0 |
| DEF | 0 |
| RES | 0 |
| Aggression level | 0 |
| DP cost | – |
| Redeployment time | – |
| Block count | – |
| Attack interval | – |
Skill
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Pulse Wave Auto Recovery Auto Trigger |
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| Emits a pulse wave in the surrounding 4 tiles, dealing 2000 True Damage to all surrounding enemy units | 0 | 15 | – |
Interactions[]
| Enemy | Interaction |
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| 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. |
