Relic Altar PoE Sanctified Relics

Relic Altar

  • The Relic Altar is unlocked in Act 2 after completing the quest In Search of the Sanctum.
  • Each character has its own Relic Altar and uses separate Relics. However, the Relic Locker is shared between all of your characters in the same league.
  • Relics placed in the Relic Altar are locked in for the entire Sanctum run and cannot be added or removed in the middle of a run. The current run must be completed, failed, or forfeited to add or remove Relics.
  • The Relic Altar contains 20 inventory spaces, but 12 are initially locked.

Unlocking

Locked inventory spaces for the Relic Altar can be unlocked by completing various rooms or floors in the Forbidden Sanctum.

Row Column Unlocking Requirement
1 1 Complete the Sanctum Bellum room in the Sanctum Cathedral
1 2 Complete the Sanctum Archives
1 3 Complete the Sanctum Archives
1 4 Complete the Sanctum Vaults
2 1 Complete the Sanctum Vaults
2 5 Complete the Sanctum Cathedral
3 1 Complete the Sanctum Cathedral
3 5 Complete the Sanctum Necropolis
4 2 Complete the Sanctum Necropolis
4 3 Complete the Scriptorium room in the Sanctum Archives
4 4 Complete the Reliquary room in the Sanctum Vaults
4 5 Complete the Mausoleum room in the Sanctum Necropolis

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Templar Relic

Templar Relics are a type of item that is exclusive to the Sanctum league. They can be placed in the Relic Altar to provide buffs to various mechanics related to the Forbidden Sanctum.

  • Templar Relics can be found in the Sanctum as rewards or purchased from Sister Divinia.
  • They can be stored in a special separate stash, which can also be placed as a hideout decoration.
  • To equip a Relic, they must be placed in the Relic Altar on a 5x4 grid with some slots blocked off. Additional grid slots can be unlocked as you progress, up to a total of 18 slots.
  • Relics are unmodifiable and account-bound.
  • Templar Relics can be vendored 5 to 1 to obtain a new one with random modifiers.
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Sanctified Relic

Sanctified Relics are a type of item that is exclusive to the Sanctum league. Sanctified Relics are special Relics that provide more general modifiers to the character, and have effect even outside of the Forbidden Sanctum. They are marked with an orange glow behind the item's art. They can be placed in the Relic Altar to provide stats to the character directly both inside and outside the Sanctum.

  • Sanctified Relics can be found in the Sanctum as rewards from guards, minibosses or bosses, or purchased from Sister Divinia for 600 Aureus in areas of level 75 or higher.
  • They can be stored in a special separate stash, which can also be placed as a hideout decoration.
  • Sanctified Relics are equipped separately from the Templar Relics in the Relic Altar, and limited to 1.
  • Relics are unmodifiable and account-bound, and are always Magic.
  • Sanctified Relics can be vendored 5 to 1 to obtain a new one with random modifiers.
  • Sanctified Relics can be corrupted by using an invocation, which adds a fixed Keystone as a corrupted implicit modifier.

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3.20.0b Patch Notes: Relics are now able to be dropped onto the ground by players, though these still remain Account-bound to the player that dropped them.

3.20.1b Patch Notes: Added an error message for attempting to change your Relics while you have an active Sanctum.


Relic Altar

As you explore the Sanctum, you’ll discover a Relic Altar.

Relic Altar

Templar Relics can be placed on the Relic Altar. These relics make you more powerful in the Sanctum and persist from run to run. Their continued power is the key to making it deeper into the Sanctum’s vaults each time you enter. As you accumulate more relics, you’ll need to make decisions around which ones most benefit you and arrange the Altar accordingly.

Place these items on the Relic Altar at the start of each Sanctum run

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Papyrus Relic of Discounting

Sanctified Relics: Place these items on the Relic Altar to affect your character

You may also uncover Sanctified Relics, a very rare type that directly affects your character’s build. You may use only one of these, but its benefits stay with you beyond the Sanctum walls and bestow the Templars’ power on you as you journey through Wraeclast.

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Ancestral Sanctified Relic of Destruction

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Empowering Sanctified Relic of Expansion

Do Sanctified Relics affect my character outside of the Sanctum?

Yes, the benefits of Sanctified Relics affect you everywhere.

How rare are Sanctified Relics? Will I only see one throughout my playthrough of the league?

As you start to master the Sanctum at high levels, you'll accumulate more Sanctified Relics to pick between when trying to find the perfect one for your build.

Is the Relic Altar shared between your characters or per character?

They're shared between your characters within a league. However, if you're currently using a relic in a Sanctum run on one character, it can't be moved until the run ends.

Is your Sanctum run shared between characters? i.e. can you run different rooms of your run with different characters?

Each of your characters has its own Sanctum runs and progress within them.


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