Altar

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An altar being captured

An altar is an area in the Twisted Treeline that grants vision and a powerful buff to the team that controls it. There are two altars on opposite sides of the map. A champion captures an altar by standing on top of it for 9 seconds. When more champions stand on a single altar, it is captured in a shorter amount of time.

Capturing Altars

When captured, an altar seals for 90 seconds during which it grants vision of the surrounding area and during which cannot be recaptured. Capturing an altar grants 80 to each member of the capturing team. Additionally, controlling an altar grants your team bonus effects.

• One Altar Controlled: 10% bonus movement speed.
• Two Altars Controlled: Restore 1% of maximum health on minion and monster kill.

Each altar has sets of quotes. Some of these quotes are specific to champions aligned with the Shadow Isles.

The amount captured decays over time (if a capture is interrupted) at the same rate as it increased regardless of how many champions opposed to the capture are present. A capture can be halted by having a champion opposed to the capturing team on the altar, but this only pauses the capture; in order to reverse the capture, the capturing champion(s) must be knocked off the altar. Capturing is unaffected by recalling (in that, a champion recall while capturing).

Altars spawn at 2:30 and are locked for 90 seconds upon capture, but can't be locked by the same team again, until control has shifted and the altar is then reclaimed.

West Altar Quotes

• Generic
• Elise
• Hecarim
• Karthus
• Mordekaiser
• Yorick
• Shadow Isles Champion

Upon being first captured

• ▶️   "I serve you because I must."
• ▶️   "I aid you because I must."

Upon subsequent captures

• ▶️   "Endless conflict."
• ▶️   "They will regret coming here!"
• ▶️   "Please, end my torment!"
• ▶️   "You must destroy us! ALL OF US!"
• ▶️   "The curse can never be broken."
• ▶️   "I still remember. Only fragments... but, I remember."
• ▶️   "Has he forgotten me?"
• ▶️   "The shadow of death."
• ▶️   "Nothing ever changes."
• ▶️   "Their grave awaits"
• ▶️   "No rest in death."
• ▶️   "They will share my torment!"
• ▶️   "Eternal suffering!"
• ▶️   "This place was once so... beautiful."
• ▶️   The west altar exhales.
• ▶️   The west altar exhales.
• ▶️   The west altar exhales.
• ▶️   The west altar exhales.
• ▶️   The west altar exhales.

When captured by Elise:

• ▶️   "Your power is not worth the price, Elise."
• ▶️   "Your humanity traded away, and for what?"

When captured by Hecarim:

• ▶️   "Remember who you once were, Hecarim!"
• ▶️   "Mordekaiser is not to be trusted, Hecarim!"
• ▶️   "I aid you because I must, Hecarim."

When captured by Karthus:

• ▶️   "What kind of man embraces death?"
• ▶️   "No good will come from your sorcery, Karthus."
• ▶️   "I also hear the songs of the dead."

When captured by Mordekaiser:

• ▶️   "Mordekaiser... are you also a prisoner?"
• ▶️   "I serve you, because I must, Mordekaiser."

When captured by Yorick:

• ▶️   "Alas, poor Yorick!"
• ▶️   "Are you lonely Yorick?"
• ▶️   "As you wish, Gravedigger."

When captured by any Shadow Isles champion (including Evelynn and Thresh):

• ▶️   "Their death is inevitable."
• ▶️   "Our plague spreads."
• ▶️   "For the King!"
• ▶️   "Misery loves company."
• ▶️   "Finish them quickly."

East Altar Quotes

• Generic
• Elise
• Hecarim
• Karthus
• Mordekaiser
• Yorick
• Shadow Isles Champion

Upon being first captured

• ▶️   "I will aid you, for now."
• ▶️   "I grant you my aid."

Upon subsequent captures

• ▶️   "The living must fall!"
• ▶️   "Fear the Shadow Isles!"
• ▶️   "Everything will die."
• ▶️   "For the glory of the Shadow Isles!"
• ▶️   "We will be unleashed!"
• ▶️   "Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!"
• ▶️   "Sometimes I - I can almost... remember her face."
• ▶️   "Bring swift death!"
• ▶️   "Make them one of us!"
• ▶️   "The Shadow Isles hunger for souls!"
• ▶️   "They will rise as one of us!"
• ▶️   "Slay, and be slain!"
• ▶️   "There can only be one end to this!"
• ▶️   The east altar laughs.
• ▶️   The east altar laughs.
• ▶️   The east altar laughs.
• ▶️   The east altar laughs.

When captured by Elise:

• ▶️   "The spider welcomes you, Elise."
• ▶️   "We thank you for your gifts, Elise."

When captured by Hecarim:

• ▶️   "Lead our charge Hecarim, and may the living tremble!"
• ▶️   "They will fear the thundering hooves of the dead!"

When captured by Karthus:

• ▶️   "A man who chose to join us... glorious."
• ▶️   "Unleash us, Karthus!"
• ▶️   "I serve you willingly, lich."
• ▶️   "The dark requiem will be the last thing they hear!"

When captured by Mordekaiser:

• ▶️   "I serve you gladly, Mordekaiser."
• ▶️   "Free me, my lord, so I may aid you!"

When captured by Yorick:

• ▶️   "Get to your task, gravedigger! Make our numbers endless!"
• ▶️   "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
• ▶️   "Slay them, gravedigger! Make them serve us!"

When captured by any Shadow Isles champion (including Evelynn and Thresh):

• ▶️   "The living must die!"
• ▶️   "Make them suffer!"
• ▶️   "This place will be their tomb!"
• ▶️   "Bind their spirits to the Shadow Isles!"

Trivia

• ▶️   "Alas, poor Yorick." quotes Hamlet.
• ▶️   "Are you lonely Yorick?" is told with sarcasm.
• ▶️   "Mordekaiser… are you also a prisoner?" is a reference to the Iron Maiden Song The Prisoner, which was also the previous title of the Children of the Grave Buff.
• ▶️   "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!!" is a common quote from plague searchers.
• The west altar behaves aggressively against the Shadow Isles champions, reminding them of their apparent errors, mocking them, and questioning them. On the other hand, the east altar is friendly to them, asking them for help, glorifying them and offering them his service.
• The West altar is often referred to as the 'Lady' and the east altar as the 'Lord' due to the images that appear after capturing them and their voices.
• ▶️   "This place was once so beautiful." references how the Ruination transformed the Blessed Isles into the Shadow Isles.
• The two spirits that appear when an altar is captured are husband and wife. They died there thousands of years ago.
  • The face that the East Altar is remembering is most likely the spirit from the West Altar, his wife.
• Evelynn, the Widowmaker was speculated to originate from the Shadow Isles, but no confirmation to this relation was made until much later.
  • Evelynn and Thresh were supposed to receive Altar quotes, but was eventually scrapped.
• The West and East alter may be the husband and wife from the Tales of the Black Mist, but is just speculation.

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