Sacrificial Altars
Sacrificial altars are altars dedicated to some fictional evil religion and used to present offerings, often in the form of blood or corpses, to an evil god. Fictional sacrificial altars are often found in fictional worlds, particularly fantasy settings, where they may be employed by practitioners of the dark arts, occult priests, and cannibals.
| Synonyms: evil shrines, altars of sacrifice |
| Example Mythonyms: an Altar of the Fallen God |
Designing Sacrificial Altars
Archetypes
Overview
Fictional sacrificial altars are often found in places like catacombs, evil temples, cult lairs, cannibal dens, and crypts. These monoliths are often constructed from stone, bone, or some fictional material important to the evil religion. Occult symbols may be carved into the altar. The sacrifice of humans or the letting of blood at these sites is often important for an evil ritual and the altar may be covered in blood and people bits.
The proper offering at a fictional sacrificial altar may bring about the end times, awaken a sleeping god, trigger some ancient machinery, or just be an evil factions’ idea of a good old time.
