The Olympian Hymnal

What the Hymnal is#

Olympus has three prayer books. The stock Prayers and Curses are unchanged; the Olympian Hymnal adds a third - twenty prayers named for the gods, each one written to beat the best stock prayer or curse for the same job (Piety's 20-25% becomes 30%, Turmoil's 15/23/15% becomes a flat 35%, Soul Split's 1/40 becomes 1/20).

Two rules make it its own thing:

Getting the book#

The Hymnal is bound from five parts. None of them drop - every one is bought:

Part	Where	Price
Front Cover	Nike - Prestige Points Store, Stoa of Shops	1,250 Prestige points
Back Cover	Nike - Prestige Points Store	1,250 Prestige points
Page I	Zeus - Voting Rewards Store, or Hermes - Olympian Point Store, or Nike	50 Voting Points / 250,000 Olympian Points / 50 Prestige points
Page II	Zeus, Hermes or Nike	50 Voting Points / 250,000 Olympian Points / 50 Prestige points
Page III	Zeus, Hermes or Nike	50 Voting Points / 250,000 Olympian Points / 50 Prestige points

All three shopkeepers stand in the Stoa of Shops, the east temple on the home island. So the book is 2,650 Prestige points if you buy the lot from Nike, or 2,500 plus 150 Voting Points.

The twenty prayers#

Drain is per tick before the stacking rule; light is under 0.5, moderate under 1.0, heavy 1.0 and up.

Stat prayers - the Piety killers#

Prayer	Level	Drain	Effect	Beats
Blade of Kratos	1	0.3	+30% Attack	Piety 20%
Arm of Atlas	5	0.3	+30% Strength	Piety 23%
Bulwark of Athena	10	0.3	+30% Defence	Piety 25%
Aim of Artemis	20	0.3	+30% Ranged accuracy and damage	Rigour 20/23%
Mind of Hecate	25	0.3	+30% Magic accuracy and damage	Augury 25%
Storm of Zeus	80	1.0	+35% Attack, Strength and Defence	Turmoil 15/23/15%
Fire of Prometheus	85	1.0	+35% Ranged, Magic and Defence	Rigour + Augury

Storm of Zeus is the melee build's one prayer; Fire of Prometheus is the hybrid's. The three cheap lines are for when you want one stat for 0.3 a tick and nothing else.

The Wards - protection and more#

Prayer	Level	Drain	Blocks
Ward of Ares	50	0.5	Melee
Ward of Artemis	55	0.5	Ranged
Ward of Hecate	60	0.5	Magic

Each Ward is the stock protection prayer and the deflect curse in one - the hit is blocked and thrown back - and adds two things neither had: half of everything the Ward blocks heals you, and every other hit that lands is 15% softer. They are overhead prayers, so bosses that read your head icon (Geryon, Cerberus, the "pray or die" mechanics) see them as the stock prayers. They are also three of the eight prayers that never need a scroll.

Offence and sustain#

Prayer	Level	Drain	Effect
Heart of Gaia	15	0.4	Heals 2% of max HP every 2 seconds - real regeneration, where Rapid Heal only doubles the natural tick.
Reins of Poseidon	30	0.4	+40% damage from your Summoning familiar and your battle pet.
Stride of Hermes	35	0.3	Run energy never runs out, and 1 in 20 mystery boxes you open comes back to you.
Reaper of Thanatos	40	0.5	+30% damage to anything below 30% of its hitpoints - an execute.
Favour of Tyche	45	0.5	+5% drop rate and 1 in 50 drops is doubled.
Hunger of Hades	70	1.5	A twentieth of the damage you deal comes back as hitpoints (Soul Split: a fortieth). Overhead. The heaviest drain in the book.
Radiance of Helios	90	1.2	Every blow and spell deals 30% more damage - the flat multiplier.
Sands of Kronos	92	0.6	Boosted stats last 15% longer and every attack lands one tick sooner.
Eye of the Titans	95	0.8	+15% critical strike chance and +50% critical strike damage.
Anvil of Hephaestus	99	1.0	Every hit you take is 15% lighter.

Scrolls of the gods#

Eight of the twenty come free with the Hymnal - Blade, Arm, Bulwark, Aim, Mind and the three Wards. The other twelve are locked until you read the scroll that teaches them; a scroll is consumed on reading and the unlock is permanent per character.

Set one - the first ten

Scroll	Teaches
Scroll of Zeus	Storm of Zeus
Scroll of Hades	Hunger of Hades
Scroll of Ares	Reaper of Thanatos
Scroll of Poseidon	Reins of Poseidon
Scroll of Helios	Radiance of Helios
Scroll of Prometheus	Fire of Prometheus
Scroll of the Titans	Eye of the Titans
Scroll of Kronos	Sands of Kronos
Scroll of Tyche	Favour of Tyche
Scroll of Hephaestus	Anvil of Hephaestus

Set two - the wanderers

Scroll	Teaches
Scroll of Hermes	Stride of Hermes
Scroll of Gaia	Heart of Gaia

The other eight scrolls of the second set (Ouranos, Triton, Apollo, Selene, Athena, Asclepius, Cerberus, Nyx) exist as items but teach nothing yet - they are reserved for prayers still to be written.

Builds#

Because the drain doubles per extra prayer, the book rewards two or three prayers, not ten. Some sets that pay for themselves: