Soul Altar

Soul Altar
Released								7 January 2016 (Update)
Members								Yes
Quest								No
Location								Arceuus
League region								Kourend✓
Options								Bind
Examine								It leeches power from a myriad of departed souls.
Map
Advanced data
Object ID								27980
Link								MOID

The Soul Altar is a runic altar found east of the dense essence mine, at the edge of a cape surrounded by the River of Souls. It is used to craft soul runes from dark essence fragments, which requires level 90 Runecraft. Crafting soul runes at this altar provides 29.7 Runecraft experience per dark essence fragment imbued.

The Soul Altar in Great Kourend is not the true Soul Altar. Rather, alongside Kourend's Blood Altar, it was created by the power from the Dark Altar nearby, where it drew energy from the plane where the true Soul Altar is located.^[1][2] Like the true Blood Altar, the Dark Altar's connection to the true Soul Altar would likely be visible to those who visit it.

Unlike most altars, the Soul Altar does not need to be entered. As such, neither a talisman nor tiara is needed.

To get to the soul altar:

• Via the Abyss. In order to access the altar via the Abyss, the player must use a dark essence block or dark essence fragments on the soul rift after having crafted some soul runes at Kourend's Soul Altar. This does not consume the dark essence block, and only has to be done once. When players have done so, the chatbox will state The power of the Dark Altar redirects the rift to the place in Arceuus where the energy of the true Soul Altar is focused.
• Using fairy ring CIS and walking north-east
• Using Arceuus library teleport and walking north, then east
• Using the Lovakengj Minecart Network and travelling to the Arcesus station and running north then east.

The following official world is assigned to Zeah Runecrafting:

World	Location	Members	Activity
513	United Kingdom	1	Zeah Runecrafting

The maximum limit for crafting soul runes in one visit is 212. This would be achieved by mining 27 dense essence blocks and then turned into dark essence blocks and crushed with a chisel into dark essence fragments. Then, another inventory of 26 dense essence blocks are mined and turned into dark essence fragments before going to the Soul Altar.

Note that you can only have a maximum of 108 dark essence fragments and therefore must be used before crushing the remaining dark essence blocks. One dark essence block is equivalent to four essence pieces.

The maximum possible experience is 6,296 obtained while doing the above.

Product		Members	Facility	Skills	XP	Materials
	1 × Soul rune		Soul Altar	90	29.7	1 × Dark essence fragments
	61 × Soul rune		Soul Altar	90	29.7	1 × Dark essence fragments 1 × Scarred extract

• The Soul Altar north of Arceuus.
• Pre-release view of the Soul Altar and its surroundings

• In RuneScape 3, the Soul Altar is located in Menaphos. Following the release of the true Blood Altar in 2022, Jagex indicated a potential "true Soul Altar" would likely be located in Menaphos when the city is eventually released.^[3]
• The skulls on the Soul Altar appear to use the face/head of Anti-Santa.