Effigies:
Skills that can be assisted with-
* Crafting
* Construction
* Cooking
* Farming
* Fletching
* Herblore
* Smithing
* Runecrafting
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You may occasionally receive an ancient effigy as a rare drop from certain monsters (the higher their level, the more likely the drop). Upon being dropped, effigies will always be starved of knowledge - the creatures that have scavenged them know only of combat and war, and rarely hold the kind of knowledge that would fuel the effigy.
Although inanimate, there is something about these strange relics that cannot be seen with the ***** eye, only felt with the mind's eye. Each one craves to absorb knowledge, and in return grants power, though what knowledge an effigy craves differs with each one you find, and changes as its cravings are satisfied.
The skills which can be used to successfully investigate an effigy will always be paired, though, so you at least have some choice of which to use. The pairings are:
* Agility or Crafting
* Construction or Thieving
* Cooking or Firemaking
* Fishing or Farming
* Fletching or Woodcutting
* Herblore or Hunter
* Mining or Smithing
* Runecrafting or Summoning
It's not quite so simple, though, as you will need to be particularly knowledgeable in at least one of the pair of skills craved by the effigy to investigate it successfully.
* Starved ancient effigies require a skill level of at least 91 to investigate, and become nourished.
* Nourished ancient effigies require a skill level of at least 93 to investigate, and become sated.
* Sated ancient effigies require a skill level of at least 95 to investigate, and become gorged.
* Gorged ancient effigies require a skill level of at least 97 to investigate, and will crumble to dust, their mysterious purpose fulfilled.
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