It's at the Mahjarrat ritual site.

Why do I think this? Well first a bit of background:

The soul altar is one of the 4 "lost" altars. These are the altars which aren't discovered until you've done a quest. The other 3 are the cosmic, death and blood altars.

The death and blood altars are both focus points of a major quest series. In each series we discover that one of Runescape's major non-human races are using one of the altars for their own purposes: The Elvish Death Guard want to use the death altar to destroy Kandarin, while the rebel Elves are using it to resurrect the Temple of Light; and the Vampyres are using the blood altar to give themselves more power or life or something. The area around the altar is littered with empty vampire coffins.

Can you see the pattern there? Well it looks like the soul altar's going to follow it. Besides Elves and Vampyres, there's one other major race in Runescape that uses a certain element for their own purposes: the Mahjarrat. They have their ritual to rejuvenate their *souls* and gain more power by sacrificing one of their own. When this happens, the sacrificed Mahjarrat’s soul gets released and somehow absorbed by the other Mahjarrat and this gives them a massive boost in power.

So it makes sense for the soul altar to also be the focus point of a major quest series: the Mysteries of the Mahjarrat.

So why does this mean the soul altar must be at the ritual site?

Well the Moonclan built the RC altars in places that resonated with the right kind of elemental energy. For the soul altar they needed a place that resonated with soul energy. Coincidentally the Mahjarrat also need a place filled with soul energy to have their ritual at. That way when the sacrificed Mahjarrat dies, their released soul will resonate with the ambient soul energy and create a surge. Anyone nearby will have their own soul gain power and life from this "soul surge". The ritual just wouldn't work anywhere else.

The Moonclan built the soul altar at the ritual site for the same reason that the Mahjarrat hold their ritual there: Because that area is filled with elemental soul energy. In fact the ritual stone that Jhallan mentions is probably the "Mysterious Ruins" that hides the altar. We literally walked right underneath it in Tale of the Muspah! The Moonclan probably modified the original ritual stone into their "Mysterious Ruins".



Now I hear you asking “Souls? Really? Do you really need to sacrifice a soul in a "soul energy" filled place in order to make yourself stronger?” The answer is yes. It’s been revealed that this is exactly how Nomad's doing it! He's using his soul obelisk to collect the souls of dead slayer creatures and channel their soul power into his own soul to boost his own power. Whether or not he’s a Mahjarrat, he knows the Mahjarrats’ secret. If Nomad (who probably IS a Mahjarrat) is doing this with his specially constructed soul obelisk, then we know the Mahjarrat must use the same method during the ritual to gain power. They need something much more powerful than the soul obelisk though - they need the soul altar itself.


And now here's the icing on the cake: In Tale of the Muspah we meet up with Jhallan in some caves directly under the ritual site. There's a beam of light coming through the roof of the cave which Jhallan said is coming from the ritual stone. This light shimmers exactly the same way as the light that comes from the centre stone of a "mysterious ruins"!

In other words Jhallan's beam of light looks exactly like it's coming from a buried runecrafting altar!

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It's already been revealed that you'll need 90 RC to use the altar when it's released. Soul runes are the highest level rune and crafting them will give you 11xp per rune. There's a soul rift in the Abyss and images for the soul talisman, soul tiara and soul staff have been leaked. It's coming!

nice

i think ur on to something

interesting... you forgot to mention the astral altar though

umm r u new soul runes have ben out since like Runescape 1

O0 O Oo0 0 0 can you go rune craft me some soul runes please? dont buy them rune craft them.

O0 O Oo0 0 0,

Yes ... they have. But I'm not talking about the runes.


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Ohh yea I completely forgot about the astral altar. That follows the pattern too. It requires a quest series and I guess it sits in an area saturated with astral energy. The only way it's different is that it doesn't live in a pocket universe and it isn't hidden by mysterious ruins.

Hmmm...
So...the mahjarrat perform their ritual on the Soul Altar?
That would be interesting to see

Well ... in the area around it.

Thinking about it, it makes sense that the soul of a Mahjarrat killed near the soul altar could be amplified by the power of the altar and used to feed the souls of the other Mahjarrat.