The Tavern

There should be an option to save poor fire boi. How about if you manage to escape with an orb and maybe X amount of runes, while worshipping him, Ignis will be rekindled?

It is a good idea, but I think Ignis should be revived when you take back the fiery rune while worshipping her.

I was honestly surprised this god was launched without any piety reclamation. If you can kill Jiyva, you should be able to rekindle Ignis in some way, even if its just an additional usage of rising flame

Saving via fiery rune is actually pretty creative. What I think, that at such stage of game, rekindling Ignis should empower him and his abilities. Like, give you permanently maxed out piety, make his abilities cost no piety AND be empowered, but cause exhaustion now. Also, allow you to safely renounce Ignis without any punishments (duh, you saved his life).

Realistically, I think a tournament banner and YAFM or two are about all that's likely to come out of "saving" Ignis. Anything more would require substantial balancing work, something the devs seem unlikely to do for an obscure conduct.

Though a nice easter egg with no balance implications: put a "dilapidated" or "dusty" altar in some obscure corner of Cerebov's castle. If you manage to make it there with Ignis still alive, it'll be identifiable as an altar to him, otherwise the markings will be too degraded to make out. Like Cerebov used to be an Ignis worshipper, but at some point forgot about him.

What balancing work? You think that Ignis' abilities are good at that stage??
I personally do not propose any change of the abilities, just allow piety gain (and possibly a rename from dying flame).

Well I think the idea behind Ignis is reverse piety, so I doubt the devs would go for normal piety gain. But I'd like there to be some way to get piety back; maybe picking up the Orb should revive him/er? Gameplay-wise, if you manage to stick with Ignis through Z:5, you get one free escape (via Rising Flame) in the Orb run, which seems fair.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/3 ... 18375eebe0

This, at least...