How does praying work?

[Jenkem★Jones]

trying this game out and not sure how to use prayer in game to heal my familiar who is at very low health. i mean there's a lot I don't know in this game but i'm asking.

[Draken]

Each god gives you three prayers.
You get charges by doing various actions the god likes. Depends on the god.
Then you can just use the number key to fire of prayer 1, 2 or 3.

[ColorlessGreenIdea]

You can also click on them at the top of the screen.

[CrabNicholson]

At the top of the screen you see 3 prayers. 2 of them will be grayed out until you get to a high enough level that they unlock.

Hover the mouse over each prayer to see how it works.

For example, one prayer might look like this:

1/3 <Prayer Name>
Heal 200 HP, gain 1 charge when entering a new area.

What this means is you have 1 charge stored of a possible 3. The next time you enter a new area (go through a gate) it will go up by 1 until you get 3 stored up, after this it won't store up any more charges. You can click on the prayer or hit the hotkey to use its effect and it uses up a charge (you can't use the prayer if it has 0 charges).

Also important to note is that when you have a fully charged prayer (EG 3/3) then whenever you die, the prayer will be reset to 0 charges, and you'll be revived with 25% life. This is called a "Divine Intervention". It's useful to keep prayers charged up if you don't need them since it gives you a second chance in case of a run of bad luck. Some abilities also activate on Divine Intervention.