Ancient effigies are a Distractions and Diversions released on the 15 June 2010. They require nourishment which is supplied by knowledge in particular skills with a level range of 91 to 97, with there being four stages for each effigy. The reward from doing so is an amount experience in the skill used to nourish that effigy, and after the fourth stage a dragonkin lamp appears.
w117 is a decent way to get them done, however another effective way to find people to assist you is the clan chat "assistclan" or "assist_clan" there are a bunch of people offering and requesting assistance there.
I did this once, I got like NO xp from it. I was surprised, I thought it was something special.
Then you either expected to get XP from getting an assist (which OBVIOUSLY gives the other person the XP for the stages in which you go through to get your lamp)
OR
The skill you put it on is approximately Level Shit so you got crap XP. The higher your level, the more XP you get.
Effigies kick ass. They are part of the reason that I leveled almost all of my skills to 90+ in a relatively short period of time since coming back to RS, and they have helped me train Farming very quickly as well.
Not only that, but the Assist XP every day helped me get 99 con without me having to do the boring (but fast) skill more than I wanted to :nuts:

