Quick guide for Defender of Varrock

This quest has an in-depth guide here. It contains a more detailed description of dialogue, cutscenes, and storyline.

Overview

Start point	Captain Rovin, in the north-west tower of Varrock Palace.
Member requirement	Members only
Official difficulty	Experienced
Official length	Medium to Long
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. Quests: Defender of Varrock Demon Slayer Family Crest Garden of Tranquillity Creature of Fenkenstrain Priest in Peril The Restless Ghost The Knight's Sword Shield of Arrav Temple of Ikov What Lies Below 51 Agility 51 Hunter 54 Smithing 59 Mining Claim Varrock Museum kudos from Historian Minas for completing Shield of Arrav
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. A light source Blurite ore (can be obtained during the quest from the ice caves near Thurgo) A spade Armour, weapons, and supplies to survive in the wilderness
Recommended	Activated lodestones in Edgeville, Falador, Port Sarim and Varrock Emergency teleport such as an ectophial, crystal teleport seed or a teleport tablet Salve amulet (e) Dramen staff/lunar staff (unless you've completed A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift)
Enemies to defeat	6 x Armoured zombies (level )

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Tracking

• Dismiss any followers now.
• Talk to Captain Rovin in Varrock Palace, north-west tower top floor. ( 1•✓•1)…

  1	Ooh, good, sounds like a quest.
  ✓	[Accept Quest]
  1	Okay, let's get going.

• Enter the graveyard then talk to Hartwin. ( 1)…

  1	I want to talk about the mission.

• Follow the footprints near the graveyard entrance, searching bushes, trees, stumps, mushrooms, and bones.
• The trail eventually leads to Simon near the Chaos Temple.
• Run south to the trapdoor, unlock it and climb down.

Undead army

• Run north and look over the balcony.
• Run west and take 3 bottles.
• Kill 3 Armoured zombies, using your bottles on red mist to fill them.
• Proceed deeper into the cave through the door.
• Run north and refill your bottles.
• Go through the next door and peer over another balcony.
• Return to Captain Rovin.
• South of Port Sarim, talk to Thurgo. ( 3)…

  3	I'd like to ask about the Shield of Arrav

  • If you don't have a blurite ore, now is the opportune time to mine one in the snowy area of the dungeon nearby.
• Climb Ice Mountain, west of Edgeville.
• Dig with your spade 2 steps east of the white tree.
• Dig the churned-up snow then enter the hole.
• Talk to Ramarno. ( 4)…

  4	I wish to use the Sacred Forge.

• Use blurite ore on the forge.
• Talk to Ramarno for a cutscene.

Zombie invasion

• Return to Captain Rovin, ignoring the zombies. He gives you a restored shield.
• Talk to Reldo in the library on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US]. ( 4)…

  4	I'd like to talk about the invading zombies.

• Read the Varrock Census on the lectern.
• Search the scrolls on the floor a few steps south after talking to Reldo about the situation.
• Read the list of elders scroll.

Shield of Arrav

• Talk to the following NPCs until one mentions they are not a blood descendant:
  • King Roald, southeast corner, ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] ( 1)…

    1	Talk about Zombies.

  • Aeonisig Raispher, next to King Roald ( 1•1)…

    1	Defender of Varrock.
    1	Talk about the zombie invasion.

  • Sir Prysin, in a room west of the king.
  • Curator Haig Halen, in the museum ( 1)…

    1	Talk about the zombie invasion.

  • Horvik the smith north-east of Varrock's fountain ( 2)…

    2	Talk about the zombie invasion.

• Talk to Dimintheis in south-east Varrock where you started Family Crest. ( 2)…

  2	Ask about something else.

• Talk to Captain Rovin.
• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 2 quest points
• 15,000 experience lamp
• 10,000 experience lamp
• 10,000 experience lamp
• 10,000 experience lamp
• 2,000 experience lamp
• Access to Chaos Temple Dungeon, where you can kill armoured zombies.
• Access to a Goldrune material cache
• 5 Kudos in Varrock Museum and a 1,000 experience antique lamp from Historian Minas on the 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] of the Museum.
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
  

Music unlocked

• Dream Theatre (In the cutscene with The Sacred Forge)
• The Ruins of Camdozaal (Under the Ice Mountain, in Camdozaal)
• Undead Army (In the dungeon below the Chaos Temple)
• Zombie Invasion (Varrock Palace during the zombie invasion)

Required for completing

Defender of Varrock is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Dimension of Disaster: Defender of Varrock
• River of Blood
• The Curse of Arrav
• While Guthix Sleeps

It is therefore an indirect requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• Children of Mah
• Full completion of Curse of the Black Stone
• Desperate Measures
• Full completion of Desperate Times
• Dimension of Disaster
• Dimension of Disaster: Curse of Arrav
• Dishonour among Thieves
• Fate of the Gods
• Full completion of Heart of Stone
• Kindred Spirits
• Koschei's Troubles
• Mahjarrat Memories
• Full completion of Missing, Presumed Death
• Full completion of Nadir
• Nomad's Elegy
• One of a Kind
• Rebuilding Edgeville
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• Sliske's Endgame
• Tales of Nomad
• The Light Within
• The Mighty Fall
• The Temple at Senntisten
• Full completion of The World Wakes