Holy Cithara

"Cithara" redirects here. For the item used during Back to the Freezer on Brazilian worlds, see Cithara (Back to the Freezer).

Holy Cithara
Release	7 November 2011 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Disassembly	No
Destroy	It will miraculously return to the reliquary in the basement of the Citharede Abbey.
Actions
Backpack	Wield, Play, Destroy
Equipped	Play
Values
Value	10 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	1 kg
Examine
The Holy Cithara of Saint Elspeth.
Advanced data
Item ID	22418
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The Holy Cithara is an object that can be found within the reliquary in the basement of the Abbey of St. Elspeth Citharede after completing One Piercing Note. Attempting to take the Cithara without meeting certain requirements detailed in the section below will result in the player having their life points reduced to 1. Receiving the Holy Cithara for the first time rewards the player with 50,000 Prayer experience.

This does not provide protection from Saradominist followers in the God Wars Dungeon. The Holy Cithara has a right-click play option which will make the player play it energetically for a few seconds. Other players are able to hear the Cithara as the player plays it. The Cithara's emote can only be used when it is not sheathed.

The Holy Cithara is required for the elite Desert Achievement "A, B, Cithara." It is also required for a master clue scroll emote clue in the Edgeville Monastery, requiring a jig with Saradomin's murmur and the Ring of devotion.

Combat stats

Requirements
1
Class			Slot
Magic
Tier
1
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		-		0.0
Accuracy		-		110
Style		Spell-casting
Range		1
Speed		Fastest (2.4s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0
FAQ • docs

Obtaining the Holy Cithara

To obtain the Holy Cithara, a player must meet the following "holy" requirements:

• Be on the standard spellbook
• Be on Standard prayers and have full prayer points
• Have 100% run energy
• Do not have a follower summoned
• Have an empty inventory
• Have all of the following equipped:
  • A ring of visibility (unless the player has been granted the gift of looking into the Shadow Realm by Sliske), and
  • A ghostspeak amulet or cramulet (unless the reward from the Morytania Hard Tasks have been claimed), and
  • Six pieces of acceptable Saradomin equipment that the player owns, listed below. No items aligned with another god may be either equipped or in the player's inventory. The ring of visibility and ghostspeak amulet do not count as one of these items.

It can take several tries to successfully grab the cithara. If you don't obtain it on the first try, the ghost appears but you won't receive any damage, keep trying until you get it. If you get a message reading "An invisible force gently but firmly moves your hand away from the cithara," you are not wearing the correct ring.

Saradomin-aligned items

Pieces of equipment aligned with Saradomin include the following:

Slot	Acceptable items
	Citharede hood	Saradomin full helm	Warpriest of Saradomin helm	Golden warpriest of Saradomin helm	Relic helm of Saradomin	Saradomin d'hide coif	Saradomin mitre
	A ghostspeak amulet or cramulet is required; if the player already owns Morytania legs 3 or Morytania legs 4, then they may wear the Citharede symbol, holy symbol, Saradomin stole or Saradomin's murmur
	Saradomin cloak	Saradomin cape	Warpriest of Saradomin cape	Golden warpriest of Saradomin cape
	Citharede robe top	Monk's robe	Saradomin platebody	Warpriest of Saradomin cuirass (and golden version)	Saradomin d'hide body	Saradomin robe top
	Citharede robe bottom	Monk's robe	Saradomin plateskirt and platelegs	Warpriest of Saradomin greaves (and golden version)	Saradomin d'hide chaps	Saradomin robe legs
	Saradomin staff	Saradomin mjolnir	Saradomin godsword (and lucky version)	Saradomin sword (and lucky version)	Banner of Saradomin	Saradomin chisel
	Saradomin arrows (only one is needed)
	Saradomin vambraces	Warpriest of Saradomin gauntlets	Golden warpriest of Saradomin gauntlets
	A ring of visibility is required; if the player has the ability to see into the Shadow Realm, then they may wear a ring of devotion
	Warpriest of Saradomin boots	Golden warpriest of Saradomin boots
	Saradominist token (any tier)	Saradomin's Book of Wisdom	Illuminated Book of Wisdom	Damaged book (Saradomin)

Achievements

• A, B, Cithara ( 25) – Play the Holy Cithara while standing in the Citharede Abbey.
• Reliquary of Cithara ( 10) – Claim XP from the Holy Cithara.

Gallery

• 

  A player playing the cithara

• Saint Elspeth's message when the player does not violate the requirements, but does not reach them either

• Saint Elspeth's message when the player meets all requirements to take the cithara

• Playing the cithara

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• ninja 23 April 2019 (Update):
  • The following equipment can now be saved as keepsake copies;
    • Beads of the dead, Awusah's shoes, holy cithara (as a magic offhand), Trollweiss flowers and lily of the valley (as melee main-hands).

• patch 14 April 2014 (Update):
  • Players no longer need a ring of visibility to get a holy cithara after completing Fate of the Gods.

• patch 13 August 2013 (Update):
  • The Holy Cithara emote can no longer be heard by other players.

• patch 2 April 2012 (Update):
  • Claiming a holy cithara with boosted lifepoints will no longer kill the player if their lifepoints decrease as they try to take it.

• update 7 November 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The cithara is an Ancient Greek version of the lyre.
• The Holy Cithara is one of only two magic weapons that does not have an attack range of 8. The other is the omni-talisman staff, a two-handed magic weapon. Both have an attack range of 1.