In Pyre Need

For the achievement, see In Pyre Need (achievement).

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In Pyre Need (#149)
Release date	6 January 2009 (Update)
Members	Yes
Voice Over	No
Recommended	Yes
Official series	None
Age	Ambiguous
Timeline	Heroic
Start area	Kandarin North-west
Combat	None
Advanced data
Quest ID	87
Quest create ID	146
Official difficulty	Experienced
Links	Quests
Infobox • Talk page

In Pyre Need is a quest which introduced the phoenix Summoning familiar and phoenix eggling pets. Upon completion of this quest, players gain access to the Phoenix Lair, a daily distraction and diversion (D&D).

Official description

“

An ancient avian of fiery disposition is in need of your help! Returning to its roost after a long time away from home, the phoenix encountered some trouble. Now it waits, weak and dying, isolated from the world. By chance, a priest with a suspicious amount of knowledge about the phoenix has appeared near its roost, and he is searching for an adventurer with the skills and the mettle to venture forth and aid the phoenix in its hour of need.

”

Overview

Start point	Speak to the Priest of Guthix outside a cave south-west of the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. Show on map	2009#1
Member requirement	Members only
Official length	Short to Medium
Requirements	Quests: In Pyre Need 52 Crafting 55 Firemaking 53 Fletching
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. 5 free inventory spaces
Recommended	Access to fairy rings, a Phoenix lair teleport, or memory strands for quick travel to starting location.
Enemies to defeat	None

Starting off

Talk to the Priest of Guthix, located at a cave entrance, south-west of the Piscatoris Fishing Colony to start the quest. The cave is located north-west of a fairy ring, code akq. You can also teleport to Eagle's Peak on the Lodestone Network then travel north.

The priest explains how the phoenix residing within the cave is reaching the end of her five hundred year lifespan. To ensure her survival, a Ritual of Rebirth needs to be performed, but because the phoenix is gravely injured, she's too weak to perform the ritual herself and requires the player's help.

The priest says that he is also too old and weak to help the creature, but knows how to perform the ritual to save her life.

You will need secateurs, a knife and a tinderbox if they are not on your toolbelt. The Priest of Guthix will provide whatever items you do not have after accepting his offer.

After going through all the chat options enter the cave.

The Phoenix Lair

Phoenix Lair

• Lesser reborn mage
• Greater reborn mage
• Lesser reborn ranger
• Greater reborn ranger
• Lesser reborn warrior
• Greater reborn warrior
• 
  Phoenix
• 
  Twigs
• Order in which the first 5 caves are encountered and the monsters within them are random

After obtaining the 3 items, enter the lava-filled Phoenix Lair, guarded by several non-aggressive thralls:

• Greater reborn mage
• Greater reborn warrior
• Greater reborn ranger
• Lesser reborn mage
• Lesser reborn warrior
• Lesser reborn ranger

Ignore the thralls. At regular intervals, the thralls say:

• Please, help the mistress.
• The mistress is in pain!
• The mistress is fading!
• Save the mistress!
• You must save the mistress!
• You must help the mistress!

The order of the caves is different for each player, although the order of the trees is the same.

There are 5 caves, and each cave contains 1 tree, located in the light green spots of each cave. The entrance to the next cave is marked in red, as a door/exit, on the minimap. If you leave and then return, the location of the trees may change. Remember that you cannot proceed into the next cave until you have harvested the twigs.

The Ritual of Rebirth

The wounded Phoenix.

The phoenix's altar.

Step on.

Proceed through the caves, and use the "Harvest-twigs" option on the trees. In all, you need to obtain 5 twigs, one of each kind:

• Cinnamon twigs
• Sassafras twigs
• Ailanthus twigs
• Cedar twigs
• Mastic twigs

Upon arrival at the final cave, you'll see the wounded Phoenix.

In this cave, there is an incomplete pyre, and a shrine containing a book, The Phoenix, written by the Guthixian priest Brian Twitcher. The book contains his notes following years of studying the Phoenix, however, it's not needed to complete this quest.

Use the "Fletch" option on the twigs, or alternatively click "Craft" on the pyre, to turn them into their respective weaving ribbons:

• Cinnamon weaving ribbon
• Sassafras weaving ribbon
• Ailanthus weaving ribbon
• Cedar weaving ribbon
• Mastic weaving ribbon

Use the weaving ribbons with the pyre or use the "Craft" option on the pyre. A cut-scene will show the Phoenix moving onto the pyre.

Click "Light" on the pyre. If the tinderbox is used on the phoenix, she politely reminds you to light the pyre instead (light the pyre, not me!). A cut-scene will show the phoenix burning, then turning into ash. The phoenix is then reborn.

Finishing up

Talk to the reborn Phoenix, and she will explain everything and thank you. She will give you 5 phoenix quills and the ability to challenge her in the future. Leave the cave, and talk to the Priest of Guthix to finish the quest.

Congratulations! Quest complete.

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 14,400 experience
• 12,500 experience
• 11,556 experience
• 5 phoenix quills worth 99,085
• Access to the Phoenix Lair once per day; which is a Distraction and Diversion
• The chance to receive a Phoenix eggling pet while doing the Phoenix Lair.
  • Raising the pet requires level 72 Summoning. Players without level 72 Summoning will receive a phoenix egg instead, which they can later hatch at the required level.
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
  

Music unlocked

• The Phoenix
• Attack III

Achievements

• In Pyre Need ( 0) – Complete this quest.
• Arise from the Ash ( 10) – Defeat the phoenix once, after 'In Pyre Need'.

Required for completing

In Pyre Need is not currently required for any quests or miniquests.

Transcript

This article on a quest has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations and other messaging encountered throughout the quest. Click here for a transcript of the quest's journal entry.

Credits

In Pyre Need
Developers
Developer	Mod Liono
Art & Graphics
Graphics	Matthew M, Mod Stead, Jeff K
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance	Nicola T
Audio
Audio	Iain Hetherington
Other
Quest Help	Katie B
Databox • Talk page

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!

• patch 13 January 2009 (Update):
  • The magic secateurs can now be used in "In Pyre Need".
  • The fight in "In Pyre Need" has been fixed to cover some odd circumstances.

• update 6 January 2009 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• On the day of release, the spoilers said: The rewards are hidden behind a thick layer of ash. Perhaps a timely gust of wind will reveal them tomorrow.
• When first talking to the priest, your character says: Hold your unicorns! This is a joke of the phrase "hold your horses" since there are no horses in RuneScape.
• The quest name "In Pyre Need" is based on the phrase "In dire need".
• In the In Pyre Need RuneScape banner, there's a character who seems to be wearing Armadyl armour and wielding a Zamorakian spear.
• After completing this quest, your Adventurer's Log will read, "I fulfilled the dreams of an old priest of Guthix by helping a wounded phoenix to be reborn."