Laniakea

Anachronia base campSouth-east AnachroniaVarrock Dig SiteAnachronia Dinosaur FarmThok's sagaDesperate Measures

Laniakea
Release date	8 July 2019 (Update)
Combat level	? (edit)
Race	Human
Members	Yes
Quest NPC	No
Location(s)	Anachronia base camp
Shop	Slayer Equipment
Gender	Female
Actions	Talk to, Get task, Trade, Rewards, Examine
Examine	She looks rather elegant for a slayer master.
Advanced data
NPC ID	26558, 26580
Links	MRND
Infobox • Talk page

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SMW Subobject for Anachronia Dinosaur FarmNPC location: Anachronia Dinosaur FarmNPC ID: 26732Examine: She looks rather elegant for a slayer master.Release date: 25 November 2019Is members only: trueActions: Sell Animals, Quick-sell animals, ExamineIs variant of: Laniakea

SMW Subobject for Anachronia base campNPC location: Anachronia base campNPC ID: 26558, 26580Examine: She looks rather elegant for a slayer master.Release date: 8 July 2019Is members only: trueActions: Talk to, Get task, Trade, Rewards, ExamineIs variant of: Laniakea

SMW Subobject for Varrock Dig SiteNPC location: Varrock Dig SiteNPC ID: 26550Examine: Hard to tell what she is thinking.Release date: 8 July 2019Is members only: falseActions: Talk to, ExamineIs variant of: Laniakea

SMW Subobject for Desperate MeasuresNPC location: Anachronia base campNPC ID: 27209Examine: Hard to tell what she is thinking.Release date: 27 July 2020Is members only: trueActions: Move, Target settings, ExamineIs variant of: Laniakea

SMW Subobject for Thok's sagaNPC location: Anachronia base campNPC ID: 27167Examine: Have you ever seen such a woman? Thok is entranced by her strength, skill and cunning.Release date: 27 July 2020Is members only: trueActions: Talk to, ExamineIs variant of: Laniakea

SMW Subobject for South-east AnachroniaNPC location: AnachroniaNPC ID: 26558, 26580Examine: She looks rather elegant for a slayer master.Release date: 8 July 2019Is members only: trueActions: Talk to, Get task, Trade, Rewards, ExamineIs variant of: Laniakea

Laniakea [la.ni.ə.keɪ.ə] is a Slayer Master located on Anachronia. Receiving slayer assignments from her requires level 90 Slayer and level 120 Combat, making Laniakea the second highest level Slayer Master available, next to Mandrith. Compared to Morvran, she does not assign desert strykewyrms, grotworms, nechryael, TzHaar, or waterfiends. Instead, she can assign "cluster" tasks where the player can kill any monster falling under that category (e.g. black dragons in a generic dragon task) to complete the assignment.

The Slayer cape and its master variant will always teleport players to the second location, the ruins in south-east Anachronia.

If players bring her a savage spear shaft, plume, cap and tip, she will make a variant of her spear for players to use.

History

Almost nothing is known about her life, but she was presumably born in the Eastern Lands, a treacherous place full of death and danger. Eventually, she decided to leave her village and sail west, arriving at the human kingdoms sometime later. During her travels, she acquired an ancient doll from an ancient witch coven filled with voodoo magic that allows her to inflict pain on the soul she linked to it. However, she would not use it unless she had no other choice, and the coven was destroyed and its knowledge lost by the time she acquired it. She prefers using poison against her enemies, letting it do the dirty work for her. She also drinks her own poisons as a way to make her immune to them.

She soon met the Order of Slayer Masters while tracking down a beast; both parties met by pure coincidence, and she considered it a competition and slew the beast in front of them. This prompted them to recruit her to their cause, and though initially hesitant because of her upbringing, she eventually accepted due to the lessons she learned from them over the years, primarily from Morvran and Kuradal, along with a desire to belong. However, she left sometime later after meeting a man in the Order; she felt vulnerable after sensing he was hiding something deep down and unprepared for these "alien" feelings, decided to forge her own path.

During her travels, she also learned about the player's noble deeds and was requested by King Roald to assist an expedition to Anachronia, where she was surprised to learn there was more than what was seen on the island. After being ambushed by a pavosaurus rex, she decided to explore the island by herself, though she would occasionally visit the base camp to see how it was doing. She was primarily interested in the south-eastern ruins, along with new sources of poison from both the vile blooms and fugu, which allowed her to stockpile new poisons.

Shortly after arriving on the island, she met up with Thok and Charos, who had come in search of Kerapac. The dragonkin appeared at the base camp and allegedly boasted of his plan to destroy the world. When Kerapac set the island's dinosaurs on a rampage, Laniakea stayed at base camp to defend a group of archaeologists who failed to evacuate in time, using her poisons and her spear.

After foiling Kerapac's plot, Laniakea heard and felt a faint tremor underneath the fortress she had gone to. Some adventurers had gone to investigate, but never returned, and she couldn't use explosives either as Mordaut had forbade their use. Laniakea revealed to the World Guardian that she had deciphered the door, but it was magically locked and could only be unsealed with shadow anima, which she thought destroyed by them. The World Guardian was able to unlock the door and Laniakea decided to accompany them. However, the facility they entered was emanating massive amounts of toxic shadow anima that nearly killed her, but she was strong enough to leave without the World Guardian's assistance.

Helping Laniakea (miniquest)

Main article: Helping Laniakea (miniquest)

Helping Laniakea (miniquest) is a miniquest in which the player must help Laniakea restock her supply of poison by catching a fugu, an elusive fish found on the western coast of Anachronia. Doing so requires the player to scour the island for materials to make a custom fishing rod and fishing lure.

Ranch Out of Time

Laniakea may occasionally appear at the Ranch Out of Time on Anachronia. She may be sold varanusaurs in exchange for beans. As a medium-sized animal buyer, she will appear or renew her order for varanusaurs every two days and purchase up to 8 animals before leaving, unless the player is at least 'Master Farmer' rank in the farming reputation system; then she will buy up to 16.

Slayer points

The amount of Slayer points gained by completing tasks depends on the amount of consecutively completed tasks, and whether or not Smoking Kills has been completed.

Slayer points awarded by Laniakea

Smoking Kills	Points per task	Points per 10th task	Points per 50th task
	22	110	330
	11	55	165

Completing 50 tasks assigned by Laniakea grants an average of 35.2 points per task, if Smoking Kills has been completed.

Assignments

Assignments considered cluster assignments are bolded.

Monster	Amount	Combat level	Slayer experience	Slayer level	Weakness	Weighting
Abyssal demons	180-300	98, 107 (elite)	277.8, 1069	85	Slash	10
Acheron mammoths	30-55	135	4215.6	96	Stab	8
Adamant dragons	40-60	116	656	1	Air spells	8
Airut	150-180	122	800.2	92	Nothing	10
Aquanites	195-240	95, 104 (elite)	212.6, 968	78	Arrows	10
Aviansies	150-180	89, 92, 95, 580/102 (Kree'arra and guards)	171, 187, 207, 2934/363.8	1	Bolts (aviansies) Nothing (Kree'arra and guards)	9
Black demons	230-300	98	294.4	1	Bolts	10
Black dragons	50-110	70 (Baby), 100 (Black), 276 (King), 900 (Queen)	45, 245, 1550, 1050.6, 1694	1	Bolts (baby/regular dragons) Nothing (King/Queen)	5
Camel Warriors	35-55	132	4768.8	96	Crush	8
Celestial dragons	150-180	127	976.3	1	Arrows	10
Chaos Giants	80-120	126	929.3	1	Stab	8
Corrupted creatures	150-250	88, 91, 94, 107, 110, 113	353.2, 389, 560, 679.8, 494, 653	88-104		10
Creatures of Daemonheim	101-150	86 - 128	398.8 - 1950	1 - 99	See Creatures of Daemonheim article	4
Cres' creations	80-100	115	624	67	Fire spells (Automaton Guardian) Crush (Automaton Tracer) Arrows (Automaton Generator)	8
Crystal Shapeshifters	110-150	112	1270	80	Fire spells (Melee) Thrown (Magic) Stab (Ranged)	12
Dagannoth	205-290	See Dagannoth article	See Dagannoth article	1	See Dagannoth article	10
Dark beasts	180-300	105, 112 (Revenant), 114 (elite)	331.4, 256, 1372.8	90	Bolts Nothing (Revenant dark beast)	12
Demons	101-150	5 - 133	6.6 - 2721.5	1 - 115	See Demons (Slayer assignment) article	4
Dinosaurs	70-110	160 (Feral), 164 (Brutish), 172 (Venomous), 176 (Ripper)	1810, 3100, 1332, 1904	90-114	See Dinosaurs (Slayer assignment) article	9
Dragons	101-150	63 - 2,500	68.6 - 37,600	1 - 101	See Dragons (Slayer assignment) article	4
Edimmu	170-265	122, 125 (elite)	880.2, 2044	90	Slash Salve amulet	10
Elves	150-180	84/89 (Elf warrior), 108 (Seren mage, Seren archer, Seren warrior), 122 (Cadarn magus, Cadarn ranger, Iorwerth guard, Iorwerth scout)	73.6/89.4, 334.2, 334.2, 334.2, 608, 608, 608, 608	1	Fire spells Crush Slash Arrows	12
Ganodermic creatures	85-110	112	565 (beast), 565 (runt)	95	Fire spells	7
Gargoyles	180-300	93	197.4	75	Water spells	8
Gemstone dragons	80-130	119 (Dragonstone), 126 (Onyx), 133 (Hydrix), 2500 (Black Stone Dragon)	1448.4, 1858.8, 4768.8, 37600	95-101	Arrows	10
Glacors	60-85	112	1881	1	Fire spells	8
Greater demons	180-300	82, 92 (elite), 650/102 (K'ril Tsutsaroth and Tstanon Karlak), 200 (Demon boss)	135.4, 620, 1849.5/209, 22720	1	Bolts (regular) Fire spells (K'ril/Tstanon)	11
Ice strykewyrms	120-240	106	693.2	93	Fire spells	8
Iron dragons	75-130	98	245	1	Water spells	7
Kal'gerion demons	60-120	126	1858.8	90	Nothing	5
Kalphites	205-300	See Kalphites article	See Kalphites article	1	See Kalphites article	5
Lava strykewyrms	60-120	115	1872	94	Nothing	8
Living wyverns	40-65	127, 133 (elite)	1878.8, 2654	96	Fire spells	8
Lost Grove creatures	100-120	140	2086, 2360, 2408.8	104-108	Arrows (Vinecrawler) Slash (Bulbous crawler) Fire spells (Moss golem)	12
Mithril dragons	30-50	112	594.4	1	Earth spells	8
Muspah	150-180	150	469	76	Nothing Ancient Magicks	10
Mutated jadinkos	195-265	93 (baby), 96 (guard), 100 (male)	98.6, 188.4, 209.6	80-91	Stab	8
Nightmare creatures	110-162	128	1540	80	Earth spells	8
Nihil	50-110	160	705.4 (Blood), 564 (Ice and smoke), 423 (Shadow)	76	Magic (Blood) Ranged (Ice/Smoke) Melee (Shadow)	10
Nodon dragonkin	110-150	120 (artificer, guard, hunter), 150 (engineer, Siege engine), 3000 (Kerapac, the Bound)	1,877 (artificer/guard/hunter), 1,505 (Siege engine), 2,769 (engineer), 16,700 (Kerapac, the Bound)	92, 1 (Kerapac, the Bound)	Arrows (artificer) Stab (hunter) Air spells (guard/engineer) Fire spells (Siege engine), Nothing (Kerapac, the Bound)
Order of Ascension members	120-150	84 (Rorarius), 91 (Gladius), 105 (Capsarius/Scutarius), 304 (Legiones)	140, 220.2, 146.6/390.2, 1445/1922/1922/1922/1923/1923	81-95	Ranged	10
Ripper Demons	60-85	131 (normal), 138 (elite)	2721.5, 3203	96	Earth spells	8
Rune dragons	50-75	127 (regular), 130 (elite)	2051, 3399	1	Nothing	8
Shadow creatures	100-150	98 (Truthful), 112 (Blissful), 126 (Manifest)	343, 565, 930	1	Fire spells	10
Soul devourers	150-250	106, 109, 111, 115, 122, 130, 899	504, 536.2, 370, 799, 408.4, 1780.5, 8,000	105-117	Water spells (all melee) Arrows (Imperial mage akh) Crush (Imperial ranger akh) Nothing (The Magister)	12
Stalker creatures	140-190	86 (seeker), 128 (soulgazer), 135 (soulgazer (elite))	440.6, 1950	71-99	Thrown (Seeker) Arrows (Soulgazer)	8
Steel dragons	50-125	100	350	1	Water spells	9
Strykewyrms	101-150	93 (jungle), 103 (desert), 106 (ice), 115 (lava)	250, 301.2, 693.2, 1872	73-94	Stab (jungle) Stab (desert) Fire spells (ice) Nothing (lava)	4
Tormented demons	50-75	119	1136	1	Fire spells (melee) Bolts (magic) Stab (ranged)	8
Vile blooms	70-110	216 (Lampenflora), 220 (Devil's snare), 224 (Luminous snaggler), 228 (Liverworts)	1331.8, 1760, 1536, 3338	90-110	Fire spells	9
Vyrewatch	110-155	70, 72, 75, 78, 86, 91 (Vyrewatch) / 98 (Vyrelord/Vyrelady)	45.4, 49.8, 54.8, 60.6, 81.0, 340 / 340	31-67	Nothing Blisterwood (only blisterwood weapons, Sunspear or the Ivandis flail can cause damage)	7
Total weight						425

Task weighting

A dynamic calculator for task weight can be found here.

The percentage chance of getting assigned a given Slayer task can be calculated using the formula

${\frac {w}{S}}\times 100\%$

where $w$ is the task's weight and $S$ is the sum of all weights for the particular Slayer Master. Note that the weights of all blocked tasks, as well as tasks toggled off have to be subtracted from the sum $S$. For Laniakea, assuming all possible assignments are available, $S$ = 425.

Preferring a task makes it approximately twice as likely to be assigned, for the first assignment choice, but does not affect the weighting of the second assignment choice provided by a Slayer VIP ticket.

Special assignment

Laniakea's special assignment is to gather vials of poison from each of the vile blooms. This is done by killing one lampenflora, liverworts, luminous snaggler, and devil's snare. The vials are never obtained as items; a chat box message notifies the player after each successful kill: You gather a small dose of strange looking liquid from the creature and place it in a vial.

Completing her task rewards 50,000 Slayer experience and 45 Slayer points. The rewards for this assignment are not affected by DXP.

Dialogue

This article on an NPC has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations and other messaging related to this NPC.

Laniakea speaks in:

• Anachronia
• Bones (Anachronia)
• Footprint
• Helping Laniakea (miniquest)
• Raksha, the Shadow Colossus (quest)
• The Stormbreaker

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 19 August 2019 (Update):
  • Mazchna will now suggest you obtain a task from Laniakea if your slayer and combat level is appropriate to do so.

• patch 15 July 2019 (Update):
  • Slayer masks now correctly assign tasks when getting a task from Laniakea.

• update 8 July 2019 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Gallery

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  Laniakea artwork by Mod NicePants

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Trivia

• "Laniakea" is Hawaiian for "immense heaven" and is what the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies is named after. Her assigned "cluster" tasks is also a reference to this.
• Laniakea was voiced by Mod Dio.
• Laniakea was one of few characters with an official pre-release description for the Land Out of Time update; her description was as follows: "Laniakea is the new Slayer Master in Anachronia. She is said to be dark, twisted, and mysterious and regularly drinks poisons to build her resistances. While she does little in the way of fighting these days, she continues to crave greater strength. It is the lure of undiscovered power that draws her to the island."
• Laniakea's doll is a voodoo doll, an effigy for piercing in order to magically hurt or control other people.
• Laniakea's consumption of poison may be an example of the real-world practice of Mithridatism: protecting yourself against poison by self-administering non-lethal quantities of it to develop resistance.