Nature Spirit

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This article is about the quest. For the NPC, see Nature Spirit (NPC). For other uses, see Nature Spirit (disambiguation).

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Nature Spirit (#55)
Release date	13 July 2004 (Update)
Members	Yes
Voice Over	No
Official difficulty	Novice
Quest series	Myreque
Age	Fifth Age
Developers
Main developer(s)	Tytn H
Graphics
Concept	Unknown edit
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance	Unknown edit
Audio
Composition	Unknown edit
Infobox • Talk page

Nature Spirit is the second quest in the Myreque quest series. In it, the player must restore the Nature Grotto deep in Mort Myre Swamp to its previous glory.

Official description

After saving the holy man Drezel, he's seeking some assistance again.

This time he has a special request for any adventurous sorts to search for the Druid 'Filliman Tarlock' and brave the terrors that infest the swamp of Mort Myre.

Runescape Game Guide

Overview

Start point	Speak to Drezel under the Saradomin temple near the River Salve.
Member requirement	Members only
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Short to Medium
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. Quests: Nature Spirit Priest in Peril The Restless Ghost Ironmen: 18 Crafting 20 Smithing (to smelt a Silver bar) Recommended: 18 Crafting (For making the Silver sickle if not bought) 10 Prayer (Or a couple of prayer potions to restore Prayer Points)
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Silver sickle (Can be made from a Silver bar and a Sickle mould or bought from the Grand Exchange. Not able to make unless part of the Nature Spirit quest has been completed. Talk to Filliman to obtain the ability to craft this.) Ghostspeak amulet
Recommended	Food, if you are a low-levelled player, to absorb attacks from ghasts. Combat equipment to kill the ghasts if you are a low-levelled player. A Prayer potion in case you use up all of your druid pouches and you have to re-harvest fungus. Canifis home teleport The Invitation Box can be useful as it teleports you near the Abbey.
Enemies to defeat	3 Ghasts (level 35)

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Mort Myre Swamp

To start this quest, speak to Drezel. He is located in the passageway bordering Morytania and the forest east of Varrock (underground, beneath Paterdomus) When you talk to Drezel, he will give you six pies (3 meat and 3 apple) to take to Filliman Tarlock, a friend of his who lives in Mort Myre. He'll warn you about ghasts in the swamp that will rot your food. Do not worry about them, since you do not actually end up giving Filliman the food so feel free to use or bank it. Put on your ghostspeak amulet now, and make sure you have it on throughout the quest. If the amulet has been lost, the player can always speak with Father Urhney in the Lumbridge Swamp to retrieve it. Go through the barrier south of Drezel into Morytania.

Some invisible ghasts.

Journey out of the temple and into Morytania, then south-east. When you reach the fence, go through gate to reach Mort Myre. You must use this gate, or else Filliman will not appear when you try to enter his grotto. You will find ghasts in this swamp, near-invisible monsters who cannot be attacked and will attempt to rot your food. They often miss, but if you run out of food, they will hit damage on you. You lose a small amount life points at random when in the swamp. This will not happen in the nature grotto.

Go south in the swamp all the way to its south edge, where you will see a large round island with the druid's grotto. You will also see the summoning icon on the minimap. Jump across the broken bridge to the island. If you fail you will swim straight across and lose a small amount of health.

The Nature Grotto

The Nature Grotto.

Filliman Tarlock should be standing outside the Grotto tree. If not, try to enter the grotto by right clicking on the tree and he will come out. It turns out that he has died. He won't believe that he's dead, so take the washing bowl off the nearby table to find a mirror underneath. Take the mirror and use it on him. He will now believe that he is a ghost. After this he tells you to find his journal. Search the grotto tree to find it and give it to him.

Filliman will tell you that he wishes to become a Nature Spirit, but needs your help to complete the transformation. He will give you a druidic spell that you can use to cast bloom.

Now you need to go back to Drezel and ask him to bless you. You can also ask him to teleport you back to Filliman throughout the quest.

You now need to get three things:

• Something with faith - Get Drezel to bless you. He will offer to send you back to Filliman using his runes, and he will do this at any time during the remainder of the quest.
• Something of nature - After Drezel has blessed you, find a rotting log in the swamp and use the druidic spell next to it to make a mushroom (Mort myre fungus) grow. There is a small group of logs north-west of the Grotto. Pick it up and show it to Filliman.

The ritual to transform into a Nature Spirit.

• Something with the spirit-to-become freely given - The "A used spell" card (The used druidic spell).

Infinite prayer free bloom casts:

• Now that the first spell is used, new ones can be obtained from Filliman that still have charges using the drop trick. The scrolls he gives do not drain prayer like the Bloom spell in the blessed sickle and can be used even after the quest is completed. They are only limited to inventory space, and it is recommended for those with low prayer to grab several. This is the only time when he will offer them.

Now you need to go back to Filliman and do the following:

• Use the Mort myre fungus on the western brown stone.
• Use A used spell card on the eastern grey stone.
• Stand on the southern orange stone.

Use each item on the stones. Tell Filliman you solved the puzzle and he will ask you to come inside the grotto. (If he disappears before you finish, just click enter on tree again and when he appears exit the conversation by walking to the orange stone. Then click Filliman again while standing on the orange stone.)

Enter the tree and talk to Filliman, and he will become a nature spirit. He will then ask you to get a silver sickle. You can make one by using a silver bar on a furnace. Talk to Filliman and give him the sickle. He will bless it and give you back a silver sickle (b). He will then give you a druid pouch and tell you to kill three ghasts.

Enchanting the silver sickle.

Return to the swamp with the silver sickle (b) and use it to cast Bloom spells (right-click option, each cast costs a random number of prayer points). When cast right next to small bushes, rotting logs, and rotting branches in the swamp, some randomly created produce will grow that can be harvested: pears, fungi, and stems respectively. Use the druid pouch to fill it up (fill is the left click option). A minimum of three harvests are needed to proceed. However, it is a good idea to fill your druid pouches as ghasts will attack you regardless, spending charges, and you may find yourself in a small predicament when you have no more prayer points left to harvest more produce! It is recommended to collect several druidic spells as an alternative, see above. Also see articles on the blessed sickle and the druid pouch for more information on using Bloom and charging the pouch.

Killing a ghast.

When a ghast attacks, it will use up one of your pouch's blooms, causing the ghast to become fully visible and attackable. While a ghast is attackable you may use any weapon to kill it, you are not required to equip the silver sickle (b). Kill three ghasts by using your druid pouch on the ghast, then talk to the Nature Spirit again. If you can't find him, search the branch inside the grotto and he will appear. He will redecorate the grotto and reward you.

Rewards

• 2 quest points
• 3,000 experience lamp
• 2,000 experience lamp
• 2,000 experience lamp
• Access to Mort Myre Swamp through the gate, which also allows easier access to Mort'ton and the Barrows activity as well as most of Southern Morytania
• 3 apple pies and 3 meat pies unless they were rotted by the Ghasts
• Access to Altar of Nature, where you can replenish and temporarily boost your prayer points by twenty
• Ability to fight Ghasts by using druid pouches
• If you lose your blessed sickle you can regain it by dipping a sickle in the Altar of Nature
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
  

Music unlocked

• Dead Quiet
• Natural
• Stagnant
• Grotto

Achievements

• Nature Spirit ( 0) – Complete this Novice quest.
• Morytania achievements
  • Easy
    • Fortified Spirit ( 5) – Restore and boost your prayer points at the altar in the Nature Grotto.
    • Struck A-Ghast ( 5) – Kill a ghast in Morytania.
    • Blooming Marvellous ( 5) – Using either a Silver Sickle or the Ivandis flail, grow some fungus in the swamp using Bloom.

Required for completing

Nature Spirit is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• A Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains
• In Search of the Myreque
• Recipe for Disaster
• Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Lumbridge Sage
• Full completion of While Guthix Sleeps

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

• A Fairy Tale II - Cure a Queen
• A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift
• Back to my Roots
• Children of Mah
• Full completion of Curse of the Black Stone
• Desperate Measures
• Full completion of Desperate Times
• Dishonour among Thieves
• Fate of the Gods
• Full completion of Heart of Stone
• Hopespear's Will
• In Aid of the Myreque
• In Memory of the Myreque
• Kindred Spirits
• Koschei's Troubles
• Legacy of Seergaze
• Mahjarrat Memories
• Full completion of Missing, Presumed Death
• Full completion of Nadir
• Nomad's Elegy
• One Foot in the Grave
• One of a Kind
• Rebuilding Edgeville
• Recipe for Disaster: Defeating the Culinaromancer
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• River of Blood
• Sliske's Endgame
• Tales of Nomad
• The Branches of Darkmeyer
• The Darkness of Hallowvale
• The Light Within
• The Lord of Vampyrium
• The Lost Toys
• The Mighty Fall
• Full completion of The World Wakes

Transcript

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

Update history

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• ninja 22 January 2018 (Update):
  • The opportunity to gain 30 Prayer XP from killing ghasts is now locked behind completion of Nature Spirit.

• patch 8 January 2018 (Update):
  • The quest overview screen for Nature Spirit can no longer be accessed on free worlds.

• ninja 6 November 2017 (Update):
  • This quest now awards XP lamps instead of direct XP on completion.

• patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • Nature spirit now correctly states the quest start location.

• patch 17 March 2014 (Update):
  • Signs of the porter will no longer teleport Mort Myre fungus at certain parts of the Nature Spirit quest.

• patch 19 November 2013 (Update):
  • The Nature Spirit quest has received some minor gameplay improvements, including Filliman recognizing items in your inventory, and one time only teleports offered by Drezel.

• patch 4 January 2011 (Update):
  • Updated some code in this quest to improve the use of variables.

Trivia

• All the blessing effects in the quest, including Drezel's blessing on the player, Filliman becoming a Nature spirit, turning the cave into the Nature grotto, blessing the sickle and using the pouches on the ghasts are very similar to the Earth Blast effect before the spell update. When Filliman transforms into a Nature spirit, four "Earth Blasts" hit him with the visual effect like Earth Wave.
• Upon completing this quest one's Adventurer's Log will read: "I braved the ghasts of Mort Myre and aided the ghost of Filliman Tarlock to become a nature spirit."
• While this quest is members-only, it can be started by free players by speaking with Drezel under the Saradomin temple.