Rune Memories

For the achievement, see Rune Memories (achievement).

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Rune Memories (#186)
Release date								28 November 2012 (Update)
Members								Yes
Voice Over								Full
Official series								Ariane #2
Age								Fifth Age
Timeline								Pathfinder
Start area								Wizards' Tower
Combat								None
Entity icon
Advanced data
Quest ID								359
Quest create ID								195
Quest timeline override sequence								8
Official difficulty								Novice
Links								Quests

Rune Memories is the sequel to Rune Mysteries. In the quest, the player helps Ariane save the Wizards' Tower and learns much about the Wizards' Tower's history.

Official description

“

At the end of Rune Mysteries, Ariane found herself in a bit of a bind, and now she needs your help once more. You'll fully explore the arcane ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower and experience - through the memories of its former inhabitants - the clashes of magical ideals that led to the old tower's downfall. Dig deep enough and put together the pieces of this ancient puzzle, and you'll have all you need to free Ariane and avert the disaster once and for all.

”

Overview

Start point	Talk to Ariane in the ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower, south of Draynor Village. Show on map	2003#13
Member requirement	Members only
Official length	Long
Requirements	Quests: Rune Memories Rune Mysteries
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. 14 free inventory spaces
Recommended	Wicked hood or a traveller's necklace for quick teleports to the Wizards' Tower
Enemies to defeat	None

Return to the Tower

Speak with Ariane who is in the ruins beneath the Wizards' Tower. There is a dungeon link on the north east side of the tower. You must pass through two doors in the ruins before you reach Ariane. She will tell you she wishes to investigate the vortices further and requires your help. Accept and start the quest.

Once you accept the quest, Ariane will attempt to cast a spell, but it will lead her to be trapped within the power beam. In order to aid her, Ariane will give you a prepared fire rune and a prepared air rune. Use the fire rune on any red vortex, and the air rune on any grey vortex. Doing so will absorb the soul fragment contained in the vortex into the rune, making the rune glow.

Speak with Ariane again. She will tell you to use the runes to try and trigger a memory in the Library.

The Teleportation Problem

Viewing the memories of Kelavan the Red and Mei the Grey

Head through the entrance to the library (east of Ariane), and you will see four chairs. If you examine these you can see that they are red, blue, grey and green. Use the glowing fire rune on the red chair and the glowing air rune on the grey chair. This will trigger a cutscene of a memory between Kelavan the Red and Mei the Grey You will see Kelavan presenting his studies of a combat spell problem to Mei. Mei sees this as a possible solution to the 'Teleportation Problem'.

After the cutscene, the runes will be returned to your inventory. If not, the runes are in the chairs where Mei and Kelavan were sitting. (Don't pick up the runes from the chairs or the cutscene will not play.) Return and speak with Ariane.

The Meeting of the Head Wizards

The Head Wizards gather to discuss the discovery of Teleportation.

When you speak with Ariane again, she will give you the remaining runes you need to hold the soul fragments. Use the prepared chaos rune on the remaining red vortex, and the cosmic rune on the remaining Grey vortex. Use the nature and earth runes on the green vortices and the law and water runes on the blue vortices.

At this point, remember what soul each of the following Glowing runes represents:

Character		Rune type	Role
	Unaia the Blue	Law rune	Blue Master
	Perien the Blue	Water rune	Blue Apprentice
	Zanmaron the Red	Chaos rune	Red Master
	Kelavan the Red	Fire rune	Red Apprentice
	Azris the Green	Nature rune	Green Master
	Sland the Green	Earth rune	Green Apprentice
	Temrin the Grey	Cosmic rune	Grey Master
	Mei the Grey	Air rune	Grey Apprentice

Talk to Ariane again and she will tell you to try and trigger a memory upstairs in the Statue room in the Old Tower. Go back up the staircase, and past the statue you knocked over in the first quest, and to the statue room, in which you first met the Rune Guardian guarding the entrance to the old tower. Use the runes with the corresponding statue as presented below. A cutscene will begin.

Alignment		Rune type	Location
	Armadyl, other gods and unaligned	Cosmic rune	North-west
	Guthix	Nature rune	North-east
	Saradomin	Law rune	South-east
	Zamorak	Chaos rune	South-west

The Green Master will present the same idea that the Red Apprentice had in the first memory, having stolen it and claimed it as her own work. She will give each master a copy of the idea, and they will return to their studies to discuss the plan with their apprentices.

After the cutscene, the runes will be returned to your inventory. Return and speak with Ariane once again.

Memories of the Abyss

When you speak with Ariane, she will be horrified to learn that the Wizards of the Old tower were not above such pettiness as to steal each others ideas, and will ask you to go and trigger another memory in one of the studies of the four masters.

Azacorax, Keeper of the Key to the Abyss is summoned.

Head north through the studies door and then to the Red Master's study, which is to the north-east. Use the chaos rune on the Master chair, and the fire rune on the chair across the table. This will trigger a cutscene of a memory where the Red Master and Apprentice talk about how Azris the Green stole his idea. And that instead of trying to convince them it was his idea, they would just complete the research and be the first to come up with a ritual to use another plane to support teleportation. At the end of the cutscene you will see the Red Master summon a demon named Azacorax.

After the cutscene the runes will be returned to your inventory. Return and speak with Ariane.

The Teleportation Debate

Zanmaron tells the apprentices to prepare themselves for the creation of the beam.

Once again speak with Ariane and she will tell you to trigger a memory in the library. Head to the library (east of Ariane) and use the air rune on the grey chair, the water rune on the blue chair, the fire rune on the red chair, the earth rune on the green chair, and the chaos rune on the table. This will trigger a cutscene of the Red Master and all the tower apprentices. He will announce he has finished a ritual to open a passage to the abyss, and presents each apprentice with a copy of the ritual to deliver to their Masters. He stresses that the ritual must be done exactly as stated or disastrous consequences could ensue.

After the cutscene the runes will be returned to your inventory. Return and speak with Ariane.

Ariane will tell you she thinks if you can trigger the memory of the ritual, she may be set free. But as the ritual had to be so specific, and you don't know how it was done, you must search for old documents containing information on the ritual.

Head back to the library (east) and search the shelves along the north-west walls and to the east straight past the table. There are 2 document fragments to find here. Then head to the studies to the north of Ariane. The crates/chests in the destroyed studies are now searchable. Each room is labelled by the corresponding flag outside of the room. Search the Grey room, then the Blue room, and finally the Red room. There is one document fragment in each of the 3 remaining studies, plus a Diary in the Zamorak room within the same crate. Return and speak with Ariane once you have all 5 document fragments and the diary.

Beaming

Ariane will tell you to read the documents to decipher where each rune must be placed to trigger the memory.

Image of how the Masters and Apprentices should be placed.

The runes should be placed on the floor as follows; you must have all of the document fragments for this to work.

• North: Law
• North-east: Fire
• East: Nature
• South-east: Air
• South: Chaos
• South-west: Water
• West: Cosmic
• North-west: Earth

A cutscene of the wizards performing the ritual will begin. They will get partly through the ritual before the Blue wizards leave in anger as they realise the ritual consists of pure Red magic and involves demons. They break the ritual, and a lightning beam strikes down the Red Master. The cutscene ends, and Ariane is freed from the beam. However, she notices that the ritual is happening again, and Ariane pushes you out of the way while a similar bolt of lightning strikes her down and induces a magical coma.

Investigate Ariane and you will see that you should go and speak with Wizard Ellaron; Wizard Ellaron has now moved to the entrance of the tower. You will discover that he is part of a Secret Order of Red Wizards who mean to destroy the Wizards' Tower, and that he planned the whole thing. Go through all the options until Ariane rises up from the middle of the beam in the tower.

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  Zanmaron tries to calm the wizards down, so that they don't disrupt the spell.

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  The ritual collapses when the blue wizards leave, from not wanting to associate with a demon.

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  Zanmaron is killed by a blast of magic.

The Burning Tower

Ariane attacks wizard Ellaron.

Speak with Ellaron who is located at the entrance desk next to Valina, and you will learn that Ariane is being possessed by each of the souls from the old tower. You will need to draw them all out of her using the prepared runes you have in order to save her and stop her from exploding causing the destruction of the tower.

The beam around her will flash between red, grey, blue, and green. There are two types of beam styles: a simple coloured beam that contains an apprentice's soul, and the spinning, more elaborate beam that contains a master's soul. You will need to take note of the wizard or apprentice that speaks to you through Ariane, then use their appropriate rune on Ariane the next time the matching beam appears.

First, wait for the elaborate grey beam, and use the cosmic rune on Ariane. Next is the simple blue beam, which requires a water rune. She will then ascend to the next floor; follow her up.

Now wait for the simple green beam, which requires an earth rune. Then use the fire rune on Ariane when you see the simple red beam. She will again ascend to the next floor; follow her up.

Then, wait for the elaborate blue beam, which requires a law rune, followed by an elaborate green beam, requiring a nature rune. She will then ascend to the next floor; follow her up again.

Finally, use the chaos rune on Ariane when you see the elaborate red beam, and the remaining air rune when you see the simple grey beam.

Note: Your avatar must complete the casting action while the beam is active in the actions listed. If you have lag you may need to anticipate the beam colour change. Once you are successful with matching the rune to the beam, that style of beam will be removed from the rotation of beam styles.

Once you have drawn out all the souls, Ariane will be free. The souls will then possess Wizard Ellaron, and teleport him to the Abyss where he will supposedly explode, saving the Wizards' Tower!

Speak with Ariane.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 300 experience
• 300 experience
• First tower robes (top and bottom)
• Access to Archmage Sedridor's personal rune chest
  • For every level reached in Runecrafting, essence will be placed into the chest for you equal to five times your new Runecrafting level.
  • This adds up to $2.5\times level\times (level+1)$ rune essence when first opened, where $level$ is your current Runecrafting level
  • More essence will be added even after it is opened, and there is no benefit or detriment whatsoever in waiting to increase your runecrafting level to use the chest.
• Access to the cadmium red, white marble, and vellum material caches in the First Tower excavation site.
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
  

Additional rewards/activities

• The Archmage [Name] (requires 99 Magic and 99 Runecrafting; speak to Archmage Sedridor to retrieve the title)
  

Music unlocked

• Bloody Foundation

Achievements

• Rune Memories ( 0) – Complete this quest.
• Stealing Sedridor's Stones ( 20) – Fully loot Archmage Sedridor's chest.
• Azacorax's Rewards ( 10) – Speak to Azacorax after 'Rune Memories' and gain Magic or Prayer XP.

Required for completing

Rune Memories is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Heart of Stone

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

• Aftermath
• Azzanadra's Quest
• Battle of the Monolith
• City of Senntisten
• Full comprehension of Curse of the Black Stone
• Desperate Creatures
• Desperate Measures
• Full comprehension of Desperate Times
• Extinction
• Eye of Het I
• Eye of Het II
• Nomad's Elegy
• Sins of the Father
• Sliske's Endgame
• Tales of Nomad (miniquest)
• Twilight of the Gods

Transcript

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Credits

Rune Memories
Developers
Developer			Mod John A
Art & Graphics
Characters			Mod Alec
Environments			Mod Joe
Animation			David C
Quality Assurance
Core			Juliet T (Project Lead), Mod Giara, Dan M, Mod Sarah
Audio
Voice Acting			Adam Longworth, Ali Dowling, Alix Wilton Regan, Anna Bentinck, Coleen Prendergast, Dadiv Rintoul, Glen McCready, John Bull, Keith Wickham, Nathanial Parker, Peter Marinker, Tim Bentinck
Recording Engineer			Juanma Delfin
Dialogue Director			Mark Estdale
Dialogue Editor			Vicky Prentice, Kit Challis

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 27 May 2014 (Update):
  • The titles awarded from the Rune Memories quest now update correctly when activated.

• patch 19 May 2014 (Update):
  • Players can now rewatch the memories after completing the Rune Memories quest.
  • Players can now switch their order colour without re-taking the Rune Guardian's test after Rune Memories.
  • The old Wizard Tower's basement can now be re-entered as a non-instanced area after Rune Memories.

• patch 6 May 2014 (Update):
  • Cutscene skipping functionality has been added to some cutscenes used in Rune Mysteries, Rune Memories, One Piercing Note, Stolen Hearts, Diamond in the Rough, What's Mine is Yours, Ritual of the Mahjarrat, The World Wakes, Song From the Depths, The Brink of Extinction, and Player-Owned Ports.

• patch 20 August 2013 (Update):
  • A bug that stopped players from being able to complete Rune Memories if they had a follower has been fixed.

• patch 9 July 2013 (Update):
  • A task complete popup now appears when completing the Rune Mysteries and Rune Memories quests.

• patch 5 February 2013 (Update):
  • A section of text has been changed to match the audio during Rune Memories.

• patch 28 January 2013 (Update):
  • During Rune Memories, when pinned at the top of the Wizard's Tower, Ariane will struggle a little less frequently.

• patch 11 December 2012 (Update):
  • Player who have bought membership while still on trial membership will now be able to start Rune Memories.
  • The special runes in Rune Memories can now be used on the beam as well as on Ariane to withdraw the souls.

• patch 4 December 2012 (Update):
  • Fixed several typos in the Rune Mysteries and Rune Memories quests.

• update 28 November 2012 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

The Teleportation Beam

The unlisted track that plays when the teleportation beam is created.

• Upon completing this quest, the Adventurer's Log will read: "I helped Ariane discover what happened to the old Wizards' Tower, and stop a secret Zamorakian from destroying the new one."
• Sedridor's essence chest can contain a maximum of 24,750 pure essence (at level 99 Runecrafting), worth 6,855,750 coins.