Quick guide for Rune Mysteries

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This quest has an in-depth guide here. It contains a more detailed description of dialogue, cutscenes, and storyline.

Overview

Start point	Talk to Ariane at the entrance to the Wizards' Tower
Member requirement	Free to play
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Medium to Long
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. You must be using the standard spellbook.
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Some free inventory spaces.
Recommended	Wicked Hood for Teleports to Wizard's Tower
Enemies to defeat	Magical vortex (no level)

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Getting started

• Talk to Ariane in the entrance to Wizards' Tower. ( 1•2•✓)…

  1	What's happening here?
  2	What can I do to help?
  ✓	[Accept Quest]

• Head into the tower, pick up the Tower mindspike and attack the vortex with any spell. You must unequip any ranged or melee armour or you may not be able to lure the vortex.
• Lure the vortex into the energy beam.

The old tower

• Talk to Ariane on the bridge outside. ( 3•2)…

  3	What do you want me to do?
  2	I'll get on it.

• Ascend the beam twice, and talk to Wizard Traiborn in the northwestern room. ( 1•2•2)…

  1	Have you seen anything unusual lately?
  2	In the power beam?
  2	Where do these things come from?

• Talk to Archmage Sedridor in the southern room. ( 3•3•4)…

  3	Ariane says the tower is in danger.
  3	What are you going to do?
  4	Goodbye.

• Talk to Wizard Ellaron in the northeastern room. ( 2•2)…

  2	Ariane says the tower is in danger.
  2	Thanks.

• Descend the beam twice or right-click and select "Bottom floor Beam" back to the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].
• Talk to Ariane. ( 2•3•2•2)…

  2	I've spoken to some of the wizards...
  3	Wizard Traiborn said something came through the library floor.
  2	Then let's get down there and investigate!
  2	I'll get right on it.

The hidden key

• Ascend the beam twice.
• Talk to Wizard Ellaron. ( 2•3•3•3•2)…

  2	How can I get into the old tower?
  3	You do know, though?
  3	You mean the rumour about Water Surge?
  3	What do you mean, the key lies in understanding Water Surge?
  2	It's such a pity you couldn't help me, Maybe I'll visit the library.

• Descend the beam twice, to the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].
• Search the eastern most bookcase for The Harmony of the Runes and The Runes of the Spells of Water.
• Read the books.
• Play the organ at the southern end of the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US].
• Press the organ keys in the following order: 10x B, 7x A#, 1x G#, and 1x G. (small black keys are # notes)
• Take the organ key.

Descent

• Talk to Ariane, ( 2•~)…

  2	I've got the key to the ruins.
  ~	[Any option]

  then head east and enter the door on the seashore.
• Talk to Ariane ( 2•1•2)…

  2	We should keep our minds on the job.
  1	Yes, it's inspiring.
  2	Okay, what should we do now?

  and then the Rune guardian and answer the questions any way. ( 3•~•~•~•~•~)…

  3	I'm ready to be tested.
  ~	[Any option]
  ~	[Any option]
  ~	[Any option]
  ~	[Any option]
  ~	[Any option]

• Enter the door behind the Rune guardian.
• Climb down the stairs to the gap.
• Climb behind the statue (on the wall above the gap). ( 1•1)…

  1	I'm making us a bridge.
  1	Do you have a better idea?

• Cross the statue (gap) and climb down the staircase.
• Talk to Ariane. ( 1)…

  1	I wish I could have seen it.

• Use magic to lure a vortex into Ariane's circle, and keep it there until the circle disappears. You can lure them by attacking them.
• Talk to Ariane again. ( 2•2•3)…

  2	Never mind the history, what does that mean for us?
  2	Okay, so what do we do?
  3	Okay, I'll do that now.

Finishing up

• Exit the room via the staircase, climb the statue, exit through the door and out the main entrance
• Head back to the organ on the main floor of the tower and play notes from the lowest set of keys to trigger several cut scenes.
• Talk to Ariane (east side of the island at the entrance to the lower tower). ( 3)…

  3	Is there a reward?

• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 250 experience lamp
• 250 experience
• Tower mindspike
• First tower hat
• Air talisman
• 70 Mind runes
• Four new titles (speak to the Rune Guardian to retrieve the title):
  • [Name] the Blue
  • [Name] the Red
  • [Name] the Green
  • [Name] the Grey
• If you are a member, you can talk to Historian Minas in the Varrock Museum to receive 5 Kudos
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
  

Music unlocked

• The Harmony of the Runes (Outside the Wizards' Tower)
• Blue Wizards (Entering the Wizards' Tower)
• Inner Secret (Entering the Ruins)
• Forgotten Orders (Entering the Ruins after completing the quest)
• Bloody Foundation (During the final section of the quest)

Required for completing

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

• Enter the Abyss
• One Small Favour
• Rune Memories

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

• A Void Dance
• Full completion of Azzanadra's Quest
• Back to my Roots
• Full completion of Battle of the Monolith (miniquest)
• Children of Mah
• City of Senntisten
• Full completion of Curse of the Black Stone
• Desperate Measures
• Full completion of Desperate Times
• Devious Minds
• Dishonour among Thieves
• Extinction
• Eye of Het I (miniquest)
• Eye of Het II (miniquest)
• Fate of the Gods
• Heart of Stone
• Full completion of Hero's Welcome
• Kennith's Concerns
• Kindred Spirits
• King's Ransom
• Koschei's Troubles
• Love Story
• Mahjarrat Memories
• Full completion of Missing, Presumed Death
• Full completion of Nadir (saga)
• Nomad's Elegy
• Nomad's Requiem
• Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Finale
• Full completion of Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Fortunes
• One Foot in the Grave
• One of a Kind
• Quiet Before the Swarm
• Rebuilding Edgeville
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• Salt in the Wound
• Sins of the Father
• Sliske's Endgame
• Swan Song
• Tales of Nomad
• The Light Within
• The Mighty Fall
• The Slug Menace
• The Temple at Senntisten
• The Void Stares Back
• Full completion of The World Wakes
• Twilight of the Gods
• Wanted!
• While Guthix Sleeps