Sins of the Father

For the achievement, see Sins of the Father (achievement).

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Sins of the Father
Release date								14 September 2020 (Update)
Members								Yes
Voice Over								No
Official series								The Elder God Wars #13
Age								Sixth Age
Timeline								World Guardian
Start area								Anachronia
Combat								None
Advanced data
Quest ID								466
Quest create ID								303
Quest timeline override sequence								2022000319
Official difficulty								Grandmaster
Links								Quests

Sins of the Father is a quest on Anachronia which unlocks the Effigy Incubator Distraction and Diversion. It is a sequel to Desperate Measures and involves working with Kerapac's son, Vicendithas.

Overview

Start point	Talk to Mr Mordaut, located at the Anachronia base camp, east of the Anachronia lodestone. Show on map (via a location)	2020#3
Member requirement	Members only
Official length	Short
Requirements	Quests: Sins of the Father Desperate Measures Desperate Times The Needle Skips You Are It Complete the base camp tutorial on Anachronia At least one of the following requirements: 85 Crafting 85 Runecrafting 85 Smithing 85 Invention
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. None
Enemies to defeat	None

Getting started

Start the quest by talking to Mr Mordaut at the Anachronia base camp. Choose the option to talk about Anachronia, then Sins of the Father.

Next, talk to Eliza and Alpheus and talk about Kerapac. They are located by the Anachronia lodestone.

Investigating the laboratory

Go north out of the base camp. Walk down the stairs (not the Agility shortcut) and enter the area with the igneous jadinkos. You should see a message about something looking "out of place." You must trigger this dialogue to progress.

Walk up the first stairs to the north then west on the green area to the dragonkin statue until your character remarks about something feeling different. If this does not happen, then the first message about things looking "out of place" likely did not trigger. In this case, go south of the igneous jadinkos and walk a few steps until the message appears.

Investigate the bottom part of the dragonkin statue and enter the door that is revealed.

Descend down and talk to Vicendithas to start the tutorial.

Effigy tutorial

Gathering effigy resources.

Talk to Vicendithas. You will be directed to a number of resource piles scattered around the room and a pile of effigy casings. Gather from a pile associated with your preferred skill (Runecrafting, Smithing, Invention, or Crafting) until you have obtained 20 resources from that pile, and then go to the middle of the room and pick an effigy casing.

Talk to Vicendithas again, and then proceed to one of Kerapac's workbenches to construct your effigy.

Talk to Vicendithas who directs you to turn valves in a specific order. After turning three valves interact with the incubator hatch, causing the effigy to incubate. Interact with the incubator hatch again to receive your uncharged effigy. Talk to Vicendithas to end the tutorial.

Talk to Vicendithas once more after the tutorial to complete the quest.

Quest complete!

Rewards

• Access to Effigy Incubator Distraction and Diversion
  

Music unlocked

• Creation Cremation

Achievements

• Sins of the Father ( 0) – Complete this quest.
• I've Got a Little List (of Miniquests) ( 0) – Complete all miniquests listed in the Quests interface. Does not include sagas.

Required for completing

Sins of the Father is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Extinction

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

• Aftermath
• Twilight of the Gods

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.

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 20 March 2023 (Update):
  • The Desperate Creatures and Sins of the Father quests now appear under the World Guardian sorting category in the Quest List.

• patch 13 February 2023 (Update):
  • Sins of the Father has been converted from a miniquest to a short quest with a quest journal. It does not award quest points or Treasure Hunter keys.
  • Completion of Sins of the Father is now required to start Extinction.

• patch 9 May 2022 (Update):
  • There is now clearer messaging given to players who haven't started Sins of the Father after completing Extinction when trying to enter the Effigy Incubator laboratory.

• patch 28 September 2020 (Update):
  • A short delay has been added to the Sins of the Father miniquest to prevent players from clicking out of a dialogue box.

• update 14 September 2020 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• This quest shares a name with a quest in Old School RuneScape. While this quest continues the dragonkin storyline, the Old School RuneScape quest continues the Myreque quest series storyline.