Quick guide for Temple of Ikov

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

Overview

Start point	Speak to Lucien in the Flying Horse Inn, in the north-west of East Ardougne.
Member requirement	Members only
Official difficulty	Experienced
Official length	Medium
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. 42 Thieving 40 Ranged The ability to defeat a level 77 enemy with ranged.
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. A light source (Seers' headband will work) or the boots of lightness if you have collected them already from the dungeon earlier. A bow (yew, magic, elder, or dark is recommended; bows that do not use ammunition do not work) 20 un-noted limpwurt roots
Recommended	Activated lodestone in Edgeville Weight-reducing clothing, such as boots of lightness (obtainable during the quest), spotted cape, spottier cape, a pair of penance gloves, wicked robes, agile top and/or agile legs. (You MUST weigh 0 kg or less to complete a part of this quest. The more weight-reducing equipment you wear, the more inventory you can take) Prayer potions Dramen staff (unless A Fairy Tale III has been completed)
Enemies to defeat	Fire Warrior of Lesarkus (level 77) Several Guardians of Armadyl (level 42), only if siding with Lucien

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Inside the temple

Items needed: A light source and less than 4.5kg of weight

• Talk to Lucien in or around the bar north of Ardougne Castle. He will give you a pendant of Lucien.( 1•2•✓)…

  1	I'm a mighty hero!
  2	That sounds like a laugh!
  ✓	[Accept Quest]

• Bank all items not needed for the quest until your weight is less than 4.5 kg.
• With a light source and the pendant of Lucien, go to the temple of Ikov, which is located north-east of the Ardougne Lodestone.
• If you don't have boots of boots of lightness:
  • Go down the ladder.
  • Inside the temple, run west and down the stairs.
  • Cut through the web in the north-east corner and take the boots of lightness.
  • Go back upstairs
• Equip the boots and the pendant of Lucien. Check that your weight is now 0 kg or less.
• Enter the north gate.
• Take the bridge across the lava and pick up the lever located in the southern part of the room, in front of the crates.
• Run back to the dungeon entrance where you came down the ladder and use the lever on the lever bracket directly west of the ladder on the wall. Pull it.

Ice arrows

Items needed: bow, 20 limpwurt root, Pendant of Lucien, light source

• Go through the south gate, and loot the chests in the tunnel for ice arrows. After looting the arrows from a chest, the next set of arrows will spawn in another random chest and it is possible they will spawn in the same chest that you just searched. You will only need a couple of arrows if you use abilities. You may need to switch worlds if you don't receive more than one arrow.
• With 20 limpwurt roots and your bow, return to the main chamber with the bridge. Continue north past the trapdoor to the lever on the wall.
• Right-click the lever and select Search for traps, then pull it.
• Run west and open the wooden door
• Open the next door and kill the fire warrior that appears with ice arrows.
• Talk to Winelda, and ask to be teleported across the lava. She will ask for 20 limpwurt roots. ( 3)…

  3

  Yes I do!

• (Optional) Take the shiny key in the south-west part with the lesser demons to be able to access this area more easily from McGrubor's Wood. If you have completed One Small Favour this key can be added to your steel key ring.

Finishing up

If siding with the guardians (recommended)

• Enter the large room to the north through the wall. (with guardians in it)
• Remove your pendant and talk to a guardian. ( 1•1•3•1)…

  1	I seek the Staff of Armadyl.
  1	Lucien will give me a grand reward for it!
  3	You're right, it's time for my yearly bath.
  1	Ok! I'll help!

• West of the Grand Exchange, go inside a small shed. (A few tiles south of fairy ring dkr)
• Equip the Armadyl pendant and kill Lucien.
• Quest complete!

If siding with Lucien

• Enter the large room to the north through the wall.
• Go to the small sub-room in the corner.
• Try to take the staff from table, kill any guardians if they stop you until the staff is acquired.
• Go the the shed west of the Grand Exchange. (A few tiles south of fairy ring dkr)
• Hand the staff to Lucien. ( 1)…

  1	Yes! Here it is.

• Quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 10,500 experience
• 8,000 experience
• Boots of lightness
• Pendant of Lucien, giving you access to the front door of the Temple of Ikov (dungeon)
• Armadyl pendant (If you sided with Armadyl, but you can get one by killing the guardians if you sided with Lucien)
• Shiny key for entering through the back door of the Temple of Ikov, from near McGrubor's Wood (can be added to the steel key ring after One Small Favour)
• Access to the Symbol of Armadyl gravestone (also requires The Giant Dwarf)
• 5 Kudos in the Varrock Museum if you talk to Historian Minas
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)
  

Music unlocked

• Chain of Command

Required for completing

Temple of Ikov is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Defender of Varrock
• Desert Treasure

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

• 'Phite Club
• Azzanadra's Quest
• 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
• Dimension of Disaster
• Dimension of Disaster: Curse of Arrav
• Dimension of Disaster: Defender of Varrock
• Dishonour among Thieves
• Do No Evil
• Extinction
• Eye of Het I (miniquest)
• Eye of Het II (miniquest)
• Fate of the Gods
• Full completion of Heart of Stone
• Full completion of Hero's Welcome
• Hopespear's Will
• Kindred Spirits
• Koschei's Troubles
• Mahjarrat Memories
• Full completion of Missing, Presumed Death
• Full completion of Nadir (saga)
• Nomad's Elegy
• Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Finale
• Full completion of Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Fortunes
• One of a Kind
• Our Man in the North
• Rebuilding Edgeville
• Recipe for Disaster
• Recipe for Disaster: Defeating the Culinaromancer
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• River of Blood
• Sins of the Father
• Sliske's Endgame
• Tales of Nomad
• The Curse of Arrav
• The Curse of Zaros
• The General's Shadow
• The Light Within
• The Mighty Fall
• The Temple at Senntisten
• The Vault of Shadows (miniquest)
• Full completion of The World Wakes
• Wandering Ga'al
• While Guthix Sleeps