The Magister

For the achievement, see The Magister (achievement).

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The Magister
Release			3 July 2017 (Update)
Members			Yes
Actions			? (edit)
Race			Soul devourer
Examine
A powerful necromancer who guards this entrance to the Underworld.
Combat info
Level			LP			XP			XP
899			200,000			30,536.1			10,076.9
Equipment XP (2H/MH & Armour/OH)
300 / 200 / 100
Aggressive						Poisonous
Slayer
Level			XP			Category
115			8,000			Soul devourers
Assigned by
Offensive
Max hit
3,000			3,000			2,500			4,000
Style						Rate
						4 ticks (2.4s)
Combat levels
92				92				92
Accuracy
2,577				2,577				2,577
Abilities used
Defensive
Armour				Weakness			Susceptible
2,458		90
Affinities
-			55			55			55
Immunities
Not immune			Not immune			Not immune			Not immune
Advanced data
NPC ID				24765
Links				bestiary • MRND
FAQ • doc

Tales of NomadOnce Upon a Time in Gielinor

Oreb
Release date	26 September 2016 (Update)
Race	Human
Members	Yes
Quest NPC	Tales of Nomad
Location(s)	Nomad's Temple
Sells items	No
Gender	Male
Actions	? (edit)
Examine	I respected him greatly, but his time had passed.
Advanced data
NPC ID	23291
Links	MRND23291
Infobox • Talk page

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SMW Subobject for Tales of NomadNPC ID: 23291Examine: I respected him greatly, but his time had passed.Release date: 26 September 2016Is members only: trueIs variant of: The Magister

SMW Subobject for Once Upon a Time in GielinorNPC ID: 23291Examine: An exiled ex-magister of Teragard.Release date: 22 November 2021Is members only: trueActions: Talk to, ExamineIs variant of: The Magister

Oreb, the Magister of House Charron, is a necromancer from the human home world of Teragard and a solo Slayer boss. He may be found in the First Gate of the Grim Underworld, accessible from the Sophanem Slayer Dungeon. Unlike the other inhabitants of the dungeon, a feather of Ma'at is not required to kill him. Killing the Magister rewards 450 reputation towards your aligned district.

To fight the Magister, level 115 Slayer and a key to the Crossing is required. Although the Slayer requirement may be boosted, unlike the Legiones, the boost must be maintained for the duration of the encounter. The soul obelisk inside the dungeon must then be activated to summon him. Keys can be obtained by killing the inhabitants of the dungeon (including himself) or by buying them from the Grand Exchange, costing 125,875 coins. The key is consumed when beginning the fight and will not be returned on death if the Magister wins, behaving in a similar manner to ascension keystones.

Killing the Magister is a possible Soul Reaper assignment. The assigned number of kills can vary between 3 to 14.

The Magister is one of the bosses required to unlock the title [Name] the Reaper. Obtaining the five books that can be dropped by the Magister as well as other inhabitants of the dungeon is a requirement for the master quest cape. The bobblehead pet dropped by the Magister is a requirement for the Final Boss [Name] title.

Acquiring at least one of each of his unique drops is a requirement for the [Name] of the Crossing title.

Oreb also appears in The Shadow Reef Elite Dungeon as a miniboss, in the form of Oreb, the Magister.

History

Oreb was originally the magister of House Charron on Teragard and at one point authored a book known as The Divine Delusion. Fascinated with the subject of the soul, he speculated in his book that it had little to do with divinity and that it may be possible to transplant a soul from one host into another.

At some point in or before the Fifth Age, he somehow found his way to Gielinor, and took in Nomad as his pupil, teaching him about the nature of souls. Nomad eventually betrayed and supposedly killed him, using his new understanding of souls to bolster his own power. Due to his own knowledge on souls, Oreb survived, reviving himself via phylactery.

Oreb is "killed" by Nomad.

Memories of him appear during the Tales of Nomad miniquest. In the first master memory, he appears as my first master and is shown tutoring Nomad in the Ourania Cave. In the first betrayal memory, he is shown being stabbed by Nomad in his temple.

After being betrayed by Nomad, Oreb eventually found himself in Menaphos. From there, he began his own experiments on souls, and gave his thoughts on both Amascut and Icthlarin; fascinated with the former's corruption, although disappointed by the fact that it weakened the souls he acquired. He felt a sort of kinship with the latter, sensing an ancient guilt and wondered if the god was aware of the power that was around him. While working, he also discovered machinery that could split a being's soul while they were still alive, and fragments of a divine soul, speculating that one could send proxies all around the world to obtain memories before combining them into one entity if the method could be perfected.

In his last journal, he learned of terrible events in the past; though upset with how messy the magic was, he realised that he could achieve a goal he thought impossible thousands of years ago. He also interpreted the arrival of a particular adventurer as a success for his experiments, and although he was slain by the said individual, he revived himself with a phylactery.

Sometime after this, Oreb was visited by The Ambassador who offered to bring him back to Teragard and restore his house. Oreb was naturally inclined to accept, since it was his House, but was surprised that it somehow knew of his origins. The only cost to him was to supply the Ambassador with souls, something which he could easily achieve. Oreb was also intrigued with the Ambassador's origins, as its soul was something that he had never seen before in his life. Oreb departed to Ulthven Kreath, knowing that his former pupil was about to make his move. There, he provided the Ambassador with ten thousand souls, ripped from the afterlife.

During his stay, he met Lady Himiko, who he initially believed to be a manipulator due to his lack of faith. The two wrote a series of letters to each other regarding the security of the dungeon. Oreb was aware that there was a spy in her ranks, though Himiko refused to believe that. Oreb pointed out that the wards were intentionally flawed, allowing the World Guardian access into the inner sanctums. Himiko did not respond, so Oreb wrote to the Ambassador, warning him not to underestimate the World Guardian, as they had slain him numerous times. His warning was heeded, as the Ambassador created the Crassian Leviathan in anticipation of their arrival. Despite this, the Leviathan was unable to stop the World Guardian, who proceeded to infiltrate the underwater temple. Oreb attempted to stop the World Guardian, but was slain by them during the attack. He eventually revived himself with a phylactery, though his plans were ruined as the Ambassador was slain shortly afterwards.

Strategies

Main article: /Strategies

The Magister has several special abilities, one of which consists of activating a soul obelisk that drains the player's Constitution level, which affects both the amount of life points food can heal when eaten in addition to the player's maximum life points.

Although he counts for a Soul devourer assignment and awards Slayer experience upon defeat, the slayer helmet does not apply its damage and accuracy buffs against the Magister even if the player has a soul devourer assignment, to balance out the corruption mechanic. However, Tuska's Wrath will still behave as it normally does on a Slayer assignment.

Drops

Charms

Nothing	8	8	8	8
8–9%	16–18%	18–19%	32–33%	23–24%
Represents a 90% confidence range based on a sample of 10,482 kills. 8 items are dropped at a time. Add data to the log (requires JavaScript).

Main drop

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Coins		100,000; 150,000	Uncommon	100,000-150,000	100,000-150,000
	Corrupted magic logs (m)		100 (noted)	Common	47,900	0
	Grimy ranarr (m)		15 (noted)	Common	65,580	0
	Dragon arrowheads (m)		250	Common	95,250	75,000
	Feather of Ma'at (m)		100	Uncommon	190,800	90,000
	Dragonstone (m)		10 (noted)	Uncommon	50,110	60,000
	Huge plated rune salvage		3 (noted)	Uncommon	115,983	120,000
	Dragon plateskirt (m)		1	Uncommon	162,704	162,000
	Dragon platelegs (m)		1	Uncommon	168,752	162,000
	Banite stone spirit (m)		5	Uncommon	1,520	Not alchemisable
	Vital spark (m)		10; 20	1/64	2,601,760-5,203,520	6,000-12,000
	Water talisman		15 (noted)	Uncommon	7,350	30
	Battlestaff (m)		15 (noted)	Uncommon	60,900	63,000
	Onyx bolt tips (m)		25	Uncommon	173,975	135,000
	Weapon poison++ (3) (m)		3 (noted)	Common	84,465	777
	Large bladed rune salvage		3 (noted)	Common	90,708	96,000
	Crystal key (m)		2 (noted)	Common	27,062	0
	Crushed nest (m)		20 (noted)	Common	7,200	0
	Grimy toadflax (m)		15 (noted)	Common	82,185	0
	Rare drop table		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable

Tertiary drops

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Key to the Crossing (m)		1	1/128	125,875	Not alchemisable
	Soul fragment (The Magister) (m)		1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Starved ancient effigy (m)		1	Very rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Phylactery (m)		1	1/18	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	The Magister's Journal 1 (m)		1	1/10	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	The Magister's Journal 2 (m)		1	1/10	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	The Magister's Journal 3 (m)		1	1/10	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	The Magister's Journal 4 (m)		1	1/10	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	The Magister's Journal 5 (m)		1	1/10	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Gloves of passage (m)		1	1/500	7,008,261	48,000

Universal drops

Universal drops are dropped by nearly every monster outside of Daemonheim.

These items are dropped alongside main drops.

	Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Price	High Alch
	Key token		1	Rare	Not sold	Not alchemisable
	Mimic kill token (m)		1	Very rare	15,260	Not alchemisable

Achievements

• Diary of Oreb ( 25) – Discover and read all five journals of The Magister.
• Superior Successor ( 0) – Obtained a collection of unique drops from the Magister.
• Crossing Over:
  • Crossing Over I ( 5) – Defeat the Magister. (X/5)
  • Crossing Over II ( 5) – Defeat the Magister. (X/10)
  • Crossing Over III ( 5) – Defeat the Magister. (X/25)
  • Crossing Over IV ( 5) – Defeat the Magister. (X/50)
  • Crossing Over V ( 5) – Defeat the Magister. (X/75)
  • Crossing Over VI ( 5) – Defeat the Magister. (X/100)
• Jungle Predator ( 0) – Obtained a collection of unique drops from Slayer monsters located within Karamja.
  • Dragon platelegs and plateskirt drops

Works

Transcripts The Magister is the author or co-author of:

• The Divine Delusion
• The Magister's Journal 1
• The Magister's Journal 2
• The Magister's Journal 3
• The Magister's Journal 4
• The Magister's Journal 5
• Umbral Diplomacy

Pre-release

There were several teasers hinting towards the Magister in the weeks before its release. Most of them have taken the form of in-game messages which were triggered as a result of the players' actions as a community.

After several teaser message broadcasts, more activities were unlocked for players to engage with within Menaphos that allowed city reputation to be gained in ways beyond the traditional method of training skills within the city. These activities took the form of repeatable events that could be completed numerous times a day for reputation, and are still currently available to be completed for city reputation.

Date	Teaser
6 June 2017	The continued desecration of the caverns below Menaphos and Sophanem have caused a flux of corrupted soul energy. The Magister has become aware of your presence.
7 June 2017	Strange reverberations are causing the earth below Menaphos and Sophanem to groan. The corruption and soul energies under the desert are becoming increasingly unstable.
	Soul obelisks began spawning in Menaphos. The desert sands tremble with the undulating cry of countless despairing souls. Mysterious obelisks have started appearing in the streets of Menaphos.
11 June 2017	The sands around Menaphos tremble with the sound of a million frantic footsteps. Something is stirring below the surface...
12 June 2017	A wave of apprehension sweeps across Menaphos as the skittering hum of the sands begins to grow louder. Whatever stirs the desert is fast approaching.
	Corrupted scarabs began spawning in Menaphos. The streets of Menaphos fall victim to a plague of displaced scarab beetles from the corrupted caverns below. Something is driving them to the surface.

The Magister was originally planned for release on 26 June 2017, but this date was pushed back to 3 July 2017 to allow for further testing and addition of more quality of life improvements for Menaphos.

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 4 May 2020 (Update):
  • Runite stone spirits have been replaced by banite stone spirits.

• patch 18 March 2019 (Update):
  • Voice Over has been added to The Magister boss fight.

• patch 2 October 2017 (Update):
  • The Magister can now phase while stunned.
  • The Magister's defence has been slightly reduced, and base hit chance against him increased.

• patch 24 July 2017 (Update):
  • The Magister will now cast Freedom when affected by stuns.

• patch 17 July 2017 (Update):
  • The phylactery drop rate from the Magister has been made slightly lower, but the individual scripture drop rates have been adjusted to give a minimum of 5 and a larger average.

• patch 10 July 2017 (Update):
  • An issue that was preventing The Magister from taking damage in his final phase has been resolved.
  • Defeating The Magister will now correctly display kills on the Adventurer's Log.

• hotfix 3 July 2017 (Update):
  • Some leftover debug text formerly displayed when kicking a mine during The Magister encounter has been removed.
  • The Magister's Slayer XP has been fixed.
  • The Magister's lore books now appear in a player-owned house bookcase correctly.
  • Super restore potions now restore life points by 25% of the usual amount instead of 50% in The Magister encounters.
  • The Minister pet now displays the owner's Magister kills instead of the examiner's kills.

• hotfix 12 June 2017 (Update):
  • Players will no longer receive a message saying that they have no keys to fight the Magister with when going through the boss portal.

• update 3 July 2017 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

Concept art of the Magister.

• Upon release, there was a bug where the Magister gave 50,000 slayer experience upon defeating him. This was unintentional and quickly hotfixed on the same day, reducing it to 8,000.
• Oreb is a Hebrew name appearing in the Old Testament meaning "raven". Notably, the Magister was first referenced in content developed by Mod Raven.
• Charron, the name of the Magister's house, is a possible reference to Charon, a figure in Greek mythology who carries souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron.
• The title "Magister", when translated idiomatically from Latin, means "Master", a honorific title often used to address individuals of high social status, such as teachers.
• The Magister is one of four monsters who can lower the player's maximum life points, the others being Barrelchest Mk II, Kal'gerion demons in the Shadow Reef, and Yor'Ger the Deceiver.
• It was possible to Quick Chat Magister kills before the boss was actually released.
• He is referred to as High Magister Oreb by Lucifurr, who claims to have been his apprentice.
• Upon release, there was a rare bug that caused the Magister to become immune to most forms of damage at low health, forcing the player to kill him off with weapon poison. He could still attack and damage players, but was incapable of using abilities. This has been fixed as of the 10 July 2017 update.
• The Magister was given the ability to use Freedom against stuns with the 23 July 2017 update. Prior to this, he would only use Freedom if he was bound.
• The Magister was given several updates due to player complaints on 2 October 2017:
  • His overall defence was lowered; his general defence level lowered and affinities raised to make hitting him easier.
  • He is now able to phase whilst stunned.
• Oreb and his former pupil Nomad physically resemble each other somewhat, as both have bright green eyes, bald heads and greyish skin tone. This could be because both are necromancers who have used Soul obelisks to unnaturally prolong their lives. In addition to this, their combat levels (699, 799, and 899) are similar to each other.
• As of 1 February 2018, the highest kill count for this boss was 15,388 kills.
  • This had increased to 22,169 by 13 December 2018.