The Lord of Vampyrium

The Lord of Vampyrium will be the penultimate instalment in the Myreque quest series. It is set to be released in September 2015 based on the results of a dragonstone Power to the Players poll, wherein it beat a quest about Daemonheim and floor 61 by 20,602 votes. The quest will be master, and involve the infiltration of Castle Drakan by the Myreque. It is said to feature a battle with Lord Drakan himself, and the special talents of Ivan Strom, hinted at throughout the series, will be important.

The curator of the Myreque series, Mod Ana, will not be the quest's developer due to her being in the Ninja Team at the time of the poll, and no longer working on RuneScape at the time of release. However, the greater part of the design is hers and the developer, Mod Rowley, will be working in close cooperation with her. If time permits, Ana would have been be able to write some of the dialogue as well, but her departure most likely changed this.

The quest is tentatively estimated to be released in September.

Development history
Following the release of The Branches of Darkmeyer, Mod Ana would continue shaping the plot of the remainder of the Myreque series and stated she was very excited to be working on it in addition to her main projects. The release of The World Wakes in March 2013 meant she had to adjust parts of her design, seeing that that quest's events had changed the role of the Morytanian splinter group last seen in Legacy of Seergaze.

At RuneFest 2013, the Myreque series was discussed by Mod Ana. She mentioned that the next quest would focus on Safalaan, that she would like to reveal Vanstrom's history and that the series might potentially feature spin-off quests about the splinter group and the werewolves.

In 2014, Mod Osborne confirmed the quest would not be released that year due to the development of a very large amount of elf content, consisting of Plague's End - the finale to the elf quest series -, Prifddinas and the Tirannwn Achievement Diary. In the latter half of December, a dragonstone Power to the Players poll was released, allowing players to vote between the next Myreque quest and a Daemonheim quest for release at the end of 2015. The poll came with a detailed description of the quest:

The Myreque quest subsequently won. Later, it was announced on the forums and on Twitter that Mod Rowley would most likely be developing the quest after finishing work on Dimension of Disaster and possibly the Construction update. By the end of January, the quest had entered pre-design stage as Mod Ana drew up her aims and plans for it. The quest entered development stage in the first half of March.

According to the developer, Mod Ana's departure from the RuneScape team in April had no impact on the development of the quest. Around late June, Mod Stu joined the development team when adamant and rune dragons were released.

In late June, the Ninja Team also started a Myreque series spotlight, aiming to make improvements to the existing Myreque quests and their rewards. Closer to release, a medley of the new music tracks was also released.

Pre-release teasers
In August, the members of the Myreque, minus Veliaf and Safalaan, who had been updated four years prior, were graphically updated. These graphical updates, along with the addition of skyboxes to Morytania, were released on 10 August 2015. In addition, dialogue for The Branches of Darkmeyer was added to Amelia and Rory.

Over the course of the following days, villagers began disappearing from Burgh de Rott, with one villager disappearing every day that a player with The Branches of Darkmeyer completed visited the village, specific to each player. Every time a villager disappeared, a missing poster appeared for them and Amelia and Rory's dialogue about the Branches of Darkmeyer updated to note their disappearance. A total of 20 villagers disappeared, leaving only Amelia, Rory, Aurel, Cornelius, Elisabeta and Radu.


 * 1) Teodor, Victor and Helena - Missing: Teodor - has he been harvested?
 * 2) Vasile - Missing: Vasile - last seen eating a rat.
 * 3) Catalina - Missing: Catalina - lost while playing hide and seek.
 * 4) Valeria - Missing: Valeria - gone, just like Gabriela and Marius.
 * 5) Sergiu - Missing: Sergiu - lost him, but found his missing shoe.
 * 6) Emilia - Missing: Emilia - it's unlikely she escaped to Misthalin.
 * 7) Luminata - Missing: Luminata - last seen eating a rat.
 * 8) Nicoleta - Missing: Nicoleta - out alone in the cold.
 * 9) Calin - Missing: Calin - gone, but not forgotten.
 * 10) Mihail - Missing: Mihail - where are you, Mihail?
 * 11) Ileana - Missing: Ileana - she owed me money.
 * 12) Sorin - Missing: Sorin - looking for new chess partner.
 * 13) Razvan - Missing: Razvan - rat population growing.
 * 14) Grigore - Missing: Grigore - last seen eating a rat.
 * 15) Ivan - Missing: Ivan - lost playing hide and seek.
 * 16) Luscion - Missing: Luscion - gone, but not forgotten.
 * 17) Simona - Missing: Simona - gone, but not forgotten.
 * 18) Florin - Missing: Florin. Wanted: Someone to throw tomatoes at strangers.

After 7 disappearances, Veliaf Hurtz also gained new dialogue, speaking about people have been disappearing from Burgh de Rott and that there are rumours that Lord Lowerniel Drakan is poised to make his return.

Trivia

 * The quest was originally stated to be grandmaster but was later revealed to be master.
 * In the September 2015 BTS, the Hunter requirement for the quest was incorrectly stated to be 70 rather than 76.