Dealga



Dealga is a monkey who was released with the Ancient effigies update on 15 June 2010. He owns Dealga's Scimitar Emporium and sells Dragon scimitars, starting at 100,000 coins each, with a stock of 10. A M'speak amulet is required to understand him, but not to trade with him. Additionally, the completion of Monkey Madness is required to buy a dragon scimitar from him. If wearing a M'speak amulet from the quest Monkey Madness, you can talk to him about why he is there and he explains that he is selling Dragon scimitars to humans, because they pay a high price for it.

Before the Update
Before this update, the only other place where Dragon scimitars were sold was on Ape Atoll at Daga's Scimitar Smithy. As the place requires tedious effort to reach without Ape Atoll teleport, many people chose to just buy them from the Grand Exchange or other players. Because of this, the quantity demanded was higher than the quantity supplied at the fixed price ceiling and thus was very hard to obtain through the Grand Exchange. The street price ran about 120k with some cases of people offering up to 150k. The addition of Dealga stabilised this and Dragon scimitars can now be easily bought at the Grand Exchange for 100k.

Trivia

 * Free players could see Dealga for some time (until he disappeared on free worlds) but couldn't understand him.
 * Besides pet monkeys, Dealga is currently the only monkey with updated graphics.
 * Dealga may be a reference to the Pokémon Dialga.