The Elder Kiln

The Elder Kiln is a quest focused on the origins of the TzHaar. A Return To Stone, a new lore released before the quest, introduces the theme.

Hatching a lost egg
'''All combat in this quest takes place in safe areas, and no items will be lost apart from what you've consumed. However, dying will reset that area of combat, and you will have to start that fight again.'''

Speak to TzHaar-Mej-Jeh by the hatching pool, in the north-east part of TzHaar City. He will say that his egg is dying because it is too cold. The Mej have tried to save it, but they say it is beyond help. Mej-Jeh disagrees; he thinks that even though many eggs are being born different or dying, his egg is stronger and will be a great TzHaar. He asks you to help.

TzHaar-Mej-Ak and Mej-Jeh will help you to keep the egg within the optimum temperature for hatching. To do this, the TzHaar will provide runes so you may cast fire spells to heat it up and water spells to cool it down, keeping it between the two markers on the temperature gauge, which moves up and down as time passes. Runes are not needed; you don't even have to be on Standard spells, and no experience is gained. It is advisable to let the egg cool slightly, and only cast when it is too low, or the TzHaar-Mejs' fire attacks may push it too high. The markers on the gauge will move periodically. When the temperature is between the markers, the hatching percentage rises, and the percentage lowers when the temperature is outside the markers.

It should be noted that it is always easier to get the temperature up than down, as the TzHaar-Mejs could only use fire spells. Also, the space between the markers becomes smaller and smaller as the hatch percentage increases. If the hatch percentage reaches 0, you must start all over.

Despite your efforts, the egg hatches as Ga'al. TzHaar-Mej-Ak takes it away to join the others for the Fight Pit.

Restoring memories
TzHaar-Mej-Jeh explains that Ga'al-Jeh has to die because he is useless without memories, and the TzHaar do not have any way to teach new skills. More and more eggs are dying or hatching as Ga'al, and it is becoming a problem for the race.

Mej-Jeh thinks he has a way to give the Ga'al their memories back, but he doesn't think the other Mej will approve. They think the TzHaar shouldn't go back there, but Mej-Jeh thinks it is the only way to save their racial memories. But he needs a Ga'al to test his theory on and he has chosen his son, Ga'al-Jeh.

You now need to get Ga'al-Jeh from the Main Plaza, west of the hatching pools. Talking to him shows that he is unwilling to leave when asked.

The Fight Pits
Talk to TzHaar-Mej-Ak. He will tell you you will have to protect the Ga'al from death in the fight pits yourself if you want to rescue it. You will need to be prepared for a moderately hard fight involving all three styles of the combat triangle, against quite high levelled enemies. Note that you are allowed to bring familiars, but they can't have anything in their inventory. Thus, a good choice would be a healing familiar such as a unicorn stallion or a combat familiar such as a steel titan.

You will have to fight TzHaar-Ket-Yit'tal after all enemies are defeated, so a prayer potion may be required.

Protecting the Ga'al
At the start of the fight, the player spoofs are either fighting each other, one of the TzHaar in the area or Ga'al-Jeh. At the top-left corner of your screen you will see the remaining health of Jeh, which you need to keep as high as possible. When you attack a monster in the area, it will focus on you. You can use the centre of the area as safespot, and possibly trap the hardened TzHaar-Ket on top of Ga'al-Jeh to let him act as safespot against other melee enemies.

Protect prayers or deflect curses will fully block all damage from TzHaar and player spoofs alike. The TzHaar-Xil (Hardened) use two attack styles, ranged and a basic melee attack.

TzHaar-Mej-Ak observes the battle behind a hot vent door at the south-east corner of the arena, which also serves as the only exit. There is no penalty for letting Ga'al-Jeh die, you just have to try again. If you die, you would respawn in the Main Plaza, lose no items and with stats fully recovered other than the notable exception for Special attack energy. Players might want to recharge it first before another attempt for best chance of victory.

Note: The following strategies would always assume the player could kill the opponent in question in a timely fashion. Players should always prioritise those attacking Ga'al-Jeh.

Prayer switching method
A good strategy is to take out Odischamp immediately, as he starts off attacking Ga'al-Jeh. Be sure to use Protect from Magic or Deflect Magic, since he can hit fairly high. Then, attack the west TzHaar-Xil, who would be either idle or ranging Ga'al-Jeh and attack him from a safespot with Protect from Missiles or Deflect Missiles. Meleeing at close range is trickier, and inexperienced players are strongly recommended against bringing combat summoning familiars, as this would make the Xils' attacks more unpredictable and harder to pray against; see TzHaar-Xil (Hardened) for more details. The TzHaar-Kets would be busy fighting each other, so ignore them for the time being. The south TzHaar-Xil would usually be the next to kill its opponent, Firecapezorz. Don't attack it unless it starts attacking Ga'al-Jeh, as being attacked by two of the Xils is extremely dangerous. Deal the the south Xil in the same way, make use of safespots and avoid letting him attack you up close and pray ranged. Kill the remaining Ket if it starts attacking Ga'al-Jeh.

NoRemorse77 will start attacking the Ga'al, so attract her attention as well. LolthenKILL and FightpitPKer's battle should be over soon afterwards, and whoever won will be at low health, so use the appropriate prayer and finish them off. NoRemorse77 won't be a problem, since she apparently lost her claws before the beginning of the Fight Pit. Make sure to keep an eye on the remaining TzHaar-Ket, as it can easily kill the Ga'al if not focused on you.

Tanking method
A combat level of 120 and 80 defence is recommended for this method. A method to win this fight is to take extremely highly defensive armor and pray protect / deflect magic. Overload would be useful, but it is best to drink it before you start fighting. Use a barrows helmet (preferably Verac's helmet for the prayer bonus), a barrows body (Torag's body, Guthan's body, and Dharok's body all have the highest defensive stats), a barrows leg armor (preferrably Verac's plateskirt for the prayer bonus), an amulet of fury, dragon boots or steadfast boots, a chaotic weapon, an obsidian cape or skillcape or fire cape, and a dragonfire shield or chaotic kiteshield. These give you 380+ melee and ranged defence bonus, which is the minimum necessary to tank the various monsters. Torva armour would give a valuable maximum life point boost, and 480+ defence bonus against melee and ranged is possible. Using this method, immediately kill Odischamp while praying protect / deflect magic. Chances are, both TzHaar-Xil (Hardened)s will then kill their respective opponents and attack Ga'al-Jeh. Switch your prayer to protect / deflect range and attack them both once to attract their attention. They will virtually never hit with their melee attacks, so you can kill them at your leisure. Simply attack whatever is attacking the Ga'al and eat when needed.

Note: If player dies or if Ga'al is killed, then progress in the Fight Pits is reset. Talk to TzHaar-Mej-Ak to restart to kill all the fighters again.

The TzHaar Champion
After killing all the enemies in the Fight Pits, TzHaar-Mej-Jeh and TzHaar-Mej-Ak will have a short conversation, and Mej-Ak will call TzHaar-Ket-Yit'tal, the TzHaar champion, to kill the Ga'al. He uses melee only, so if you have enough prayer left, you can just use protect from melee or deflect melee and fight him until he dies. The TzHaar Champion will also begin attacking you immedately, so Melee Protect as your quick prayer option is recommended. The TzHaar Champion can drain your prayer when attacking you. You can safe-spot if using a halberd, magic or ranged. Stand between the pillar in the middle, and Ga'al.

TzHaar-Ket-Yit'tal has an extremely high defence against ranged attacks. A dragon halberd would be far more effective. However, if making use of safespots, this is fairly irrelevant as long as the player has enough time.

This fight should be very easy if using a safespot or praying with enough prayer potions.

NOTE: If you die during the fight with the TzHaar Champion you won't have to do the pits again, you will only have to kill the champion.

To the Kiln
After the fights, talk to one of the TzHaar-Mejs. After a conversation about how Mej-Jeh wants to transfer the TzHaar's memories using TokKul, he will send you to the Kiln to transfer the memories from Ket-YitTal's TokKul to Ga'al-Xox.

The Kiln can be found to the east of the Main Plaza. The TzHaar-Ket at the entrance will give you access to your bank, allowing for quick restocking of supplies after clearing each checkpoint.

Proceed to the Kiln and try to enter the cave, where the guard will warn you that he can hear some Ket-Zek in the cave, so be sure to carry some prayer potions and either a rune or dragon pickaxe or the inferno adze. Additionally, it is advisable to bring a ranged weapon and ammunition whilst proceeding through this section to defeat the Ket-Zek with ease. Note that you will not be permitted to bring a summoning familiar into the Kiln.

After entering, you will encounter a short cut scene in which Ga'al-Xox will stop following after you jump a narrow chasm. You will tell Ga'al-Xox how to venture across and it will continue to follow you.

Praying protect/Deflect Magic throughout your journey in these caves is highly recommended as even with high magic absorption, you will suffer devastating hits. All monsters in these caves have attacks that can easily hit for over 200 life points unless proper protection prayers are used. Some monsters even possess the ability to hit through prayer, although only in low amounts.

NOTE: This area is safe and you will keep all your items when you die.

Strategy note: After completing a room, to restore life points, Prayer and other stats or to go to bank, going to the next room and dying on purpose will return you to the entrance quickly. Entering the cave again returns you to the room you left.

Room 1
As you proceed you will encounter lava monsters and the TokTz-Ket-Dill. You can use Protect From Magic to nullify the attacks from the lava monsters, but to fight TokTz-Ket-Dill you will have to initially fight with your pickaxe to penetrate its armour - it will occasionally stomp incurring unavoidable damage throughout the fight. If you have Protect Melee/Deflect Melee activated, the TokTz-Ket-Dill will use it's stomp attack frequently, inflicting upwards of 200 damage every time.

Once you have cleared all these monsters, you can proceed into the next room. Before doing so, investigate the skeleton by the end of the cavern to receive the journal of Perjour, which is needed later.

Room 2
In the next cavern, you’ll find some Tokkul, pick it up. You will encounter two Ket-Zek and more lava monsters. If you have deflect magic and do not want to fight the Ket-Zeks, turn on deflect magic and draw fire from the Ket-Zeks. This will kill them slowly but effectively. These will have to be beaten before you can proceed into the next room. Also note if you have dreadnips they can be used to kill the Ket-Zek but you must attack them once in a while then step out of their melee range.

Room 3
The next room contains four more lava monsters and a TokTz-Ket-Dill.

After defeating the monsters in this cave, you will come across a giant door and some ancient scales, this is where the journal of Perjour comes in very handy. Refer to the note in the journal to decode the messages that the ancient scales read. The amount specified is shown in the TzHaar language, an example being: 7 + 16 - 4 - 3 (right) and 5 - 3 + 2 + 7 (left), making 16 on the right and 11 on the left. It is different for every player. If the incorrect amount of Tokkul is placed on the scales the player will be hit for 300 of damage.

Once the correct amounts of Tokkul have been placed on each scale, the ancient door will open.

Room 4
Again you will have to jump over chasms. Follow the map and you will eventually come across another TokTz-Ket-Dill. Follow the road and jump over the next few chasms and enter the Cave Entrance.

Room 5
Upon entering the next room, you will be confronted by a Yt-MejKot and three more lava monsters, use Protect from Magic/Deflect whilst chipping away the Mejkot's health and then worry about the lava monsters. There is a safe spot for ranging/mage just east of the room entrance.

In the Kiln
'''Before starting this fight make sure that Ket-Yit'tal's TokKul is in your inventory. If you forget the TokKul then you can complete the 7 waves, go to the bank and you will not have to complete the 7 waves again. '''

When you finally enter the kiln itself, you will have a brief conversation, then you will be attacked by seven waves of creatures, in a manner similar to the Fight Caves. This fight, like the caves, is safe; however it is still the most difficult part of the quest.

Note: If you leave the caves, your progress in this fight is reset.

The Kiln waves contain five kinds of monsters:


 * TokHaar-Hur (Level 100) - Melee
 * TokHaar-Ket (180) - Melee
 * TokHaar-Xil (140) - Ranged
 * TokHaar-Mej (160) - Magic, but will hit melee at close range
 * TokHaar-Ket Champion (357) - Melee, will periodically drain prayer points

The waves are as follows:


 * 1) 2 TokHaar-Hur, 1 TokHaar-Xil
 * 2) 1 TokHaar-Xil, 1 TokHaar-Ket, 1 TokHaar-Mej
 * 3) 2 TokHaar-Xil, 1 TokHaar-Mej
 * 4) 2 TokHaar-Hur, 1 TokHaar-Xil, 1 TokHaar-Mej
 * 5) 1 TokHaar-Hur, 1 TokHaar-Xil, 1 TokHaar-Ket, 1 TokHaar-Mej
 * 6) 2 TokHaar-Mej, 1 TokHaar-Ket, 1 TokHaar-Xil
 * 7) 1 TokHaar-Xil, 1 TokHaar-Mej, 1 TokHaar-Ket Champion

All of them can hit through prayer; however, prayer does greatly reduce their accuracy and damage.

The general approach to these 7 waves are:
 * 1) Pray magic
 * 2) Trap melee
 * 3) Kill mage
 * 4) Pray range
 * 5) Kill range
 * 6) Pray melee
 * 7) Kill melee
 * 8) Repeat

Suggested inventory

 * Ket-YitTal's TokKul (required)
 * 3 prayer potions (flasks for lower levels) 2 saradomin brews
 * Rocktails > Sharks
 * Crystal bow > Rune crossbow

Optionally:
 * Soul Split curse
 * Penance aura; the combination of Soul Split and Penance together allow for healing during combat while regaining the prayer points spent praying.
 * Piety prayer or Turmoil curse; using these to boost your stats in fights against the tougher monsters can help kill them more quickly. Chivarly is useful for players who don't have 70+ prayer.
 * Dreadnip, a reward from the Dominion Tower, can potentially inflict substantial melee and poison damage while also freezing its opponent in place.
 * Berserker curse

Strategy
It is vital to use terrain to limit the number of monsters attacking you so you are only facing one combat style at a time. A good location is the "T"-shaped barrier in the north-west of the combat area (the bottom of the "T" is attached to the western edge of the combat area). This is a good location for multiple reasons:

1) The stock (the long part of the "T") blocks ranged, magic, and melee attacks

2) The cross of the "T" can't be walked across, but can be ranged, magiced, or halberded across, blocking melee monsters so you can pray against ranged or magic.

3) The cross of the "T" allows easy trapping of monsters on the opposite side of the stock

4) The location near the south-east corner makes it unlikely that monsters will spawn south or east of the barrier, meaning it is highly likely that no melee monster will be able to breach the barrier and get at you unless you lure them in, you won't easily attract the attention of a ranger or mage, and if you do easily attract the attention of a ranger or mage they'll likely be trapped across the stock from you until you are ready to deal with them.

5) No melee prayer is necessary unless you have extraordinarily bad luck

6) You can easily attack monsters trapped north of the "T" without getting in melee range because of the northern tip of the cross, or, alternatively, run up and melee attack a trapped monster for one strike then run back down.

Use of this barrier to ensure you are only facing once combat style at a time and a generous supply of prayer potions or flasks will make the waves extremely easy. Rangers and mages can treat the Champion as any other melee and attack it from across the low wall portion of the "T" barrier. Unless a halberd has been brought, melees should remember that the Champion can drain prayer; also, the Champion is extremely resistant to ranged and magic, but not immune.

There is also a T-shaped barrier in the north-west.

The waves do not vary from player to player, so check the guide to determine what combat styles you haven't yet defeated in your current round before you go searching the combat area for them (so you can pray against that type).

Mages have a powerful melee attack; to avoid this when meleeing, attack once and walk away.

Once all the waves are complete and the champion has been defeated, TokHaar-Hok will appear in the center of the arena, beckoning you to speak to him. He will tell you that he is a TokHaar, the original species the TzHaar derived from, and are continuously reborn by the Kiln, in which they were created. You convince TokHaar-Hok to allow your Ga'al to be reborn in the kiln.

Reborn, the Ga'al complains of the sheer pressure of being in Tokkul form. You and the Ga'al are sent from the Kiln, with TokHaar-Hok desiring more battle.

Decision
After you have spoken to TokHaar-Hok, you will need to run back out of the caves. Along the way, the Ga'al will talk to you about the new memories. TokHaar monsters appear from the caves, thirsty for more battle, and you have to flee from them. If you are killed while running through the caves you do NOT have to redo the battle.

After you leave the caverns, the Ga'al will ask you to meet it in the Main Plaza. Go to the main plaza and speak to either TzHaar-Mej-Jeh or TzHaar-Mej-Ak to enter a cutscene. The Ga'al will be asked to prove he has the memories, by defeating a TzHaar-Ket (Hardened). After he does, he will explain that being turned into Tokkul is torture and more Ga'al can't be infused with memories.

No matter what the player says, the TzHaar will ignore Ga'al's warning. Ga'al will return to the Kiln and report what has happened to TokHaar-Hok.

Rewards

 * 2 Quest points
 * One 100,000 experience lamp for either Attack, Strength, Defence, Magic or Ranged (Level 75 required)
 * 50,000 Magic experience
 * 30,000 Agility experience
 * A Tokkul-Zo, which increases damage to TzHaar, lava, and obsidian monsters, while also allowing teleportation around TzHaar City
 * Access to the Fight Kiln
 * Ability to claim, and remove the title "YtHaar", meaning "sacred-cold"
 * A random amount of Tokkul, up to 98 (whatever is left from the scale puzzle).
 * If the quest is completed before 29 February, you will receive an additional early bird tome, granting the same amount of experience the quest rewarded, effectively doubling the experience rewards. The 100.000 experience does not necessarily have to be used on the same skill as the first one.

Trivia

 * This quest is the first to feature an early bird bonus, where players who complete it within two weeks of the update (before 29 February 2012) receive double experience rewards.
 * Upon finishing the quest, your Adventurer's Log will say "I journeyed to the Elder Kiln, uncovered the TokHaar and combined Ga'al-Xox with tokkul. The consequences of this have not been felt, yet."
 * All the player spoofs fought during the quest have 990 life points, which is also the normal maximum of an actual player.
 * Currently, if you leaving during the battle with TzHaar-Ket-Yit'tal and return, the message when you re-enter the Fight Pits would still say you must defend Ga'al-Jeh even though he was already smashed to bits by the champion.
 * Despite fighting three TokTz-Ket-Dill, the quest TokTz-Ket-Dill is not a requirement for this quest.