Glorious Memories

Party planning
Note: You need to be on the Standard spellbook to complete the quest. You cannot use an Enchant diamond tablet instead.




 * To start the quest, travel to Rellekka and speak to Manni the Reveller, found in the longhall.


 * He buys you a beer and requests that you invite Mawnis Burrowgar of Neitiznot and King Vargas of Miscellania to Chieftain Brundt's surprise birthday feast.


 * Travel to either island, and invite either ruler. (It makes no difference which. You have to speak to only one ruler to progress through this part of the quest).


 * Both are annoyed with the chieftain: King Vargas says he "wouldn't go to his feast, even if I could fit through the doors." Mawnis Burrowgar says he's not going and that "you're entering a world of trouble here." He suggests that you talk to Brundt if you want to know why.

Brundt's story

 * Return to Rellekka, and speak first to Manni and then to the chieftain in the longhall.


 * You find out that the chieftain is angry with them too, and he explains why. In a cutscene, Brundt tells you that 15 years ago, he, Prince Vargas, Young Mawnis, Nial Swiftfling, and Asleif Hamalsdotter the healer (this Asleif is the same woman as from the Mountain Daughter quest) went on an adventure for a tablet but were defeated and somehow found themselves outside the Fishing Guild.


 * They argued among themselves over what happened on their failed adventure and to the tablet. The cutscene then ends.


 * You ask the chieftain if you can help.


 * He says he'll be happy when he knows who took the tablet. He also gives you Cave directions, which will help you find the cave the adventurers were defeated in. The directions have only one sentence that is useful to you, so you need to talk to Vargas and Mawnis to get the other two instructions.

Vargas's story

 * Make your way to Miscellania, and talk to King Vargas.


 * You persuade him to tell you his side of the story, which he does in a cutscene.


 * You see four of the adventurers (Nial Swiftfling is not in the scene) in the bottom of an ice cave, where they encounter a horrifying monster, a Gnoeals. The horned ape-like creature curses the valiant Prince Vargas, who nonetheless defeats it by hitting a 530 and then a 720 with a Dragon longsword (which seems impossible for a player to hit).


 * Following the cutscene, he says he doesn't remember Asleif helping him. (Asleif later in the quest reveals that Vargas only remembers what suits him, so he likely exaggerated and changed details in his version of the story.) Vargas, using the pen you made for him in Throne of Miscellania, writes down what he remembers of the directions to the cave.

Mawnis's story

 * Now, travel to Neitiznot, and speak with Mawnis Burrowgar.


 * He offers to tell you his story.


 * In a cutscene, you see the same ice beast as before, and Nial Swiftling is again part of the adventuring group. The Gnoeals spits green goo at Nial, who takes the brunt of the attack. Asleif asks if anyone else is hurt, and Mawnis says a little bit landed on Vargas. Vargas then melodramatically screams "It hurts, it hurt!"


 * Nial transforms into a yeti and kills the Gnoeals but then turns on Brundt. Asleif says Nial is "quite out of his mind," and they all flee from Nial.


 * Following the cutscene, Mawnis says he has barely heard from Brundt since and suggests that Vargas may have forgotten large elements of the story and inflated his own role. He writes for you what he remembers of the directions to the cave.

Tracking the ice creature
Note: Before starting your search, prepare for the battle with the level 156 Nial Swiftfling in his yeti form, which attacks with Melee and Ranged. Also be prepared to fend off yeti and Gnoeals melee and mage attacks. Be sure to bring a pickaxe. To find the cave, you must have a completed list of directions.


 * Follow the instructions on the directions.


 * You find yourself in the Trollweiss Hunter area. Fairy ring code DKS conveniently teleports you south-east of the area.


 * Head to the north-western corner of the hunter area's upper platform, and inspect the tracks of some ape-like creature you find there.


 * Note: If you are unable to see the footprint tracks, try switching to HD.




 * Choose the Inspect Tracks option for each print, and follow the footprints to the ice mound to the east of where you started.


 * Choose the Dig Ice mound option on the mound of ice while carrying a pickaxe to create a cave entrance.


 * Note: You must inspect the last set of tracks, or else you won't be shown the dig option.


 * Choose the Climb-down Cave entrance option on the icy passageway.


 * The Hunting expert stops you and warns it's dangerous down there.


 * Once inside the Trollweiss Dungeon, dash to the far southern wall.


 * Yetis and Gnoeals attack you. Low-levelled players may want to turn on Protect from Magic to prevent damage from the Gnoeals. If you want, pick up A scrap of paper just south-west of the stairs to read a note possibly written by Nial Swiftfling.


 * Look for a tunnel to the west along the southern wall, and enter it. The passageway is marked with the red exclamation-mark dungeon icon on the minimap.




 * Upon entering the chamber, you are attacked by Nial Swiftfling's yeti form. Nial attacks with melee and ranged and is reasonably powerful, so bring good food. Nial is also able to knock you back when he roars (like the Giant Roc during My Arm's Big Adventure and the Ice Troll King during Fremennik Isles), and will do so every three to four hits.


 * If you are ranging or maging, you can use a safe spot on the western side of the cave for the fight. From the safe spot, turn on the Protect from Missiles prayer and you will take no damage aside from when Nial roars. See the image to the right for the location.


 * If you choose to melee him, take your best weapon and armor, a few Prayer potions (more if you have low prayer or are lower level), a super set, and 5-20 pieces of good food, preferably Monkfish or higher. When you arrive at the cave where the yetis are fighting, turn on Protect from Magic and run through to the cave to the exclamation mark. Go through to where Nial Swiftfling is and drink your super set. Change your prayer to Protect from Missiles and lure him to a place where you can fight it out with melee and you have a wall or stalagmite behind you (to nullify his push attack). A Dragon dagger may be helpful.


 * Note: If you die while fighting the Nial, a Gravestone does appear. If you kill the yeti and die at the same time, you will have to kill it again to receive the items necessary to finish the quest.


 * When defeated, Nial's drops a Herb pouch, Nial's throwing axe, Unfinished astral rune, Yeti hair, and Big bones (which can be buried).


 * Note: If after you have killed Nial and picked up his items, your quest diary still says "Mawnis has given me his part of the directions to the cave. Once I've investigated there, I need to speak to his sister, Freygerd, in Jatizso," go back in the cave, kill Nial again, and pick up everything he drops. You will get a few of the same items. Now, that passage in your quest diary should be crossed out and you may go talk to Freygerd on Jatizso. When you leave the cave, the tracks will be gone.

Emigration tax?

 * Exit the dungeon, and head to Jatizso.


 * Speak with Freygerd, who is wandering around on the west side of the island, near the city gates.


 * She says she wants to move back to Neitiznot, but King Gjuki Sorvott IV has threatened her with an emigration tax.


 * Go in the town, and enter the checkerboard-floored building west of the bank, where you find the king.


 * Have a delightful chat with the king.


 * He agrees that Freygerd doesn't have to pay his new tax.


 * Return to Freygerd, and tell her the king has given her special dispensation.


 * You also tell her you found Nial and ended his torment.

Give her Nial's throwing axe. She tells to send her regards to her brother, Mawnis Burrowgar.

Vargas restored


Note: Be sure you are on the standard spellbook during this part of the quest. For this section, you need an empty vial, Yeti hair, Herb pouch, ten Earth runes, one Cosmic rune, Pestle and mortar, and one Clean irit.


 * Travel to Miscellania, and speak with King Vargas again.


 * You two talk about the mountain daughter's Herb pouch you found in the cave. You think it might be useful, and you tell Vargas you will try to find Aslief.


 * Head to Mountain Camp.


 * Before heading up the path to the mountain daughter, take a pole and a plank from the Goat's pen in the mountain camp, just north of Hamal the Chieftain's tent. Alternatively, you can use a staff (such as a Dramen staff or Earth staff) instead of the pole.


 * Head up to the shining pool.


 * Climb the tall tree, use the pole or staff on the clump of rocks to vault over them, and use a plank on the flat stone to reach the small island in the middle of the lake.


 * Call for Asleif by choosing the Listen-to Shining pool option on the bubbles escaping from the lake.


 * The spirit of Asleif Hamalsdotter finally appears to you. You two chitchat for a bit before you ask if she can cure Vargas. She says she can try and starts to give you instructions.


 * When you tell Asleif that Vargas has no memory of her caring for him, she tells you he has always been like that and only remembers what suits him.


 * Use your empty vial on the spring coming up through the rock next to you to get a Vial of mountain water.


 * Add Clean irit to the vial to get Mountain irit potion (unf).


 * Use the Diamond root with the Pestle and Mortar to grind it and make Diamond root dust.


 * Cast the Enchant Level 4 Jewellery spell on the dust to create Enchanted diamond root dust.


 * Note: You cannot use an enchant diamond tablet on the dust.


 * Add the Enchanted diamond root dust to the irit mixture to get Diamond dust potion (unf).


 * Finally, add the Yeti hair to the unfinished potion to make Yeti curse cure.


 * Note: If you have lost your yeti hair, you don't have to kill Nial again: The weaker yetis in Trollweiss Dungeon also drop yeti hair.


 * Return to King Vargas, and give him Asleif's potion.


 * He turns back into a human and agrees to attend the feast. He also takes the Herb pouch as a remembrance of Asleif.

Brundt remembers

 * If you haven't already done so, travel to Neitiznot to tell Mawnis of his sister's imminent return to the island.


 * Note: If you skip speaking with Mawnis, the feast will not start.


 * Finally, return to Rellekka, and talk to Brundt the Chieftain.


 * You show him the Unfinished astral rune, which helps him recall more from the failed adventure.


 * You impatiently watch a cutscene, where Brundt remembers an additional member of their adventuring group called the Mysterious Mage, who turns out to be a much younger Baba Yaga of the Moon Clan.


 * (Later, when you talk with Baba Yaga, you learn that she teleported them all out of the dungeon and to the Fishing guild, erased their memories, and teleported away with the Prophecy Tablet, leaving them to argue among themselves, as Brundt told in one of his cutscenes.)


 * Talk to Manni the Reveller after Brundt's cutscene for another, celebratory, cutscene.

Congratulations, Quest complete!

Rewards



 * One quest point
 * 10,000 Magic experience
 * 5,000 Herblore experience
 * The Tome of Glorious Deeds, which gives you three times 5,000 experience in Attack, Strength, Constitution, Defence, or Ranged.
 * An unfinished astral rune. Take it to Baba Yaga on the Lunar Isle for an additional reward.

Additional rewards



 * To claim this reward, travel to the Lunar Isle, and speak with Baba Yaga in her chicken-leg house.


 * Choose the Talk about astral runes option. Make sure you have your Seal of passage and the Unfinished astral rune with you. She tells you it is her lucky rune and asks if she can have it back. She also offers to tell you a story.


 * You tell her you want to know the bits the other adventurers don't remember.


 * In a cutscene, you see again the adventurers in the dungeon, fighting the yeti form of Nial Swiftfling. The Prophecy Tablet is on the ground, behind Vargas. Baba Yaga picks up the tablet and then casts the Tele Group Fishing Guild spell to save them from Nial. In front of the guild, Brundt asks Baba Yaga to give him the tablet, but she refuses. She casts the Cure Other spell on Vargas, hoping it will help him, and then casts a spell that clears the memories of the group. The spell shows birds circling around the adventurers' heads, much like the stun emote when you unsuccessfully pickpocket an NPC. She then teleports away. Curiously, she looks to be wielding a Dramen staff and not a Lunar staff.


 * Back in the present, Baba Yaga said she kept the tablet, thinking it might be useful, but soon lost hope of that. She exchanges the Unfinished astral rune for a Prophecy Tablet and an Antique Lamp.


 * You may rub the lamp to gain 2,500 experience in any skill level 35 or higher.


 * You can take the tablet to Historian Minas at the Varrock museum to receive 10 Kudos. The Prophecy Tablet will be stored in the Display case 48. This display case is located on the top floor in the museum with replicas of the four other tablets.



Music
Music tracks unlocked:


 * Lair of Kang Admi - in the Ice cave
 * Frost Fight- in Nial's lair

Trivia

 * On the day of release, the spoiler read: "The spoilers have been written on some ancient and battered stone tablets, it'll take us at least a day to figure out what they actually say."


 * The word skål that the reunited friends say in the final cutscene is Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish for cheers. It can also refer to a bowl in Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish.


 * On the day of release, when you selected the ferry option with Maria Gunnars to Neitiznot or Mord Gunnars to Jatizso you would be ferried to the islands straight away instead of talking to the Fremennik couple.


 * When you talk to Freygerd about Nial, a song called 'Nial's Widow' plays (you can see the name by looking on the music interface). This song is unique because it is one of the only songs which is not listed in the track list, but has a name. You can only hear the song when you talk to Freygerd. Another song is Glorious Reunation, during Mawnis' cutscene.


 * When persuading King Gjuki Sorvott IV to let Mawnis's sister emigrate without taxing her, you say "Read my lips: no new taxes!" This is a direct quote of a campaign pledge made in 1988 by former U.S. President George H.W. Bush.


 * When studying the display in the Varrock Museum where the prophecy tablet is displayed, your Fremennik honorific will be used.


 * During cutscenes, if you try to talk to one of characters in the scene, Brundt the Chieftain will stop telling the story and say "Are you listening to me? Don't ask for a story and then interrupt me!"


 * When writing down his directions to the cave, King Vargas says "This pen you made is really handy, you know." This is a reference to Throne of Miscellania, when you make a giant pen so that Vargas can sign the peace treaty with Etceteria.


 * Vargas makes the noise of the yeti when turning back into a human after being cured.


 * At one time, it was possible to make your house appear to have been filled with snow by teleporting to it from the Trollweiss Dungeon chamber that held Nial Swiftfling. However, when you ran to the far edge of your property, you seemed to float off the edge. And if you ran far enough, the cave disappeared and your house returned to its normal look. Jagex has since fixed this glitch.


 * You may be able to keep the Herb pouch after the quest, although Vargas asks to keep it. To keep it, walk away when King Vargas asks you to give the pouch to him.


 * After completing the quest, you can go back and talk to Brundt to watch again the cutscenes of the three stories he told during the quest. Baba Yaga will also show you her cutscenes if you ask her.


 * Kang Admi is one of the Himalayan names for Yeti. The literal translation is Snow Man.


 * After viewing Baba Yaga's cutscene, you are standing outside her house but continue to talk to her, even though she remains inside her house and therefore not visible.