Golden Path Challenge

The Golden Path Challenge is an that serves as part of the build up to the release of Menaphos. The first part of it was released on 25 April 2017, alongside the Menaphos trailer and website.

The Legend of the Golden Path
On 25 April 2017, a trailer for the upcoming Menaphos update was released. 14 seconds into the video, corrupted forms of Het, Scabaras, Apmeken and Crondis are shown, along with text in the Menaphite script, which was previously used in the Stolen Hearts and Diamond in the Rough quests. Translated, the text reads "bit.ly/gotogoldenpath", which is a link leading to a hidden page on the RuneScape website.

The website contains more text written in the Menaphite script, with versions in English, Dutch, French and Brazilian Portuguese. Translated, the English version of the text reads

The source code for the page contains text reading "The path to Menaphos shines in the sun.", pointing towards the newly added sundial to the north of Menaphos. Interacting with the sundial allows players to rotate the gnomon to point to letters in Menaphite script.

Admiral W
The source code of the Golden Path page also contains a commented out link to an Instagram page supposedly belonging to an Admiral W. When first discovered, the account only had two posts, but an additional three were released over the following three days. Each post contains a screenshot of a character or location, and a small text riddle.

The first letters of each of these characters and locations spells WADUD, revealing the Admira's true name to be Admiral Wadud. If "WADUD" is entered into the sundial north of Menaphos, it will click.

Trivia

 * Through guesswork, Wadud's name was guessed on the 26th of April using only three confirmed letters.