Vyrewatch



The Vyrewatch are the vampiric secret police that receive blood tithes from the population of Morytania and suppress any resistance to the Drakan overlords. They patrol the skies of Meiyerditch and will ask the player for a blood tithe. If the player refuses, they may either: attempt to escape, agree to give the tithe or be sent to the mines.

Vyrewatch have combat levels ranging from 85 to 140. Vyrewatch can be fought; however, they are currently immune to all weapons, except the Ivandis flail. This is due to their mind-reading ability, which allows them to predict the enemy's attack intentions and easily dodge swings from normal weapons. Flails, though, are very difficult weapons to handle even by the most experienced fighters, so the attack almost never goes exactly as the user intended, rendering the Vyrewatch's prediction ability ineffective. During the Legacy of Seergaze quest, Kael Forshaw states that a mercenary tried killing a Vyrewatch using a Verac's flail, but it didn't work because it wasn't made of silver. Vyrewatch cannot be killed by Poison. When killed with the Ivandis flail, they will always drop a Vyre corpse. When Vyrewatch are at half health, they can be frozen with the special attack of the Ivandis flail, Retainer. When frozen, Guthix balance potion can be used on them to deal around 15 damage.

If you freeze a Vyrewatch with the Ivandis flail special attack and another Vyrewatch attacks you, you will still attack the frozen vyrewatch, even though it is a single-combat zone. However, if the effect wears off before you kill the vyrewatch, your attacker will be the new vyrewatch, and you cannot attack the original one. Vyrewatch do not have to be frozen to be killed, unlike Vampyre juvenile and Vampyre juvinates. The Vyre corpse they drop can be cremated in the Paterdomus Columbarium.


 * See Legacy of Seergaze for more details about cremating Vyre corpses.

A Ring of recoil has no effect against the Vyrewatch.

Habitats

 * Throughout Meiyerditch.
 * East of Burgh de Rott (only after the Legacy of Seergaze quest.)
 * Temple Trekking and Burgh de Rott Ramble minigames (only after the Legacy of Seergaze quest.)

Trivia

 * Interestingly, if players hover the pointer over a Vyrewatch, as it is taking off, the caption changes to "male flying vampire" or "female flying vampire" for a second.
 * If players freeze the Vyrewatch using the Ivandis flail special, they can use the "talk" option on the Vyrewatch.
 * Using Guthan's armour to fight Vyrewatch would heal the player, but deal no damage to the Vyrewatch. This was fixed in an update and no longer works.
 * If you kill Vyrewatch over the water in eastern section of Burg de Rott, they will fall into the water and you will not receive its corpse. This is stated as resolved in the 15 July 2008 Updates.
 * Using a Guthix balance on a frozen Vyrewatch will bring it out of its frozen state and do around 15 damage to it.
 * It seems that the level 130 Vyrewatch near the Myreque Hideout in Sanguinesti region can easily be tricked(with around 52 thieving) if you are caught.
 * Vyrewatch can land in the air when you are walking on the wall, and they take an interest in you.
 * A Vyrewatch's wings differ in colour according to their levels and quite possibly their rank.