Unknown



The Unknown is supposedly all of the dark areas in Gielinor where players can neither travel to nor see. These areas are not connected to the World Map and enclose the areas on the map. For example, there is no map area south of the Kharidian Desert and the vast endlessness of these areas are displayed as checkered blue and white squares on the World map.

Future updates


Some of the "Unknown" is typically revealed when new parts of the map are revealed during updates. Writing will occasionally appear on it if something is to be created in the area in the near future. It is more or less the end of the RuneScape visible area, until something is constructed there. As of 1 July 2008, the "Unknown" is displayed as checkered blue and white squares on the World map, but has still remained colourless in game.

On one version of the RuneScape world map, the "Unknown" is covered in clouds that hide the black areas around Gielinor.

Future Areas
Some areas that are currently hidden have been talked about by NPC's in quests and towns. Some of these places are:


 * The Penguins Home Land.


 * Kudos Island.


 * A Large Continent above Morytania.


 * The empty land in Prifddinas and Menaphos (Although it has already be made, some if it is chopped off by the Unknown).


 * England (The humans from Camelot want to return there at one point).


 * Acheron


 * Underwater city, mentioned by guthix in the god letters

Evolution
With the release of RuneScape High Detail, the unknown now comes in more colours than just black, depending upon one's location in Gielinor. This has created a couple of interesting cases where the unknown is known to peek through local scenery such as the trapdoor leading from the Grand Tree ground floor down to the mines, this in an unintended feature of the game and can be considered as a small graphical glitch. Some parts of the ground in the wild and other hilled locations in RuneScape can also appear transparent when viewed from the correct angle, showing what is on the other side of the hill.

List of Unknown reveals

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! # !Update !Area revealed !colspan="3"|2009 !colspan="3"|2008 !colspan="3"|2007 !colspan="3"|2006 !colspan="3"|2005 !colspan="3"|2004
 * 1
 * Update:In Pyre Need
 * Phoenix Lair (south-west of Piscatoris Fishing Colony)
 * 2
 * Update:Soul Wars
 * Soul Wars
 * 3
 * Update:Tale of the Muspah
 * The North, Mahjarrat Ritual site cavern
 * 4
 * Update:Missing My Mummy
 * Uzer Mastaba
 * 5
 * Update:The Hunt for Red Raktuber
 * Lost Island, South of Ape Atoll Isle
 * 6
 * Update:Mobilising Armies
 * Mobilising Armies Command centre, West of Oo'Glog
 * Update:The Hunt for Red Raktuber
 * Lost Island, South of Ape Atoll Isle
 * 6
 * Update:Mobilising Armies
 * Mobilising Armies Command centre, West of Oo'Glog
 * Mobilising Armies Command centre, West of Oo'Glog
 * 1
 * Update:Dealing with Scabaras
 * Ullek (east of Sophanem)
 * 2
 * Update:As a First Resort...
 * Oo'glog
 * Update:As a First Resort...
 * Oo'glog
 * 1
 * Update:What's black and white and goes green when it's finished?
 * Iceberg
 * 2
 * Update:Fremennik Isles
 * Neitiznot, Jatizso
 * 3
 * Update:Great Brain Robbery
 * Harmony Island
 * 4
 * 5
 * Harmony Island
 * 4
 * 5
 * 5
 * 5
 * 5
 * 5
 * 1
 * Update:Agility Pyramid
 * Agility Pyramid
 * 2
 * Update:Cabin Fever
 * A little bit of Mos Le'Harmless
 * 3
 * Update:In Aid of the Myreque
 * Burgh de Rott
 * 4
 * Update:Pest Control
 * Void Knights' Outpost (Pest Control)
 * 5
 * Update:Return of the Wise Old Man!
 * Piscatoris Fishing Colony
 * 6
 * Update:Trouble Brewing
 * The rest of Mos Le'Harmless
 * 7
 * Update:Lunar Diplomacy
 * Lunar Isle, Pirates' Cove
 * 8
 * Update:Myreque Pt III - Darkness of Hallowvale
 * Sanguinesti region (Darkmeyer and Meiyerditch)
 * 9
 * Update:HUNTER SKILL!
 * Hunter area south of the Feldip Hills
 * 10
 * 11
 * 12
 * Update:Myreque Pt III - Darkness of Hallowvale
 * Sanguinesti region (Darkmeyer and Meiyerditch)
 * 9
 * Update:HUNTER SKILL!
 * Hunter area south of the Feldip Hills
 * 10
 * 11
 * 12
 * 11
 * 12
 * 11
 * 12
 * 12
 * 12
 * 12
 * 12
 * 1
 * Update:Ghosts Ahoy and Slayer Update
 * Port Phasmatys
 * 2
 * Update:Ali Morrisane and Pollnivneach
 * Pollivneach
 * 3
 * Update:The Golem
 * Uzer
 * 4
 * Update:Desert Treasure
 * Jaldraocht Pyramid
 * 5
 * Update:Desert Month Finale
 * Menaphos, Sophanem
 * 6
 * Update:Barrows
 * Barrows
 * 7
 * Update:Waterbirth Island
 * Waterbirth Island
 * 8
 * Update:Nardah, Tool Sheds & Spirits of the Elid
 * Nardah
 * 9
 * 10
 * 11
 * 12
 * 13
 * 14
 * Update:Nardah, Tool Sheds & Spirits of the Elid
 * Nardah
 * 9
 * 10
 * 11
 * 12
 * 13
 * 14
 * 11
 * 12
 * 13
 * 14
 * 12
 * 13
 * 14
 * 12
 * 13
 * 14
 * 13
 * 14
 * 14
 * 14
 * 14
 * 14
 * 1
 * Update:Big Chompy Bird Hunting
 * Feldip Hills
 * 2
 * Update:Priest In Peril Quest
 * Canifis
 * 3
 * Update:Nature Spirit Quest
 * Mort Myre
 * 4
 * Update:Death Plateau Quest
 * Burthorpe
 * 5
 * Update:Plague City Part 4 Released
 * Arandar, Isafdar, Prifddinas, Poison Waste
 * 6
 * Update:Morytania Expansion
 * Haunted Woods
 * 7
 * Update:Mortton Shades and Mage Armour
 * Mort'ton
 * 8
 * Update:The Fremennik Trials
 * Rellekka
 * 9
 * Update:Monkey Madness
 * Ape Atoll, Crash Island
 * 10
 * Update:The Haunted Mine
 * Abandoned Mine (Haunted Mine)
 * }
 * Rellekka
 * 9
 * Update:Monkey Madness
 * Ape Atoll, Crash Island
 * 10
 * Update:The Haunted Mine
 * Abandoned Mine (Haunted Mine)
 * }
 * Abandoned Mine (Haunted Mine)
 * }

Postbag from the Hedge


On Issue 32 of the Postbag from the Hedge, Trader Stan revealed that parts of the "Unknown" are really just water.

God letters
On Issue 24 of the God letters, Guthix revealed that there exists an underwater city beneath the oceans of Gielinor.