Wizards' Tower

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The Wizards' Tower is a famous Saradominist institute of magic and runecrafting in Misthalin. The immense tower is located on a small island south of Draynor Village, connected to the mainland by an exquisite bridge. A fairy ring with the code is located directly south of the tower. It can also be accessed by entering the eastern portal on the second floor of the Wizards' Guild. The tower is associated with many other wizards outside the tower as well as the Wizards' Guild of Yanille, with which it has a sort of rivalry. The Wizards' Tower has the only known portals to the Runespan realm, home of the Runecrafting Guild. The current Wizards' Tower is sometimes known as the Second Wizards' Tower, as the First Wizards' Tower was burnt to the ground due to a magical explosion in the year 70 of the Fifth Age.

The Wizards' Tower contains a teleportation beam, which is the anchor for all teleportation spells of the Standard Spellbook, which was also created by the wizards of the tower. In the First Tower, there used to be four wizard orders (the Red, Green, Blue and Grey Orders, aligned to Zamorak, Guthix, Saradomin and miscellaneous or no gods respectively). Each order had a master, who tutored multiple apprentices. It had a large library, hall and an amount of studies and offices.

The current Wizards' Tower no longer has any orders (due to the destruction of the First Tower being blamed on the Zamorakian Red Order), and is exclusively Saradominist. Its head is an archmage, who has several senior wizards under him. These tutor the tower's students. The current tower has many facilities, including two libraries, an armillary, a telescope, offices and workrooms. In addition, the tower houses several secrets, such as the teleporation spell to the Rune Essence Mine, which Zamorakian organisations such as the ZMI are attempting to steal.

The Wizards' Tower is also known for having created most spells currently used today and constructed the entire Lodestone Network, as well as many magical theses and theorems. The Wizards' Tower is one of the tallest building on Gielinor, rivalling great cities' castles and the Dominion Tower. Its elaborate architecture and ornaments make it a beacon of human accomplishment in the Fifth Age.

Discovery of Runecrafting and Construction of the Tower
During the transition from the Fourth Age into the Fifth Age, a runestone mine was discovered in the frozen north by a local Fremennik tribesman, where the Stone of Jas had turned the rock into pure magical essence. The brutish Fremennik was transformed into a mage upon touching the rock and founded the Moonclan, who studied the rocks in the mines and harnessed their power to create magical runes. They soon discovered areas of "significant" magical auras, which could be used to charge the runestones - now referred to as rune essence. After extensive research, the wizards created talismans to access and tap into this power. Using these talismans, they entered these enchanted places, located in pocket dimensions, and created runes by harnessing the element present into the essence. This was the initiation of a new form of art known as runecrafting. Soon, hundreds of runes were crafted using the so-called runecrafting altars.

The Wizards' Guild, built by Jack in the First Age, the first ever druid, was reinvigorated with a wave of new applicants to further study the stones, leading it to become a leading magic institution, the first of the war-torn lands. Four wizard orders, including the Fremennik who had discovered rune essence, decided to build a tower on a small island in the Southern Sea, hence creating an impregnable fortress from where they could ward off attacks, if they encountered any. Finally, in the year 9, a Mage Training Arena was erected near Al Kharid, where mages could train in various magical arts using the newly created runes. The Fremennik tribe, however, were against the Moonclan's actions, claiming that the making of runes was reserved only for the gods, referring to how Guthix crafted runes for humans to use in the First Age. A massive dispute between the Fremennik and the Moonclan began, and the latter decided to leave the mainland and practise the arts of runecrafting on the remote Lunar Isle. In 42 of the Fifth Age, the Fremennik, led by chieftain Gunnar, launched the Runecrafting Crusades. Their numbers high, they systematically visited each runecrafting temple and thoroughly destroyed it, leaving only ruins. In addition, the Imcando Dwarves were driven to near-extinction by the "barbarians" and their city of Camdozaal was mostly destroyed as well. Sometime during the Crusades, the Fremennik also destroyed the Mage Training Arena, despite its rune guardians, golem-like sentient creatures of stone made to protect the arena. In 62, after twenty long years, the Fremennik, with numbers wavering and no new ground made, finally agreed to make truce, due to the efforts of Asgarnian and Misthalanian wizards. The remaining Fremennik in the south settled near Varrock in a village they named Gunnarsgrunn. The Wizards' Tower had suffered a major blow from the Crusades. Fortunately for them, the Fremennik had only destroyed the outsides of the temples; the actual altars remained untouched in their pocket dimensions.

Structures of the First Tower
Despite the setbacks caused by the Fremennik, the human nations thrived throughout the Fifth Age. The Wizards' Tower became a well-established site for research and discussion to the human wizards. It would appear that, at this point, the tower wasn't as tall as it is now and occupied a larger area. Aside from human wizards, it contained many rune guardians, similar to the Mage Training Arena before its destruction. The wizards were divided into four orders, who worked semi-cooperatively in their magical research, their rivalry working as motivation, and who were also the founders of the tower. These orders each had a master, who usually had multiple apprentices under their wing. New apprentices would take a special test in the so-called Chamber of Shrines, a large room where the four orders were represented and where their leaders would congregate.

The Blue Order followed Saradomin and was responsible for the creation of most of the non-combat spells in the Standard Spellbook, such as alchemy spells. The Green Order, whose founder was the Fremennik explorer known as V--, did not create spells, but were considered experts in the art of runecrafting. They were followers of Guthix. The Red Order followed Zamorak and created most of the elemental spells, with "surge" being the theoretical maximum. An apprentice of the Red Order also discovered how to create teleportation spells shortly before the First Tower's demise. Finally, there was the Grey Order. These followed other gods, such as Armadyl, or none at all and were the greatest theorists of the tower. The orders worked together, but their slight distrust for each other, which resulted in a form of competition, was one of the deciding factors in their progress. This early period of the tower accounts for most of its largest discoveries. For example, the theorist Ozzikan proved that targets' defences cannot be bypassed by combat spells. As such, the curse spells were created, which weaken or stun opponents.

There was one particular problem the tower could not solve, however, and it was that of teleportation. Few teleportation spells were known to man, and new ones could not be created. Lots of research was put into the matter, seeing that teleportation is a great benefit to mankind. For example, to get to the Rune Essence mine, wizards had to cross the barren Wilderness and its icy areas to the north before traversing the Northern Sea, all of which exposed them to many dangers. It is not surprising, thus, that quite a number of wizards never made the way back. Despite all efforts, there was seemingly no way to create new teleporation spells.

The Teleportation Problem
In the year 70, the problem was finally solved. However, it also led to the downfall of the tower through a tragic series of events. These began when Master Zanmaron the Red set his apprentice Kelavan on a task to find out how to use combat spells to bypass enemies' defences. Kelavan knew this was impossible, however, and expressed his annoyance to Mei, an apprentice of Master Temrin the Grey, in the library. However, despite it being supposedly impossible, Kelavan had come up with a solution that seemed to make sense; he proposed to angle the spell through a secondary plane of existence in order to bypass Ozzikan's line of effect thesis using law runes. Mei quickly realised this could be the solution to the teleportation problem and suggested to show the idea to Mistress Azris the Green, as she had been working on the problem for years.

The two did and Azris, who realised Kelavan had come up with the solution she had been searching for for years, dismissed the idea as a good try, but not working. Kelavan then returned to Zanmaron to inform him of what he had learnt. Azris then called the four other masters, Zanmaron, Temrin and Unaia to the Chamber of Shrines, where she presented Kelavan's theory as her own without giving him any credit. Zanmaron knew it wasn't her theory but kept quiet to teach Kelavan a lesson and summoned the latter to his office, angry at Kelavan for confiding in the other orders before his own. Kelavan was dismissed and Zanmaron, a demonologist, proceeded to attempt to retain some of the Red Order's dignity by leading the upcoming ritual. He summoned the demon Azacorax and ordered him to unlock the use of the Abyss for teleportation spells to go through. A little while later, he visited the four apprentices - Kelavan, Mei, Perien the Blue and Sland the Green - in the library to provide them instructions.

The eight wizards gathered in the main hall of the tower a little while later to perform the ritual. Before beginning, Zanmaron warned them that, once the ritual was commenced, it could not be stopped. Interrupting in the middle of the ritual would prove disastrous. Everyone agreed and the ritual began. During the ritual, it was revealed that Azris had stolen Kelavan's idea, but the wizards continued chanting nonetheless. A large beam appeared in the middle, going upwards. At that point, Azacorax appeared behind Zanmaron to unlock the Abyss, but the demon was noticed by Perien. He notified his mistress, Unaia, and they decided to abort the ritual due to the large demonic influences involved.

Destruction of the Wizards' Tower
Zanmaron begged the Saradominists to stay, but Perien and Unaia stopped chanting and walked away. At that point, the beam became highly unstable and fired a powerful surge of raw magical energy at Zanmaron, killing him on impact. The teleportation beam then exploded, causing a massive fire which quickly burnt the entirety of the tower. Of this tragic event there were only two survivors; Perien and Kelavan. The former blamed the destruction of the tower on the Red Wizards due to the involvement of the demon. A Saradominist party soon reconstructed the tower and Perien, as archmage, disbanded its orders and decided to banish Zamorakians from practising magic or joining the new tower. He sealed off the ruins to the old tower using a special music spell, which was in line with the thesis he was writing: The Harmony of the Runes.

The tower then proceeded to successfully implement a teleportation beam and a massive amount of new teleportation spells followed, including one to the rune essence mine (Senventior disthine molenko). As such, the art of runecrafting became almost exclusively Saradominist. The wizards of the tower also established a Lodestone Network, allowing people to teleport to "lodestones" in major settlements without the use of runes after the lodestones' activation. On an related matter, Azacorax re-appeared and the Saradominist wizards attempted to destroy him. He simply re-appeared in the exact same spot, however, and, despite the wizards' best efforts, could not be banished. As such, a protective barrier was built around him, trapping the demon and rendering him harmless. Some time after Perien's passing, the wizards began to feel affection towards the demon, patronisingly calling him Lemmy or Timmy. A post was instated to tend the demon as well.

Angry at Perien's betrayal betrayal, Kelavan founded the Sacred Order of the Staff of Fire, a Zamorakian organisation aiming to overthrow the Saradominists of the tower. These Zamorakians were a minority, however, and magic was practised almost exclusively by Saradominists throughout most of Gielinor, save some minor orders of dark wizards, chaos druids and Zamorakian monks. During this time, other organisations were also founded. Most notable is the Zamorakian Magical Institute, who, under the disguise of being the Zoological Magical Institute, are currently attempting to steal the rune essence teleportation spells from the tower. In addition, the ZMI at some point claimed the mysterious Ourania Altar for themselves, where they are now crafting runes with essence they somehow managed to obtain.

For reasons currently unknown, the destruction of the First Wizards' Tower entered the Temple Knights' records as Operation:Phoenix, a supposed offence of Zamorakians wherein they burnt down the tower. It's possible that Perien or other Saradominists made this up to make the Zamorakians look bad, or perhaps the Temple Knights are misinformed. In addition, a memoire in Varrock Palace Library known as "A True and Concise History of the Discovery of the Runes" also describes the followers of Zamorak as "evil" and not worthy of magic.

Recent Developments
As time progressed, the Wizards' Tower grew in success. Under Archmage Sedridor, an especially large amount of events took place. Sedridor himself is notable for having decided to rebuild the Mage Training Arena when he was rather drunk on wizard mind bombs, seeing that the Fremennik had destroyed it on their raids. In the final decade of the Fifth Age, the tower's supremacy was recognised even in the far west of Kandarin, when King Narnode Shareen of the Tree Gnome Stronghold sent one of his ambassadors, Professor Onglewip, to the tower to study human magic. In 169, the Runecrafting Guild was founded in a large tower in the realm of Runespan, a plane where runic energies are purer than on Gielinor. Its leader was Wizard Elriss, whose current studies include the theory surrounding the legendary Stone of Jas. During this time, Wizard Beenay put forward his famous theory of light, which, when coupled with Lefebvre equations, can be used to calculate the energies released during runecrafting. The Wizards' Tower also became the target of a minor-scale robbery performed by the aged but very powerful mages Dionysius and Zenevivia, who were short on runes and attempted to rob the tower, after Dionysius' previous successful robbery of the Draynor Bank to acquire money. The tower was informed minutes before the robbery was to take place and Sedridor, along with Grayzag, Mizgog and Traiborn, prepared the defences. When Zenevivia attempted to picklock the door, Sedridor kicked it open from the inside and proceeded to duel Dionysius using water wave. Traiborn quickly ran away from the tower, looking for a thingummywut. Meanwhile, Mizgog immediately fled after one hit with blood barrage by Zenevivia and Grayzag summoned five imps to take her down. They were easily killed, however, and Grayzag teleported away. As the robbers were about to defeat Sedridor, Traiborn triumphantly returned and summoned a Thingummywut, to everyone's surprise. He and Sedridor quickly backed away while it fired extremely rapid earth surges at the robbers, who had to face defeat and flee.

Also in 169, the tower officially sued the barbarians of Gunnarsgrunn for the damage caused by the Runecrafting Crusades, specifically the destruction of the Mage Training Arena. A barbarian woman and a representative of the tower were dispatched to Seers' Village Courthouse for the trial. The wizards demanded to be refunded by the Fremennik tribes for the damage. After interviews with the Moonclan mage Baba Yaga, Olaf the Bard and the arena's entrance guardian, an adventurer was able to either defend or prosecute the Fremennik. Whatever the outcome of the court case, it likely marks the last affair surrounding the Runecrafting Crusades.

That same year, a young tower wizard put forward his latest discoveries, which led to a wave of shock amongst the wizards, especially in the Runecrafting Guild. Wizard Finix theorised that the runecrafting altars currently being used to infuse rune essence with energy are finite. Id est, their magical energy is bound to run out some day, which would render humans without runes. Finix evoked huge duscussion among his superiors, especially because what he suspected seemed true. The guild immediately dispatched a party of their runecrafters to other areas of the Runespan. They also welcomed adventurers to come and help siphon runic energy from magical essence creatures in the Runespan into essence, essentially devising another way to runecraft. Since the magical purity of the Runespan is much higher than Gielinor's, this technique is sufficient to keep mankind going for centuries to come even if the altars run out. Despite this, fierce discussion is taking place between those that support and oppose Finix' theory. Guild wizards have also travelled to each runecrafting altar to study their properties, the one at the Ourania altar even disguised as a Zamorakian mage, to avoid being thrown out by the ZMI.

In Wintumber, Sedridor finally managed to talk the Wizards' Guild of Yanille into allowing the tower wizards to host the annual wizard christmas banquet. The years before, the guild wizards had always hosted it with exquisite spectacle, such as a turkey dancing on the dinner table. This time, the tower wizards wanted to prove their worth to the mocking guild. Sedridor created a duplicate tower in a pocket dimension for the event to take place, as it would require no cleaning after the party; the christmas tower could simply be destroyed. As festivities drew nearer, however, problems arose for the tower. The guild wizards Distentor, Zavistic and Frumscone arrived early, condescending the preparations. In addition, Wizard Grayzag's imp waiters had taken off with his hat and run amok in the tower, while Isidor could not get the snow in the banquet hall working. Sioncorn's living christmas decorations caused havoc in the attic and Kris and Kringle could not get the cooking right. The librarian Sinterklaas was dispatched to recruit an adventurer to help with the preparations and, eventually, everything was ready in time for the feast to commence, except for a Battle of Snowmen between Grayzag and Frumscone, and the guild wizards had to acknowledge their equal at the feast. Aside from the usual guests, the wizards of the Runecrafting Guild, Thormac the sorcerer, Aubury and others were invited as well.

Attempt to Destroy the Tower


Some time afterwards, the greatest threat to the tower since its destruction a century ago presented itself when Ariane, a young sorceress and seer who had been banished from the tower several years prior, had a vision of the tower in flames. She quickly travelled to the tower to warn the wizards of the impending doom, but Wizard Valina would not let her in despite her warnings. An adventurer then arrived and agreed to help Ariane, but she suddenly realised the danger was imminent. Immediately, a red vortex shot up through the teleportation beam and began spinning around the library, even attacking Wizard Borann, who began screaming for help. Ariane was warded off by a force field, being banished, so the adventurer had to save Borann by luring the vortex into the teleportation beam and sending it back down. When Sedridor heard of this, he passed his thanks to Ariane and decided to heed her warning and perform an "Icyenic Purge", a very powerful spell that could be used to rid the beam of all corruption.

Ariane thought otherwise, however, and, with the help of her old mentor Wizard Ellaron, the adventurer and she unlocked the ruins of the first tower and entered them to investigate. At the base of the teleportation beam, they discovered several more of these vortices and Ariane began examining them. She concluded there used to be an enchantment to prevent them from ascending the beam, but someone recently removed it. She also realised the vortices weren't ghosts but fragments of the old wizards' souls, who seemed to have literally put part of their soul into the beam to create some sort of magical effect. Ariane then began replacing the protective enchantment, while the adventurer attempted to stop Borann, Sedridor, Ellaron and Traiborn from casting the Icyenic Purge. They failed, but Ariane managed to protect the beam just in time before the Purge could cause anything disastrous. Ariane and the adventurer returned to the vortices to study them more, but Ariane accidentally got stuck inside the beam, unable to get out. She figured they could use specially prepared runes to invoke the memories of the souls. This succeeded, and the adventurer managed to unlock the memories of the wizards, finding out how the tower was destroyed, from Kelavan's conversation with Mei up to and including the faulty ritual. While in the orders' studies, the adventurer also found a strange diary which spoke of a plot to destroy the Wizards' Tower. When the memory of the ritual began, Ariane was released from the beam and the duo began watching the ritual. As Zanmaron died, however, the actual teleportation beam acted the same as a hundred years ago and fired a powerful spell, which hit Ariane, putting her into a magical coma. The shocked adventurer quickly exited the ruins and went to see Wizard Ellaron, who was standing at the entrance to the tower.

They quickly told them what had happened, and Ellaron, while acting worried at first, soon let slip that the "accident" had been his intention. To the adventurer's shock, Ellaron revealed to be the author of the diary and the cause of the vortex attack. He had manipulated Ariane into going to investigate, and now the eight souls would enter her body and she would explode due to the immense amount of magic inside her, destroying the tower in the process. He explained his motive to be vengeance, for he was a descendant of Kelavan the Red and the heir to the Sacred Tradition of the Staff of Fire. Since Perien banished Zamorakians from the second tower, Ellaron felt it necessary to get revenge and destroy it - again. He advised the adventurer to leave before the event, but they remained and witnessed a magic-loaded Ariane floating up through the beam, devastated by her old mentor's betrayal.

The adventurer and Ariane found a way to extract the souls from Ariane's body in time, triggering Ellaron's anger. When Ariane was brought to safety on the roof of the tower, the souls possessed Ellaron instead, who seemed fine with dying to reduce the tower to ruins. The souls, however, had other intentions and cooperated to teleport Ellaron to the Abyss, to the latter's terror. Ellaron was whisked away and presumably exploded somewhere in the Abyss, where no harm could be done, saving the Wizards' Tower from its demise.

Floors of the tower
The tower itself consists of at least seven floors, built upon the ruins of the previous tower, although the floors between the second floor and the roof need special clearance to access; as such, anyone from outside the tower going up from the second floor will end up on the roof. Instead of stairs, the famous teleportation beam can be used to float up or down to different floors, right through the ceiling. The tower contains a few notable people and is also one of the few locations that acts as a point to multiple other dimensions. Isidor, located on the first floor, can teleport players to the plane of the Land of Snow; Archmage Sedridor is on the second floor, and can teleport to the magically locked rune essence mine in the frozen fields of the north. Finally, on the third floor, there is a portal to the Runecrafting Guild, as well as two portals to the Runespan (high level and low level).

Ground floor
The ground floor contains one of the tower's two libraries, overseen by Wizard Borann. The entrance to the tower has a small portal where the entrance clerk, Valina, notes all visitors in a book. She may also deny access should this be necessary. There are a number of students on the ground floor. Professor Onglewip is also located here. Finally, the ground floor has a large organ, put there by Archmage Perien - it contains the locking mechanism for the ruins of the first tower. The library contains rotatable, floating bookcases, and the following books may be found when searching them:


 * The Life & Times of a Thingummywut by Traiborn the Wizard
 * Wind Strike for Beginners
 * Life With a Wizard Husband ~ a Housewife's Story
 * The Dark Arts of Magical Wands
 * So You Think You're a Mage? Volume 28
 * Fire, Earth and Water ~ What's it all About?
 * How to become the Ultimate Wizard of the Universe
 * 101 Ways to Impress Your Mates with Magic
 * The Harmony of the Runes
 * The Runes of the Spells of Water

First floor
On this floor, one can find several wizards. There is Wizard Jalarast, who can make splitbark equipment when given the proper supplies. It also contains the studies of several wizards of the tower, as well as several elemental nodes from the Runespan captured there. The northern balcony contains a large armillary. One can also find Wizard Mizgog, Wizard Grayzag or Taloram, Wizard Isidor, and Wizard Ilona there, in addition to several students. Azacorax is located in the eastern room, still trapped behind his magical barrier. After Rune Memories you can talk to it when you have 50 Magic and 50 Prayer and either get 10,000 Magic or Prayer experience points.

Second floor
The second floor is used exclusively as office for the senior tower wizards. Wizard Ellaron and Traiborn have their studies there, and Archmage Sedridor is also seated here. The northern balcony contains a very large telescope. Aside from the offices, this floor contains a room with several bookcases. Sedridor may teleport people to the rune essence mine free of charge.

Other floors
According to Wizard Sinterklaas, he is a librarian on the seventh floor of the tower, which is not accessible by non-tower wizards. Wizard Sioncorn also speaks of an attic, which is enchanted so that only staff can see and access it, for security reasons. It is currently unknown what or whom the third floors and above contain, except there is at least one more library. The attic contains several shelves with books, notes, scrolls and potions stored there. Finally, the Wizards' Tower contains a large basement with an underground kitchen and supply rooms, as seen during the christmas banquet. However, it seems this basement is not accessible under normal circumstances.

Roof
The portals to the Runespan and the Runecrafting Guild are located on the roof, along with a bank chest. The large blue portal leads to the guild, while the smaller red and green ones lead to other areas of the Runespan. Being so high, the roof is quite windy and chilly. It gives a magnificent view of the tower's surroundings. Additionally, one can find Wizard Finix up here, who is awaiting entry to the Runecrafting Guild. While the teleportation beam goes higher, it is not possible to ascend further. Using a wicked hood's teleport option will lead here.

Wizard Borann
Borann is the librarian on the ground floor of the tower. He seems quite old, but Borann is one of the tower's most respected wizards and a senior wizard. Being a librarian, he enjoys tranquillity and can be easily irritated when the adjacent organ is played too loudly. When Ellaron first sent the soul of a Red Wizard up the teleportation beam, it caused havoc in the library and even attacked Borann, who screamed murder about being assaulted by monsters from the Abyss. He was rescued by an adventurer and rewarded them his staff, a tower mindspike. Later, he performed an Icyenic Purge along with Sedridor, Traiborn and Ellaron to "cleanse" the beam.

Wizard Ellaron
Ellaron is a middle-aged senior wizard, grandmaster into the Order of Saradomin and an initiate into the Inner Circle of Rune Mysteries. He was Ariane's mentor when she joined the tower and offered to help develop her precognitive skills. However, all of this was a ruse, since Ellaron is really the heir to the Sacred Order of the Staff of Fire and the last true Red Wizard. He is the grandson or great-grandson of Kelavan the Red himself.

In 169, he set his plan to avenge his order and Kelavan for what Archmage Perien had done in motion. He unlocked the ruins of the first tower and broke the enchantment that kept the soul vortices of the old wizards there, causing one of them, either Kelavan's or Zanmaron's soul, to ascend the teleportation beam and attack the tower. It was quickly removed before inflicting any serious damage, though. He then manipulated his former apprentice Ariane into investigating the old ruins, causing her to eventually get stuck in the teleportation beam. She eventually got into a magical coma due to this and was possessed by the eight souls. It was at this point that Ellaron revealed his plans to destroy the Wizards' Tower by having Ariane explode in it. An adventurer rescued Ariane, however, and the souls took possession of Ellaron instead before teleporting him to the Abyss, where he was presumably torn apart by the massive amounts of magical energy himself.

Wizard Finix
Finix is a young student at the tower who made his breakthrough in 169. He proposed his theory that runecrafting altars are not endless in their magical energy; while vast, it will run out some day. This came as worrying news to the Runecrafting Guild, which could not disprove the theories. Thankfully, Finix discovered a new way to craft runes, namely by extracting pure magical energy from the surrounding environment and siphoning it into rune essence. This, he figured, could best be done in the Runespan.

The guild wizards immediately commenced this process outside their guild and it seemed to work. Finix is recruiting adventurers to help with the process, and offers wicked robes as a reward for their troubles. He is currently waiting on the tower's roof until Wizard Elriss finds time to speak with him.

Wizard Ilona
Ilona is a young student from Lumbridge. in 169, she was kidnapped by her fellow student and cultist Caitlin to be sacrificed in a ritual to open the necromancer Dragith Nurn's workshop, filled with dangerous monsters, under the Lumbridge Catacombs. She was rescued just in time by an adventurer, however, although the cult's leader Reese committed suicide to open the workshop anyway. Unlike what he had planned, however, Lumbridge was not overrun by undead, who simply roamed beneath the workshop instead.

After the incident, Ilona fully recovered from the event and re-joined the tower. There, she specialised in stun and bind spells, to be able to repel any assailants in the future. She is located on the first floor, near the armillary sphere.

Wizard Isidor
Isidor is the younger brother of Archmage Sedridor and an expert on teleportation magic. His study is located on the first floor in the western wing. Isidor is fairly forgetful and often needs to be reminded of teleportation phrases. Such was the case, for example, with Ectosum glissendo, the chant to get to the Land of Snow. Isidor's acquaintance Explorer Jack needed an adventurer to go there, but Isidor, as usual, forgot the chant. During 169's christmas banquet, Isidor was responsible for covering the basement in snow, but he had some troubles and required help.

Wizard Jalarast
Jalarast is an apprentice of Traiborn's and an expert on magical armour. She is able to craft splitbark armour using the bark of hollow trees from the Haunted Woods of Morytania if provided with the materials and some restitution for the service. Jalarast used to be male, but she finished the make-over mage to become a woman. She holds Wizard Borann in low regard, claiming him to be too old and irritable for the job. Jalarast may be found on the first floor of the tower.

Wizard Mizgog
Mizgog is a timid and stuttering wizard and "beadromancer", studying and deriving his power from magical beads. Unfortunately for him, the imps of Grayzag and Taloram are attracted to beads above all else and often steal them, making a mess of his office while at it. To add insult to injury, the two wizards often order their imps to pester Mizgog.

Mizgog attempted to defend the tower from the attacks of Dionysius and Zenevivia but fled in agony, screaming for his mother, upon the first sight of active combat. He justified this by stating he is not a battle wizard, but at the tower to unravel the mysteries of the universe (specifically, beads). He also sells amulets of accuracy to those who have helped him retrieve his beads from Grayzag's imps. During the preparations for the christmas banquet, he got a moment to mock Grayzag himself now, making fun of his hat being stolen by his own imps.

Archmage Sedridor
Sedridor is the current archmage of the Wizards' Tower, and a very powerful magician. His office is on the second floor and he is very enthusiastic, welcoming visitors to the tower and telling them its history. He will also teleport anyone to the Rune Essence Mine upon request. Sedridor is quite old, but nevertheless adept at combat. This was evident during the Wizards' Tower Robbery, when he kicked the door open, blowing Zenevivia a meter away, and was able to hold his own duelling Dionysius afterwards, who is one of the most powerful mages alive.

Sedridor is known to like wizard mind bombs, a blue-tinged ale beloved by magicians, and has got drunk on at least one occasion. Luckily, he decided to rebuild the Mage Training Arena, which had been destroyed by the invading Fremennik during the Runecrafting Crusades, and recreate its rune guardians. Sedridor rules with justice, but has made multiple mistakes during his period as archmage, not having seen the true intentions of dangerous wizards as Caitlin, Grayzag and Ellaron, while banishing others for extremely minor things, as was the case with Ariane and Daniel.

When Ellaron's red vortex he had sent to attack the tower's library had been dealt with, Sedridor decided to purify the teleportation beam using an Icyenic Purge, an extremely difficult spell to perform. Together with Traiborn, Borann and Ellaron (who was acting along), he managed to do this, once again proving his prowess in magic.

Wizard Sinterklaas
Sinterklaas is the librarian of the seventh floor and as such he cannot be found by anyone not working at the tower. He helped organise the christmas banquet of 169 by hiring help and overseeing the preparations. He seems fairly forgetful and somewhat clumsy. His robes are red, unlike most wizards' and he has long, white hair with a goatee.

Wizard Sioncorn
Sioncorn is the only known non-human wizard of the tower. She is a fairy from Zanaris, and works on one of the higher floors of the tower. As such, she cannot be found by visitors. During the christmas banquet, she was in charge of the decorations, but the magically enchanted baubles and tinsel snakes escaped and began jumping around the tower's attic. She required help to herd them back together again, but managed to decorate the tower in time for the banquet nonetheless.

Wizard Taloram
Taloram is the keeper of Azacorax and the replacement for Wizard Grayzag after the latter's demise at the hand of the Knight Order Alliance of 169. He is very much like his predecessor, being rude, grumpy and having a grudge with Mizgog. In addition, he is also a "master of imps" and thus possibly adept at demonology.

Wizard Frederic Traiborn
Frederic Traiborn is a very strange and seemingly crazy senior wizard. He is most known for his obsession with supposedly nonexistant creatures he calls Thingummywuts, even going so far as mistaking people talking to him for Thingummywuts. He claims them to be pesky creatures causing havoc in the tower, although he says not being able to remember whether they are real, a myth or a figment of his imagination. In addition, he sometimes forgets being a wizard but is very offended when he is told he isn't one. He also seems to believe sheep are very cunning and part of an evil conspiracy.

Nevertheless, he seems to be an established wizard and even has an apprentice, Jalarast. Dionysius describes him as powerful and one of the reasons he held off his attempt to rob the tower. When he and his girlfriend Zenevivia eventually did rob the tower, Traiborn proved to be their demise; as the skirmish began, he ran off to find a Thingummywut and returned after a few moments, claiming to have found one. He placed some sort of object on the ground that summoned a towering high Thingummywut, which proceeded to attack the robbers and ultimately scared them away. However, Traiborn seems unable to recount these events and, when reminded how he summoned a Thingummywut that could not be properly seen from Dionysius' telescope, he proceeds to look out for invisible Thingummywuts in the tower.

Wizard Valina
Valina is located behind her desk at the entrance to the tower. She acts as entrance clerk, administering visitors and permitting those who have been banished from the tower from going inside. Valina is friendly, but strict. She also gives a short recap on the tower's main points of interests.

Ariane
Ariane is a young sorceress from Seers' Village. Being from a family of seers, she too has precognitive powers. She joined the Wizards' Tower some time around 160, where she shared a room with Caitlin. She was a lot better than her fellow students and was offered tutorship by senior Wizard Ellaron, who would train her and help her develop her gift. At some point she told Caitlin about her power, who then spread the word to all the other students, who became jealous and began to pick on Ariane. Nevertheless, Ariane was one of the best trainees the tower had ever had and Sedridor expected her to succeed him as archmage one day. After some time, she was spotted talking with Azacorax and Sedridor, thinking her to be demon worshipper, had to banish her from the tower.

She joined the Champions' Guild, where she was tutored further, and became a travelling adventurer, having joined a group of like-minded people. She had quite a number of adventures, such as tracking down Carn the beastmaster after the Taverley Incident, searching for Lucien's bases for Crux Eqal and defeating a huge troll shaman named Magic Stick. In 169, she had a vision about the tower in flames and returned there to attempt and prevent this disaster, but she was not allowed in. With the help of an adventurer, she managed to uncover the secrets of how the first tower was destroyed and exposed Ellaron as a Red Wizard attempting to destroy the tower. Ellaron then almost killed Ariane by having the souls of several wizards of the first tower possess her, but those were driven out and entered Ellaron instead, teleporting him to the Abyss, where he exploded.

Caitlin
Caitlin is a fairly cruel wizard who joined the Wizards' Tower in the late Fifth Age. She shared a room with Ariane, and told all of the other students about her ability to foresee the future when she took Caitlin into confidence. Some time later, she discovered the writings of Dragith Nurn, a necromancer from Lumbridge who had studied at the tower, which had miraculously survived the tower's destruction. The notes spoke of Dragith's workshop underneath the Lumbridge Catacombs which contained many undead and corrupted beasts. Along with Reese, she decided to unlock this workshop and take over Lumbridge and together they convinced the timid archer Kayle to join them; the trio proceeded to form a blood pact.

Caitlin then kidnapped her fellow student Ilona and the trio entered the catacombs, planning to sacrifice Ilona. Xenia and an adventurer attempted to stop them. After defeating Kayle, they confronted Caitlin and a fight ensued. She was bested quite easily, however, and the adventurer had the choice of killing her or leaving her alive. If they chose the latter, Caitlin did not act very gratefully. Reese later committed suicide, opening the workshop anyway, but both Ilona and Lumbridge were safe.

Castimir
Castimir is a wizard originally born in Rimmington. In the year 164, he was sent to Taverley, after having spent some time in the Fremennik Province and picked up a yak, and met up with the alchemist Ebenezer, the werewolf youth Gar'rth and his childhood friend and White Knight squire Theodore. He travelled with Ebenezer and Gar'rth to Barbarian Village, where he met up with Theodore again in pursuit of Kara-Meir. After she refused to return to Falador and prevented Gar'rth from being attacked, a priestess named Arisha joined the group and they travelled to Edgeville Monastery. While there, Zamorakian forces attacked, trapping Castimir in the monastery. He superheated the door hinges and joined Ebenezer in battling the werewolf Jerrod, entangling him long enough for Ebenezer to throw a bomb and cover their escape. Castimir went to Falador and joined the forces of the Tower in the Siege of Falador, where the wizard master Segainus fell in battle. Castimir stole the books following his death.

At Midsummer of the same year, Castimir travelled to Varrock, meeting the jester Gideon Gleeman along the way. He met up with his friends from his previous adventures and handed in his thesis to the Tower representative in Varrock, Layte Aubury. Following the success of the White Knights over Varrock's best knights and Theodore's knighting, Castimir attended the Midsummer ball, where Aubury told him he'd barely passed his thesis. Gar'rth became increasingly frustrated at having to hide to the point where he accused his friends of pitying and coddling him unnecessarily. He heard the wyrd, a monstrous and powerful type of vampyre, attack the palace and the group ran to fight it. Castimir used earth magic to destroy the door of the room the wyrd was in, and Gar'rth was able to get a firm grip on her before Captain Rovin attacked him for being a werewolf. Castimir, in an attempt to save his friend, wounded Rovin with fire magic. The attack made Aubury very mad, claiming the attack may very well have weakened the alliance between the Tower and Misthalin.

Castimir went as part of the embassy sent to Morytania to demand the return of captives taken by the wyrd. After reaching Morytania, they were attacked by ghasts who scared off the party's animals, including Castimir's yak, who was carrying his fire staff, leaving him weaponless. After reaching Canifis, he, Kara-Meir and Theodore were shown to a storage house, where more books similar to Segainus' and thousands of runes were found among the various junk. While they were there, an anti-vampyre resistance group known as the Myreque attacked Canifis, setting fire to several buildings. In the chaos, Kara-Meir killed a werewolf in self defence, causing the other werewolves to try to kill them. Castimir used magic to protect himself and his friends and avoid capture, but this ultimately failed and they were taken to Castle Drakan, where Castimir was put into a deep sleep. He was later awoken and escorted out via the Barrows town, where he joined the Myreque at Hope Rock in their attempt to flee via hot air balloon. Vanescula Drakan sent some vyrewatch to attack the balloon and Castimir used his magic to defend them. He managed to swim across the river Salve and safely made it back to Misthalin.

He was escorted back to Varrock by Captain Hardinge, where he was arrested by the Tower for theft. He was held prisoner for a while and abused until his trial, where Sedridor, Aubury and Grayzag voted unanimously to expel him from the tower. Howeverm Aubury voted to spare his life despite Seridor and Grayzag voting to kill him. Castimir blamed Theodore heavily for this, given how his evidence secured the conviction. Aubury talked to Castimir in private, supplying him with runes and equipment to become a rogue mage and revealing that, although he was no longer officially associated with the Tower, the Tower would still use him as a rogue mage.

At some point either during or after his time in the tower, he entered a romantic relationship with Arisha and impregnated her. He travelled with her to Barbarian Village to enquire after an old ritual to strengthen the Salve, and, along with another barbarian called Khun, travelled into the Wilderness to find a group of Guthixian barbarians known as the Untainted on the Mountain of Fire to find some rune essence. During their stay Khun and Arisha stole some of the essence and fled, so Castimir sneaked out of the mountain hidden among the raiding party sent to retrieve them. After the party was defeated by a group of Kinshra, they fled to an area of the Wilderness known as "the labyrinth", joining with Varrockian forces along the way. The Untainted trapped them there and refused to let them go until Arisha was handed over, which she did so willingly along with Khun. The remainder of the party rushed to Paterdomus to strengthen the river and take part in the final battle against Tenebra. Following their victory, Gar'rth was expelled from Misthalin due to his lineage and Arisha was in the hands of the Fremennik so he joined Gar'rth, Kara-Meir, Sir Theodore and Doric to travel to Kandarin and try and free Arisha.

H.A.M. Agent Daniel
Daniel was a young wizard from Misthalin who joined the Wizards' Tower near the end of the Fifth Age. At some point, he was given a simple task to fulfill in Draynor Village. On his way there, however, he was assaulted by a party of goblins who mugged him of his possessions, including all of his runes. When he returned empty-handed, Sedridor became quite angry, seeing that the rune supply was very low at the time. Daniel was subsequently expelled from the tower, with a permanent hatred for goblins. He joined the Humans Against Monsters cult in Lumbridge, who seek to cleanse the world of monsters and establish humans as the single dominant race.

In 169, after multiple failed attempts to dispatch of the Dorgeshuun cave goblin tribe, H.A.M. leader Johanhus Ulsbrecht decided to cease the attempts to take them down. Sigmund, a very radical and high-ranked H.A.M. agent who had been responsible for all operations against the Dorgeshuun, was dissatisfied with this and split off from the H.A.M. with his own splinter group, Daniel amongst them. They settled in a base under Mill Road Mill near East Ardougne to plot, and soon kidnapped the peaceful goblin Grubfoot, whom they accused of attacking them. When an adventurer arrived to free Grubfoot, the base was attacked by Zanik, who was possessed by Bandos, god of war, and her party of goblins from the Goblin Temple. Daniel fought valiantly to defend himself but was eventually killed by the Goblin High Priest. In the end, there were no survivors of Sigmund's splinter group.

Dragith Nurn
Dragith Nurn is one of the few wizards known to have attended the First Wizards' Tower. Originally from the Saradominist town of Lumbridge, Dragith soon gained interest in darker sides of magic. Soon, he became Zamorakian and began practising necromancy. He built a workshop under the Lumbridge cemetery, where he performed gruesome experiments on stolen corpses, re-animating them to undead and warped monsters. Eventually, he cast a spell on himself that would resurrect him as a zombie when he would die, so that he could live on forever.

Even after the tower's destruction, he continued with his work, keeping it secret from his colleagues. A young woman named Xenia discovered in 129 and, rather than alerting the authorities, she convinced him of his horrors and Dragith converted to Saradominism. He made an agreement with the Lumbridge Chapel to build a set of catacombs on top of his workshop, to hide the latter and bury the dead peacefully. When they were nearly finished, he cast a spell to seal off his workshop after hiding himself in it. Eventually, he died there and was indeed reanimated, but, because he had sealed the workshop, he could cause no harm. Eventually, the workshop's existence was forgotten entirely.

In 169, however, Caitlin came across Dragith's notes and made a deal with an acolyte of the church, Reese, to open the workshop and release its monstrositirs upon Lumbridge. With the timid archer Kayle, they made a blood pact and kidnapped Ilona, a student at the tower, planning to sacrifice her and unlock the workshop. Their plans were foiled by Xenia, now a retired adventurer and a young adventurer, however, and Ilona was rescued, but Reese committed suicide, opening Dragith's workshop anyway. There, his corpse still lumbers on.

Melville Grayzag
Wizard Melville Grayzag joined the tower at some point in the late fifteenth decade of the Fifth Age, part of his duties being to tend Azacorax. In addition, Melville practised his summoning of imps - the second weakest kind of demon. The other tower wizards ridiculed "Lamezag" for his pathetic imps, which, unbeknownst to them, triggered his deepest anger. Melville began a study to prove his worth as summoner and have vengeance on the tower and eventually stumbled upon the story of the Valluta, supposedly a legendary weapon responsible for protecting Gielinor from invasion of the void pests.

Melville began experimenting with portal magic on deserted islands in the Southern Sea, summoning vast armies of pests. However, Admiral Dracs Melrose saw it as his duty to re-found the Guthixian order of Void Knights, who were disbanded after the Gielinorian God Wars, and they began fighting off the hordes of pests. Over the course of twenty years, hundreds of Void Knights lost their lives to the pests. In 169, when an adventurer helped Wizard Mizgog retrieve his beads which had been stolen by Melville's imps, the latter's anger became complete. He set in motion his mastermind plan, which involved stealing an alive void leech from the Void Knights' Outpost with the help of Jessika, to whom he pretended to be a benevolent "Professor Melville", so that he could use it to manipulate the Kinshra into producing the leech's life force-draining goo en masse.

When a Void Knight landing party was dispatched to find the missing pest after the discovery of its disappearance, Grayzag disguised himself and attacked the boat, killing everybody except for Commander Korasi. Once the Kinshra had produced sufficient amountsof goo, he infiltrated their storeroom, sabotaged all of the security and stole the goo. He opened a portal to the Valluta and went through. However, the Temple Knights had discovered his plans, albeit not knowing it was Grayzag behind them, and formed a loose alliance with other knight orders. When their party went through Grayzag's portal, he was awaiting them, revealed his plans of summoning the Pest Queen to prove his worth to the tower and left a squad of pests to kill them.

His mind completely crippled, the utterly insane wizard proceeded to use the goo to drain the strength of the Valluta, really a Guardian of Guthix, and summon the horrifying Pest Queen to the world. In the process, he had killed Korasi or Jessika, depending on whom the adventurer managed to save, to serve as a catalyst for the reaction. He was put under arrest but ran away, right into the hands of Commodore Tyr and his Void Knights. He was then successfully apprehended by the Knight Order Alliance of 169, consisting of Void, Black, White and Temple Knights, and dealt with accordingly, ending his insane ways. He was replaced by Wizard Taloram, who, in most respects, is similar in personality. Grayzag also has a cousin working at the tower named Wizard Whitezag. Virtually nothing is known about him though.

Jessika
Jessika is a young researcher who studied at the Wizards' Tower. She is particularly interested in void pests and made a special arrangement with the Void Knights to study them at their outpost. After some research, she began writing a thesis, although her void pest research notes is the best she has got so far. In 169, she made a secret deal with Professor Melville from the tower to supply him a living pest for his research. She did not know, however, that this was actually the insane madman Grayzag, who planned to use the pest to summon the Pest Queen to the world. Jessika successfully stole a void leech and released it onto the mainland.

The Void Knights found out, however and alerted the Temple Knights, who sent an adventurer and member of their ranks there to investigate. Eventually, they found out it was Jessika who had released the pest and she was put under house arrest. Meanwhile, a lander was prepared by the Void Knights to scout the mainland, but the ship was attacked by a disguised Grayzag, who killed everybody except from Commander Korasi, whom the dying Commodore Matthias managed to teleport to safety. Korasi, Jessika and the adventurer proceeded to search the mainland for the pest themselves. During this time, the intense rivalry between the two girls lessened and they became best friends. Jessika then decided to join the Void Knights. They eventually found the pest enslaved by the Kinshra, producing masses of its life force-draining "foodgoo" the Kinshra planned to use to conquer Falador. The trio disabled their workshop and informed Sir Tiffy Cashien of the Temple Knights what had happened. Meanwhile, Grayzag infiltrated the Kinshra's storeroom, stole all of the goo they had produced, sabotaged their security and created a portal to the realm of Valluta, a legendary weapon capable of slaying pests with ease. Jessika quickly figured this out, although she did not yet know it was her beloved professor who had committed these crimes.

Later, they sent the adventurer on a scouting mission to the Kinshra's Base, but their identity was compromised and Tiffy, Korasi and Jessika teleported in to rescue him. They bargained with Lord Daquarius of the Kinshra to form an alliance to stop the one who had stolen all of the goo and betrayed the Kinshra. Daquarius reluctantly agreed and, after the leaders gathered their armies, Daquarius, the adventurer, Korasi, Jessika, Tiffy and Tyr (the new commodore of the Void Knights) stepped through the portal Grayzag had left behind. There, the wizard revealed himself to everyone's horror and shared his plan to summon the Pest Queen and prove his worth. He then left to drain the power of the Valluta, who turned out to be a Guardian of Guthix, and summon the Pest Queen. Jessika, not believing the professor could do something, chased him but she could not be pursued due to a battalion of pests blocking the exit. The remaining party defeated them and Korasi ran after Jessika.

The adventurer was the next to follow, and found out Grayzag had taken Jessika and Korasi hostage. He needed to kill one of them to act as a catalyst to summon the Pest Queen and sadistically left the choice to the adventurer. The latter was able to save one of them, and Grayzag killed the order, summoning the monstrous Queen. He then fled the scene, but was apprehended by Tyr. After the Pest Queen's defeat, Grayzag's mad ways were finally put to an end. Jessika, if she remained alive, officially joined the Void Knights and fought the remaning pests valiantly to avenge her friend.

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In the tower:
 * Vision
 * The Harmony of the Runes
 * Blue Wizards
 * Bloody Foundation (Rune Memories)

Ruins of the first tower:
 * Inner Secret
 * Forgotten Orders

Trivia

 * On 28 November 2012, the Wizards' Tower and all of its wizards received a massive graphical update. It became much taller and larger (taking up the space previously used by Tutorial Island, which was removed with the same update), and its music was reworked as well, in addition to all wizards receiving voice acting. The quest Rune Mysteries was completely reworked as well, and given a direct sequel, Rune Memories. This expanded a lot on the history of the Wizards' Tower, especially its destruction. A most notable change is that, previously, the entire art of runecrafting was lost for a century with the destruction of the tower.
 * According to the map of DeviousMUD, the forerunner to RuneScape, the Wizards' Tower was originally to be called "Warlocks Tower".
 * The symbol of the Ancient Egyptian god Horus used to be above the entrance, before the graphics update. This symbol (as a hieroglyph) also meant "Wisdom" or (more appropriately) "magic".
 * There appears to be a mysterious wizard inspecting the fairy ring by the wizard's tower.

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