The Occultist

The Occultist, also known as Zu Zu, is an adventurer found in player-owned ports. She can give special missions to the player running the port, provided they have a Runecrafting level of at least 90, and can be found upstairs in the bar when she is in port. The Occultist can be unlocked through the tutorial or a special voyage.

Joint voyages
Zu Zu prefers to work with The Missionary. When both adventurers are at the port, their joint voyages are available in the special voyages list.

Zu Zu's story
Previous storyline cutscenes can be replayed by talking to Zu Zu when she is in the port.

Part 1: Meet the Occultist
In this cutscene, the player and their partner rescue Zu Zu from the villagers planning to kill her. After being rescued, Zu Zu complains that the villagers were so unimaginative that she'd had to suggest different ways that they could try to kill her, to no avail. At the end of the meeting, she suggests meeting to discuss her death.

Part 2: The Brain
The Occultist comes to the player with a unique proposition: she wants to die because tyrants and other evil people are after her gift of immortality. She would rather die than give it to them, but she needs the player's help to end her immortality and her life. A ritual must take place, but she needs three items: a brain, body and blood. She asks the player to gather these items. The player agrees to help in return for a reward.

Upon completion of the voyage, another cutscene begins. The Occultist will comment that the brain is cloying and she should pack a purse and tissues next time she steals a brain.

Part 3: The Body
Zu Zu's third story mission is entitled The Body. She asks the player for help to travel to Keening Reef where she will find the second item for the ritual: the body. She needs part of the reef, which is created by the bodies of dead sea creatures. During the voyage, the ship comes upon Discord, a narwal and the bodyguard of Quin. Quin is a previous employer of the Occultist who is trying to track her down in order to gain immortality. However, the trip is successful and the body is obtained.

Part 4: The Blood
Zu Zu's fourth story mission is entitled The Blood. This time she must travel to Aloft Dagger, tower of the soothsayers, where she can get the third component for the ritual, the blood, from the moss that grows on the sacrificed bodies. She recalls her childhood spent there, where she was taught, but as her powers were greater than these soothsayers, they didn't know how to properly deal with her, so they kept her isolated, starved her and provided her with little creatures to sacrifice. However, Quin brought her freedom and took her under his employment, giving everything to her to sacrifice. Zu Zu also mentions how once many occultists were put to death by the khans, fearing their powers, and that now the sootsayers want her dead.

During the voyage, Oroshu, khan of Falling Blossom island, steals the brain, the body and the blood. He asks her to travel to his island, as he had freed her from Quin, who had turned paranoid about eternal life, in exchange for her hand in marriage marriage, and now he wants his promise fullfilled.

Resource voyage
Zu Zu's resource voyage is called An Arcane Bounty. It rewards the player with chimes and the region's resource, but does not advance the story line. The adversity and reward vary depending on the region. When Zu Zu offers more than one special voyage, the player must choose between them.

Experience voyage
Zu Zu's experience voyage is called Arcane Knowledge. It rewards the player with experience, but does not advance the story line. When Zu Zu offers more than one special voyage, the player must choose between them.