Vorago

Vorago is a gigantic, rocky and extremely powerful boss monster created by the Anima Mundi, or as he refers to it, the "earth soul", billed as the toughest boss monster in RuneScape.

Vorago is found in the Borehole, a large cave north of Falador, and wishes to test his strength against challengers in order to prepare to defend Gielinor against future threats, such as the gods, should he deem them a threat. He was defeated long ago by a powerful weapon known as the Maul of Omens after using his power to destroy, but has since reformed, although he is more passive now.

If challenged, Vorago uses five stages of increasingly high-hitting attacks that change on a weekly basis. Rewards include level 90 Magic equipment - materials needed to make tectonic armour - and the seismic wand and seismic singularity.

Location
Vorago is located in the cave just north of Falador, east of Doric's hut. The fastest way to get there is by teleporting to the Falador Lodestone.

Starting a fight
There are two distinct ways to start a fight with Vorago -- with or without an instance.

With an instance, you can pay per hour, up to a maximum of four hours, to start your own fight, similar to how the God Wars Dungeon instances work. You can set the number of people allowed in the instance (from 1 to 50 players), the minimum combat level allowed to enter the instance, and an optional entry key that other players can use to enter the instance privately.

You could also use the one non-instanced Vorago spawn on each world, which costs nothing but is open to anyone. If Vorago's head is not visible (hence a rocky look on the wall), it means that a team is currently fighting him. If his head can be seen, then he is not in a fight.

Once inside the cave, there's a series of Agility shortcuts that can be jumped across to go to the northern area. Talk to Vorago, and go through all the choices that involve why he is here and challenging him. Once these are done, two coloured messages should show up saying that you are now eligible to fight Vorago.

Upon taking the challenge from Vorago, all nearby players will be given the option if they will want to fight with you or not. After 20 seconds, he unleashes a blast of 50,000 damage which is split between all players who accepted his challenge. Players who do not accept the challenge will not be harmed by the blast.

In combat
In order to defeat Vorago, players must assemble the maul of omens from the pieces dropped during the fight, during stages 1, 2 and 4. Only with this item in one player's inventory will the team be able to win in stage 5. In order to get the pieces of the maul, players must use the environment against Vorago and look for chatbox clues as to the weaknesses in his armour.

Vorago has many attacks, and they target multiple players like the Kalphite King. In phase 1, he uses standard magic and melee attacks, along with the occasional bomb that cannot be healed with abilities, and hits for 2,000, 3,000 or 6,000 damage. In phase 2, he attacks with devastating melee and magic attacks, and can hit up to 4,500+ unblockable damage onto players.

If a player dies in any of his phases, their grave will be in a separate "graveyard" room, where players can reclaim the items from their graves. The graveyard room can only be accessed by right-clicking on the cave entrance. If you die on any of the phases, you cannot rejoin the battle, and so, teamwork is a must when fighting this boss.

Players also cannot teleport from his arena, as Vorago will block your teleport if you do. The only way out is by victory or death (if you can get far away from Vorago or leave combat, you can log out which lets you leave the fight safely, though this is obviously frowned upon).

Vorago's attacks (all phases)
All of Vorago's attacks have an area of effect damage. Be careful!
 * Melee: Vorago has three melee attacks.
 * Standard: Swipes his giant claw-like hand dealing lots of life points of damage.
 * Dismember: Deals around 400 damage with the correct protection prayer. Players can use Freedom to negate the bleed.
 * Special: An attack that deals 4500 damage to a single player that Vorago targets.
 * Magic: There are two magic attacks. Vorago will send these attacks onto multiple players.
 * Blue missile: A rock with a blue aura. This can deal up to 2500 or more damage, even through protection prayers. If other players are nearby when it impacts the player it is going for, it will damage nearby players also.
 * Red missile: A rock with a red aura. The game will give you a box telling you to run, although it is impossible to avoid taking any damage from this missile. Upon getting into contact with you, it will explode for 2,000 damage (more if there are nearby players, up to 6,000), and resets all defensive abilities to 0. Just like the Kalphite King however, the cooldown rate is very fast.
 * Rampage: Does heavy damage, only used at the end of his phases (except phase 5). Vorago jumps up into the air and lands on the ground three times, cracking it and damaging any players that are underneath him. This attack precedes the next phase in the fight.

Initial challenge
20 seconds after challenging Vorago, he will hit a combined 50,000 damage on all the players who wish to challenge with the player who initially started it. The damage will be split, so it can range from 50,000 (which will kill you instantly) to 1,000 damage at 50 players. While this is being done, you will be sent flying into the borehole and after a while, Vorago will appear.

Phase one
To end phase one of the fight, one player must jump on Vorago's back. Vorago must be in front of the player and must face away from them before doing so. After this phase, the player obtains part 1 of the Maul of Omens. Only one player can navigate the cliffside at a time. Attempting to go while one person is navigating the cliffside results in "Someone is already braving the cliffs." The jumper needs to make their way through five obstacles (don't worry, you won't fail them). Vorago can still attack the player though, so the jumper must be very wary of this. Once his health is at a low number, jump on him (following the requirements above). If no one jumps on Vorago, he will continually heal himself to 40% of his life points. After the successful jump when his life points are low, the player obtains part 1 of the Maul of Omens.

Once all of his life points are gone in this phase, Vorago will use his rampage attack, damaging any players that he lands on top of. After three rampages, the floor will break, and the fight proceeds to phase two.

Phase two
Phase two begins, where Vorago does massively damaging attacks on players. Players will need to constantly run from Vorago, otherwise he will pound them, either causing the Dismember ability that hits much higher (up to 1,000 without the right prayers) or hitting for 4,500+ damage which cannot be blocked or healed by any means. Vorago also summon gravity orbs. Getting him close to three orbs destabilises him enough to result in the message to bring him down. Players must click rapidly to attack Vorago during the cutscene. While this is occurring, players are dealt with constant damage until this ends. The more players there are, the less damage is taken and the faster he stumbles. Vorago will then stumble for around 10-20 seconds, and the players will need to deal enough damage to him to loosen the second weapon piece from his body. Otherwise, the second piece of the maul will not appear and Vorago will heal to full health.

Once all of his life points are gone in this phase, Vorago starts to rampage and breaks this set of ground, damaging any players he lands on top of. After three rampages, the floor will break and the fight proceeds to phase three.

Phase three
In phase three Vorago will spawn two level 180 scopuli, which are very deadly (about the difficulty of Nex without special abilities), and very durable. If you wish to attack Vorago in this phase, you need to kill the scopuli first. When one of the scopuli dies, the other one will get enraged and hit much more harder and have an increased accuracy rate. Kill both of them, then defeat Vorago. During this phase, Vorago continues to use his melee attacks and magic attacks that occur in phase one and phase two.

Once all of his life points are gone in this phase, Vorago starts to rampage and breaks this set of ground, damaging any players he lands on top of. After three rampages, the floor will break and the fight proceeds to phase four.

Phase four
When you first enter the room, Vorago will charge up to do a fire attack and spawn a waterfall in one of the corners. You need to get behind the waterfall before Vorago unleashes his fire attack, which will kill any player that isn't behind the waterfall (it is possible to survive by having over 10,000 life points). Afterwards, Vorago creates a rock image of a player he picks. The rock image is basically fighting another player, as it copies all of the moves that you use on you. However, the rock image can fail to hit through with the attack you are using. While the rock image is alive, Vorago gains a massive damage reduction (around 1/10th of the original attack will hit).

Once all of his life points are gone in this phase, Vorago starts to rampage and breaks this set of ground, damaging any players that he lands on top of. After three rampages, the floor will break and the fight proceeds to phase five, the final fight. Remember to attach all pieces of the maul of omens before fighting Vorago.

Phase five
You will appear on a narrow strip of ground. Vorago will continually attempt to push all the players off the edge of the strip. If Vorago pushes the players off, they will die and the challenge will fail. To push Vorago back, you must be within melee distance of him, using Bleed abilities such as Combust, Slaughter, Dismember, Deadshot and Fragmentation Shot. The strip is very narrow, so players should try to spread as far as they can in case Vorago sends a red rock flying towards them, as it is highly unlikely that you will have enough food due to the other four phases.

A cutscene shows, showing the player who is using the maul to finish him off. The player uses the maul to raze his body, then destroy his eyes with it, and finally smashes the maul of omens on his head, causing him to crash into the sea of water.

After the cutscene is finished, the red orb comes out from the water again. Vorago's items are dropped on the strip of ground. Leave by the red orb.

Drops
Vorago drops 5 items at a time, and is dropped in two different tiles.

Unique

 * }

Charms
1-5 charms are dropped at a time.

Other items

 * }

Trivia

 * Vorago is an English word, derived from Latin, meaning abyss, chasm, or gulf.
 * Vorago is loosely based on the living rock creatures, as Mod Chris L says. This is also proven when talking to Vorago, as he tells he knows about them slightly.
 * Vorago is the first boss, although second type of monster, that is capable of teleblocking players. The first monsters to do so are revenants.