Lexicus Runewright

Lexicus Runewright is one of the hardest bosses in Daemonheim. He summons books attacking with Ranged, Magic and Melee. Every once in a while, he will use his special attack "book barrage" to summon two or more glowing books following the player. They will explode and deal up to 600 damage if the player does not run away from the book barrage.

He deflects up to 1/3 melee damage you deal, so you are advised to range or mage him.

Method(s) to defeat
Equipping a range set equipment along with a full inventory of decent-leveled food are ideal in defeating this boss. He has very low range defence. Meleeing him is very ineffective since he has high melee defence and reflects melee damage back towards the player. Lexicus can attack with melee and magic; however, he mainly attack with magic if the player is not adjacent to him. Albeit, he will not do much damage towards the player while wearing a high-level range outfit. One exception is his Book Barrage attack, which does a lot of damage; the attack can be identified as several glowing books flying from the bookshelves of the walls, before they strike. The assault can be evade by walking away from where the player was standing when the Lexicus announces "Book Barrage" out loud.

Moreover, he will teleport around the room often during the fight, summon several 10-lifepoint books, and he will stop attack you until you confront him again. The only time he summons these books are at the start of the fight and everytime he teleports. As the books are level 20-39 with 10 life points and very low (or zero) defence, it is assumed that all their levels are in their respective offensive stat, meaning they can hit often and high enough that they will be a very significant nuisance as they grow in number. It is therefore strongly suggested that time be taken to kill these books as soon as they are summoned, because, as mentioned above, Lexicus will only summon these after he teleports and then he stops attacking, giving time to confront the books (they will most of the time spawn right near the player). If this is done correctly, even a solo player will take very little damage if using ranged, protect from magic prayer, and if all book barrages are dodged successfully.



Other drops

 * Keeper of the tomes
 * Roseblood hood
 * Runic hood
 * Spiritbloom hood
 * Bryll hood
 * Celestial hood
 * Soulbell hood
 * Mysterious Chronicles Part 10
 * Lexicus Runewright's journal

Trivia

 * Lexicus Runewright's name is likely a play on the words lexicon, rune, and wright. Lexicon stems from the Greek "lexikos," meaning "pertaining to words," while wright is a common suffix meaning "worker."
 * He has an interesting death animation in which he falls to his knees, opens his book, and reads it as he keels over.
 * Lexicus seems to have a relationship with, or adores, Astea Frostweb.

Glitches and Errors

 * Even though it says you need to be level 40 in Dungeoneering to fight him, you can fight him at level 39.
 * Occasionally his summoned tomes will remain after he is slain and will continue to attack you, although they only have 10 life points, they can cause enough damage to finish you unexpectedly after the fight.