River of Blood

River of Blood is the seventh and final quest in the Myreque quest series. It was first announced at RuneFest 2015 and is planned for release on 25 April 2016. Players will be able to start the quest by speaking to King Roald and Aeonisig Raispher in Varrock Palace. River of Blood will feature Vanescula and the vampyres having discovered a way to cross the River Salve. Other characters will include Ivan Strom and ???, whose identity will be revealed.

The quest will include Haemalchemy as well as daeyalt ore. The focal point of the quest will be the Paterdomus, which was graphically updated ahead of the quest's release. With the quests release there will be graphical updates to the Mausoleum underneath the Paterdomus and ninja fixes to the Shades of Mort'ton minigame to make it feasible to play as a duo.

The release of River of Blood was preceded by the release of other vampyre content including The Lost Toys and Memorial to the Myreque. As with Memorial to the Myreque, River of Blood will be subject to an Early Bird Bonus where players who complete the quest in April will receive increased experience rewards from it.

Preperations for Aeonisig:
Items needed: 3 steel medium helms, 3 steel platebodies, 3 steel platelegs, Guthix balance potion (4), 2 main-hand blisterwood sickles, combat gear against two level 98 enemies (one range, one magic), super-restore potion (3), slivthril bar (obtained during quest), Ivandis' serum (obtained during quest) and a blisterwood log.

Clearing Paterdomus:
Inside the church there will be 5 monks of zamorak (level 23) and another 5 on the first floor. After killing all 10 a dialogue option will appear suggesting you go to the top floor. After climbing the stairs to the top floor a cutscene will start where the player will interrupt and catch a Zamorakian leader (level 98) and a Zamorakian bodyguard (Level 98). The bodyguard uses ranger and the leader uses magic. Once killed, they will drop a book. A dialogue option will appear saying that you should let Aeonisig know.

Arming the Varrock guard:
Talking to Captain Rovin with the steel armour and blisterwood sickles will prompt a dialogue box asking if the player wants to use all of the items. Selecting yes arms all of the arms and prompts the player to speak to Aeonisig.

Strengthening the Salve:
After talking to Ivan the player will be involved in a short dialogue with Drezel dismissing a plan because it was assumed to be Zamorakian propaganda. After the dialogue the player will be directed to search through the library to find a book on reversing vampyrsm.



The bookcases must be interacted with in order for a total of 7 steps. If a bookcase is pulled out of order the sequence must be restarted. The order of cities (in the titles of the books) is: Lumbridge, Varrock, Edgeville, Falador, Rimmington, Taverley and Draynor. Once the Blood of the covenant has been obtained, the player has to return to Ivan.

Now the player is directed to find the tomb of Ivandis Seergaze to see if he left behind any clues or notes. It is important not to forget the guthix balance potion here. The tomb is found in the secret Myreque tunnels underneath canifis (accessed via the trapdoor behind the pub). Once in the tomb, the guthix balance potion should be used on the tomb to unlock it. Upon searching it the player receives a scroll case, a slivthril bar, Ivandis' Serum, some notes and The Covenant of Perpetual Conflict. The scroll case should be opened and the notes used on the Blood of the Covenant to complete the diary.

Return to Ivan and he will instruct you to make the potion revealed in the recipe received from the scroll case. The slivthril bar should be ground down using the grinder at the Ectofuntus and then blessed at the nature altar in the nature grotto. Blisterwood logs should be cut from the tree and burned, it is not necessary to wait until the fire dies out, blisterwood ashes should appear as soon as the fire is lit. Once all the ingredients have been gathered use any one on the other to make a super guthix balance potion.

Return to Ivan and after a short dialogue and the player using the potion on the well the player will be prompted to speak to Aeonisig.

After returning to Aeonisig with all 3 stages complete the player will meet Vanescula Drakan on the brigde and try to convince her to call off the attack after the salve was strengthened. However she does not believe it is enough and proceeds to send 4 vampyre juveniles to attack. The vampyre juveniles will turn feral, one of which runs away leaving the player to fight the other 3. After killing the feral vampyres a giant wyrd appears and proceeds to attack Drezel, killing him. The wyrd has 50000 lifepoints and will charge a "sonic attack" every so often which will hit up to 7500 lifepoints. To avoid the attack, simply run towards the entrance to Paterdomus and return after the attack is cast. Vanescula will critiscize the creature for not staying in the castle and will complain about being unable to control it. After defeating it Efaritay will arrive and will injure and scare off the wyrd. After a short dialogue the party will disperse with Efairtay going to the Icyene graveyard and Drezel dying.

Refinery Puzzle:
Inspect each blood lock and they will tell you which emotion the tithe should display. Once you've talked to all of them, go to the remaining Shadum blood lock and choose the "" option. This will turn off the refinery so you can collect the refined daeyalt.
 * 1) Cheer up. Don't give up hope. - Florin, Drakan blood lock.
 * 2) You should be ashamed, do you not have any remorse? - Razvan, Myrmel blood lock.
 * 3) I don't approve, you shouldn't either. - Ileana, Pyrah blood lock.
 * 4) Isn't this technology amazing? - Sorin, Vitur blood lock.
 * 5) Let the anger flow through you. - Emilia, Ghrazi blood lock.

Rewards
Rewards for the quest will include new blood essence items. These are defensive variants of god books that can be equipped in the pocket slot. Congealed blood was added to the drop tables of monsters in Morytania ahead of the quest's release. This item will be needed to recharge blood essence items: 500 congealed blood will be required to fully charge a blood essence item.


 * 3 Quest points
 * An XP tome with three chapters worth 75,000 experience each
 * A reforged Sunspear
 * Ability to make blood essences by talking to Vanescula Drakan on the roof of Castle Drakan.
 * One blood essence of choice by talking to Vanescula Drakan after learning the ability to craft blood essences.
 * 2 Treasure Hunter keys
 * A reforged Sunspear
 * Ability to make blood essences by talking to Vanescula Drakan on the roof of Castle Drakan.
 * One blood essence of choice by talking to Vanescula Drakan after learning the ability to craft blood essences.
 * 2 Treasure Hunter keys

Early Bird Bonus
Completing the quest between 25 April and 1 May 2016 awarded an additional chapter in the XP tome worth 75,000 experience.