One of a Kind



One of a Kind is a grandmaster quest chronicling the study of Hannibus, a dragon rider, by Mr. Mordaut and the uncovering of Robert the Strong's lost library.

It is notable for having significant quest requirements, being less straightforward than the quests preceding it, and featuring lots of travelling; characteristics which saw a decline throughout 2012 and 2013. In the final quarter of 2013, Mod Raven created several threads on the forums, asking about people's views on quest requirements and which elements of While Guthix Sleeps people most enjoyed, which were subsequently incorporated into One of a Kind.

Official description
As part of his studies, Mr. Mordaut he has uncovered the latest entries to the dragon rider journal indicating the ultimate fate of Hannibus, the last of the dragon riders. Mordaut is hoping that the player will help him investigate. Mr Mordaut is an avid historian of dragon history, and Hannibus would represent a momentous discovery, particularly if he can be discovered alive. Not only can Hannibus give an insight into the past of the dragons, but his calming influence on dragons gives Mr. Mordaut hope that the dragons can learn to put aside their rage and differences and potentially become unified as a species.

Mr. Mordaut's Request
Speak to Mr. Mordaut at the Varrock Museum. He says that he seeks out information on the history of the dragonkin and has uncovered the final journal of Hannibus, the Dragon Rider. This journal may give information about the current location of Hannibus. He gives you the journal in which Hannibus describes how he has been hunted by the witch Enakhra who is collecting petrified trophies for Zamorak. Hannibus has been hiding in a cave but has now decided to travel far away to throw Enakhra off his scent, leaving his dragon behind.

Mordaut believes that Enakhra was able to curse Hannibus, turning him into a statue, but that Enakhra was never able to deliver it to Zamorak. Robert the Strong had found a strange statue and taken it to his library to study. The problem was that the location of the library is unknown. Tell him that Bob the Cat might know something, since he is the reincarnation of Robert the Strong, and he will agree and tell you to go and speak to Bob.

Searching for Robert the Strong's Library
Items needed: Catspeak amulet or Cramulet (Catspeak amulet (e) recommended), emerald, three empty inventory spaces

Use your catspeak amulet (e) to locate Bob the Cat, who wanders all over Gielinor. If your catspeak amulet is stored in the Cramulet, you'll have to dismantle it from the cramulet before recharging its enchantment with five Death Runes via Hild. Note that Bob spawns in Burthorpe, so if an update has just occured, he is likely to be in the Burthorpe and Taverley area. Once you've found Bob, he will tell you that he doesn't remember anything about his former life, but when he first saw the house just north of the agility course in Burthorpe he was instantly attracted to it, and thus adopted the human living there, Unferth.

Speak to Unferth. Use all options, and get him to agree to let you 'search' his house, agreeing not to make a mess. Once you do this, smash the book case, spread soot from the fireplace, and break the table. He will tell you not to tear up the carpet. Ignore him and remove the rug to reveal a trap door, and enter it to find yourself in the library of Robert the Strong.

Last of the Dragon Riders
Once in the library, search the desk in the middle. This will reveal a book on making a scroll of Rock Animation and a riddle to make it. The solution to the riddle is "rust". Investigate the rack of weapons near the entrance, which will give an option to remove rust. Select this option to receive iron oxide, and combine it with a cut emerald. This will create an Animate Rock scroll. Read the scroll while standing beside the statue in the southern part of the room, and you will animate the statue of Hannibus, the last Dragon Rider.

Speak with Hannibus, tell him it is the Sixth Age. He will tell you about how he and his kin left their homeworld to follow the "Empty Lord" Zaros, who promised a way to solve their problem of declining population, and how they became riders of dragons in his armies instead. Eventually you will decide that he needs a way to return home, and search the room for clues.

Search the bookcases on both sides of the room. After searching the eastern bookcase, you will recieve Primer on Dragonkin language. Search the western bookcases to find more books, which, while you cannot take, provide useful background information. The book titled "Flight of the Dragonkin" features Robert wishing he could talk to the "enormous statues with stone eyes gazing out across the world" in order to learn more about the Dragonkin.

The first page of the Dragonkin Primer contains some text in the Dragonkin language. You can either translate the words using the list on the following pages, or toggle the automatic translation option. Now read the map behind Hannibus to update your knowledge of Dragonkin language with place names. Not all words can be translated, but the information available is "Dragon Dungeon Forinthry", which refers to the green dragon in the Forinthry Dungeon. Be sure to translate the book or else you will not see the cut-scene.

You must now either follow the lead in the Dragonkin primer, or locate the mysterious stone statues around the world. These can be done in any order.

Speaking with the green dragon
''Items needed: Dragonkin Primer. Takes place in the Wilderness, so bring nothing you can't afford to lose.'' Go to the Forinthry Dungeon in level 22 Wilderness -- bring nothing but Dragonkin Primer, as you have to go through the Wilderness to get here, even though you enter an instance when you arrive. When you step towards the green dragons, it will prompt you to continue One of a Kind. Click yes and speak to the dragon, then follow its advice to the rock. When you walk near the correct rock, it will turn green with writing. Study it for the second clue.

Seeking other species of Dragons
Items needed: Dragonkin Primer, Amulet of ghostspeak or Cramulet, combat gear (including dragonfire protection), transportation to Brimhaven and Port Phasmatys

The second clue is telling you to enter the Brimhaven Dungeon. Prepare yourself with dragonfire protection and to kill three iron dragons. There is nothing special about the fight, so any gear should do. Once you enter the room with steel/iron dragons, another instance prompts you and Hannibus will again speak to the dragon, but this time have a difficult time with the ferocity of the steel dragon. Before and between the iron dragon fights, tell him he can do this, it's the only way he will get home, and other things to boost his confidence. Kill three iron dragons in between these prompts and he will tame the steel dragon fully. Again, listen to the given clue and walk to the resource dungeon entrance, and near the wall behind it. Writing will appear on the wall, which you study for the next clue, which is longer than the others.

This clue "First Dragon", "Black Dragon" refers to the Queen Black Dragon in the Grotworm Lair. When you arrive there, you will NOT need to engage her in combat. Be sure to choose the investigate option on the portal, as right clicking and selecting to pass through it will start a fight. It will once again prompt you to enter the cutscene. Do so and Hannibus will speak to her in her sleep, then she will channel through him to speak with you directly. Ask her about the Dragonkin and she will go through a long discussion, cursing you and the Dragonkin for taking her white-scaled children. This time Hannibus will directly tell you to seek out Dragontooth Isle.

Travel to Port Phasmatys by whatever means you wish, and bring a amulet of ghostspeak and dragonfire protection. Armour and a ranged weapon is preferable, as you will have to combat a celestial dragon or two. Speak to the ghost captain by the small dinghy and travel to Dragontooth Island, and run to the far side to find a resource dungeon. Enter it, where the celestial dragons are, and speak to Hannibus. He will tell you to engage them in combat, but killing is not in his nature, as he wants to study them. They're fairly dangerous in melee combat, so it is best to attack them and then let them attack you from a distance. Stay in combat with celestial dragons while he studies them. While it is not necessary to kill the dragons, you will not be penalized for doing so, and if you kill the dragon you're fighting, just attack another, as it does not halt progress at all. Once the dragon has been fully studied, you will speak with Hannibus again. If you have not yet spoken to the Submerged statue, he will tell you this is a dead end, and tell you to pursue the enormous statues you read about.

The Mysterious Statues
Items needed: Animate Rock scroll, transportation to mysterious statues To follow the lead in the book in Robert's library, you must find the Mysterious statues that were encountered in the Holy Grail quest. You must seek out at least two of these statues, which are located near the Seers' Village bank, outside the Tower of Life, near the Fishing Guild, and near the Brimhaven Dungeon.

You only need to speak to and turn two, but when you complete all four, you get a one-time bonus of 10,000 bonus experience in any skill you wish. Walk near the mysterious heads and use the scroll's Read feature. The head will awaken and ask you if you are Dragonkin or TokHaar. You can select 'I'm a Human' or either other option, then tell him you will spin him around now. A short jump cut later and he will face towards the Sleeper. Repeat this on at least one more of the remaining heads and you are ready to continue the quest.

Now you must follow the directions they face in order to locate the 'sleeper'. If you do so, you will note that it is located on Entrana, so bank any items with stats and travel there. In the far north-west corner of Entrana the top of the submerged statue can be seen off the coast. There are some bubbles like a fishing spot in the water. Use your Animate Rock scroll anywhere near there to bring it to life, and it will speak of the great danger of the Dragonkin and tell you more information of the Creators. If you have not yet spoken to the Celestial Dragon, Hannibus will tell you this is a dead end, and to investigate the lead given by the primer.

The White Dragon.
After completing both of the above tasks, you will learn of a White dragon that is said to have the ability to fly between worlds, which is apparently in the care of Hannibus's former mount, the King Black Dragon.

Activate the artefact found north of the Edgeville Monastery to travel to the King Black Dragon's lair, and choose the option to continue One of a Kind. You will reunite Hannibus and the King Black Dragon, and the King Black Dragon will speak. Choose any option and Hannibus will defend you as a friend who's helping him, and asks the King Black Dragon about a dragon that is able to fly through worlds. He will explain that there is one white dragon remaining, named Therragorn, and that she is the last of her kind. Therragorn is one of the white scaled babies the Dragonkin took from the Queen Black Dragon, as she tells the player in the dream. He will then explain that she was hunted, and he hid her in a small dungeon created by the Dragonkin in the far north-east wilderness to protect her. He will take you there (note that this is safe, you cannot be attacked during the cutscene.) and then unlock it, and you will automatically go inside.

Once inside, speak to the understandably timid white dragon, Therragorn, and go through all the options. After a short conversation, a team of Dragon Hunters barge in and try to murder her. You will have to fight a mage, archer and warrior, all over level 130. They use most abilities players can use, but are fairly low in power.

Since the cavern is not a wilderness area, you can leave the fight by the door or teleport out. If you leave or die, you can use the artefact to teleport back to Therragorn. Alternatively, you can walk to the cave, which is located on a peninsula near the northeast corner of the wilderness, and will be marked with a blue square on the world map while this part of the quest is active. To shorten the walk through the wilderness, the Annakarl Teleport, Daemonheim Wilderness entrance or the deserted keep teleport from Edgeville or Ardougne can be used.

Finish off the dragon hunters and speak with Therragorn again. She will fly you and Hannibus away, as her location has been found. You will then enter a cutscene on the back of the white dragon, where you are promptly ambushed as you fly above Daemonheim.

Kerapac the Observer
Note: If necessary, you can leave the dungeon at anytime by clicking the exit in the room outside the enraged Dragonkin. Exiting could be useful to restock, or re-gear as you will not have to enter the Wilderness again. The entrance to the dungeon is south of Thok. When you awaken, you will find yourself with an injured Hannibus inside a dungeon, with none other than Kerapac before you. He ambushed the white dragon, deeming her a failure of his creations. He will offer to heal Hannibus from his life-threatening wounds, but only on the condition that you help him by using your World Guardian powers to try and remove curse of the Dragonkin.

Look around the dungeon if you wish, and when you're ready to progress, agree, and he will lead you to Strisath, who is caged and bursting with fury. After a short conversation, Kerapac will explain that you need to capture and channel Dragonkin memories from protoplasmic wisps, in the same manner you do in Divination. Collect 25 memories and channel them on the caged Strisath, then speak with Kerapac again. If you're not prepared for the following fight, tell him you need time before continuing.

The Echo of Jas
He tells you you will face a challenge to weaken the bond the curse has between the Stone of Jas and the Dragonkin. This is the final boss fight of the quest. When you accept and embark on this, you will hear an Echo of Jas, who manifests herself as a mage in the shrine of Guthix from The World Wakes. She is level 190, has fairly high health and no weakness, and can use most magic abilities, including thresholds such as Wild Magic and Asphyxiate and possibly even ultimates like Omnipower if the battle drags on long enough. Despite her strengths, she is easily dispatched with a simple ranged setup and a good rotation of abilites. If you need to restock, simply run towards to the forked roads and you will spawn near Daemonheim.

Regularly throughout the fight, False Users appear around you in the form of Zamorak, Saradomin, and Lucien. Zamorak will cast a bleed-type effect over your current area, Saradomin will heal the Echo, and Lucien will cast a purple ball of energy that will do around 2000 damage. When they spawn, attack them immediately as each has a powerful special attack. They only have 1 lifepoint, so as long as they are hit, they retreat. Continue attacking the Echo of Jas until she dies, and you will return to Kerapac, where Hannibus has made a miraculous recovery.

Hannibus's farewell
You will need four free spaces in your inventory. Speak with them again and Hannibus will tell Kerapac to speak in front of you, where he offers Hannibus a chance to save his dying race, by becoming a subject of his studies and creations. Hannibus will ask you to take a walk with him, and if you're done exploring the dungeon, agree to this. Outside, Therragorn is revealed to have escaped unscathed and used the memory Hannibus gave her to travel to his world, bringing his great granddaughter along with her. A short dialogue ensues where the great granddaughter explains to Hannibus that who is left of their race is ready to move on from their world, erecting a great Tree to carve the history and memory of their kind into, before they go. Kerapac will return and remind him of his offer. You will be given the choice to speak to any of the present NPCs, or to make the decision of Hannibus' future. Regardless of what you pick for him to do, the cutscene will conclude and you will return to Daemonheim and complete the quest.

Congratulations! Quest complete.

Rewards

 * 1 Quest point
 * Dragon Rider amulet
 * Magic lamp granting 90,000 Magic experience
 * Summoning lamp, granting 80,000 Summoning experience
 * Dungeoneering lamp, granting 45,000 Dungeoneering experience
 * Access to celestial dragon resource dungeon
 * 10,000 bonus experience in a skill of Player's choice, for rotating all four Mysterious Statues during or after the Quest.
 * 25,000 bonus experience in a skill of Player's choice if they have completed Ritual of the Mahjarrat. Speaking to the Submerged Statue on Entrana (Rock Animation not required), will award this reward.
 * 25,000 bonus experience in a skill of Player's choice if they have completed Ritual of the Mahjarrat. Speaking to the Submerged Statue on Entrana (Rock Animation not required), will award this reward.

Music unlocked

 * Contemplation
 * Confrontation

Trivia

 * The Chaos Elemental Note 13 hinted at the quest's release in late 2013. This was the only hint about the quest before the February 2014 Behind the Scenes.
 * Upon completion of the quest, the adventurer's log states "I have rescued Hannibus from his stone prison and helped determine his future and the future of the Ilujanka."
 * When revealed during the February 2014 Behind the Scenes, One of a Kind was said to require 79 Magic, 74 Summoning and 67 Dungeoneering. Mod Raven later corrected this on the forums.
 * The Celestial dragon was the one chosen by players as the one they wanted in the game in a January 2014 Power to the Players poll, beating alchemical, gemstone and gold dragons.
 * One of a Kind is the first quest to feature the Divination skill as a requirement.
 * The quest was originally intended to be released in February 2014, but was postponed until March due to technical difficulties. According to Mod Jack, quests that are not confined to one location but take you all over the world are "intrinsically more complex to develop and test", which he states as being the reason for the delay.
 * You were initially placed in the Wilderness after the cutscene where the King Black Dragon opens the way to Therragorn, but this was changed after complaints from players. Likewise, you originally had to walk back if you died, but now using the KBD artefact teleports you back.