Grum



Grum is an NPC who owns a jewellery shop called Grum's Gold Exchange. He buys and sells unenchanted rings, amulets and necklaces from sapphire up to diamond.

Grum's clothes are various shades of purple, and purple dye requires blue dye to make. Since blue dye was expensive in medieval Europe (where RuneScape seems to be based), Grum may wear this colour to reflect his wealth. Being a jewellery trader, this would make sense.

After a certain update after RuneScape HD, Grum now has a glitch which is making his head disappear in the playscreen, but not in talking dialogues, making him seemingly headless.

Curiously, Grum's shop door is always closed, only opening when a player wants to enter, and closing again once they've entered.

Trivia

 * In early Runescape, Grum had a bald head and wore pinkish colored clothes. This led to the joke that Grum was a homosexual because he worked with jewellery and wore effeminate-coloured clothing. With the update Grum was given a beard to make him seem more manly, but players still joke about "Gay Grum" because of the colour of his clothing.