Gunnar's Ground

Gunnar's Ground is a quest available to both free players and members. It replaced the Romeo and Juliet quest. Players who have completed the Romeo and Juliet quest are still able to complete Gunnar's Ground as well, they will not recieve any additional quest points but are still able to get the extra rewards. The quest is about a dwarf poet that falls in love with a Fremennik chieftain's daughter, and will involves runeScapes first poetry composition puzzle. Gunnar's Ground also explains the history of Barbarian Village.

Walkthrough
Dororan tells you that he loves a barbarian girl and wants to give her a present. He wants you to bring a gold ring from Jeffery, in Edgeville. He'll also give you a poem scroll. Go to Edgeville and speak to Jeffery near the furnace. Trade the scroll for the ring.

Bring the gold ring to Dororan. Now he'll ask you to engrave the ring with a text. If you don't have a chisel with you, you can ask him for one. Use the chisel on the ring, and show it to Dororan. He likes it and wants you to show it to the barbarian girl - Gudrun. She says that her father Gunthor doesn't let her to have a relationship with an outsider. Talk to him, found in the big hall. He will disagree, so return to Gudrun. Now she asks you if the dwarf has an idea.

Speak to Dororan and he'll decide to write a poem to Gunthor. He'll get stuck and will ask you for some help. The words are:
 * Stray


 * Threat


 * Swept to war

Ask Gudrun to read the poem to her father. A cutscene will start and Gunthor will change his mind.

Reward

 * 300 Crafting experience
 * Antique lamp granting 200xp in a chosen skill
 * Swanky boots
 * Ability to get further Crafting tasks from Dororan (requiring up to level 90 Crafting, boosts allowed)

Extended rewards
Ability to engrave jewellery for Gunnar by speaking to him. There are 3 pieces of jewellery to be engraved. They give various amounts of Crafting experience, for a total of 32,000.
 * Ruby bracelet requires a Crafting level of 42 and gives 2,000 experience.
 * Dragonstone amulet requires a Crafting level of 72 and gives 10,000 experience.
 * Onyx amulet requires a Crafting level of 90 and gives 20,000 experience.

Trivia

 * It is possible to wear the quest cape and perform its emote without having finished the quest. This is because (many) players did the quest Romeo and Juliet before this update, thus having already the max amount of quest points.
 * The spoiler on the day it was released was "We tried to write the spoiler for Gunnar's Ground, but couldn't find the right words or a suitable pentameter. Come back tomorrow, when our writer's block has cleared. "
 * Interestingly, there have historically been tensions between dwarves and Fremenniks; the Fremenniks nearly exterminated the Imcando dwarves, for example.