Holy Cithara

The Holy cithara is an object that can be found within the holy reliquary in the basement of the Abbey of St. Elspeth Citharede after meeting several requirements. Receiving the Holy cithara for the first time rewards the player with 50,000 prayer experience. The Holy cithara has a right-click play option which, upon clicking, will make the player play the cithara energetically for a few seconds. Other players are able to hear the cithara as you play it.

Attempting to take the Cithara may result in receiving damage equal to the player's current life points minus one. This means that the player will not die, even if the player is not at full health.

Obtaining the Holy Cithara
To obtain the Holy Cithara a player must wear a variety of equipment and meet certain "Holy" requirements:


 * Equip a Ring of visibility + Ghostspeak amulet/Cramulet, and 6 pieces of Saradomin Equipment.

These items are acceptable pieces of Saradomin Equipment:

If you don't obtain it on your first try, but the ghost appears and you don't get any damage done to you, keep trying until you get it. It can take upwards of 15 tries to successfully grab the cithara.

The following will prevent you from obtaining the cithara: Saradomin-related items that will NOT count towards your 6:
 * You must be at 100 run energy.
 * You must be on normal prayers (no curses)
 * You must have full prayer points but not OVER full (from various boosts)
 * Ancient Magicks is not allowed (Normal or Lunar spellbooks only)
 * You may NOT have any items affiliated with another god in your inventory.
 * Wearing the Wicked hood
 * Gloves (Barrows) (confirmed) / (or other barrows equipment - not confirmed)
 * Prosylete/Initiate armour
 * Saradomin sword
 * Saradomin shields

Tips and Misconceptions

 * You only need 6 items worn to obtain the Cithara. Wearing more items than necessary will work, but are not required.
 * The Citharede robes are not required, they are simply free and readily available after completing the quest.
 * A majority of the items affiliated with Saradomin listed on the Saradomin page do not work. The White gloves and White Boots are prime examples.
 * Because all four of the Falador shields have a symbol that closely resembles the Saradomin symbol, it is sometimes mistaken for a Saradomin aligned item. However, this is not the case. The symbol is the Asgarnian crest, mostly related to Falador, which while largely affiliated to Saradomin, is not a direct representation.
 * Having a piece of Void equipment will prevent you from obtaining the Cithara.
 * A Damaged holy book does count as one of the 6 Saradomin items.
 * If one recieves the message that states them as unworthy of obtaining the Holy cithara, before moving forward in the conversation and being struck by current LP - 1, exit to the lobby, log back in, and try again.

Proven Setups
ALL setups also require a Ring of Visibility and either the Cramulet or Amulet of Ghostspeak. Hence a Holy symbol, the Citharede symbol, or a Ring of devotion cannot be used. The cheapest/easiest setups can be found below.


 * Citharede robes (3 pieces), 1 Saradomin Arrow, Saradomin Staff, Saradomin Cape. (Level 60 Magic Required)
 * Citharede robes (3 pieces), 1 Saradomin Arrow, Saradomin kiteshield, Saradomin crozier (Level 60 Prayer Required)
 * Citharede robes (3 pieces), 1 Saradomin Arrow, Saradomin mjolnir, Saradomin cloak. (40 Prayer required)
 * Citharede robes (3 pieces), 1 Saradomin Arrow, Saradomin mjolnir, Saradomin's holy book. (Horror from the Deep Quest required.)
 * Citharede robes (3 pieces), 1 Saradomin Arrow, Saradomin crozier, Piety. (70 Prayer required)
 * Citharede robes (3 peices), Saradomin Staff, Saradomin Cape, Illuminated Holy Book. (Level 60 Magic, 60 Prayer, 60 Crafting and Horror from the Deep Quest)

This is just a few of the possible combination of items that can be used to receive the Holy Cithara.