A Taste of Hope/Quick guide

Starting out
Items required: 1,000 Coins, Knife

Recommended: Pickaxe

Start this quest by speaking to Garth, outside Ver Sinhaza (the Theatre of Blood), which is located on the eastern side of Meiyerditch.
 * Speak to Garth.
 * Head to the Myreque base quickly via this route:
 * Get noticed by a Vyrewatch and ask to be sent to the mines.
 * Mine 15 Daeyalt ores, once the mine cart is full speak to a guard to leave. If you have no pickaxe, talk to a miner to obtain a bronze one.
 * You will appear up on the surface. On the right is a map of the route to take to get to the hideout; follow the blue path down to the leftmost green dot.
 * From here, follow the old route: Climb up the ladder, jump east to the floorboards, climb down the stairs, and go south-east through the hidden door.
 * Speak to Safalaan.

Vampyric espionage

 * Speak to any of the three mercenaries at the south-east corner of the Theatre of Blood.
 * Attempt to climb up the rubble west of the bank.
 * Speak to Harpert nearby, and pay him 1,000 coins.
 * Climb the rubble and follow the wall around to the north, then east until you reach a red window.
 * Players may take damage from the boiling hot steam that comes out from the vents. Some food is recommended.
 * Look through the red window.
 * Return to Safalaan and speak to him.
 * Speak to Flaygian Screwte.

The myth of Serafina
Items required: Combat equipment

Recommended: Vial of water
 * Speak to Safalaan.
 * Go to Serafina's house.
 * Upon exiting the hideout, climb up the stairs, jump the gap and then climb down the ladder. **Head due north through the three doors in a line, then due west until you reach the wall
 * Head north to reach a broken fountain.
 * Climb down the stairs of the house south of the fountain
 * Speak to Safalaan.
 * Search the crates and barrels around the basement to obtain mysterious meat, mysterious herb, a vial and a pestle and mortar.
 * Use the mysterious herb on the vial of water.
 * If players did not obtain a vial of water beforehand, return to the broken fountain and use the vial obtained in the basement on it.
 * Use the pestle and mortar on the mysterious meat.
 * Use the unfinished potion on the mysterious crushed meat.
 * Use the finished potion on the door.
 * Speak to Safalaan.
 * Make the potion again, but this using the vial of blood instead of a vial of water.
 * Use the blood potion on the door, and open the chest.
 * Give the old notes to Safalaan.
 * Return to the Myreque base and speak to Safalaan, then Flaygian Screwte, and then Safalaan again.
 * Watch your comrades die.
 * Defeat the abomination.
 * Go to the Myreque base under the pub in Burgh de Rott, and speak to Veliaf Hurtz to obtain the Rod of ivandis.

The legendary weapon
Items required: Emerald, chisel, 3 air runes and 1 cosmic rune, and Rod of ivandis.


 * Head to southern Meiyerditch, and into secondary base in Old Man Ral's house, accessible via a trapdoor in the north room.
 * Speak to Safalaan.
 * Speak to Vertida Sefalatis.
 * Read Flaygian's notes.
 * Search the nearby crates to find a silver sickle (b) and a chain.
 * (if you do not have the Rod of Ivandis in inventory or bank, return to Burgh de Rott's pub, and into the base, and speak to Veliaf Hurtz to obtain the Rod of ivandis).
 * Attach the emerald to the sickle to create an emerald sickle (b).
 * Then, cast Lvl-2 Enchant on the emerald sickle.
 * Finally, use the chain on the enchanted emerald sickle or the Rod of Ivandis to create the Ivandis flail.
 * Return to Safalaan and speak to him.

The Taste of Hope

 * Go to the Theatre of Blood and speak to Kael Forshaw by the noticeboard.
 * Defeat Ranis Drakan.
 * Ranis Drakan is level 233, and can only be harmed by the Ivandis flail. He will use melee and magic attacks that can hit up to 20. He can also cast Blood Barrage, which can heal him for half of the damage dealt. Occasionally, he will charge and attack and explode, hitting up to 30. The damage can be reduced by running away from him when he is charging the attack.
 * After he reaches 1/3 and 2/3 of his health, he'll summon two level 87 vyrewatch and will fly airborne. He will regularly launch blood bombs at your current square, which can hit up to 30; you can simply walk backwards one square to lure the vyrewatch to the affected square, so the bombs hurt them instead.
 * After killing them, he will go berserk and attack the player. During this last phase, his attacks are much faster and accurate, but only have a max hit of 6. Using Protect from Melee will easily defeat him in the last phase.

Finishing up

 * Return to the hideout under Old Man Ral's house.
 * Speak to Safalaan.

Congratulations, quest complete!