God books are books held in place of a shield. A player first receives a Damaged book and needs to add 4 torn pages to make a complete god book: Holy book, Book of balance, or Unholy book. With an update on 4 August 2010, players can also obtain god books of Armadyl, Bandos, and Zaros.
Types of god books
The table below uses real-time market prices. For more information, or to update outdated prices, see Grand Exchange Market Watch/Treasures.
God book God Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Total price Holy book Saradomin 2,284 2,456 2,312 2,219 Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Book of balance Guthix 2,723 2,198 1,998 2,085 Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Unholy book Zamorak 134,636 100,793 143,747 120,496 Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Book of war Bandos 1,598 1,604 1,646 1,629 Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Book of law Armadyl The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired. Expression error: Unexpected < operator. Ancient book Zaros The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired. Expression error: Unexpected < operator.
Each completed book has boosted stats as well as original +5 prayer:
- Holy book: +8 to all Defence stats
- Book of balance: +4 to all Attack and Defence stats
- Unholy book: +8 to all Attack stats
- Book of law: +4 to Slash, Stab, Crush and a +6 range in Attack and Defence with a +2 Summoning defence
- Book of war: +6 to Slash, Stab, Crush in attack and in defence with a +2 Summoning defence
- Ancient book: +4 to Slash, Stab, Crush and a +6 magic in Attack and Aefence with a +2 Summoning defence
Since the god books of Book of balance (Guthix), Book of law (Armadyl) and Book of war (Bandos) are all called after the alignment of its representing god, it is more consistent to call Saradomin's book "Book of order", since he is the god of Order. This is the same for Unholy book as Zamorak is known as the god of Chaos his book should be now called: "Book of chaos". But since Zaros is not officially well known, his alignment is unknown, and all his other items are referred to as 'Ancient', it indeed makes (more) sense that his book is called: Ancient book.
Obtaining the books
In the quest Horror from the Deep, you will receive a "Rusty casket". Speak to Jossik about this chest, and he will ask you to read what the chest says. You can choose from the 3 main gods: Saradomin, Guthix, Zamorak. After you have completed one of the three books, you may purchase either the two you did not receive, or choose from the other 3 gods: Armadyl, Bandos, and Zaros.
For whichever god you choose, you will get a "Damaged book" of that god. When wielded, this book provides +5 to Prayer. However, this is not the book's true potential. Torn pages that are missing from your Damaged book can be found and put back in to complete the book.
You can acquire torn pages by completing Treasure Trails, cremating Vyre Corpses in the Columbarium, or by buying them from other players, either directly or via the Grand Exchange. Torn pages are unique to each god's book. Once you have added all four torn pages, it becomes a new book depending on which god it is for. Saradomin's damaged book becomes a Holy book, Guthix's damaged book becomes a Book of balance, Zamorak's damaged book becomes an Unholy book, Zaros' damaged book becomes an Ancient book, Bandos' damaged book becomes a Book of war and Armadyl's damaged book becomes a Book of law.
Once you have completed your book, you may go back to Jossik and buy a different Damaged book for 5,000 coins. You can only buy a different book each day until you have all the books, so you cannot buy two books on the same day. The next day, Jossik will have found the last book that you need. (Each book has 4 pages such as: Zamorak page 1/2/3/4, Guthix page 1/2/3/4, Saradomin page 1/2/3/4; see God pages)
There are some disputes on the RuneScape Forums concerning the ability to remove pages from the book, as over the months the prices for certain pages have increased dramatically.
Losing a god book
If a player loses their God book, they can go back to Jossik who will have found it "on the shore" and get it back for free, complete with pages that have been added.
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Trivia
- On the first day of release, players were able to buy all 3 books from Jossik without completing each book. There are people that report that they cannot purchase the 3 books, and can only get one at a time. It is unknown if this was a glitch or intentional by Jagex.
- After completion of Horror from the Deep, you may only choose one of the three main gods' books; to obtain the three new gods' books, you must complete one of the major god's books.
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