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QUEST 60 · MEMBERS

Eadgar's Ruse

Sanfew requires a rare herb for the next part of the purifying ritual. Travel back to the Troll Stronghold to find this herb that the trolls use as an ingredient for their favourite dish.

Difficulty
Intermediate
Length
Medium
Quest points
1
Released
5 October 2004
START POINT

Talk to Sanfew on the first floor of the herbalist shop in Taverley.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK

Preparation

Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.

Requirements

  • Completion of the following quests:
  • Druidic Ritual
  • Troll Stronghold
  • Death Plateau
  • 31 Herblore (boostable)

Items required

  • Climbing boots (or 12 coins to buy from Tenzing)
  • Vodka (sold by Heckel Funch at the Tree Gnome Stronghold bar for 5 coins)
  • Pineapple chunks (pineapples are sold by Heckel Funch at the Tree Gnome Stronghold bar or any Charter Ship, use a knife to dice the pineapple into chunks)
  • 1 Log (2 logs and a tinderbox are recommended)
  • 10 Grain (obtainable during the quest, just south of Tegid in Taverley, or North of East Ardougne after visiting the zoo)
  • 5 Raw chicken (there are chickens on the way at Tenzing the Sherpa's house, or between East Ardougne and Witchaven. Undead chickens do not work.)
  • Pestle and mortar
  • Ranarr potion (unf)

Recommended

  • 50 Combat
  • Armour and some food
  • Energy/stamina potions and weight-reducing clothing
  • Tinderbox and an additional log for a fire
  • Fast travel to the Ardougne Zoo (Ardougne teleport or Ardougne cloak)
  • Fast travel to Taverley (Games necklace, Taverley teleport, Teleport to House if your house is in Taverley, use the Balloon transport system, or alternatively a Falador teleport)
  • Ghommal's hilt 1 or better
  • Fast travel to Burthorpe (games necklace or combat bracelet to Warriors' Guild)
  • 44 Agility for shortcuts around the rockthrowing Trolls (47 Agility for more shortcuts to Eadgar)
  • Fast travel to Fremennik Slayer Dungeon (Slayer ring or Fairy Rings to AJR)

Enemies to defeat

None listed.

Ironman notes

  • A method of obtaining a ranarr potion (unf):
  • Killing Chaos druids for grimy ranarr weed (1/32.4)
  • Picking the herbs in the Sorceress's Garden autumn garden for ranarr weed (1/11). Requires completion of Quest Prince Ali Rescue and 45 Thieving.

ACTION CHECKLIST

Walkthrough

Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.

Starting out

  1. 01

    Talk to Sanfew (top floor of the Taverley herblore store) Dialogue: Have you any more work for me, to help reclaim the circle? → I'll do it., or Dialogue: Ask general questions. → Have you any more work for me, to help reclaim the circle? → I'll do it. if you have completed Zogre Flesh Eaters).

  2. 02

    Climb to the top of Trollheim, using the agility shortcuts if you can to save time, and enter Eadgar's Cave (see map for path alternatives).

  3. 03

    If you have not yet freed Eadgar in the troll stronghold's prison, pickpocket (30+ Thieving) or kill Berry the northern sleeping troll guard and use the cell key 2 on Eadgar's cell. Check your Troll Stronghold quest log and there will be a line that will either say "I've rescued Godric" or "I've rescued Godric and Mad Eadgar" to make sure.

  4. 04

    Speak with Eadgar in his cave. Dialogue: I need to find some goutweed.

  5. 05

    Go to Burntmeat's Kitchen, which is at the south end of the middle floor of the stronghold.

  6. 06

    Talk to Burntmeat.

  7. 07

    Return to Eadgar and speak with him. Secret Door through Rellekka Route Checklist|*For the secret door path, Slayer ring teleport to the Fremennik Slayer Dungeon or use the Fairy ring with (code AJR) to teleport outside the Dungeon entrance.

  8. 08

    Head north-east to a narrow passage, climb over the rocks, and go through the secret entrance to the north.

  9. If you have not yet freed Eadgar in the troll stronghold's prison, pickpocket (30+ Thieving) or kill Berry the northern sleeping troll guard and use the cell key 2 on Eagdar's cell. Check your Troll Stronghold quest log and there will be a line that will either say "I've rescued Godric" or "I've rescued Godric and Mad Eadgar" to make sure.

  10. 09

    Head to Burntmeat's Kitchen, which is at the south end of the middle floor of the stronghold.

  11. 10

    Go speak with Eadgar, whose cave is at the top of Trollheim.

The parrot

  1. 01

    Use vodka (right click it to avoid accidentally drinking it) on the pineapple chunks.

  2. 02

    Use alco-chunks on the aviary hatch (west side of parrot cage).

  3. 03

    Do not drop the parrot or it will fly away and you will need to retrieve it from Eadgar.

  4. 04

    Talk to Eadgar in his cave at Trollheim about making the fake human.

  5. 05

    Go back to the Troll Stronghold. You may skip this and use the parrot on your way back to Eadgar in the next section if using the agility way.

  6. 06

    Run north and go down both flights of stairs.

  7. 07

    Use the parrot on the rack north of the cells.

Making the "human"

  1. 01

    Talk to Tegid in Taverley south-east of the Herblore store for a dirty robe. Dialogue: Sanfew won't be happy...

  2. Pick up 10 Grain just south-west of Tegid if you need them.

  3. Kill 5 chickens on the way at Tenzing's house if you need Raw chicken.

  4. 02

    Pick a thistle in one of the grass patches near Eadgar's cave entrance. It is very small and coloured the same as the grass. Zoom in close on each patch to find a green flower around the patch of grass. It can be hard to see. Note that it only spawns in one of the patches of grass at a time.

  5. 03

    Enter Eadgar's cave and talk to Eadgar.

  6. 04

    Light a fire with your other log and cook the thistle on it to make a dried thistle. (You may also use one of the fires near the trolls to the west.)

  7. 05

    Use the pestle and mortar on the dried thistle and add it to a ranarr potion (unf).

  8. 06

    Talk to Eadgar.

  9. 07

    Retrieve your parrot from the rack in the troll stronghold.

  10. 08

    Give the fake man to Burntmeat.

  11. 09

    Search the kitchen drawers by the south wall to obtain a storeroom key.

Getting the goutweed

  1. 01

    Go down the nearby stairs inside the kitchen to the storeroom.

  2. 02

    Sneak to the back and take goutweed. Note:

  3. 03

    Return the goutweed to Sanfew. Dialogue:

  4. 04

    Congratulations, quest complete!

QUEST COMPLETE

Rewards

  • 11,000 Herblore Herblore experience
  • The ability to grow and steal Goutweed, which can be traded with Sanfew for herbs.
  • 1 Burnt Meat
  • The ability to use the Trollheim Teleport spell.
  • The ability to use a Scroll of redirection to redirect a Teleport to house tablet to Trollheim.

REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE

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