Requirements
- Completion of the following quests:
- Client of Kourend
- X Marks the Spot
- 18 Agility
- Ability to kill a level 36 Sand Snake
QUEST 134 · MEMBERS
The Depths of Despair
Artur Hosidius has gone missing, and Lord Kandur Hosidius needs your help to find his son and bring him home.
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Length
- Short
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 9 November 2017
Talk to Lord Kandur Hosidius at his home in Hosidius, north-west of the Vinery.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK
Preparation
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Items required
None listed.
Recommended
- 15 Combat
- Skills necklace to teleport to Woodcutting Guild
- Xeric's talisman
- Super energy/Stamina potions
- A weapon
- Food (if low level)
- An Arceuus Library Teleport
- Dramen/Lunar staff for fairy ring teleport to Arceuus, Ardougne cloak 1's monastery teleport brings you close to a fairy ring as well as the amulet of glory to Edgeville then running east to the grand exchange fairy ring. Alternatively, if you haven't completed the Ardougne easy diary, a Games necklace to teleport to Wintertodt.
Enemies to defeat
- Sand Snake (level 36)
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Walkthrough
- 01
Speak to Lord Kandur in the house west of the Vinery (Xeric's Glade teleport on talisman). Dialogue: Anything I can help you with? → Yes.
- 02
Speak to Chef Olivia in Lord Kandur's kitchen.
- 03
Head to the Arceuus Library (fairy ring code CIS, or games necklace to Wintertodt Camp, or Lovakengj Minecart Network to Arceuus) and speak to Galana. (north-east wing, ground floor)
- 04
Speak to Galana again. She will tell you where to find the Varlamore envoy book. This is random for everyone.
- 05
Read the Varlamore envoy book.
- 06
Enter the Crabclaw Caves, marked by the icon, south outside of the Woodcutting Guild near the water. Kill a sandcrab for easy diary while here. (Rada's blessing, Skills necklace teleport, Xeric's Talisman to Xeric's Look-Out, or Veos ship/charter ship to Land's End)
- 07
Navigate to the end of the caves and climb down the tunnel at the end.
- 08
Speak to Artur Hosidius.
- 09
Kill the Sand Snake (level 36).
- 10
Search the chest.
- 11
Return to Lord Kandur Hosidius and talk to him.
- 12
Congratulations, quest complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 1,500 Agility Agility experience
- 4,000 coins
- A page for Kharedst's memoirs, 'Lunch by the Lancalliums'. It teleports players to just east of the Hosidius Kitchen.
- Ability to recolour the graceful outfit to the colours of Hosidius.
- Ability to fight the Sand Snake within the Nightmare Zone.
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
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- The Depths of Despair ↗full guide · revision 15316668
- The Depths of Despair/Quick guide ↗quick guide · revision 14989190