Ivandis flail

The Ivandis flail is a one-handed staff created by the player during A Taste of Hope from a chain, an enchanted emerald sickle (b) and the rod of Ivandis. The flail requires an Attack level of 40 to wield. It is a silver weapon and can deal full damage to vampyres of all tiers and gives a 20% damage bonus against them.^[1] It can also autocast standard spellbook spells.

This flail is effective in damaging and killing the vyrewatch because, despite their sufficient mind-reading ability to predict attacks and avoid damage, the flail is incredibly unpredictable and random. The sickle head further increases the unpredictability of the weapon. Thus, attackers do not hit the Vyrewatch in the intended way, rendering their mind-reading useless.^[2]

The flail retains the ability to cast Bloom from the silver sickle (b). This versatility lets a player kill ghasts, vampyre juvinates and vyrewatch with a single weapon.

While players can make a flail themselves after the quest, it is much easier to purchase one from Vertida Sefalatis for 20,000 coins in the old Myreque Hideout under Old Man Ral's home or from Perdu for 30,000 coins from the Lost Property shop. During Sins of the Father, an Ivandis flail is used to create a blisterwood flail in the hideout.

The Ivandis flail has a special attack, Retainer, which traps a vampyre juvenile or juvinate that has less than 50% hitpoints remaining, preventing it from retaliating for 30 seconds. This consumes 10% of the player's special attack energy.

Even if the attack fails to activate, stating either This spell can only be used on vampyre juveniles or vampyre juvinates. or This spell only works against vampyres with less than half of their health remaining., it will still incur the normal attack delay, so take care not to accidentally use it in those circumstances.

The Ivandis flail is the item Falo requires players to show him when he sings about: Vampyres are agile opponents, damaged best with a weapon of many components. Alternatively, a rod of Ivandis, blisterwood flail, or hallowed flail can be used.

• Despite only having a Crush attack style available as a melee weapon, the flail also has Stab and Slash bonuses.
• The Ivandis flail inherits the 0.001kg weight of the rod of Ivandis, even though the chain (3.628kg) and sickle (1.587kg) used to create it have a combined weight of over 5 kg.