Ancient Guthixian Temple

Ancient Guthixian Temple
Released		10 July 2024 (Update)
Also called		Safekeep
Members		Yes
Location		Chasm of Tears
League region		Misthalin✓
Music		The Sound of Guthix, Temple Desecrated
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The Ancient Guthixian Temple is an ancient temple devoted to Guthix that was primarily built to house the Stone of Jas. The druids who built the temple created a complex system that was meant to keep intruders out. Found at the bottom of the Chasm of Tears, it is accessed by attracting a light creature with a sapphire lantern to ride down into the chasm. The player must then run south and climb up two stone walls to reach the entrance. Alternatively, players can teleport to the temple with a Guthixian temple teleport.

During the events of While Guthix Sleeps, the whereabouts of the Stone of Jas are discovered to be at the bottom of the Chasm of Tears. The player, pretending to be Surok Magis in order to get past Movario and Darve, opens a huge door within the temple to reach the Stone of Jas. The Stone was protected by the Balance Elemental, a Guardian created by Guthix, and remained there since the end of the God Wars until it was stolen by Lucien, a Mahjarrat who also possesses the Staff of Armadyl.

Once descending into the chasm players cannot set up a dwarf multicannon anywhere within the temple. Attempting to do so yields the chatbox message: "A strange magical force won't let you set up a cannon here."

After the quest, players can return to the temple and fight tormented demons that have since spread across the temple grounds. While the entire temple is considered a single-way combat zone by the game, the temple is a unique outlier in the fact that some areas are pseudo-multicombat areas. While in the temple, an icon that depicts a tormented demon's head (shown below) can be seen in the user interface, indicating the number of demons the player can engage at one time. Other players will be unable to attack a demon that is engaged in combat with another player until that player leaves by any means.

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  Single-Combat: 10 demons—The plinth chamber in the south-east contains eight demons in a single-combat area. Two additional single-demon rooms can be found in the north-west of the temple (directly west of the temple entrance).
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  Double-Combat: 10 demons—The central chamber and the four eastern rooms each contain two demons.
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  Triple-Combat: 6 demons—Two rooms in the south-west contain three demons each.

• The entrance to the temple at the very bottom of the Chasm of Tears.
• The plinth where the Stone of Jas once sat on.
• An official depiction of the temple.

The temple was released alongside While Guthix Sleeps. Compared to its RuneScape 3 counterpart:

• In RuneScape 3, there were only six tormented demon spawns, all of which were near the plinth where the Stone of Jas once was. In Old School RuneScape, there are 26 spawns throughout the temple; two in the central chamber near the entrance, eight in the south-east plinth room, eight spread throughout the western off-shoots, and another eight spread throughout the eastern off-shoots.
• There are no safespots to trap demons in, as the demons have routefinding capabilities to bypass such attempts.
  • The area around the Stone of Jas was significantly altered; a small outcrop to the north-west, present in RuneScape 3, is removed in Old School. The other outcrop to the north-east is also blocked off by stone braziers. There are numerous stone braziers placed across the open area, likely to prevent demons from wandering over or getting lured by players to the other side. The outcrop to the south-west is also closed off to its east.
    • Despite this, the former outcrop to the north somewhat exists; attacks can be made over it, though both the demons and players will path around the open area as if it was not there.
• A brazier can be found in the dolmen room, which would act as a stamina potion during the quest. After the quest, the brazier is extinguished, likely due to the Stone of Jas no longer powering it.
• The temple entrance has an additional cavity to the side, albeit collapsed. Next to the blocked cavity lies a skeleton, which can be searched to find a grimy note. In RuneScape 3, this cavity is not present. The Archive mentioned in such note may be the Fractured Archive, which is the planned fourth raid, which will have While Guthix Sleeps as a requirement.