Arceuus/Historical

Kourend Favour was removed after an update. As the contents of this page no longer exist in Old School RuneScape, this article is preserved for historical purposes.

Earning the favour of the Arceuus can be done by assisting Arceuus residents with expanding their knowledge, mining dense essence blocks and using the Arceuus spellbook to reanimate creatures. Once earning 100% Arceuus favour, players are able to runecraft blood and soul runes at their respective altars if players have level 77 and 90 Runecraft respectively.

To progress in the Architectural Alliance miniquest, players must gain 100% Arceuus favour and speak to Arcis, who is found in the building slightly north-east of the bank.

Because of the Arceuus Library's unhelpful librarian, Logosia, customers in the library are having trouble finding the texts they seek. Players can speak to Sam, Professor Gracklebone or Villia to search bookcases for books or scrolls around the library for them. To help narrow down where to search, talk to Biblia, the assistant librarian found at the top floor of the library. She wanders around the northern parts of the library.

Note that if a player is required to find either of the books Transportation Incantations or Soul journey, it is recommended to read them, as doing so will unlock the Kourend Castle Teleport spell and start the Bear Your Soul miniquest respectively.

Once the text is found and returned to the respective NPC, players are rewarded with a book of arcane knowledge and 2.5% favour. Speak to another NPC looking for assistance, as the NPC you already helped will be busy reading the book/scroll you gave them.

Once players reach 20% favour, they can speak to Mori in the centre of Arceuus to start the Ascent of Arceuus quest. This quest requires completion of Client of Kourend and level 12 Hunter. Completion of the quest will grant an Arceuus favour certificate worth 10% favour.

At 60% favour, you gain the ability to use the Arceuus spells, and reanimate ensouled heads at the dark altar. Doing so will grant between 0.5% and 1.5% favour per head killed, depending on the head, and is an efficient way of gaining favour while training Prayer and Magic.

Once players reach 20% favour, they can speak to Horphis, an Arceuus wizard, who will ask players to collect dark manuscripts found within the library. Players can again speak to Biblia to narrow down the location of the dark manuscripts and the books.

Unlike the books, multiple manuscripts can be obtained without constantly returning to Horphis. Each manuscript given rewards a book of arcane knowledge and 5% favour.

Once players reach 25% favour, they will be able to mine dense essence blocks within the dense runestone mine, located east of the Dark Altar. Make sure you bring a chisel as well as a pickaxe and have level 38 in Crafting and Mining.

Players can turn in dense essence blocks to Clerris, rewarding 0.1% favour for every block handed in. This is not recommended to gain favour, as it is extremely slow compared to assisting Arceuus Library customers.

• As this involves a lot of running, players should wear lightweight gear (e.g. full Graceful) and bring a few Super energy or Stamina potions.
• Most players spend most of their time earning favour at the library since it is the fastest method. It takes about two hours to gain 100% favour from zero when collecting multiple books at a time with no run restoration, and 30 minutes with energy potions.
• Always speak to Biblia, who roams the corridor on the top floor, for help with finding books and manuscripts.
• At 20% favour, it is strongly recommended to focus on manuscripts while doing book runs along the way only if they pose no inconvenience or entail going out of the way.
• Stockpiling manuscripts saves time, but it helps to turn them in if going to past Horphis.
• You can stockpile books and scrolls by returning to the location of the most recent request and grabbing another copy after handing the original in.
• Even while remaining on the same world, the locations of books and manuscripts changes around every 80-100 minutes.
• Sharing the locations of books and manuscripts with other players allows you to find them much more quickly.
• If you plan to reanimate ensouled heads, it would be wisest to start reanimating at 60% favour. This is because reanimation also increases Arceuus favour is a more efficient way of reaching 100% while simultaneously training prayer and magic.

• At 20% favour, players can access Thyria's Wares and Filamina's Wares.
• At 60% favour, players can speak to Tyss next to the Dark Altar to switch to the Arceuus spellbook, which contains reanimation spells that are intended for use on ensouled heads for Prayer training, and also increases Arceuus favour.
• At 100%, players can make dark essence blocks, made by using dense essence blocks at the Dark Altar, which can be then used with a chisel to create dark essence fragments, used in runecrafting blood runes and soul runes, which also require 100% favour.
• At 100% favour, players can create magic tablets to Arceuus spellbook teleports by using the lectern found in the Ouditor's house.
• At 100% favour, players can speak to Tyss to obtain an Arceuus signet, which are required in building dark altars or occult altars within a player's Achievement Gallery.