Barrows

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Barrows
Released								9 May 2005 (Update)
Type								Boss
Members								Yes
Location								East of Mort'ton
League region								Morytania✓
Participants								1
Skills								Combat
Reward currency								N/A
Tutorial								No
Music								Dangerous Way, Dance of the Undead
Map

The Barrows is a series of six burial mounds east of Mort'ton in which the Barrows brothers were entombed after their deaths during the Third Age. 'Barrows' also commonly refers to the minigame-like dungeon-delving experience of looting the chest at the centre of the tunnels beneath the crypts, released on 9 May 2005.

Players can attempt to rob valuable items from the Barrows brothers' crypts. However, due to an ancient spell, the brothers' wights continued to dwell in the barrows, protecting these treasures.

Looting the Barrows is popular due to the potential of receiving valuable rewards, including the unique Barrows equipment, with increasingly valuable rewards for killing more monsters in the crypts, including the Barrows brothers themselves.

In the miniquest His Faithful Servants players are tasked to slay all six Barrows brothers and then loot the chest for the strange icon. Completing the miniquest rewards some Prayer experience and the ability to use your minimap within the Barrows tunnels.

The Barrows brothers were ancient warriors of Saradomin who established a reputation of near invincibility while fighting in the God Wars.

They launched a massive attack, known as the Morytania Campaign, to liberate Morytania from the clutches of Lord Lowerniel Vergidiyad Drakan and his vampyres. As the brothers departed, a mysterious stranger granted them superhuman power to battle Drakan's forces, by supplying them with the weapons and armour now known as the Barrows equipment. It succeeded, for the brothers, who were in the front line, seemed invincible. They had not anticipated, however, that the stranger had ulterior motives for helping them.

As the brothers and their accompanying army progressed further into enemy territory in Morytania, the stranger followed them until the brothers became weakened. The brothers were grievously wounded in battle near the western wall of Meiyerditch, and thus the army set up camp in the area. Soon, the brothers died of their infected wounds simultaneously in the army's camp. The army quickly decided to retreat from Morytania, realising they could never succeed without their former leaders' prowess, but as a reflection of the brothers' bravery, they vowed to honour their martyred heroes as a final act before retreating.

The army spent six days and nights holding off the attacking vampyres to construct burial mounds, the Barrows, to honour the fallen brothers.

As the army began its return, the stranger slowly started walking towards the brothers, now dead and interred in their barrows. Arms outstretched atop the central mound, the stranger chanted in some foul, ancient language, casting his old magic. A vulgar purple light formed in front of him, fell to the earth, and bled into each of the barrows.

Not many of the original army made it back on the journey home, but tales were told of how each night an unnatural glow could be seen on the horizon where they had buried the brothers. Even today there are stories told about those mounds of earth, and of the sights and sounds that have been witnessed nearby.

A crumbling tome, obtained by searching the hut near the mounds or by talking to the Strange Old Man found digging the crypts, provides a detailed account of how the brothers came to be buried.

There are several different methods for travelling to the Barrows. The best options, ordered from fast to slow, are:

• Casting Barrows Teleport in the Arceuus spellbook (requires level 83 Magic), or using a Barrows teleport tablet or house portal to teleport right next to the entrance.
• Using the Mort'ton teleport scroll and then running east to Barrows.
• Using the Morytania legs 3 or 4 to Burgh de Rott and running north through Mort'ton towards Barrows.
• Using the Minigame Teleport to Shades of Mort'ton (requires completion of the Shades of Mort'ton quest). This method is free and takes up no inventory or equipment spaces, though there is a 20-minute cooldown between uses.
• Casting Kharyrll Teleport in the Ancient spellbook (requires level 66 Magic and completion of Desert Treasure I), or using a Kharyrll teleport tablet or house portal to teleport to Canifis, then using the Myreque Hideout shortcut south of the pub and running south, crossing the rope bridge, continuing south and using the swamp boaty to travel to Mort'ton, then running east.
• Using the fairy ring code BKR, running south-east and using the swamp boaty to travel to Mort'ton, then running east.
• Using the fairy ring code BIP, hopping across the stepping stone shortcut (requires level 50 Agility), then going east and south, following the path through Mort'ton.
• Using Drakan's medallion to teleport to Ver Sinhaza (requires completion of A Taste of Hope), leaving through the western door, running south-west to board the boat to Burgh de Rott, and running north through Mort'ton to Barrows.
• Running east from Canifis, then south through the swamp, turning east at the northmost hunter spot, looping around to the other nearby hunter spot, then running south-west to the swamp exit.

Non-Ironman players may attempt to visit a player-owned house on a house party world with a portal nexus for a quick and cheap teleport to Barrows or Canifis. Additionally, players with level 72 Agility can use the dry stone wall shortcut on the south west side of the mounds, just east of the bridge.

• Completion of Priest in Peril is required to enter Morytania.
• Started His Faithful Servants to begin digging into the crypts.

The following money making guide is available for Barrows:

	Grave Robber
The jingle that plays upon opening the chest.

The table below lists the possible rewards from the chest at the centre of the Barrows crypt. For more information about reward mechanics and rarities, see Chest (Barrows).

Image	Name
	Ahrim the Blighted's equipment
	Dharok the Wretched's equipment
	Guthan the Infested's equipment
	Karil the Tainted's equipment
	Torag the Corrupted's equipment
	Verac the Defiled's equipment
	Other items

There are 7 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 14 points) available for Barrows.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Defence? What Defence?	Kill any Barrows Brother using only magical damage.	Restriction	Easy (1 pt)	61.7%
Barrows Novice	Open the Barrows chest 10 times.	Kill Count	Easy (1 pt)	54%
Pray for Success	Kill all six Barrows Brothers and loot the Barrows chest without taking any damage from any of the brothers.	Perfection	Medium (2 pts)	41.9%
Barrows Champion	Open the Barrows chest 25 times.	Kill Count	Medium (2 pts)	47.3%
Can't Touch Me	Kill Dharok, Verac, Torag and Guthan without letting them attack you with melee.	Mechanical	Medium (2 pts)	19.7%
Just Like That	Kill Karil using only damage dealt by special attacks.	Restriction	Hard (3 pts)	29.2%
Faithless Crypt Run	Kill all six Barrows Brothers and loot the Barrows chest without ever having more than 0 prayer points.	Restriction	Hard (3 pts)	26.7%

• Ahrim the Blighted
• Dharok the Wretched
• Guthan the Infested
• Karil the Tainted
• Torag the Corrupted
• Verac the Defiled
• An official depiction of the brothers.

• There is currently a glitch where if Guthan is slain and he heals simultaneously, a message will appear in the player's chatbox stating We'll finish this later.... This message can also appear if players run too far away from a brother in the crypts.
• Despite the fact that the brothers appear to be ghosts, the Crumble Undead spell cannot be used on them.
  • Because they are not ghosts, they do not count toward ghost Slayer tasks. Instead, they count toward boss tasks.
• If your inventory is full when you loot the chest and you get a Barrows item, it will be dropped on the ground but will be in 100% condition. This and Falador Party Room drop parties are the only ways to drop Barrows weapons, chest pieces and leg pieces on the ground without them degrading. Barrows helms can also be dropped by using them on a hat stand.
• The Barrows may be inspired by the barrows in The Lord of the Rings, which are also protected by evil spirits. Notably, both The Lord of the Rings and RuneScape call these spirits "wights", a term which (at the time of Barrows' release) was not used anywhere else in the game.
• Parts of the Meiyerditch Laboratories can be seen from the tombs of the Barrows brothers, with Dharok's tomb offering the clearest view. This is because the Barrows tombs, like all areas not on the overworld map, are actually located on a section of the world map above the Wilderness which houses all of the underground and other non-surface areas of the game.