Shade Catacombs

Shade Catacombs
Released		18 October 2004 (Update)
Members		Yes
Floors		1
Location		Morytania
League region		Morytania✓
Inhabitants		Shades
Music		Lair
Map

The Shade Catacombs are a complex labyrinth found under Mort'ton as part of the Shades of Mort'ton minigame. The entrance is directly north of the general store and west of the temple, marked as a brown area on the map. To access it you need to have completed Shades of Mort'ton and have a bronze shade key or better.

To get a bronze shade key, you must kill a Loar Shade in Mort'ton, sanctify some olive oil at the repaired temple to make sacred oil, then use the sacred oil on any log, making a pyre log. Use the pyre log on one of the four pyre slabs in one of the seven shade burning areas of Mort'ton, identified by grey diamonds on the minimap. Then use the loar remains on the pyre logs, then use a tinderbox on the pyre logs. You may need to burn more than one, sometimes burning a shade produces coins on the reward pillar instead of a key.

Inside the shade catacombs are various shades and chests which may contain fine cloth (used to make splitbark armour), the amulet of the damned, and Zealot's robes. The Dwarf Multicannon can be used here.

• Loar Shade (not inside the catacombs, but in the town of Mort'ton)
• Phrin Shade
• Riyl Shade
• Asyn Shade
• Fiyr Shade
• Urium Shade
• Undead Zealot

When cremating a shade's remains on a Funeral Pyre, you will receive either some coins or a Shade key. There are 25 total keys: five tiers of metal, and five tiers of coloured handles. The keys can unlock matching, and lower, metal tier doors, and can be used an unlimited amount of times. The colour of the key handle is irrelevant when opening doors, and they are not lost when doing so. For this reason, it is recommended to keep at least one key of the highest tier to maintain access to as much of the catacombs as possible.

The keys can also be used once to unlock a chest specific to its rarity within the catacombs. The higher the metal tier, the better the chest loot, as well as access to further into the dungeon. The higher the colour tier, the better the probability of receiving better loot from the drop table. The corresponding chest can be determined based on matching the coloured handle to the colour of the chest buckle. Upon unlocking the chest and receiving the loot, the key will disappear.

There is a 5% chance for an Undead Zealot to spawn^[1] when any chest in the Shade Catacombs is opened.

	Received from[t 1]	Red (Lowest)	Brown	Crimson	Black	Purple (Highest)
Bronze (Lowest)
Steel
Black
Silver
Gold (Highest)