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Start pointMap icon Talk to King Narnode Shareen in the Grand Tree. Show on map
Official difficultyIntermediate
Official lengthMedium
DescriptionThe Grand Tree, which shelters the majority of the small gnome population of Gielinor, is dying. Is it human sabotage or an inside job? Help King Shareen to find the true cause and save the tree gnomes from an uncertain fate.
Requirements
  • Agility 25 Agility [boostable] [not required to start]
  • The ability to defeat a level 172 Black demon (safespottable for Ranged and Magic or melee using a halberd).
Items required
  • 1,000 coins if you previously chose not to help Femi on your first entry to the Tree Gnome Stronghold (not required if you never used the gate entrance)
Recommended
Enemies to defeat
League notes

Unlocking Kandarin Kandarin✓ Yes will auto-complete the quest

Walkthrough

Getting started

Items recommended: Teleportation methods to Tree Gnome Stronghold and Yanille.

Glough

Glough's house location.
  • Return to King Shareen. He will ask what the message says. Tell him: (Chat 1•5•5•2•1•4)
  • Head south. At the bottom of the incline, turn east and go up the ladder to speak with Glough.

Investigation

Items needed: 1000 coins (if you haven't helped Femi).
Items recommended: A teleport out of Karamja.
  • Return to King Shareen, and he will tell you that Glough has caught a human. Ask to see the prisoner.
  • Talk to the prisoner Charlie on the top floor of the Grand Tree. Make sure to finish the entire conversation!
  • Go to Glough's house. Search the cupboard, and you will find his journal.
  • Talk to Glough and wait to be arrested.
  • Talk to Charlie; he will tell you about the shipyard on Karamja; the password is Ka-Lu-Min.
  • The king appears and tells you to escape using the gnome glider on top of the tree.
  • Travel with the glider.

Karamja

  • The glider will crash near the Ship Yard. Run east past the level 53 jogres to the Ship Yard gate.
  • Open the gate and tell the worker Glough sent you, then give the password Ka-Lu-Min. (Chat 2•1•2•2)
  • Find the Foreman on the southern dock. Kill him or talk to him to get a lumber order.
    • If you talk to him, he will ask you some security questions. (Chat 3•2•1)
  • Take the lumber order to the king. (Teleport into the stronghold or get Femi to sneak you in, costing 1,000 coins if you didn't help her earlier). The king will not believe you when you show him the lumber order.

Tuzo

Anita's house on the map.
Items needed: Lumber order.
  • Speak to Charlie again on the top floor of the Grand Tree.
  • Speak to Anita up the stairs west of the swamp, north-west of the Grand Tree. She will give you a key. (Chat 1)
  • Go to Glough's house, and use the key to open the chest and take the invasion plans. Make sure to complete the dialogue window to receive the plans!
  • Take the invasion plans to the king. He will give you four letters made of sticks (you'll need 4 empty inventory spaces).
  • Climb the watchtower in Glough's house (tree in the east part of his house). Use the sticks with the four pillars to spell out TUZO. If you are under 25 Agility, eat your summer pie now.
  • Bank if needed and prepare for the battle, then go down the trapdoor.

Encountering the Black demon

Items needed: Combat equipment and food to last in a fight against a level 172 black demon.
Recommended safespot, located directly north of the entrance ladder.
  • After you enter and talk to Glough, a level 172 black demon will appear and attack you.
    • Immediately after the cutscene ends, run to the tile directly north of the ladder. The black demon will become stuck behind the daconia rocks in front of you as he approaches. Attack with ranged, magic, or a halberd.
    • Warning: The demon will despawn after a while if it is not killed within 10 minutes exactly. If this happens, you'll have to exit through the ladder in the centre of the cave and go through Glough's trapdoor again.
  • Kill the demon. Walk along the passage until you find King Shareen standing by a ladder.
  • Talk to the king, and he will ask you to locate the last daconia rock. Fully complete the dialogue; otherwise, you cannot continue.
  • Search the roots until you find it (make sure to click continue on the dialogue when you find the stone).
  • Talk to the king one last time.
  • Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

Unlocks:

The Grand Tree
NPCs
Items
Twigs
Locations
Music
Miscellaneous

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