Theatre of Blood

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Theatre of Blood
Released								7 June 2018 (Update)
Also called								Raids 2, ToB
Type								Raid
Members								Yes
Location								Ver Sinhaza
League region								Morytania✓
Participants								1-5
Skills								Combat
Reward currency								None
Tutorial								No
Music								See below
Map

The Theatre of Blood is a raid located beneath the castle of Ver Sinhaza. It is a large arena used by the ruling vampyres to host blood sports. The only hard requirement to participate in the raid is the completion of the Priest in Peril quest to be able to access Morytania. The raid is featured prominently in the quest A Night at the Theatre and also plays a part in The Blood Moon Rises.

Here, the citizens of Meiyerditch are encouraged to go to the theatre and fight against the various experiments and abominations contained within, with the promise of freedom from the blood tithes and the right to leave Morytania should they succeed. The reward is revealed to be a ruse as the vampyres are unwilling to let go of their primary food source.

While the theatre is only open to citizens of Meiyerditch, this rule is rarely enforced. The vampyres are more entertained by outsiders than the citizens themselves, seeing as these are better prepared compared to the civilians who are inexperienced and poorly equipped. Following the completion of The Blood Moon Rises, the rule is officially abandoned and the Theatre is rebranded as a proving ground for the strongest warriors from across Gielinor to test themselves in.

Ironmen are eligible for rewards from the raid when completing it alongside other players. Group ironman players will lose their prestige upon entering the raid with a player outside of their group.

• Drakan's medallion provides unlimited teleports directly to Ver Sinhaza. The medallion is locked behind the completion of A Taste of Hope quest.
• Players may pay 10,000 coins to Andras north of the Ectofuntus in Port Phasmatys to travel to Slepe, then run south from there. Players can also use an Ectophial to travel to the Ectofuntus and run south from there.
• After starting Darkness of Hallowvale, players can take the boat from Burgh de Rott to the Meiyerditch beach and walk to the Theatre without having to navigate through the city.

The following official worlds are assigned to the Theatre of Blood:

World	Location	Members	Activity
374	United States (west)	1	Theatre of Blood
376	Germany	1	Theatre of Blood

	Verzik's Defeat
The jingle that plays once a boss has been defeated.

The Theatre of Blood is a linear raid. Thus, there is no randomization involved, and the bosses will always be encountered in this order.

1. The Maiden of Sugadinti (level-940)
2. Pestilent Bloat (level-870)
3. Nylocas Vasilias (level-800)
4. Sotetseg (level-995)
5. Xarpus (level-960)
6. Verzik Vitur (level-1040, final boss)

Despite some of the bosses being spiders, vampyres, and dark beasts, they will not count towards a Slayer task when killed inside the Theatre; thus, the slayer helmet and black mask bonuses have no effect.

After Bloat and Sotetseg, players have an opportunity to buy supplies such as food, saradomin brews, and prayer potions, using points earned within the raid at a supply chest.

The bosses will also have their hitpoints scaled depending on the team size. With a team of three or fewer players the bosses will have 75% of their original hitpoints, with four players the bosses will have 87.5% of their original hitpoints and a team of five players will leave the bosses' hitpoints unchanged.

• A group of players fighting Serafina, the Maiden of Sugadinti.
• A group of players fighting The Butcher's crazed creation, the Pestilent Bloat.
• A group of players fighting the Nylocas Vasilias, a result of Verzik Vitur's diverse breeding program.
• A group of players battle against Sotetseg, a dark beast corrupted through Haemalchemy and experiments in the Shadow Realm.
• A group of players fighting Xarpus, the last of the Yarasa race and its king.
• A group of players fighting Verzik Vitur, a powerful vampyre noble.

If players die within the theatre, they are placed outside the fighting area, and can only proceed if other team members succeed in completing the current challenge. If the entire team is killed, players will lose all unprotected items; these can later be reclaimed from a storage chest (similar to Torfinn's item storage) for a cost of 100,000 coins. Untradeable items that are normally kept on death will be placed in the item reclamation chest upon complete team death in the theatre.

If players die a second time without reclaiming the items in the chest, they will be permanently lost, unless the death occurs within a minigame deemed safe, such as Pest Control.

Dying in the Theatre of Blood is a dangerous death - Hardcore Ironmen who die within the theatre will lose their Hardcore status, regardless of whether the team successfully completes the challenges or not. Any disconnection or logout during a fight is treated as a death, and will likewise result in loss of Hardcore status. Should a player logout when not in an encounter, such as in the hallways of the theatre, the player's death will be treated as a safe death. Upon logging back in to an unsafe disconnect, the game will attempt to reunite the player with their party and, if successful, will place the player in purgatory. If unsuccessful, the player will be treated with a full death and will have to pay the item reclamation fee to retrieve any items lost, and items previously stored in a deathbank will be lost.

All normal forms of teleportation within the Theatre are blocked; however, the Mysterious Stranger outside sells escape crystals for 75,000 coins each, and is the only item players can use to teleport away from the Theatre safely.

Players can spectate other teams in the Theatre of Blood by attempting to enter the theatre, or by speaking to Abigaila, a Morytanian refugee who can be found upstairs in the Lumbridge General Store or near the spirit tree north-east of the Grand Exchange.

Players can either choose to spectate a specific player's team by typing in a team member's or a spectator's name, or choose to spectate the most recently formed party. Spectators must be on the same world as the party member or spectator they wish to spectate. Spectators must also be on the Friends List of the party member or spectator, should the party member or spectator have Private Chat set to "Friends Only."

In order to spectate, players cannot bring any items with them, excluding the oculus orb, and they must not be poisoned or diseased.

Players can right-click the ledges to view the fight in a better perspective. Players can rotate the camera clock-wise or counter-clockwise via the chatbox.

An easy variant of the Theatre of Blood intended for beginners to warm themselves up and gain experience before attempting the Theatre in Normal Mode. All of the enemies are significantly weaker compared to normal mode, with several mechanics adjusted to be less dangerous.

Similarly to the Chambers of Xeric and Tombs of Amascut (without death-changing invocations), players have unlimited attempts at the bosses. Bandages are provided for the team after clearing the second and fourth bosses, along with any wipes.

Raids completed in entry mode award 80% less loot compared to normal mode, and uniques cannot be rolled, including the Lil' zik pet.

A hard variant of the Theatre of Blood is also available for players up to the challenge. Similarly to the Chambers of Xeric "Challenge Mode", all enemies in the Theatre of Blood are significantly stronger, with new and modified mechanics added to all bosses. Completion of Hard Mode can yield Sanguine dust to reskin Lil' Zik, and the Holy and Sanguine ornament kits to recolour the sanguinesti staff, ghrazi rapier and scythe of vitur, with the latter kit only working for the scythe.

Teams are also awarded with 15% more common drops when received (with an additional 15% if the raid is completed within the challenge time), along with a 13% chance of obtaining unique items (compared to the standard 11%).^[1] The weighting of items are adjusted in hard mode, with the avernic defender hilt being less likely to be rolled compared to other items.

In order to access Hard Mode, players must have completed a full run of the Theatre in normal mode.

The following money making guide is available for Theatre of Blood:

Upon defeating Verzik Vitur, a trapdoor will open under her throne, leading to her treasure vault.

Inside will be up to five large chests based on the amount of players in the team, with each player being able to loot one chest. An arrow will point to which chest is for that player to search.

If a unique reward is obtained, a purple aura will emit from the chest, much like how the ray of light turns purple for the player who obtains a unique reward in the Chambers of Xeric. If no unique reward is found, the chest will contain three rolls from the common drop table.

The unique rewards that players can obtain from the chest include:

• Avernic defender hilt, used to upgrade the dragon defender
• Pieces of the Justiciar armour:
  • Justiciar faceguard
  • Justiciar chestguard
  • Justiciar legguards
• Ghrazi rapier
• Sanguinesti staff
• Scythe of vitur

Vials of blood are also a common drop obtainable in addition to the above. They can be used to charge the scythe of Vitur and create bastion and battlemage potions.

Players can find books during the raid, as well as on the grand bookshelves in the treasure vault.

Book	Dropped by
Serafina's Diary	The Maiden of Sugadinti
The Butcher	Pestilent Bloat
Arachnids of Vampyrium	Nylocas Vasilias
The Shadow Realm	Sotetseg
The Wild Hunt	Xarpus
Verzik Vitur - Patient Record	Verzik Vitur

Players can earn Sinhaza shrouds through repeated completions of the Theatre, claimed from the Mysterious Stranger.

Accolade	Earned at
Sinhaza shroud tier 1	100 completions of Normal/Hard mode
Sinhaza shroud tier 2	500 completions of Normal/Hard mode
Sinhaza shroud tier 3	1000 completions of Normal/Hard mode
Sinhaza shroud tier 4	1500 completions of Normal/Hard mode
Sinhaza shroud tier 5	2000 completions of Normal/Hard mode

There are 12 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 48 points) available for the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Theatre of Blood: SM Adept	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode 1 time.	Kill Count	Hard (3 pts)	34.6%
Anticoagulants	Defeat the Maiden of Sugadinti in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode without letting any bloodspawn live for longer than 10 seconds.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	22.1%
Chally Time	Defeat the Pestilent Bloat in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode by using a halberd special attack as your final attack.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	9.8%
Don't Look at Me!	Kill Xarpus in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode without him reflecting any damage to anyone.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	19.7%
Attack, Step, Wait	Survive Verzik Vitur's second phase in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode without anyone getting bounced by Verzik.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	12.1%
Appropriate Tools	Defeat the Pestilent Bloat in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode with everyone having a salve amulet equipped.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	20.7%
Just To Be Safe	Defeat Sotetseg in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode after having split the big ball with your entire team. This must be done with a group size of at least 2.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	15.4%
No-Pillar	Survive Verzik Vitur's pillar phase in the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode without losing a single pillar.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	31.7%
Nylocas, On the Rocks	In the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode, freeze any 4 Nylocas with a single Ice Barrage spell.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	9%
They Won't Expect This	In the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode, enter the Pestilent Bloat room from the opposite side.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	13.9%
Pass It On	In the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode, successfully pass on the green ball to a team mate.	Mechanical	Elite (4 pts)	7.7%
Theatre of Blood: SM Speed-Chaser	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Entry Mode in less than 17 minutes.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	7%

There are 24 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 126 points) available for the Theatre of Blood.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Theatre of Blood Veteran	Complete the Theatre of Blood 25 times.	Kill Count	Elite (4 pts)	7.3%
Perfect Nylocas	Kill the Nylocas Vasilias without anyone in the team attacking any Nylocas with the wrong attack style, without letting a pillar collapse and without getting hit by any of the Nylocas Vasilias attacks whilst off prayer.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	2.4%
Theatre of Blood Master	Complete the Theatre of Blood 75 times.	Kill Count	Master (5 pts)	5.5%
Back in My Day...	Complete the Theatre of Blood without any member of the team equipping a Scythe of Vitur.	Restriction	Master (5 pts)	5%
Perfect Verzik	Defeat Verzik Vitur without anyone in the team taking damage from Verzik Vitur's attacks other than her spider form's correctly prayed against regular magical and ranged attacks.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	1.1%
A Timely Snack	Kill Sotetseg after surviving at least 3 ball attacks without sharing the damage and without anyone dying throughout the fight.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	3.7%
Two-Down	Kill the Pestilent Bloat before he shuts down for the third time.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	9.4%
Perfect Maiden	Kill The Maiden of Sugadinti without anyone in the team taking damage from the following sources: Blood Spawn projectiles and Blood Spawn trails. Also, without taking damage off prayer and without letting any of the Nylocas Matomenos heal The Maiden.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	4.3%
Perfect Sotetseg	Kill Sotetseg without anyone in the team stepping on the wrong tile in the maze, without getting hit by the tornado and without taking any damage from Sotetseg's attacks whilst off prayer.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	4.3%
Can't Drain This	Kill The Maiden of Sugadinti without anyone in the team losing any prayer points.	Restriction	Master (5 pts)	2.4%
Pop It	Kill Verzik without any Nylocas being frozen and without anyone taking damage from the Nylocas.	Mechanical	Master (5 pts)	3.8%
Theatre (5-Scale) Speed-Chaser	Complete the Theatre of Blood (5-scale) in less than 16 minutes.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	2.2%
Theatre (Trio) Speed-Chaser	Complete the Theatre of Blood (Trio) in less than 20 minutes.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	4%
Theatre (4-Scale) Speed-Chaser	Complete the Theatre of Blood (4-scale) in less than 17 minutes.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	3.3%
Can You Dance?	Kill Xarpus without anyone in the team using a ranged or magic weapon.	Restriction	Master (5 pts)	5.5%
Perfect Bloat	Kill the Pestilent Bloat without anyone in the team taking damage from the following sources: Pestilent flies, Falling body parts or The Pestilent Bloats stomp attack.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	6.1%
Perfect Xarpus	Kill Xarpus without anyone in the team taking any damage from Xarpus' attacks and without letting an exhumed heal Xarpus more than twice.	Perfection	Master (5 pts)	2.2%
Theatre (5-Scale) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood (5-scale) in less than 14 minutes and 15 seconds.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.1%
Morytania Only	Complete the Theatre of Blood without any member of the team equipping a non-barrows weapon (except Dawnbringer).	Restriction	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.4%
Theatre of Blood Grandmaster	Complete the Theatre of Blood 150 times.	Kill Count	Grandmaster (6 pts)	4.2%
Theatre (Trio) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood (Trio) in less than 17 minutes and 30 seconds.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.5%
Theatre (Duo) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood (Duo) in less than 26 minutes.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.3%
Perfect Theatre	Complete the Theatre of Blood without anyone dying through any means and whilst everyone in the team completes the following Combat Achievement tasks in a single run: "Perfect Maiden", "Perfect Bloat", "Perfect Nylocas", "Perfect Sotetseg", "Perfect Xarpus" and "Perfect Verzik".	Perfection	Grandmaster (6 pts)	0.9%
Theatre (4-Scale) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood (4-scale) in less than 15 minutes.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.1%

There are 14 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 83 points) available for the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%
Hard Mode? Completed It	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode within the challenge time.	Speed	Master (5 pts)	3.4%
Theatre: HM (Trio) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode (Trio) with an overall time of less than 23 minutes.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1%
Royal Affairs	In the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode, complete the Nylocas room without ever letting the Nylocas Prinkipas change styles.	Mechanical	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.6%
Harder Mode II	Defeat Xarpus in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode after letting the exhumeds heal him to full health and without anyone in the team taking any damage.	Perfection	Grandmaster (6 pts)	0.9%
Nylo Sniper	Defeat Verzik Vitur's in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode without anyone in your team causing a Nylocas to explode by getting too close.	Mechanical	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.2%
Theatre of Blood: HM Grandmaster	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode 50 times.	Kill Count	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.9%
Team Work Makes the Dream Work	When Verzik Vitur in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode uses her yellow power blast attack while the tornadoes are active, have everyone get through the attack without taking damage. This cannot be completed with one player alive	Mechanical	Grandmaster (6 pts)	2.6%
Theatre: HM (5-Scale) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode (5-scale) with an overall time of less than 19 minutes.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.6%
Theatre: HM (4-Scale) Speed-Runner	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode (4-scale) with an overall time of less than 21 minutes.	Speed	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.7%
Harder Mode III	Defeat Verzik Vitur in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode without anyone attacking her with a melee weapon during her third phase.	Restriction	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1%
Personal Space	Defeat the Pestilent Bloat in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode with at least 3 people in the room, without anyone in your team standing on top of each other.	Mechanical	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.1%
Pack Like a Yak	Complete the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode within the challenge time, with no deaths and without anyone buying anything from a supply chest.	Restriction	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.1%
Stop Right There!	Defeat the Maiden of Sugadinti in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode without letting blood spawns create more than 15 blood trails.	Mechanical	Grandmaster (6 pts)	2.4%
Harder Mode I	Defeat Sotetseg in the Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode without anyone sharing the ball with anyone, without anyone dying, and without anyone taking damage from any of its other attacks or stepping on the wrong tile in the maze.	Perfection	Grandmaster (6 pts)	1.2%

Upon entering the treasure vault, players may read the strategy table by the grand bookshelves to view the overall performance of the team, while spectators can read the war table to view it.

Here, players may view the death counts of each team member, the total deaths in the performance, as well as the time spent in each wave.

The Most Valuable Player (MVP) is listed on the top of the interface, and is determined based on the performance of the individual player, such as damage dealt and the number of deaths.

The challenge time (the time spent fighting the bosses) and the overall time, which includes the time spent between waves, can be seen on the bottom of the interface.

Next to the entrance to the Theatre of Blood is a scoreboard, which displays personal and global statistics for the Theatre of Blood, such as number of attempts, number of completions, number of deaths, and completion times.

An official records page existed, which showed all-time global records, such as most completions by an individual and total Hardcore Ironman deaths within the theatre, as well as fastest completion times for each boss and the raid as a whole. The page has since been decommissioned.

Players are not required to participate in the raid to unlock all of the music, and may spectate one to do so.

• Artwork of the Theatre of Blood
• Concept art of Lady Verzik Vitur
• Several concepts of Lady Verzik Vitur
• Some early paint-overs of the Theatre of Blood
• Artwork of Lady Verzik's throne room
• Artwork of Lady Verzik Vitur
• Artwork of The Maiden of Sugadinti
• Artwork of Pestilent Bloat
• Artwork of Sotetseg
• Artwork of Xarpus
• Login screen for the Theatre of Blood
• The choices of the login screen competition

• Placeholder graphics while testing the generation of Theatre of Blood dungeons
• Placeholder graphics while testing the entering of Theatre of Blood dungeons
• A screenshot of the Ver Sinhaza bank, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018
• A screenshot of the Theatre of Blood recruiting board, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018
• A screenshot of the Theatre of Blood entrance, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018
• A screenshot of a room within the Theatre of Blood, shown during a livestream on 22/02/2018
• A screenshot of the nylocas, shown during a Q&A stream on 12/04/2018
• A teaser showing the entrance to the arena of The Maiden of Sugadinti
• A teaser from Mod Ry showing the nylocas nest
• A teaser showing a room within the Theatre of Blood
• A screenshot of an early wire frame of Sotetseg's arena.
• A screenshot of Verzik Vitur's throne in comparison to the size of a player
• A screenshot of a glitched Sotetseg model, with a work-in-progress environment as a background

• A work-in-progress model of The Maiden of Sugadinti
• A completed set of animations for The Maiden of Sugadinti
• A teaser showing the idle, attacking and death animation of a Nylocas Hagios
• A teaser showing the idle, attacking and death animation of a Nylocas Toxobolos
• A teaser showing the idle, attacking and death animation of a Nylocas Ischyros
• A completed model of Xarpus
• A preview of Sotetseg's walking animation, shown during a design stream on 26/04/2018
• A preview of Verzik Vitur's vampyre form's idle animation

• The Theatre of Blood was first mentioned in-game in the book The Tale of Serafina, found in the Myths' Guild Library.
• The names for many of the monsters in the raid mostly come from eastern and south-eastern European words:

Name	Original word	Meaning
Ver Sinhaza	Vér Színháza	Hungarian for "Theatre of Blood"
The Maiden of Sugadinti	Sugadinti	Lithuanian for "ruin" (verb)
Nylocas	Nyolcas	Hungarian for "eight"
Nylocas Athanatos	ἀθάνατος (transliterated as "athánatos")	Greek for "undying" or "immortal"
Nylocas Hagios	ἅγιος (transliterated as "ágios")	Greek for "holy" or "saintlike"
Nylocas Ischyros	ἰσχυρός (transliterated as "ischyrós")	Greek for "strong" or "mighty"
Nylocas Matomenos	ματωμένος (transliterated as "matoménos")	Greek for "bloody" or "bleeding"
Nylocas Prinkipas	πρίγκιπας (transliterated as "prínkipas")	Greek for "prince"
Nylocas Toxobolos	τοξοβόλος (transliterated as "toxovólos")	Greek for "archery"
Nylocas Vasilias	βασιλιάς (transliterated as "vasiliás")	Greek for "king"
Sotetseg	Sötétség	Hungarian for "darkness"
Yarasa (the name of Xarpus's race)	Yarasa	Turkish for "bat"
Verzik Vitur	Vérzik	Hungarian for "bleeding"

• The examine text for the Theatre of Blood "Are you prepared?" may be a reference to the character of Illidan Stormrage from World of Warcraft.

• The release date for the Theatre of Blood was silently announced in an update on 3 May 2018 via a leaflet just north of the Ectofuntus, which displayed the following message when read:

• The date was then changed to "Pentember 15th" after a player complaint of the leaflet not using the canonical in-game calendar.
• Upon the release of the Theatre of Blood, the update went live with a placeholder loot table instead of the intended loot table. This was hotfixed prior to the first completion of the raid.^[2]
• Upon the release of the Theatre of Blood, there was a bug which would cause players to drop the item in the top right corner of their inventory on the floor upon death, if they were in possession of Dawnbringer. This bug was hotfixed within one hour of discovery. In one instance, the player was an ironman whose Armadyl chestplate was picked up by their teammate, and as they could not trade it back, Jagex offered to swap the item to its owner.^[3]
• Its name may be a reference to the 1973 film Theatre of Blood.
• Its subject matter may be derived from the Théâtre des Vampires, from Anne Rice’s series The Vampire Chronicles.
• The Theatre of Blood is the only raid that:
  • Lacks raid-unique supplies; the supplies offered are the same players can use, make and sell.
  • Cannot be teleported out of through normal methods.
  • Is non-customisable.
  • Has no unique rewards that give an additional/improved effect in the raid.

• Other raids:
  • Chambers of Xeric
  • Tombs of Amascut