Varrock

Varrock
Released		4 January 2001 (Update)
Also called		Avarrocka
Members		No
Location		Misthalin
League region		Misthalin✓
Inhabitants		Humans
Teleports		Varrock Teleport
Music		Adventure Garden Medieval Spirit
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Type		settlement

Varrock (Jagex pronunciation: vah-ROCK) is the capital of the kingdom of Misthalin. It is one of the largest cities in Old School RuneScape, and the largest city available to free players. In addition to being popular due to its proximity to the Wilderness, the city hosts the massive Grand Exchange, through which players can trade any item they wish, and features in many of the quests throughout the game.

Varrock can be entered from all sides, and each entrance has non-aggressive level 21 guards surrounding it. The city is safe for all players, although care should be taken when coming from Lumbridge through the south entrance, as there are aggressive level 7 and 20 dark wizards.

Varrock's size and importance results in a number of options for reaching different parts of the city:

• Ring of wealth, spirit trees, and fairy ring DKR — Grand Exchange.
• Varrock Teleport — Varrock town centre, or Grand Exchange after completing the medium Varrock diary.
• Skills necklace — Cooks' Guild, just south of the Grand Exchange.
• Combat bracelet and chronicle — Champions' Guild, south-east of the southern city entrance.
• Canoe — Champions' Guild, Barbarian Village, and Edgeville.
• Achievement diary cape — Toby, just south of the town centre.
• Giantsoul amulet — Bryophyta's lair in the Varrock sewers.
• Balloon transport system, ring of the elements, and Lumberyard teleport — just south of the Lumber Yard.
• Quetzal Transport System — south-east of the eastern Varrock gates.
• Senntisten Teleport — southern entrance to the gate separating Varrock and the Dig Site.

Prior to holding its current name, the city was known as Avarrocka, and came into being in the year 700 of the Fourth Age. During this time, the races that had survived the God Wars began to compete for land without the direct aid of gods, and most of humanity lived in small nomadic tribes. One of these tribes, looking to settle in the forest, discovered a young boy during their travels who was about two years of age. The boy stood nearly a foot taller than most his age, and was already quite strong; the wanderers, taking the boy's strength as a good omen, chose that place to made a camp.

Ten years since the initial settlement, the baby remained unnamed, and the elders decided to send the child on a quest to find one. The child eventually stumbled upon a tribe of goblins that planned to attack the settlement. When the goblins saw him, they attacked, screaming "arrav," a word from their language. The goblins were defeated by the boy, who returned to Avarrocka and recounted the tale, and was thenceforth known as "Arrav". As Arrav grew, so did Avarrocka; this caused Zemouregal, a powerful Zamorakian Mahjarrat necromancer, to set his sights on the city.

Attempting to ward off Zemouregal, Arrav sought out a mythical shield. During his journey to find this shield, he travelled across the realm, but upon his return, he found Avarrocka burned to the ground. However, the city was able to rebuild. About a century into Avarrocka's existence, however, Zemouregal invaded with an army of zombies. While his army was slain, the battle cost Arrav his life, and Zemouregal retreated with a now-undead Arrav. Shortly after, the people of Avarrocka began expanding, eventually forming the first human nation, Misthalin, and later becoming a monarchy.

As centuries passed, creatures from Morytania attacked Misthalin. In a great battle, seven priestly warriors eventually defeated them and blessed the River Salve, making it impassable to creatures following Zamorak. Not all was peaceful for Varrock, however; the fabled shield that Arrav used to save the city was eventually stolen by the notorious Phoenix Gang, who would later split in two, with the Phoenix gang taking over much of the residential district of the city, and the Black Arm Gang hiding in the city's industrial section. An adventurer was eventually able to retrieve the shield and later on during Zemouregal's second attempt at attacking the city, they were able to find a descendant of the Elders of Avarrocka, Dimintheis Fitzharmon, who was able to use its powers to defeat Zemouregal's undead army.

It is not exactly known when Avarrocka was renamed to Varrock. Some, such as the barbarians, still call it Avarrocka; other languages have their own name for the city, such as the gnomes, who refer to it as Lemanto Andra ("Man City").

Varrock has many stores, most of which are located in or around Varrock Square:

• Aubury's Rune Shop — a store selling most types of runes. Players can also speak to Aubury here to be teleported to the Rune Essence mine.
• Baraek's fur stall — a stall ran by Baraek, the fur trader in Varrock Square.
• Estate Agent — an agent who offers player-owned house services such as relocation and redecoration, and can sell players their house.
• Fancy Clothes Store — another clothes shop, found in the south-eastern part of the city. This store features heavily in the Hunter skill, and it is here that furs can be made into camouflage and other hunter armour.
• Hairdresser's — Emma and Suzie's hairdresser salon () can be found north of the museum. Accessing the makeover interface at the hairdresser is free of charge.
• Horvik's Armour Shop — a store where players can buy platebodies and chainbodies as well as platelegs and some leather armour.
• Lowe's Archery Emporium — a store which sells items for the Ranging skill, such as bows, crossbows, and their corresponding ammunition.
• Speedrunning Reward Shop — a stall run by Eliza, who sells rewards in exchange for points from Quest Speedrunning.
• Thessalia's Fine Clothes — a store selling robes, capes, gloves, and boots. Thessalia will also change a player's appearance for free. Players who have lost their scythe or bunny ears may reclaim it from here if lost. Frog tokens from the frog random event can also be exchanged for either a frog mask, a royal frog costume, or a lamp at this shop.
• Varrock Apothecary — home of a scientist who makes strength potions and energy potions for free-to-play players with the proper ingredients.
• Varrock General Store — one of the most popular stores in the game. New players can buy a newcomer map here, which can help them find their way around the Asgarnia and Misthalin. Players can sell whatever they wish to the store, but it's typically filled with low-level items. It's often hard to sell items to this general store as many people sell their items here, causing the store's inventory limit to be reached very easily.
• Varrock Herald stand — source for the newspaper of Varrock, sold by Benny for 50 coins.
• Varrock Swordshop — a place for players to buy bronze, iron, steel, black, mithril and adamant daggers, swords and longswords.
• Ye olde Tea Shoppe — a small stall where the tea seller sells tea for 10 coins.
• Zaff's Superior Staffs — a store where players can purchase staves for Magic. He also sells battlestaves for use in the Crafting skill to players who have completed What Lies Below, and additional battlestaves upon completion of the Varrock Diaries.

Varrock and the surrounding area has four pubs. Most Varrockian pubs sell only beer, but the Rat Pit Bar also sells stew.

• Blue Moon Inn — the most popular pub in Varrock. A couple NPCs reside here besides the bartender, which include an unnamed barbarian warrior, the ex-vampyre Slayer master Dr Harlow, a tramp in the back room of the store, and Johnny the Beard.
• Dancing Donkey Inn — a bar unknown to most of Varrock because it's found in the corner of the city. Whilst there, players may stumble upon the three drunken NPCs: Hops, too drunken to speak, Da Vinci, who hates free players, and Chancy, who loves to gamble.
• Jolly Boar Inn — a large inn outside the city walls. The inn hosts the very tired Johnathon, involved in the Family Crest quest. There are a lot of other NPCs here, including one woman, two men, and a black knight.
• Ratpit Bar — a very little known pub can be found down the manhole in south-east Varrock, in the area that is cordoned off. It is very small and is mostly occupied with gamblers taking a break from the Rat Pits mini-game.

Varrock has two banks, located near the east and west gates. The Varrock west bank, a large bank just south of the Grand Exchange, is frequently used by players training Smithing on the nearby anvil. There is also the Varrock east bank, a small, two-story bank found south of the Varrock Museum.

• Aris' tent, the tent of Aris Maye, a fortune-teller who sees the player's future as a defender of Varrock.
• The Black Arm Gang headquarters under the complex in the south-west corner of the city.
• Champions' Guild, a prestigious guild offering tough battles, rune weapons and green dragonhide armour, and intense quests.
• Cooks' Guild, a guild for master chefs, requiring 32 Cooking to enter. The guild also offers a pie shop and a hopper for grinding wheat from the nearby field.
• Dimintheis' house, a small home immediately north of the Fancy Clothes Shop where players can combine their various steel gauntlets into one.
• The fancy home immediately to the east of the southern city entrance, which is closely watched by a nearby thief.
• Gertrude's house, the well-kept house of Gertrude, a busy mother with four sons and lots of cats.
• Julie and Guidor's house, in the gated south-east section.
• Leptoc mansion, a large mansion where Juliet Leptoc resides, admired from afar by Romeo.
• Three Mahogany Homes locations, two along the eastern castle wall, and one along the southern wall of the city.
• Old Man Yarlo's home, repaired by the player, and found immediately east of the Blue Moon Inn.
• The Phoenix Gang hideout can be found underneath the complex immediately west of the Zamorakian chapel.
• There is a pillory behind the general store, which holds prisoners.
• A small house north of the Zamorakian chapel, where a group of bandits plot to kill the delegation of Varlamore.
• A large storage building near Charlie the Tramp, which stores a number of crates and books.
• Training house, an open building immediately north of the east bank with attackable dummies. Players can train up to level 8 Attack here.
• Varrock Rat Pits, an area where players can sic their cat on the invasive rats living below the city.
• Varrock warehouse, a large storage building in the south-west quadrant which has been infested by rats led by a king.
• Wizard Gary's place, on the second floor of Sarah's Mahogany homes location along the southern wall.

There are also several guard quarters along the city walls.

• Altars: Varrock has a total of three altars within its walls, the Varrock Palace altar, located on the 1^st floor of the palace, toward the rear, the Varrock church altar located in the church in the north-east corner of the city, and the chaos altar located in the Zamorakian chapel south of Aubury's Rune Shop.
• Anvils: Varrock has three anvils, south of the west bank (popular for Smithing training due to its proximity to the bank), north-west of the east bank in Horvik's Armour Shop, and south of the east bank
• Farming patches: there is a bush patch near the Champion's Guild, and a tree patch in Varrock Castle courtyard.
• Ranges: many ranges are found in small houses all over Varrock.
• Trees: inside the city are four yew trees, and to the south of the city are some willow and oak trees. To the east of the city are some more yew trees.
• Water sources: players can obtain water from sinks in the castle and in fountains outside the castle and near the east bank.

Players looking to train the Mining skill will find tin, copper, and iron rocks in the south-east Varrock mine south-east of the city, and will find clay, tin, silver, and iron rocks in the south-west Varrock mine near the Champion's Guild. The city also contains the Varrock Rooftop Course, which requires level 30 Agility to traverse, starts at the rough wall behind the general store, and ends behind the archery shop. The anvil building immediately south of the Varrock west bank is one of the closest anvils to a bank in the game.

The Varrock Museum plays a role in and after many quests. Players earn kudos after quest completion, and can take the natural history quiz in the basement section of the museum. Players who have completed Bone Voyage may also bring fossils to the museum to complete displays for further rewards.

The Grand Exchange is a massive trading system for players to purchase and sell tradeable items in Old School RuneScape. Using the Grand Exchange replaced the trading post and the older marketplaces in Varrock and Falador, because traders do not need to advertise, meet each other, or even wait at the Grand Exchange for trades to finish. Coins and items from fully and partially finished trades can be collected at any bank or deposit box. Additionally, players will receive a message in their chatbox when the status of a trade offer is updated.

The Varrock Palace is the focus of many quests, and features a number of different spots such as the queen's garden, the Varrock Library and the barracks for the Varrock guards. There is alsosingle monk of Zamorak found trapped in a cage near the palace entrance, making him great for safe magic and ranged training, and yew trees and a tree patch can be found within the castle walls.

In the Demon Slayer quest, there is a drain on the north-east part of the palace. Inside, there is a key to retrieve. To get it, players must pour water down the drain by getting a bucket (there is one conveniently located near the stairs that leads into the kitchen on the 1^st floor), filling the bucket with water, and pouring the water down the drain. The key will then slosh down to the Varrock Sewers, which is on the east side of the palace.

Underneath the palace are the Varrock Sewers, a large sewer system that hosts monsters and bosses such as Scurrius and Bryophyta.

Several major locations exist within Varrock's vicinity, but outside the city's walls:

• Digsite — an archaeological excavation area just east of the gates marking Varrock's city limits. Players need to proceed far enough into The Dig Site quest in order to fully use it.
• Edgeville dungeon shed — a shed leading to the Edgeville Dungeon. Players must obtain the brass key to open it.
• Lumberyard — a sawmill that allows players to turn logs into planks.
• South Varrock farm — a large farm just south of Varrock's walls.
• Stone circle — a stone circle near the eastern entrance to the city featuring many dangerous level 20 and level 7 dark wizards. This is where Delrith is summoned during the Demon Slayer quest.
• Tolna's Rift — a dungeon just outside of Varrock's city limits where a young boy's terrified mind manifested some strange and deadly monsters.
• Tunnel of Chaos — a safe shortcut to the Chaos Altar that's found in the Wilderness.
• Paterdomus Temple — an ancient temple in Silvarea protecting the River Salve. The temple is owned by Drezel, and sits just outside city limits.

• A gold bar, a gold ore, a ruby ring, a brass necklace, and 225 coins spawn in the basement of the Varrock west bank.
• 2 buckets spawn on the second floor of the Varrock Castle, and a pie dish spawns in the castle kitchen.
• A leather body spawns in the building next to Aubury's Rune Shop, and a jug spawns by the nearby tea seller.
• 6 logs can be found in Varrock, four in the sawmill and two in the Daddy's Home building.
• A pot spawns in the back of the Blue Moon Inn, a thread kitchen of the Jolly Boar Inn, and a body rune spawns just outside the eastern entrance to the Grand Exchange

Many quests can be started in or around Varrock:

• Demon Slayer
• Dragon Slayer I
• Romeo & Juliet
• Shield of Arrav

• A Soul's Bane
• Bone Voyage
• Children of the Sun
• Daddy's Home
• Defender of Varrock
• Desert Treasure I
• The Dig Site
• Elemental Workshop II
• Family Crest
• Garden of Tranquillity
• Gertrude's Cat
• The Golem
• Priest in Peril
• Ratcatchers
• What Lies Below

• Rats (level 1)
• Men and women (level 2)
• Mugger (level 6)
• Barbarian Woman (level 8)
• Thieves (level 16)
• Guards (level 22)
• Outlaws (level 32)
• Black Knights (level 33)
• Lucien (level 14, only fought during Temple of Ikov)
• Giant rat (level 3 or 6)
• Grizzly bear (level 21)

v t e Varrock
Inhabitants	Aris Aubury Apothecary Banker Baraek Bartender Benny Bob Charlie the Tramp Cleaner Cook Draul Leptoc Eliza Emma Gertrude Horvik Iffie Jeff Jonny the Beard Juliet Kanel Katrine Lowe Mage of Zamorak Marlo Master smithing tutor Nevet Phillipa Philop Romeo Sarah Sawmill operator Shilop Shop assistant Shop keeper Shop assistant (Swordshop) Shop keeper (Swordshop) Sookie Straven Stray dog Suzie Tea Seller Thessalia Toby Town Crier Tramp (pillory) Weaponsmaster Wizard Gary Wilough Zaff East Varrock Asyff Bartender Chancy Da Vinci Dimintheis Guard Guidor Julie Hooknosed Jack Hops Pox Grand Exchange Abigaila Bob Barter Brugsen Bursen Clerk Farid Morrisane Grand Exchange Clerk Hofuthand James Meredith Murky Matt Relobo Blinyo Saradominist recruiter Zamorakian recruiter Varrock Palace Aeonisig Raispher Ambassador Ferrnook Captain Captain Rovin Queen Ellamaria King Roald Reldo Sir Prysin Surok Magis Trainee Guard Treznor Varrock Museum Art Critic Jacques Barnabus Hurma Caden Azro The Collector Curator Haig Halen David Historian Minas Information clerk Marfet Marius Giste Museum guard Natural historian Orlando Smith Schoolgirl Schoolboy Sinco Doar Teacher and pupil Thias Leacke Tinse Torpe Torrcs Workman Varrock Church Elsie Father Lawrence Jeremy Clerksin Martina Scorsby Jolly Boar Inn Bartender Cook Johnathon Rat Pits Barman Gamer Gertrude's cat Mittens Treacle Varrock Sewers Grimesquit Historian Aldo Phingspet Trotters
Shops	Aubury's Rune Shop. Construction supplies Fancy Clothes Store Events Reward Shop Horvik's Armour Shop. Lowe's Archery Emporium Speedrunning Reward Shop Thessalia's Fine Clothes. Thessalia's Makeovers Varrock General Store Varrock Swordshop Ye olde Tea Shoppe. Zaff's Superior Staffs!
Bars	Blue Moon Inn Dancing Donkey Inn Jolly Boar Inn Ratpit bar
Banks	Varrock west bank Varrock east bank
Minigames	Games Zone Rat Pits Mahogany Homes
Transport	Hot Air Balloon Canoe station Quetzal (Primio)
Features	Altar Clan Hub Estate Agent Grand Exchange Sawmill Tree patch Taskmaster Varrock Rooftop Course Yew tree
Places	Lumber Yard Phoenix Gang Hideout Varrock Museum Varrock Palace Varrock Square Varrock Sewers Varrock crypt Varrock church

v t e The Legend of Arrav
Characters	Reldo Arrav Zemouregal Elders of Avarrocka Imcando chief
Related	Avarrocka Varrock Imcando Shield of Arrav Lores and Histories