A Soul's Bane/Quick guide

This quest has an in-depth guide.

It contains a more detailed description of dialogue, cutscenes, and storyline.

Details

Start point	Go east of Varrock, through the gate by the Earth Altar and just south of there, speak to Launa. Show on map
Official difficulty	Intermediate
Description	A rift in the ground has opened up releasing all manner of strange monsters into the lands near the Digsite. A sorrowful mother waits at the top of the rift for her long lost son, who has been missing for 25 years. You can journey down into the rift for an adventure full of twisted monsters all created from the mind of a young boy driven to madness through incarceration.
Official length	Short
Requirements	The ability to defeat level 45+ enemies.
Items required	Rope A weapon
Recommended	30 Combat level Food Digsite pendant or Digsite teleport 3-4 antidote++ or antipoison Armour A method of attacking with Ranged or Magic A fast weapon, such as bronze darts
Enemies to defeat	Multiple enemies between level 40 and 46

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Walkthrough

This fight takes place in an instanced area.

On death, all unprotected items will be moved to a grave outside the instance. Any items left on the ground will be lost.

Note: If you log out, you lose your progress and appear above the rift next time you log in. However, you can clear a room and exit, with your progress starting over to the last room you cleared.

Starting out

• From Varrock, head north-east towards the Digsite talk to Launa by the rift. ( 1)…

  1	Would you like me to go down and look for your husband and son?

• Enter the rift with your rope.
  • Note: This will generate a cut scene. Do not click outside of the text boxes as you will return to the surface.

Room 1 - Anger

• Use weapons from the rack to kill monsters until rage bar is full. (Logging out will reset the rage bar)
  • Anger sword - kills Angry unicorn.
  • Anger spear - kills Angry bear.
  • Anger mace - kills Angry giant rat.
  • Anger battleaxe - kills Angry goblin.
• When your rage bar is full you'll get a cutscene (this gives 40 Attack experience!).
• Head east to the next cave.

Room 2 - Fear

• Look inside the dark holes, some will have a fear reaper.
  • You cannot search the same hole repeatedly. Search the holes going clock-wise for as many rotations as it takes to get your kills.
• Kill 5 or 6 reapers to get a cutscene.
• Enter the black hole to the west.

Room 3 - Confusion

• Defeat confusion beasts until you find the one that takes damage. The "fake" ones give combat XP on missed hits and will vanish after 8 hits.
  • You can disengage a beast by running to the opposite end of the room.
  • If you're attacking a fake one, you can swap to a fast attacking weapon to kill it faster.
  • If you quickly swap after attacking one(darts/knife), you can check for 2 fakes and only have to hit one of them 8 times
• Repeat until one door remains to get the cutscene.
• Enter the remaining confusing door.

Room 4 - Hopelessness

• Kill all the hopeless creatures 3 times each.
• Cross the bridge and prepare to fight Tolna (3 level-46 monsters).

Finishing up

Note: You must finish the final cutscene/dialogue before attacking the heads or you will be returned to the entrance!

• Kill the 3 heads.
  • Use Protect from Missiles to take no damage if ranging, or Protect from Melee to take no damage if meleeing (if low level).
• Talk to Tolna.
• Talk to him again on the surface.
• Congratulations, quest complete!
  • Note: Re-enter the rift once you've completed the quest to complete a task from the Varrock Medium Achievement Diary.

Rewards

• 1 Quest point
• 500 Defence experience
• 500 Hitpoints experience
• 500 Coins
• Access to Tolna's rift for combat training