Mourning's End Part I/Quick guide

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This quick guide has an in-depth guide here. It contains a more detailed description of dialogue, cutscenes, and storyline.

Details

Start point	In the Isafdar Woods, where the Roving Elves are (outside Tyras Camp and in the southeast corner of the woods). Speak to Eluned.
Official difficulty	Master
Description	It seems at last Arianwyn has need of your skills. He believes there is more to the Mourners than meets the eye and he wishes for you to find out just what they're up to. Can you gain the trust of the Mourners?
Official length	Long – Very long
Requirements	60 Ranged (unboostable) 50 Thieving (boostable) The ability to defeat a level 11 enemy with your combat stats set to 20 each. Completion of the following quests: Roving Elves Regicide Underground Pass Biohazard Plague City Waterfall Quest Big Chompy Bird Hunting Sheep Herder
Items required	Bear fur 2 silk One of each dye: red, yellow, green, and blue (more may be needed, can be bought from the Lletya Seamstress during quest) A bucket of water A feather A rotten apple (must be the rotten apple on the ground west of Mourner HQ in West Ardougne) (obtainable during quest) Toad crunchies (can be premade) Magic logs Leather (tanned cowhide, make sure you choose "soft leather") Ogre bellows 10–20 coal if the player doesn't already have a barrel of naphtha 7 empty inventory spaces
Recommended	A weapon and food West ardougne teleport and Falador teleport tablets (runes are not recommended, because your stats will get drained) Ring of dueling to reset drained stats at Ferox Enclave Feldip hills teleport, Fairy rings or Ring of dueling to access Feldip Hills Antipoison Restore potion and food, if you are a low level A Dramen or Lunar staff Redirected house tab to Rimmington (if you have not made a second barrel of naphtha) Redirected house tab to Taverley Necklace of passage (teleport to Outpost)
Enemies to defeat	Mourner (level 11)

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Walkthrough

Starting the quest

Recommended items: a weapon, food, necklace of passage to teleport to the Outpost to get to Arandar, 8 free inventory spaces, a ring of dueling (optional, recommended to teleport out after you kill the Mourner) energy potions or stamina potions (optional, bring these throughout the entire quest)

• Talk to Eluned. ( 1)…

  1	Yes, I should go see him now.

• Talk to Arianwyn in Lletya.
• Teleport to the Outpost using your necklace of passage.
• Go to the Arandar pass gate, west of the Outpost, and kill a mourner (this will drain your stats including hp to 20).
• Take everything it drops (7 items), and hold onto them.
• (Optional) Ring of dueling teleport to Ferox Enclave and drink from the Pool of Refreshment to negate mourner potion resetting stats and hp

Top

Items needed: A bucket of water, bloody mourner top
Items recommended: teleportation method to Taverley and to a bank

• Make your way to Tegid by the Taverley lake.
• Search his laundry basket to get Tegid's soap. ( 1)…

  1	Steal the soap.

• Use the soap on the bloody mourner top to clean it.

Trousers

Items needed: 2 pieces of silk, bear fur, mourner trousers, coins (if you need dyes), teleport crystal

• Teleport to Lletya using the teleport crystal you got earlier.
• Talk to Oronwen who is directly northwest of the teleport crystal's destination. ( 3)…

  3	Do you mend clothes?

• Give her the silk, bear fur, and trousers.
  • Buy dyes here if needed, you'll need more than 1 of each if you miss the target later on.

The mourners

Items needed: mourner outfit, mourner letter, feather, soft leather, magic log, toad crunchies, West Ardougne Teleport (recommended, you can also use Edgeville Wilderness teleport lever to reach Ardougne)

• Go to West Ardougne.
• Equip your mourner outfit and nothing else (it seems you can wear jewellery without getting kicked out though).
• Enter the mourner HQ in the northeast corner of West Ardougne.
• Go down the trapdoor and talk to Essyllt in the basement. (2 free inventory spaces needed)
• Talk to the gnome on a rack. Select the chat option about being tickled and toad crunchies. ( 3)…

  3	You said about toad crunchies and being tickled.

• Use the feather on him.
• Release the gnome and talk to him with soft leather, a magic log, and toad crunchies.

The sheep

Items needed: at least 1 red, green, blue, and yellow dye, ogre bellows, Ardougne teleport or skills necklace to Fishing guild, fixed device

• Go to the Feldip Hills swamp (east of fairy ring AKS) or to the less dangerous swamp southwest of Castle Wars (northeast of fairy ring BKP)
• Use dye on an empty bellow then the bellows on toads to get coloured toads (1 of each minimum).
• Go to the coloured sheep north of Ardougne used in the Sheep Herder quest.
• Load a coloured toad into fixed device and equip it.
• Pick "aim and fire" as your attack style to activate it.
• Re-dye one sheep in each group their respective colour.

Poisoning the food supply

Items needed: barrel of naphtha, mourner gear, teleport crystal (optional: Necklace of Passage, Ardougne teleport, & a teleport out)

• Talk to the head mourner (Essyllt).
• Take the rotten apple, located northwest of the Mourner Headquarters by squeezing through the gap in the western fence.
• Talk to Elena west of Ardougne log balance shortcut, you'll be given a sieve.
• Go to the apple orchard to the north-west, west of the Combat Training Camp. (Teleport to The Outpost with a necklace of passage to get there quicker)
• Pick up an empty barrel inside the orchard and use it on one of the Rotten Apple Piles.
• Use your barrel of rotten apples on the apple press (slightly west of the rotten apple piles) to mash them.
• Use your barrel of naphtha on your mushed apple barrel (in your inventory); then, use your sieve on it.
  • See the full guide if you do not have a barrel of naphtha.
• Use the toxic naphtha on a range, not a fire. Make sure you have two open inventory spaces to receive both toxic powders.
  • There is a range in the mourner HQ that you can use to save time.
• Add the toxic powder to grain sacks to poison any 2 of the food stores in West Ardougne. The closest 2 are:
  • The western room of the main building north of the town square.
  • The church south of the town square.
• Talk to Essyllt.
• Talk to Arianwyn in Lletya.

Quest complete!

Rewards

• 2 Quest points
• 25,000 Thieving experience
• 25,000 Hitpoints experience
• Access to the Mourner HQ basement and the village of Lletya
• Elf teleport crystal
• The fixed device
• Full mourner clothing

Required for completing

• Mourning's End Part II (Quick guide)