Spirit Beast's Realm (Members)



Warning

This article contains information that may reduce your enjoyment of the Spirit of Summer and Summer's End quests. If you especially enjoy surprises and discovering information for yourself, we recommend that you read this after completing those quests.

You must have started Spirit of Summer to gain access to the Spirit Beast's Realm. When you complete this quest, you will be rewarded with Jennica's Ring, which you can use to access a number of locations within the Spirit Beast's Realm. The range of locations you can access increases when you have completed Summer's End.

Introduction

Within the shadowy mirror of the Wilderness
There are many strange realms connected to RuneScape, either closely or in the most abstract of ways, and most are harmless, perfectly natural worlds. Zanaris, the fairy kingdom, for instance, or the Abyss, which seems to connect every plane to the others (which goes some way to explaining the chaos of that place). Parallel to the Wilderness, however, is an altogether more sinister realm that seems to exist solely because of a single inhabitant.

The Spirit Beast is a vast and brutal creature, more powerful than any other so far encountered by mortals. The other inhabitants of its realm are not so lucky, as it slowly drains their souls over the course of hundreds (and, perhaps, thousands) of years.

Location

The Spirit Beast's Realm can only be accessed at a small number of locations, places where, for one reason or another, the boundaries between the living, natural lands of RuneScape come close to the cold and dust-filled lifelessness of the Spirit Beast's Realm. Where this connection is strongest, a portal will be visible to those who know how to look for them, and can even be traversed. Where the connection is weak, though, there may only be the smallest flicker of a portal, or none visible to even those most attuned to the realm.

Points of Interest

The Spirit Beast's Realm is a series of 'pockets' that fall in line with specific areas of the ordinary Wilderness. These are locations that, in the dark past of that shattered land, have been saturated with spiritual energy - either through sorcery or through the terrible slaughters that have taken place there.

The most obvious of these is the farm, where Summer and her family were cruelly murdered by heartless criminals. Equally, one can find additional portals in those places where people once lived, such as the ruins of the small town in the west, the graveyard to its north or the Chaos Temple ruins.

Being intrinsically linked to the Wilderness itself, an adventurer can very slightly manipulate one realm from the other in certain locations: where a coffin is open in one realm, for instance, it will be closed in the other. Because of this, it is also possible to obtain resources in one realm that are currently unavailable in the other, the depletion of which then leads to their appearance in the other.

Travel between the realms is also an enlightening experience, so an adventurer will find themselves much more knowledgeable about certain regions when they first pass through the portals by themselves.

Personalities

Summer Bonde
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This poor little girl has been trapped in the Spirit Beast's Realm for the last four hundred years, having her soul slowly eroded by the Beast's insatiable hunger. Her innocence and pleasant disposition, however, may prove to be the Beast's undoing.
Erik Bonde
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Summer's father is fiercely protective of his daughter, which is unsurprising given the circumstances. It is likely that his intense love for his child is all that has kept her from falling into the same helpless shadows that the other inhabitants of the farm have slipped into.
Until she can be freed, Summer can be found at her home on the farm. Erik can be found on the farm.
Jallek Lenkin
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Jallek Lenkin was the Bonde family's first farmhand, and has worked alongside them since he was little more than a child. Since being trapped in the Spirit Beast's Realm, however, he has studied the ways of that place carefully and learned a few tricks from the dark sorcerers who once worked on the site of the farm.
Meranek Thanatos
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Before working for the Bonde family, Meranek was a soldier in the service of Misthalin. In the centuries that he has been trapped by the Spirit Beast, though, his fighting spirit has all but eroded, and now he fears another encounter with the Beast almost more than anything else.
Jallek can be found on the farm. Meranek can be found on the farm.


Quests

There are no quests to start in the Spirit Beast's Realm.

Trapped in the Spirit Beast's Thrall

Ghostly Warrior (Level 42)
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Left trapped in the hut they once called home, the warriors you might find in the Spirit Beast's Realm have had untold years to prepare to take vengeance upon any invaders. Who can say when they were slain, or what horrific death it was?
Ghost (Level 79)
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Not all of the prisoners of the Spirit Beast can be seen in its realm: some are trapped in RuneScape, but only able to be freed by those in the alternate version.



The Spirit Beast
The Spirit Beast must truly be one of the most loathsome and terrifying creatures that any adventurer could have the misfortune to face. The ages it has spent feeding on the souls that it traps have left it bloated with power to such a degree that it is almost completely unconcerned by the petty itch that the mightiest of warriors can inflict upon it.

Whatever it is, and whatever gave it consciousness, one fact is clear: should it ever gain the ability to straddle both its own realm and that of RuneScape, its thirst would know no end.

Miscellaneous

  • The cursed magic tree in the ruined town can be cut down to gain cursed magic logs. These will turn into perfectly ordinary magic logs when passing back into RuneScape.
  • There is an ancient and insane spirit within the Spirit Beast's Realm who has some interesting information for those who know how to interpret his riddles and madness-inspired metaphors.
  • Every portal offers an experience bonus when you first travel through them under your own power, but only if you have a level suitable to comprehend what you have learned.

    After Spirit of Summer you have access to portals offering:
    10,000 Farming experience if you have level 50 Farming or higher.
    10,000 Prayer experience if you have level 50 Prayer or higher.
    7,500 Attack experience if you have level 38 Attack or higher.

    After Summer's End:
    5,000 Farming experience if you have level 45 Farming or higher.
    5,000 Prayer experience.

    There are, of course, further rewards available if you can find the most secret and well-hidden portals, those with no visible flicker on the surface of RuneScape.