Historian Minas
| Historian Minas | |
| Release date | 29 May 2007 (Update) |
|---|---|
| Race | Human |
| Members NPC? | Yes |
| Quest NPC? | No |
| Location | Varrock Museum |
| Sells items? | No |
| Gender | Male |
| Examine | Seth Minas - an aged expert in RuneScape history. |
| Notable features | Noted historian. |
Historian Minas, or Seth Minas, can be found on the first floor (from street level, go up stairs one flight) of Varrock Museum, near the staircase. When you talk to him about the quests you have completed, you earn Kudos and fill some of the empty exhibits. Minas will also happily take any Ancient effigies off you in exchange for a Lamp that gives 5000 XP in any skill over 50 or 1000 XP in any skill lower than 50.
Quest List
After completion of certain quests, you can go to Minas and give him information about them. He will, in turn for the information, give you Kudos and antique lamps(antique lamps are acquired after certain amount of kudos has been earned from Minas). Kudos can be used for exp rewards and, in future, will allow you to pass freely between the Digsite and the Island north of it. The list of quests needed to be completed are:
Free quests
Members quests
- The Grand Tree
- Defender of Varrock
- Ghostly robes miniquest
- Glorious Memories
- Hazeel Cult
- In Aid of the Myreque
- Making History
- Meeting History
- Merlin's Crystal
- Observatory Quest
- Priest in Peril
- A Tail of Two Cats
- Temple of Ikov
- What Lies Below - bring Dagon'hai history book from the Varrock castle library or your POH Bookcase after completion of the quest.
After the Meeting History quest, 5 additional kudos are given by speaking with Historian Minas. Also, players can bring him the Prophecy Tablet from Glorious Memories to receive 5 kudos. In total, you can earn 95 Kudos from Minas.
Trivia
- Minas's name could possibly be based off King Minos of Greek Mythology
- When you donate an ancient effigy and are rewarded an antique lamp, the dialogue between the player and Historian Minas is a reference to the last lines from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. The dialogue is as follows: Historian Minas: "The museum thanks you for your donation. We'll have our top men look into this right away!" Player: "Who?" Historian Minas: "Top...Men..."
- If you use Magnifying glass on display number 27 (The Layers of Archaeology Soil Layers) Minas will tell the player "Please don't touch the timeline displays" on free to play worlds, even though he's a Members NPC.
- If you claim to him that you have information for the displays and have already spoken to him about them all and have completed all quests, you character still says "Yes, I'll go do quests or something..."