Realms

This article is about areas within the multiverse. For other uses, see Realm (disambiguation).

Realms, also known as Dimensions, Planes, Worlds, and (though rarely) Universes are isolated pockets of existence within the multiverse. Each realm exists within an empty region known as The Void, and each is separated by a variety of barriers, the most universal of which is the Abyss.

Although realms are typically physically separate from each other, various realms have been connected via a number of means, both naturally occurring and artificially devised.

Yu'biusk as it appeared prior to its discovery by Bandos.

Below is a list of realms in which either are accessible or are known by players:

• Abyss
• The Black Hole
• Cosmic Plane
• Dream World
• Enchanted Valley
• Fisher Realm
• Freneskae

A player being transported to the realm of Zanaris.

• Gorak Plane
• Grim Underworld
• Gielinor (default realm)
• Infernal Dimensions
• Kethsi
• Killerwatt Plane
• Land of snow
• Primordial Realm
• Puro-Puro
• ScapeRune
• Shadow Realm
• Spider Realm
• Spirit Plane
• Spirit Realm
• The Void
• Yu'biusk
• Zanaris

Binding Realms

The one true binding dimension is the Abyss. The Abyss is the area that is traveled through when teleporting as proved in the Lost and Found random event. This means that The Abyss may connect all realms together. In the centre of the Abyss is the Abyssal Rift near which a Dark Mage is deep in concentration. The Abyss can be accessed during the Lost and Found random event, using fairy ring code ALR after starting Fairytale II - Cure a Queen, or after completing the Mage of Zamorak miniquest.

Another possible binding realm may be the Void. The Void is the separation of all the dimensions. The Void is nothing but empty white coloured space. The Void can be seen on the edges of the screen when in the Spirit Realm and is briefly visited during the Summer's End quest.

Lesser-known realms

• Runecrafting Altars (located within pocket dimensions created by the magical energies of the runestones and altars)
• RSOF (RuneScape Official Forums) - "another plane of existence" (according to RuneScape Game Guide article on the P2P Photo Booth)
• Runecrafting Guild ("within a strange plane parallel to RuneScape", more commonly known as the Runespan. The Runecrafting Guild was created within the Runespan by the magic of the Runecrafting Guild Wizards)
• "The Void" (the home realm of the various Pests in Pest Control)
• Realm of the Grim Reaper (visited by all players upon death for the first time in Gielinor; where some of the Halloween Holiday Events take place, in the Reaper's very house; possibly the Grim Underworld, though no connection between the Reaper and the demons has yet been established)
• Home plane of Gielinor's first humans (Possibly the same world as that of the RuneScape players (who at times appear to possess knowledge that they hail from another world and that they are in a computer game), referenced by Guthix in the God Letters, and the world which he mentioned ("a planet I know of whose real name is 'Terra', orbiting a star named 'Sol', yet to it's inhabitants it be more commonly referred to as 'Earth' and orbits the unoriginally named 'Sun'"); possibly one of the realms the Land of Snow is close to at Christmas and one of the dimensions humans use to access RuneScape through the legendary Flames of Lloigh-enn; potentially the world where King Arthur, Merlin, the Lady of the Lake, Morgan le Faye, and the Knights of the Round Table hail from; likely one of the "planes of existence" which the Grim Reaper claimed rock music was popular on; On our plane, there are a great many people, and the creatures and the scientific laws seem far less strange.)

I have oft heard rumours that spirits from other dimensions do stake a claim upon this one, for reasons of their own. Having no form of their own, they take control of citizens from this world and control them for their own amusement, even going so far as to force them into slaughtering innocent men and women for the greed of what ever possessions they may drop upon their death, or even just for the sheer fun of it. It doth sound like thou hath mayhaps been possessed by one of these strange and often malicious spirits, and that it hath left after images of its own life from its own dimension upon you... I suggest thee dwell not on whatever malignant thoughts thou might hath been left with, for the dimensions that such spirits come from are often places of great hardship, far removed from the tranquil land of Gielinor.

— Guthix

• Home plane of Seren, the Elves, and the Crystal seed (reaching Gielinor through the World Gate)
• Plane where Shield of Arrav was created
• Home plane of the Dragonkin (and most likely their creation, Dragon metal; the Dragonkin were at least allegedly brought to RuneScape by the gods to support them during the Third Age of the God Wars, though it is also believed that they were possibly charged by the elder gods or even Guthix to protect the unimaginably powerful Stone of Jas)
• Home plane of the Dark Beasts (described as a "shadowy dimension" and where the potent Dark bow came from when the bow was released; the Examine text of both reveals that they have come from a "darker dimension")
• Home plane of the Stalkers
• Home plane of Otherworldly Beings
• Home plane of Balance Elemental (where it apparently returns upon its demise)
• Enchanted Valley (classified under Other Realms in Fairy Ring journal)
• Sparse Plane (actually part of the Zanaris dimension but isolated; classified under Other Realms in Fairy Ring journal)
• Realm of the Orks at Orks Rift
• Multiple realms Har'Lakk the Riftsplitter opens portals to whilst attacking the player
• Dimension of the Culinaromancer (visited once in the final sub-quest for Recipe for Disaster; blocks Prayer to the Gielinor deities, prevents you from calling upon creatures from the Spirit Plane through Summoning, and forces your Gravestone to appear outside portal instead of within dimension upon death)
• Realm of Agrith-Naar (possibly part of the Infernal Dimensions; where Guthix banished him to after the God Wars, before he bypassed his Edicts somehow, apparently by causing natural disasters on Gielinor)
• Realm of Thammaron (possibly part of the Infernal Dimensions; accessed in the Shadow of the Storm)
• Realm of the Imps and/or Hellrats (possibly part of the Infernal Dimensions)
• Numerous pocket dimensions of POH (created with the assistance of the Wizards and their research into folded pockets of space)
• Home plane of Tumeken (where he came from before arriving in Gielinor and creating the Menaphite Pantheon)
• Adjacent realm of Gielinor's gods (where Saradomin, Armadyl, Seren and the other gods departed to; possibly the deities are currently residing within separate realms; the world dubbed 'Zamorak's realm' has been referenced to multiple times, apparently the Stone Circle south of Varrock is close to this realm and the dark elves are attempting to open a portal to this realm to destroy everything on Gielinor)
• Realm Zaros was banished to after being drained of much of his power (apparently separate from the realms of the other gods)
• Home realm of the wolf Hati, of "elemental power and endurance, spawned from a place beyond this world"
• At least some of the Random Event locations
• Homeplane of the Behemoths
• Homeworld of the Dragon Riders

It should be noted that the Rune essence mine, though secluded from the rest of RuneScape and accessible only through a certain teleportation spell, is nevertheless a part of Gielinor (unlike the Runecrafting Altars or Guild), located in the ice fields of the North.

See also

• Gielinor