Spirit terrorbird

Spirit terrorbird

Level	52
Duration (min)	36
Points cost	6
Abilities	Beast of Burden (12)
Special moves	Tireless Run
Race	Terrorbird
Combat level	62
Life Points	2330
Immune to poison?	Yes
Attack Style	Melee (Controlled)
Maximum hit	76
Examine text	A bird. Literally terrifying.

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A Spirit terrorbird is a familiar that can carry up to 12 items and restore run energy with its special move, Tireless Run. It requires a Summoning level of 52, but has a relatively low pouch price for its level. As with most Beasts of Burden, it cannot hold untradeable items, items that are deemed "too valuable", and Rune essence or Pure essence.

Once summoned, Spirit terrorbirds will disappear after 36 minutes, dropping all of their inventory. Players will be alerted after one minute, then 30 seconds before the Spirit terrorbird will disappear. A Spirit terrorbird can hold up to 600,000 coins in items, none of which can be worth more than 50,000 coins, allowing it to hold 150,000 more coins in items than a bull ant.

Spirit terrorbird pouch

Spirit terrorbird pouch

	Shards	Shard cost	Charm	Tertiary
	12	300 coins	Gold	Raw bird meat
	Create XP	Use XP	Low Alch	Hi Alch	GE Price
	68.4	0.7	289 coins	434 coins	coins (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	382 coins	9 (  225)		58
	Examine text
	I can summon a spirit terrorbird familiar with this.

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A Spirit terrorbird pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with twelve spirit shards, one gold charm and raw bird meat. Making one pouch earns 68.4 experience. Using a pouch to summon a Spirit terrorbird gains 0.8 experience, and costs 6 Summoning points. If Spirit terrorbird pouches are exchanged at Bogrog, players will receive 9 spirit shards per pouch.

Tireless run scroll

Tireless run scroll

File:Tireless run scroll.png	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	0.8	0.8	8
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	28 coins	43 coins	coins (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	1/2 (  13)	58
	Examine text
	A scroll for a spirit terrorbird familiar.

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A Tireless run scroll enables the use of the Tireless Run special move for Spirit terrorbirds. Using a Spirit terrorbird pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 Tireless run scrolls.

Tireless Run

A player activating the scroll.

Tireless Run is a special move for Spirit terrorbirds which restores running energy by half your Agility level rounded up, and temporarily increases the player's Agility level by 2. The Agility boost from the tireless run scroll does NOT stack with that of an Agility potion.

Tireless Run is useful when players have to run for long periods of time, such as during the Summer's End quest, or while doing a special task such as an Agility course or the Pyramid Plunder activity, where players have to do a lot of running in short periods of time. Another location useful for this is the Wilderness. However, familiars are prohibited from entering certain places where unlimited run can be useful (such as the Ape Atoll Agility Course, Dorgesh-Kaan Agility Course or Brimhaven Agility Arena). Some players find Tireless Run useful when Runecrafting, particularly when using the ZMI altar or running Astral runes. However, this cannot be used when runecrafting law runes, because familiars are not allowed on Entrana. Tireless Run is also commonly used for Penguin Hide and Seek due to the run boost.

Tireless Run is essential when attempting to solo in the Saradomin chamber of the God Wars Dungeon, as Zilyana moves very fast, meaning you have to run constantly.

Dialogue

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Trivia

• The Spirit Terrorbird almost identically portrays an artist's impression of Brontornis burmeisteri, a prehistoric predator that lived between 62 and 2 million years ago, and was also nicknamed the 'terror bird' due to its scary appearance.
• The Spirit Terrorbird will still say 'so... heavy...' if he is carrying 12 weightless items, such as runes.
• Despite being better than the bull ant familiar in every way minus the required summoning level, terrorbird tertiary ingredients (and thus pouches) are far less expensive - ants require marigolds, compared to the terrorbirds' raw bird meat. Marigolds are farmed and collected 1 at a time and are expensive, whereas bird meat can be collected in large quantities from hunter or Chargurr in Oo'glog.
• Although the Spirit Terrorbird is a Beast Of Burden, it was originally going to be a pet.