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{{Quick guide}}
{{Infobox Quest
| name = The Tale of the Muspah
| image = [[File:The_Tale_of_the_Muspah.jpg]]
| aka =
| release = [[21 April]] [[2009]]
| update = Tale of the Muspah
| members = Yes
| series = [[Mysteries of the Mahjarrat quest series|Mahjarrat]]
| difficulty = Novice
| length = Medium
| number = 149
| developer = Rod C
}}

== Walkthrough ==
{{Quest details
|description=Experienced adventurers will be familiar with the Fremennik rite of passage, and the difficulties it presents. It's little wonder, then, that Fremennik children are always on the lookout for an easier path to adulthood, and Erjolf is no exception.

Join him in his quest for a trophy, unravel the puzzling story of a curious corpse, and discover dark secrets of one of the most fearsome races to ever walk Gielinor.
|released = [[21 April]] [[2009]].
|update = Tale of the Muspah
|start = Talk to [[Erjolf]], who can be found north-east of [[Rellekka]], at a cave entrance halfway up the snow-covered mountain path
|wdifficulty=2
|difficulty = Novice
|length = Medium (30-45 minutes)
|members = Yes
|requirements =
{{Skillreq|Firemaking|6}}
{{Skillreq|Mining|8}}
{{Skillreq|Magic|10}}
{{Skillreq|Woodcutting|10}}
|items=

*8 [[Sapphire]]s (can be mined during the quest) No need to buy them.
*8 casts of [[Enchant Level 1 Jewellery]]:
**8 [[Cosmic rune]]s and either eight [[Water rune]]s, a [[Water staff]] or equivalent; or eight [[Enchant sapphire]] magic tablets can also be used.
*A [[Knife]], [[Tinderbox]], [[hatchet]], and [[Spade]]. (These can all be obtained during the quest, or storing them in your [[Toolbelt]] works just as well.)


'''Useful Items:'''
*To avoid dehydration in the desert south of Shantay Pass, at least one of:
**400 coins for [[Magic carpet]] rides to and from [[Pollnivneach]] (200 coins each way - a quest and a [[Ring of charos]] can reduce this to 100 gp each way)
**[[Desert clothing]] (can be bought at Shantay Pass)
**[[Waterskin]]s (can be bought from [[Ali Morrisane]], or at Shantay Pass) or [[Enchanted water tiara]]
**[[Food]]
*Items to lighten the load for longer runs:
**[[Weight-reducing clothing]]
** the [[Explorer's ring]] and/or [[Energy potion]]s to recharge your run
*Teleportation methods (although teleport tabs are provided they are not the most direct so other methods may be useful)
**Teleportation toward Muspah cave:
***[[Dramen staff]]/[[Lunar staff]] can be used for quick access to the quest start via the [[fairy rings]], if necessary - Fairy ring code D-K-S
***[[Enchanted lyre]] to [[Rellekka]]
***[[Rellekka tablet]] (or [[Teleport to House (spell)|Teleport to House]] with house in Rellekka)
**Teleportation toward Kharidian desert:
*** [[Pollnivneach tablet]] (or [[Teleport to House (spell)|Teleport to House]] with house in Pollnivneach)
***[[Slayer ring]] to Pollnivneach (Sumona)
***[[Amulet of glory]] or [[Ring of duelling]] to Al Kharid
*** [[Broomstick]], enchanted to teleport to the [[Sorceress's Garden]]
*** Al Kharid lodestone
}}

==Start==
To start the quest you must first talk to [[Erjolf]], who can be found on the mountain to the north-east of [[Rellekka]]. Fairy ring code D-K-S can be used for quicker access. He is excited about finding a new cave. Follow him as he leads you into the cave.

Click on the flat rock near the water near Erjolf to cross the river. Talk to him again and he'll tell you that he thinks he might have spotted some armour frozen in ice which he thinks will help him to complete [[The Fremennik Trials]].

Ask him about his progress with the trials and he'll ask for your help to get the armour from the ice. Offer to help him, and he'll tell you that you need to build a [[Fire raft]] by using a [[knife]] with the [[driftwood]].

A [[knife]], [[tinderbox]] and [[spade]] may be obtained from Erjolf by telling him that you need some tools to melt the ice.

WARNING you may only mine the eight sapphires found in the cave once.  You will need these for later so mine them after you find what's inside the ice.

===Melting the ice===
Create a [[fire raft]] by picking up the driftwood and using your knife on it. You get one fire raft for each piece you pick up.

You can walk around each quarter of the cave by jumping on the flat rocks. Use the spade on a mound of snow by each cave water exit to block the east, west, and south streams. Use the spade again to unblock the streams. Set rafts alight to melt the small icicles on all sides around the small island.

{|class="wikitable"
!Side of frozen armour to melt
!Blocked streams
!Unblocked streams
!Notes
!Image and Map
|-
|'''East side'''
|West and East
|South
|You have to set 5 rafts quickly alight '''from the northern stream''' of the cave, a few paces west of the northern flat rock. Light them on a spot that, when they float south, they end up across the east side of the frozen armour and are blocked from leaving the cave by a rock. Make sure the south stream is unblocked and the west/east streams are blocked.
|[[File:East raft.png|250px|The Eastern side of the mound being melted.]][[File:AMap1.png|Step 1 for melting ice.]]
|-
|'''North side'''
|West and East
|South
|You have to set 3 rafts alight '''from the northwest edge''' of the cave. Light them on 3 spots that, when they float south, they end up on the north side of the frozen armour. Make sure the south stream is unblocked and the west/east streams are blocked.
|[[File:North raft.png|250px|The Northern side of the mound being melted.]][[File:AMap2.png|Step 2 for melting ice.]]
|-
|'''South side'''
|East and South
|West
|You have to set 4 rafts quickly alight '''from the southeast edge''' of the cave. Light them on a spot that, when they float west, they end up across the south side of the frozen armour. Make sure to unblock the west stream. Block east and south streams.
|[[File:South raft.png|250px|The Southern side of the mound being melted.]][[File:AMap3.png|Step 3 for melting ice.]]
|-
|'''West side'''
|West and South
|East
|You have to set 2 rafts alight '''from the western edges''' of the cave. Light them on 2 spots that, when they float east, they end up on the west side of the frozen armour. Make sure the east stream is unblocked and the west and south streams are blocked.
|[[File:West raft.png|250px|The Western side of the mound being melted.]][[File:AMap4.png|Step 4 for melting ice.]]
|}

It does not matter what order you do these. When you are finished, Erjolf will have you come speak with him.

===The research===
[[File:Monsterinice.png|thumb|The monster in the ice.]]
Once you have melted all the icicles Erjolf will ask you to come and talk to him. You will then see a frozen monster inside the ice. After some talk he will then say you have to find an outlander in the [[Rellekka Hunter area]] and describe the monster to him, and you will then be given the option to examine the monster. '''Make sure you examine''', otherwise, you will not receive the chat option for the quest with the outlander.

This outlander is a [[Natural historian (Trollweiss)|natural historian]]. Exit the cave and go north to the hunting area. Go past the [[Sabre-toothed kyatt]]s. Take the steps leading to the platform on the right and walk north until you see the Natural historian.

After some conversation, he will ask you to describe the creature. The information needed is:
#It's yellow.
#It has four arms.
#It has no legs, like a snail.
#It has spikes, which run down its spine.
#It has a spiky tail, with vicious spines.
#It has pincers, like a crab.

[[File:Sand Pile Location.png|right|thumb|The Location of the Muspah Statue]]
Once you have described it for him, he will give you a [[Lumbridge teleport|Lumbridge teleport tab]] and will tell you that you must find a statue in the [[Kharidian Desert]] east of the [[Desert Mining Camp]], and north of [[Pollnivneach]]. The statue is far east of the mining camp along the large eastward bend in the river, a bit south of the bridge. It will appear as a sand pile, and you must dig it out using the spade you were given earlier. A spade on the toolbelt will also work.

<gallery>
Digsand.png|The statue before it is dug up
creature statue.png|The statue situated in the desert after being dug up</gallery>
Once the statue is revealed, [[Ali the Wise]] will appear and talk to you. When he is done talk to him again and ask him about the [[Muspah]]. He will tell you that you need 4 cut sapphires, 8 water runes, 8 cosmic runes and a knife. If you ask him if he could take you back to the cave, he will give you a [[Camelot teleport|Camelot teleport tab]].

Head back to the Muspah cave and mine 8 sapphires, then cut with a chisel. The eight sapphire rocks in the cave may only be mined once.

[[File:Musqah melting.png|thumb|200px|right|The ice around the Muspah is melting.]]
Cross the wooden raft bridge, bore the sapphires into the ice block (use the option "Bore-sapphires"), and enchant them. (Use the option "Enchant-sapphires" when it becomes available.) The ice will melt, revealing the Muspah inside. The same sapphires may be used for freezing and unfreezing later in the quest, so it is possible to keep 4 sapphires at the end of the quest.
:Note: You do not have to be on normal magics for this to work.

[[File:Muspah transform.png|right|thumb|The Muspah transforms!]]
Erjolf will run away as the Muspah starts to move. Talk to the Muspah to find that he is actually [[Jhallan]], one of the shape-shifting [[Mahjarrat]] that accidentally transformed to the Muspah while he dreamed of it in his nightmare, and it consumed much of his energy. He explains that he was hibernating in ice for the [[Ritual of Rejuvenation]].

Jhallan will ask you to reverse the process, so he may return to his hibernation, only this time he wants to choose a safer place.      
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===The Hibernation===
'''Items needed:''' [[Knife]], [[hatchet]], 4 [[sapphire]]s, the other 4 [[water rune|water]] & 4 [[cosmic runes|cosmic]] runes.

Go and find Erjolf, who is just outside the ice chamber (make sure you freed the south streams, or else he won't appear). Ask him and he will tell you that the only way to get to the other side of the cave is by canoeing. He will tell you to meet him at the west coast of the [[Rellekka Hunter area]], before the snow. Remember to bring a [[hatchet]].

[[File:Canoe boat ride.png|thumb|right|200px|Canoe Ride map]]
Meet him at the north-west side of the hunting area (next to the travel symbol on the map). He will point you to the great log that you can carve a canoe from. Click the log and your player will do a bit of "crazy-slashing" on the log, creating a crude canoe.

Use the canoe to travel. It will take you to the [[Mahjarrat Ritual Site Cavern]]. The cave entrance is to the south-east.

Go to the centre area (just to the south) to find Jhallan. Already weakening, he will ask you to find him a cave that is dark, with no water flow, not too warm, and not in the middle of a tunnel. He will not follow you if you have a familiar summoned.

The only spot suitable is the southern end of the furthest-west cave. To get there, go to the south-east just behind him and follow that to the end. Turn to the west when you get to the 3-way. Now at the T-junction at the end, go south.

[[File:New ice block.png|right|thumb|[[Jhallan]] entombed within the ice.]]

Speak with Jhallan and bore the sapphires around him, then enchant the sapphires. (Use the options "Bore-sapphires" and "Enchant-sapphires" for Jhallan.) Before you enchant the sapphire, you will automatically annoy Jhallan into eventually giving you a fake [[Muspah tail]]. Jhallan will then be entombed in the ice.

Take the canoe back to Erjolf. Talk to him, and you will give him the tail.

'''Congratulations! Quest complete!'''

'''Note:''' You can go back to the natural historian and tell him where the statue is to be additionally rewarded with an [[antique lamp]] of 200 [[experience|experience points]].

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==Rewards==
[[File:Tale of the Muspah quest reward.png|Rewards|center]]
* 1 [[Quest Point]]
* 1,000 {{Skill clickpic|Magic}} Experience
* 800 {{Skill clickpic|Mining}} Experience
* 800 {{Skill clickpic|Woodcutting}} Experience
* 500 {{Skill clickpic|Firemaking}} Experience
* 200 Experience lamp from the [[Natural historian (Trollweiss)]], can be used on any skill at or over level 10.
* 4 [[Sapphires]] (mine)
* New [[Mahjarrat Ritual Site Cavern|slayer cave]] full of [[Jelly|Jellies]]
* 2 extra spins on the [[Squeal of Fortune]]
* Access to the Muspah's cave and [[ice strykewyrm]]s
* Ability to speak to [[Ali the Wise]] about the [[Mahjarrat]]

== Music unlocked ==
* [[The Muspah's Tomb]] - After entering the tomb
* [[Rest for the Weary]] - After sailing the canoe
==Required for completing==
Completion of The Tale of the Muspah is required for the following:
*[[The Curse of Arrav|The Curse of Arrav
]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Shoveling_snow.png|Shoveling the snow to block off the tunnel.
File:Shoveling_2.png|Clearing the tunnel path
File:Natural historian polar.png|The Natural Historian
File:Muspah_jhallan.gif|The Muspah changes into [[Jhallan]]
File:Newspot.png|Jhallan's new resting spot with sapphires bored in
File:Givingtail.png|Giving Erjolf the Muspah tail
File:Trollweiss_fish.gif|Blocking the water makes fish appear
</gallery>

==Trivia==
* If you have the "Headbutt mining" animation from Soloman's General Store active while mining the Sapphire rocks you will not do the Headbutt, instead you will mine the rocks with the default animation.
* On the day of release, if a player was about to unlock the spoilers, they would get a message saying: ''The rewards have been frozen in an ancient block of ice, which can only be melted tomorrow.''
*The quest was mentioned by the [[Chaos Elemental]] in [http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Postbag_39 Postbag from the Hedge 39] which was released 2 April 2009. One letter from the Chaos Elemental talked about Muspah being frozen, as well as the Mahjarrat ritual.
* Near the release date, if you used [[Quick Chat]], and said "''I am doing quest..''" You could say "''I am doing quest [[Mysteries of the Mahjarrat]]''". This was the quest's working title. This quest and multiple others in the series were originally intended (as can be read in a Development diary) to be a multi-part quest like Recipe for Disaster, but this was changed because the parts were too different.
* If you have completed [[The Fremennik Trials]] before doing the quest, Erjolf will comment on your achievement and address you with your Fremennik name.
* If you leave one of the water tunnels blocked and leave the cave, the stream in the next cave is empty and fish are floundering on the ground. The fish do not appear on the minimap and you can not examine them. You will also be able to walk straight through the cave rather than jumping the flat rocks.
* When you log out with a wall east of you while Jhallan is following you; he will spawn in the wall when you log back in. Ironically, he is frozen in ice when this occurs (you can just exit the cave to make him respawn right). This glitch has yet to be fixed.
* Even though you use the "Enchant Sapphire" spell, you may be on the [[Lunar spells|Lunar]] or [[Ancient Magicks]] spellbooks.
* Upon completing this quest one's [[Adventurer's Log]] will read: "I’ve learned more about the Mahjarrat and found Jhallan a place to hibernate under the ritual stone."
* The name is actually a play on words, as Jhallan gives you The ''tail'' of the muspah.

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