Book of the Sands

it is time for ichlerins master plan, the god itself is planning an attack on the shanty pass, once it has taken Al-kharid, it can begin it's conquest through runescape to the book of the sands, once it has obtained the book it can control spells that can summon the godly beasts and it can stop time itself. you must help Eblis and Azzanadra to keep the book safe.

Difficulty: Grandmaster

Length: Very Long

Requirements:

89 Magic

86 Runecrafting

79 Agility

83 Defence

72 Construction

76 Crafting

74 Smithing

55 Summoning

at least 250 quest points and a combat total over 100.

Quest Requirements:

Desert Treasure

Contact

Scorpion Catcher

Missing my Mummy

Smoking Kills

Reward: New Spells added to the ancient spellbook, Orb of the Sands, Choose between a Time sword, bow or staff, 3,500,000 coins, speak to Azzanadra for 70,000 experience in Magic, Agility and defence, 100,000 experience in Runecrafting, Summoning, Crafting and Smithing and 50,000 construction experience. also pray at the altar of Azzanadra for 200,000 prayer experience and access to curses at any altar (with completion of temple of sennisitan).

Other Requirements: must beable to defeat:

Mummy King (level 670)

Pharoah (level 186)

Giant Scarab (level 423)

Kalphite Queen (level 300)

Items Needed to complete the Quest: Keris, 20,000 coins, tinderbox, hammer, 2 limestone bricks, 3 iron bars, 5000 fire, air, earth and water runes, runes to cast Water Surge, 5 Law, astral and nature runes, food, armour, good weapon and waterskins/ water tiara (e).

1. search the shattered ruins near the dominion tower, to find a note from a villager telling people to be warned that the gods are coming. now right-click and choose the option locate, the letter shall now teleport you and the letter to Eblis.

2. speak to eblis and he will tell you that this letter was from his good friend Davil, who is now dead, he will ask you if you have encountered anything strange during your visits to the desert, choose the option ichlerin.

3. now he will tell you that ichlerin is infact an evil god, he will then tell you that ichlerin once tried to rule al-kharid and the desert before but a travellor stopped him with the book of the sands.

4. now he will ask you to speak to Azzanadra in the bandit camp, she will be disguised as the elite bandit, talk to her and she will ask you if you can be an assistance for helping her obtain the ice diamond from the (level 80) bandit. talk to the amazed bandit and he will attack you defeat him for the ice diamond then give it to Azzanadra and she will then let you explain what's going on.

5. go to Sophanem and talk to the sphinx, it will tell you that the book of the sands is located in varrock museam and that you can only touch it while wielding pure magic, use the runes you have (5k fire, air, earth and water) to create a elemental hands potion by clicking the runes on the sphinx.

6. now go to varrock museam and drink the potion, your hands will then turn multi-coloured, go to the big exhibit in the middle of the room and search it for the book, once you obtain the book you will notice 4 pages are missing, and these pages and special, they hold the key of time stopping and how to defeat a god.

7. now go to Eblis snd ask him if he knows where the missing pages are, he will locate one of the pages and he will say that it's located in the Kalphite hive and that he hid one in the Kalphite Queen, you will now need to go to the kalphite queen and defeat it for the page, once the page is obtained go back to Eblis.

8. he now would have located the second page which is in the temple of Nardah, go to Nardah and talk to Priest Azef, he will tell you the only way to enter is if you, use every altar in each city on runescape (falador, varrock, burthope, ardougne, camelot, lumbridge and draynor), now once you have done that you will obtain a scroll, go back to the priest and he will translate it, it will ask you to build a limestone key.

9. use the two limestone bricks on 3 iron bars and hammer them together to create an unfinished key, now light a sacred fire using a tinderbox on the Nardah altar and use the unfinished key on it to create a Nardah Spirit Key. now use the key on the trapdoor in the temple to unlock the doors to the underground desert.

10. be prepared for the giant scarab (equipt keris) and journey on till you reach the scarab puzzle, the trick is to make a picture of a scarab. once you have done the puzzle enter the room to the scarab hall, there will then be a stone scarab, cast water surge on it for it to imbue and become a giant scarab, fight it using the keris and then finish it using a tinderbox.

11. it will then drop the page and you will now need to search the chest to obtain a pharoah teleport cross.

12. activate the cross and you will be inside the pharoah's tomb, search around the rubble until you come across an artifact of ichlerin. go north and use it on the pharoah's door, now search the coffin and a powerful pharoah mage shall appear, defeat it and grab the page.

13. now the final fight, go to every town in the desert and speak to every priest for a piece of information, go to ardougne and ask for anti-mummified poison, you can get this by speaking to the main priest in the chapel, now get ready to fight the mummy king, go to eblis and he will tell you that the mummy is coming down to menaphos, you will need to go there.

14. go to menaphos and you will see ichlerin, she will then have an army of (level 210) mummies and a mummy king, azzanadra and Eblis will fight some of the mummies and help with the king, it is multi-combat! be very prepared! the mummy king will then summon dementors which will soul eat you, use the complete book and use the spell: imbue soul (89 magic, 84 runecrafting) and it will now protect you from taking soul damage which will kill you.

15. after the fight azzanadra will kill ichlerin and quest will be complete.