Starting location: Outside the Hero’s Guild, north of Taverly. Speak with Achetties.
Quest difficulty level: Hard.
Reward: Access to the Hero’s Guild, ability to buy and wield Dragon Battle Axes and Maces and exp in the following skills: Attack, Defence, Strength, Hits, Ranged, Woodcutting, Firemaking, Cooking, Herblore, Smithing and Mining (1500-3000 exp per skill).
Quest points gained: 1.
Required Skills: Level 25 herblore, 50 Mining, 53 Fishing, 53 Cooking and be able to kill a level 102 Monster.
Required Items: Fishing rod, some bait, Harralander, Waterfilld vial and a pickaxe. For Phoenix Gang Members: Bow and Arrows, and a friend in the Black Arm’s Gang. For Black Arm’s Gang Members: Full set of black armour, and a friend in the Phoenix Gang.
Required quests and points: Shield of Arrav, Lost City, Merlin’s Crystal and Dragon Slayer, over 55 Quest Points.
Monsters: Entrana Fire Bird (level 2), Black Knights (level 31), Jailer (level 42), Ice Giants (level 48), Ice Warriors (level 57), Ice Spiders (level 61), Ice Queen (level 111).
NPC: Achetties (Hero’s Guild), Garrant (Port Sarim fishing store), Velrak the Explorer (Black Knights jail in Members Dungeon), Katrine (Varrock), Straven (Varrock), Trobert (Brimhaven), Gruber (Brimhaven), Grip (Brimhaven), Alfonse the Waiter (Brimhaven), Charlie the Cook (Brimhaven).
HERO’S QUEST WALKTHROUGH
To become a Hero, and worthy of entering The Hero’s Guild, you need to bring Achetties three items. One is the feather of a fire bird, the second is a cooked lava eel, and last, the Master Thief Armband. You can get these items in any order you want to. However, for the master thief armband, you will need a friend in the other gang. So if you’re in the Black Arms Gang, you will need to find someone to hook up with.
Firebird Feather: This is where you need to kill the level 102 Ice Queen, go to the bank (Catherby is best if you have done the Fishing Contest). Get out your armour, weapon, and food (and whatever you need to kill her, pots etc…), as well as a pickaxe. When you have these, head up to the White Wolf Mountain just east of Catherby. Walk north through the White Wolf Mountain and past the gnome glider, and you will come to a rock slide. If you right click on it you will have an option to mine it. After you’ve mined the slider, continue down the southern ladder there, and you will end up inside the mountain.
If you go a little west you should now see two paths, take the southern one, and climb up the ladder. Once you’re up, you’ll be faced with level 54 ice giants. Go down the eastern ladder, and run/walk all the way down the path and you will end up at another ladder, go up, and then go down the other ladder. Go north and you should eventually see the level 111 ice queen. She is extremely hard to kill, since she is in a multi-combat zone, and there are six level 53 ice warriors around there as well. Once you’ve killed her, pick up the ice gloves that she dropped.
Head all the way back, and go to Falador bank. Put all of your armour and weapons in the bank, and then head down to the Port Sarim docks, and take the boat to Entrana (the most north-eastern boat). Once on Entrana go all the way north and search the area there, you should see a little red bird named Entrana Fire Bird. It’s only level two, so you shouldn’t have a problem killing it. When it’s dead, wear your ice gloves from the Ice Queen and pick up the fire feather.
Cooked lava eel: Coming back from Entrana, you can stop by the fishing store in Port Sarim. Speak with the owner of the store, and ask him how to fish lava eels. He will give you a bottle of Blemish Snail Slime. So, head back to the bank in Falador, and get out your harralander, water filled vial, fishing rod and bait. Use the harralander and the slime with the water filled vial, and you will have Blemish Oil. Use it with the rod and you will now have the Oily Fishing Rod you need to fish the lava eels. Now its time to go down to the Members Dungeon which you will find south of Taverly.
You will need to go past some poison scorpions, bring an anti-poison. You will also come up against some nasty dragons, so bringing your trusty anti-dragon breath shield might be a good idea as well. Food and armour could help you as well. You will, of course, need your oily fishing rod, and some bait (around 10 should do it). One last thing you need is a dusty key. If you don’t have it already, read below. When you have all the things you need, head to the dungeon south of Taverly.
Dusty key: Enter the dungeon, go straight ahead until you come to a set of prison doors, open them and the suits of armour will attack you, kill them and go through the door. Head out of one of the other doors there (doesn’t really matter which), and go south-east past the black knights, magic axes, poison scorpions, and then go straight ahead into the little path going south. You should now be at some more black knights. Go through the door there and then turn east. You should now see a level 42 jailer, kill him and pick up the keys he dropped. Open the jail door to the south and talk with Velrak the Explorer. After a bit of talk, he will give you the dusty key.
In the member’s dungeon, go all the way into the lesser demons, and then use your dusty key on the door there. You’re now in a room with blue dragons. If you want, you can kill some. Go south until you get to a place with lava, there you should see three fishing spots. Fish some lava eels from one of those spots. You will need two cooked at the end, so if your cooking isn’t that high, be on the safe side and fish 10-15 of them. Go back out and cook the lava eels.
Master Thief Armband: This is where you need your partner. If you’re in the Phoenix Gang, you need a friend from the Black Arm Gang and of course the other way around as well.
Black Arm Gang: Go to your hideout in Varrock. You should find Katrine there. Talk with her a bit and she will give you the password: “four leaf clover”. Get your full black set of armour out of the bank. Head off to Brimhaven (on Karamja), and enter the house east of the pirates bar, and speak with either Trobert or Gruber there. They will give you your ID papers. Now walk west until you come to the mansion. Be sure to wear your full black armour and go in.
Once in, talk with Grip and he should give you a key; hand it over to your Phoenix partner, and then wait for your partner to get ready. Once he is ready, go back in to the mansion and open the cupboard in the northern room. Grip should now come in the room, and your partner can shoot him. Once he is dead he will drop a key. Use this key to enter the treasure room in the western room, and search around to find two candlesticks, when you have them, give one to your partner, and then you both can return to your leaders to get the armband.
Phoenix Gang: Go to your hideout in Varrock. Ask Straven about the Master Thief Armband. After a bit of talking, you should get the password: “Gherkin”. When you have it, go to your bank and withdraw some cash (100gp is enough), some arrows and a bow. You will need to kill a level 26, so bring enough arrows. When you have that, head off to Brimhaven on Karamja and meet with your Black Arm Gang friend.
Your friend will have a key for you, trade with them, and go into the bar and talk with Alfonse the Waiter and give him your password. You will now be allowed into the kitchen, talk with Charlie the Cook and he will tell you about the secret wall. It is next to the stove on the western wall, go through it, and use your key on the door across the yard there. Meanwhile, your partner should almost be ready with Grip. Stand in front of the window in the next room and shoot Grip. Your partner should now see a key; he will use it to get the two candlesticks and trade one of them with you. Return to your gang leader to get the armband.
Once you both have all three items, go back to you the Hero’s guide and talk with Achetties. This completes the quest.
