OSRS Rune Mysteries Quest Guide: Full Beginner Walkthrough

Rune Mysteries is a straightforward quest that unlocks the runecrafting skill, allowing players to mine rune essence within the Rune Essence mine and use lamps and books on the runecraft skill. There are no skill or item requirements to complete it.  

Difficulty: Easy

Length: Short

General Questing recommendations: enable RuneLite Quest Helper in your RuneLite plugin section, hold your space bar to skip through NPC dialog, and use number keys for chatting dialog.  

TIme to complete: It took me roughly  three minutes to complete Rune Mysteries. It might take a bit longer if you don't have teleports to the different required locations.

Recommended items for Rune Mysteries

Any of the fast travel options:
• Lumbridge (to start the quest): Lumbridge Teleport or Home Teleport
• Varrock (1 trip): Varrock Teleport, Chronicle, Skills Necklace to the Cooks’ Guild (members), or Ring of Wealth to the Grand Exchange (members)
• Wizard’s Tower (2 trips): Necklace of Passage, Amulet of the Eye, or Amulet of Glory to Draynor Village (all members options)

Walkthrough of Rune Mysteries

All NPCs for this quest can be found in the image below:

• To start the quest,  head to Lumbridge Castle and climb to the first floor. Speak with Duke Horacio and select dialogue options 1 → 1 to accept the quest and he will give you an air talisman and ask you to bring it to the arch mage of the Wizard's tower. Note that you can get multiple air talismans from the Duke by dropping the previous one and talking to him again.

Archmage Sedridor

• Go to the Wizard's tower, south of Draynor Village. Quickest ways to get there are shown above. Once inside, climb down to the basement and speak with Archmage Sedridor, select options 1 → 1 → 1 and he will take your air talisman and give you a research package to deliver to Aubury in Varrock. Aubury is located south of Varrock's east bank, inside of his rune shop.

• Teleport or run to Varrock, speak with Aubury, select dialogue option 2 and he will give you some notes to give to Wizard Sedridor. Finally, Head back to the Wizards’ Tower and talk to Archmage Sedridor. He’ll hand your air talisman back and walk you through the fundamentals of Runecraft.

Congratulations! You have completed the Rune Mysteries quest. The rewards are shown below.

Rewards from Rune Mysteries

• 1 Quest Point
• An Air Talisman
• Rune Essence Mine access
• The ability to use lamps and books of knowledge from random events on Runecraft
• Completing this quest awards the player with 5 Kudos which can be claimed by talking to Historian Minas in the Varrock Museum.

Completing Rune Mysteries is a requirement for several other quests, including:

• Enter the Abyss

• Lunar Diplomacy

• One Small Favour

• The Lost Tribe

• What Lies Below

It is also required for a number of Easy Achievement Diary tasks:

• Ardougne Easy Diary – Have Wizard Cromperty teleport you to the Rune essence mine.

• Lumbridge & Draynor Easy Diary – Have Archmage Sedridor teleport you to the Rune essence mine.

• Varrock Easy Diary – Have Aubury teleport you to the Rune essence mine.