OSRS Tribal Totem Quest Guide: Beginner-Friendly Walkthrough & tips

Tribal totem quest involves retrieving an artefact sacred to the Rantuki tribe of Karamja taken from them by the nobleman Lord Handelmort.

General Questing Tips: Turn on the RuneLite Quest Helper in your plugins to make quests much easier to follow. Hold the spacebar to fly through NPC dialogue and use your number keys to pick chat options instantly and keep things moving.

How long it takes: Tribal totem took about me 5 minutes to complete.

Skill requirements for Tribal Totem

21 thieving

Tribal totem has no item or quest requirements.

Recommendations for Tribal Totem

• 90 coins or more for boat rips
• Amulet of glory
• Ardougne teleport
• 2 Brimhaven teleports or coins to use the boat from Ardougne

Walkthrough of Tribal Totem Quest

• Talk to Kangai Mau in the Brimhaven food store. He says he needs someoe to go on a mission in Ardougne. Choose options 2 and 1 during the dialogue to accept and start the quest. The fastest way to get here is by taking the boat from Ardougne for 30 coins.

• Investigate the north-eastern crate to find an address label addressed to Lord Handelmort. Use this label on the eastern crate meant for the Wizards’ Tower Chamber of Invention to redirect the teleport block so it gets delivered to Lord Handelmort’s house instead.

• Talk to Cromperty and ask to use his new teleport spell again. Avoid the right-click “Teleport” option, as that sends you to the Rune essence mine. Select options 2, 2, 1 to ask him what he has invented and to be teleported, then confirm it sounds good. You will be teleported to Handelmort's mansion.

• Inside the house, head west through the two doors. The second one is locked and requires Lord Handelmort’s middle name: K U R T. Enter the code using the arrows (K = 10 right, U = 6 left, R = 9 left, T = 7 left). If the game says the combination is incorrect, enter the letters slowly and use only the right arrow—RuneScape sometimes fails to register quick clicks. Once unlocked, go through the door and investigate the stairs first. Do not climb them yet—using “climb-up” before investigating triggers a trap that sends you into the Ardougne Sewers. If you fall through the trapdoor, go south-west, climb the ladder, and ask Cromperty to teleport you back. You won’t need to re-enter the door code. If investigating the stairs says “You don’t find anything interesting,” you still need 21 Thieving to continue.

• Climb the stairs to safely bypass the trap. Step outside, head into the room to the east, and open the chest. Search it to obtain the tribal totem (you can drop it and search again if you want extras).

  Return to Brimhaven and give the totem to Kangai Mau to finish the quest.

Congratulations! You have completed Tribal Totem quest.

Rewards from Tribal Totem

• 1 Quest Point
• 1,775 Thieving XP
• 5 Swordfish