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

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

The Tribal Totem quest sends you to recover a sacred artefact belonging to the Rantuki tribe of Karamja, stolen by the nobleman Lord Handelmort. This is a short, simple quest focused on light thieving and puzzle mechanics.

  

General Questing Tips

  • Turn on the RuneLite Quest Helper in your plugins—it highlights every step and makes questing far easier. Hold spacebar to speed through dialogue and use number keys to select chat options instantly.

  

Time Taken: Tribal Totem took me about 5 minutes to complete.

 

Requirements for Tribal Totem

Skill Requirements

  • 21 Thieving

Quest & Item Requirements

  • None
      
  • 90+ coins for boat trips
  • Amulet of Glory (optional, for fast travel)
  • Ardougne teleport
  • 2 Brimhaven teleports or coins for the Ardougne → Brimhaven boat

  

Tribal Totem Quest Walkthrough

Start the Quest in Brimhaven

  • Speak to Kangai Mau inside the Brimhaven food store shown in the map below. Choose chat options 2 → 1 to accept the mission and begin the quest. Fastest way here: take the Ardougne → Brimhaven boat for 30 coins.

Kangal Mau

   

Redirect the Crate at the Ardougne GPDT Depot

  • Head to the GPDT depot in East Ardougne.
  • Investigate the north-eastern crate shown in image below to find an address label addressed to Lord Handelmort.
  • Use this label on the east crate meant for the Wizards’ Tower’s Chamber of Invention.

GPDT depot

crate in Ardougne  

This reroutes the teleport so you get sent into Lord Handelmort’s house.

   

Talk to Wizard Cromperty

  • Speak with Cromperty shown in map below and ask to use his new teleport spell. Important: Do NOT right-click “Teleport”—that sends you to the Rune Essence Mine by mistake. Choose options 2 → 2 → 1, and he’ll teleport you to Handelmort’s Mansion.

Wizard Cromperty  

  

Enter Handelmort’s Mansion & Unlock the Door

Inside the mansion, go west through two doors.
The second one is locked with a keypad.

To input the code:

  • K = 10 right
  • U = 6 left
  • R = 9 left
  • T = 7 left

Unlock Door in Tribal totem  Investigate stairs in Tribal totem 

Tip: Click slowly—RuneScape often doesn’t register quick arrow presses.

  

Investigate the Trapdoor Staircase (Important!)

  • Before climbing the stairs, investigate them.
  • If you climb up without inspecting, you fall into the Ardougne Sewers. If you fall: Go southwest, climb the ladder, talk to Cromperty again to teleport back. You don’t need to redo the keypad puzzle
  • If the game says “You don’t find anything interesting”, you still need 21 Thieving to proceed.

  

Climb Up & Retrieve the Tribal Totem

  • After safely investigating, climb the stairs.
  • Go into the eastern room, open the chest, and search it to obtain the Tribal Totem.

Chest in Tribal totem

 You can drop it and search again if you want extra copies.

    

Finish the Quest

  • Return to Kangai Mau in Brimhaven and hand over the totem.

  

Quest Complete!

 

Rewards from Tribal Totem

rewards from tribal totem

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

 

The tribal totem is very quick and has only one requirement, making it a great quest to knock out quickly for players looking for easy Thieving XP. If you’d like to continue training thieving, check our thieving training guide

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Petecleff13 is a passionate writer who has authored hundreds of articles in many areas throughout the years. He has also played OSRS with several account builds for over 5 years. He uses his passion for playing OSRS and writing to provide informative guides for both novice and experienced OSRS players. He is originally from South Africa and joined LuckyCharmGold as an Author in 2020.

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