Heroes' Quest

Official quest description: Prove you are worthy to enter the Heroes' Guild. To prove your status as a hero you will need to obtain a number of items. There are many challenges standing between you and these items.
Release date: 27 February 2002
Start: Outside the Heroes' Guild, north of Taverley. Speak with Achetties.
Difficulty: *****
Length: Medium-very long (master thieves armband)
Members only: Yes
Requirements: 53 Cooking, 53 Fishing, 25 Herblore, 50 Mining, 56 quest points (1 quest point from Learning the Ropes), and the completion of the following quests: Shield of Arrav, Lost City, Dragon Slayer, Merlin's Crystal, and Druidic Ritual.
Items needed: Fishing rod, Fishing bait, Harralander Potion (unf), Pickaxe, antidragon shield (for when in Taverly Dungeon), Ice gloves, Dusty key; for Black Arm Gang members: Black full helmet, Black platebody, and Black platelegs; for Phoenix Gang members: any bow and any arrows or crossbow and bolts or Mage equipment will do Phoenix Gang.
Monsters to kill: Entrana Fire Bird (level 2), Black Knight (level 33), Jailer (level 47), Ice Queen (level 111)
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Encountered Monsters
Entrana Fire Bird (level 2), Black Knight (level 33), Jailer (level 47), Ice Giant (level 53), Ice Warrior (level 57), Ice Spider (level 61), Ice Queen (level 111).
[edit] Encountered NPCs
Achetties (Heroes' Guild), Gerrant (Gerrant's Fishy Business in Port Sarim), Velrak the Explorer (Black Knights jail in Taverley Dungeon), Katrine (Varrock), Straven (Varrock), Trobert (Brimhaven), Gruber (Brimhaven), Grip (Brimhaven), Alfonse the Waiter (Brimhaven), Charlie the Cook (Brimhaven).
edit Walkthrough
[edit] Start
Talk to Achietties outside the Heroes Guild about joining the guild. Achietties will tell you to get three items: The Firebird's Feather, Cooked Lava Eel and the Master Thieves Armband. We'll go through these items in the listed order.
[edit] Firebird's Feather




The first item on the list is the Ice Gloves. Bring armour, a good weapon, some food (tuna should do fine), and possibly runes to kill the level 111 Ice Queen. Also, bring along a pickaxe.
Go to White Wolf Mountain (east of Catherby, west of Taverley). Enter the mountain at the south entrance, and walk/run to the north of the mountain until you come to a rock slide (it should be near some ladders). Use a pickaxe on the rock slide and go through it. (50 mining needed) Once you are through, you will be near level 57 Ice Warriors and three ladders.
Use the South ladder, and go down the southwest tunnel. Go up the ladder at the end. Once you go up, you will see level 53 Ice Giants there. There should be 2 ladders next to the one you came up. Take the East ladder down. Go north through the long tunnel with level 61 Ice Spiders (the spiders in the tunnel do not show up on mini-map) and level 53 Ice Warriors. The tunnel makes a loop, and ends at a ladder. Go up the ladder, and then, up top, go down the other ladder. Continue down the tunnel until it opens up into a large room with a lot of level 57 Ice Warriors and the Ice Queen! Be careful, because this is a multi-combat area, so you will be attacked by multiple enemies at once!
it is important to follow these directions, as going up the wrong ladder will not allow you to climb back down, so you'll have to start over**
The Ice Queen is level 111 and, if your level is low, may be aggressive against you. If you stand behind or to the side of the throne, you can avoid the Ice Warriors and can still attack the Ice Queen if positioned right. Kill her and she will drop the Ice Gloves! This is where you can use a teleport spell to get out of the tunnel quickly. You can also use the ladder near her throne as a one way escape exit.
Talk to the Monk of Entrana at Port Sarim to get to Entrana (make sure your armour and weapon is in the bank). The Entrana firebird is at the northeast part of Entrana. Go to the northern part of the island near the law altar. Kill the firebird and it will drop the Fire feather. Make sure you are wearing the Ice Gloves when you pick it up.
[edit] Cooked Lava Eel




(Level 53 fishing, cooking and level 25 herblore needed. People can assist you in making Blamish Oil (Please note, you do need fishing bait when fishing with Oily Fishing Rod for the Lava eel)
Go to Port Sarim and talk to Gerrant at the fishing shop (Gerrant's Fishy Business). He will give you a bottle of Blamish snail slime, but you will still need a vial of water and a Harralander to make the Oily Fishing Rod.
Once you have the items, use the Harralander with the vial of water, then the unfinished potion with the blamish snail slime. This requires level 25 herblore, or level 24 with the aid of Greenman's ale. Use the made blamish oil with a normal fishing rod to get an oily fishing rod. Make sure you have Fishing Bait.
To find Lava eel, you need to go to the Taverley Dungeon. You may wish to bring an Anti-dragon shield, armour, a weapon, food, and an anti-poison potion .
If you already have 80 agility or a Dusty Key, you can skip this step and go straight to the room with the Blue Dragons. Keep walking deep into the dungeon, you will go past level 18 and 22 Skeletons, level 19 Ghosts, level 33 Black Knights, level 42 Magic Axes, and level 20 Poison Scorpions. Go past a bridge and continue southwest past Hill Giants and you will enter a fortress with a few Black Knights. Go through east into a jail, and kill the Jailer and pick up his key. Use it with the jail cell holding Velrak the Explorer. Talk to him to get the Dusty key. Now head north back past the Hill Giants and go over the bridge crossing the lava and then north past the Chaos Dwarves and the Lesser Demons. Once you get past, you must "Use" the Dusty key on the door to the west. You will then be in a room with Baby Blue Dragons and Blue Dragons.
Go across the room and down the tunnel until you get to three fishing spots (which are red whirlpool shapes, not the normal bubbly surface). This is where you can fish for the Lava eel. Use your oily fishing rod to catch some. This requires 53 fishing, but a Fish pie, Fishing potion, or Admiral pie can be used to do it at a lower level. Be advised that there are three Baby Blue Dragons here as well as a Dusty Key spawn in this area. Now teleport/walk back out. Find a range or make a fire and cook the Lava Eel to get a Cooked Lava Eel.
Note: Lava eels can also be fished in the Lava Maze in the Wilderness, but this is not recommended, as it is more dangerous there.
[edit] Master Thieves Armband


You will need the help of a friend in the opposite gang. (The assisting friend can have already completed this quest. There is a section of the Runescape Forums devoted to helping match people up that need partners for this quest. The forum warns, "Buying one from a player and not doing the quest part required to obtain it, will show in the quest journal as not being completed yet. Thus, buying one would be a waste of money.")
[edit] Black Arm Gang
Go to Varrock and talk to Katrine, and she will tell you the gang password: "Four leafed clover."
She will tell you that you have to steal some candlesticks that belong to ScarFace Pete who lives in Brimhaven. You need to get the Id papers first though.
Go to Brimhaven and find the gang office, which is the building east of the bar. Talk to Trobert there and he will give you the ID paper, which you will need to get into ScarFace Pete's mansion.
Before going to ScarFace Pete's Mansion, you need to get a Black full helmet, Black platebody and Black Platelegs (trimmed will not work). You can get the Black full helmet and Black platelegs from the champion's guild and you can get the Black platebody from the varrock platemail shop. Once you have the disguise, put it on.
When you try to enter ScarFace Pete's Mansion you will be stopped by Garv. Show him the ID paper and he will let you inside.
Go talk to Grip inside and ask him if there is anything you can do, and he will give you a Miscellaneous Key. Leave the building and give the key to your Phoenix Gang friend. Now wait until your Phoenix Gang friend is at his area (see below). Once he/she is, go into the northeast room of the entrance and search the chest or the wall cabinet; Grip will then come into the room. Shut the door right away when he enters the room to be sure he stays there long enough for the Phoenix Gang member to shoot him. Your Phoenix Gang friend will range him, and Grip will drop his keyring.
Using the keys, go to the treasure room, search the chests on the left, and take the candlesticks. Go out the way you came, and meet your Phoenix Gang friend. Give one candlestick to your Phoenix Gang friend.
Go back to Varrock and talk to Katrine. She will give you the Master Thieves Armband.
[edit] Phoenix Gang
Go to Varrock and talk to Straven. He tells you to steal candlesticks that belong to ScarFace Pete who lives in Brimhaven, and tells you the Phoenix Gang has associates in Brimhaven on Karamja: Charlie the Cook and Alfonse the Waiter. Straven will give you the password: "Gherkin." Stop by a bank and get your ranged weapon and ammunition before departing for Karamja.
To get a partner it is recommended to use the Runescape forums.
First, get the Miscellaneous key from your Black Arm Gang Friend. He will be at the building just west of the Shrimp and Parrot bar in Brimhaven.
Go to the Shrimp and Parrot Bar. Once you are there, talk to Alfonse the Waiter and then to Charlie the Cook. Give them the password.


Charlie the Cook will tell you about a secret panel. Go through the panel, where you will see some Guard Dogs. Get past these and into the mansion by the west side door. Once inside, use the Miscellaneous key on the north door. This brings you in a closet with a window into a room with a cupboard. Wield the bow and arrows, and shoot through the hole in the west wall at Grip. He will drop the keys for your Black Arm Gang friend. Note: It may be possible to mage Grip.
Your Black Arm Gang friend will get two candlesticks and trade you one of them. Go back to Varrock and talk to Straven to get the Master Thieves Armband.
[edit] Ending
Go back to the Heroes' Guild, talk to Achietties outside and give her the three collected items.