Barrows

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Barrows
Released								9 May 2005 (Update)
Type								Boss
Members								Yes
Location								East of Mort'ton
League region								Morytania✓
Participants								1
Skills								Combat
Reward currency								N/A
Tutorial								No
Music								Dangerous Way, Dance of the Undead
Map
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The Barrows is a series of six burial mounds east of Mort'ton in which the Barrows brothers were entombed after their deaths during the Third Age. 'Barrows' also commonly refers to the minigame-like dungeon-delving experience of looting the chest at the centre of the tunnels beneath the crypts, released on 9 May 2005.

Players can attempt to rob valuable items from the Barrows brothers' crypts. However, due to an ancient spell, the brothers' wights continued to dwell in the barrows, protecting these treasures.

Looting the Barrows is popular due to the potential of receiving valuable rewards, including the unique Barrows equipment, with increasingly valuable rewards for killing more monsters in the crypts, including the Barrows brothers themselves.

In the miniquest His Faithful Servants players are tasked to slay all six Barrows brothers and then loot the chest for the strange icon. Completing the miniquest rewards some Prayer experience and the ability to use your minimap within the Barrows tunnels.

History

The Barrows brothers were ancient warriors of Saradomin who established a reputation of near invincibility while fighting in the God Wars.

They launched a massive attack, known as the Morytania Campaign, to liberate Morytania from the clutches of Lord Lowerniel Vergidiyad Drakan and his vampyres. As the brothers departed, a mysterious stranger granted them superhuman power to battle Drakan's forces, by supplying them with the weapons and armour now known as the Barrows equipment. It succeeded, for the brothers, who were in the front line, seemed invincible. They had not anticipated, however, that the stranger had ulterior motives for helping them.

As the brothers and their accompanying army progressed further into enemy territory in Morytania, the stranger followed them until the brothers became weakened. The brothers were grievously wounded in battle near the Great Vyrewall, and thus the army set up camp just west of Meiyerditch. Soon, the brothers died of their infected wounds simultaneously in the army's camp. The army quickly decided to retreat from Morytania, realising they could never succeed without their former leaders' prowess, but as a reflection of the brothers' bravery, they vowed to honour their martyred heroes as a final act before retreating.

The army spent six days and nights holding off the attacking vampyres to construct burial mounds, the Barrows, to honour the fallen brothers.

As the army began its return, the stranger slowly started walking towards the brothers, now dead and interred in their barrows. Arms outstretched atop the central mound, the stranger chanted in some foul, ancient language, casting his old magic. A vulgar purple light formed in front of him, fell to the earth, and bled into each of the barrows.

Not many of the original army made it back on the journey home, but tales were told of how each night an unnatural glow could be seen on the horizon where they had buried the brothers. Even today there are stories told about those mounds of earth, and of the sights and sounds that have been witnessed nearby.

A crumbling tome, obtained by searching the hut near the mounds or by talking to the Strange Old Man found digging the crypts, provides a detailed account of how the brothers came to be buried.

Getting there

1. (Red) Using the Barrows Teleport (tab) is the quickest route.
2. (Blue, Green and Orange) Using the Mort'ton minigame teleport, Mort'ton teleport scroll and Morytania legs 3 & 4 are good alternatives to players who don't have access to the Barrows teleport.
3. (Pink and Light blue) Travelling using the Swamp Boaty is a valid method for ironmen who don't have access to abovementioned options.
4. (Yellow) Using the BIP fairy ring is the longest of the routes, but takes the player close to the Nature Grotto, which players can visit to restore their prayer points.

There are several different methods for travelling to the Barrows. The best options, ordered from fast to slow, are:

• Casting Barrows Teleport in the Arceuus spellbook (requires level 83 Magic), or using a Barrows teleport tablet or house portal to teleport right next to the entrance.
• Using the Mort'ton teleport scroll and then running east to Barrows.
• Using the Morytania legs 3 or 4 to Burgh de Rott and running north through Mort'ton towards Barrows.
• Using the Grouping interface to teleport to Shades of Mort'ton (requires completion of the Shades of Mort'ton quest). This method is free and takes up no inventory or equipment spaces, though there is a 20-minute cooldown between uses.
• Using Drakan's medallion to teleport to Ver Sinhaza (requires completion of A Taste of Hope), leaving through the western door, running south-west to board the boat to Burgh de Rott, and running north through Mort'ton to Barrows.
• Casting Kharyrll Teleport in the Ancient spellbook (requires level 66 Magic and completion of Desert Treasure I), or using a Kharyrll teleport tablet or house portal to teleport to Canifis, then using the Myreque Hideout shortcut south of the pub and running south, crossing the rope bridge, continuing south and using the swamp boaty to travel to Mort'ton, then running east.
• Using the fairy ring code BKR, running south-east and using the swamp boaty to travel to Mort'ton, then running east.
• Using the fairy ring code BIP, hopping across the stepping stone shortcut (requires level 50 Agility), then going east and south, following the path through Mort'ton.
• Running east from Canifis, then south through the swamp, turning east at the northmost hunter spot, looping around to the other nearby hunter spot, then running south-west to the swamp exit.

Non-Ironman players may attempt to visit a player-owned house on a house party world with a portal nexus for a quick and cheap teleport to Barrows or Canifis. Additionally, players with level 72 Agility can use the dry stone wall shortcut on the south west side of the mounds, just east of the bridge.

Requirements

• Completion of Priest in Peril is required to enter Morytania.
• Started His Faithful Servants to begin digging into the crypts.

Rewards

Main article: Chest (Barrows)

The table below lists the possible rewards from the chest at the centre of the Barrows crypt. For more information about reward mechanics and rarities, see Chest (Barrows).

Image	Name
	Ahrim the Blighted's equipment
	Dharok the Wretched's equipment
	Guthan the Infested's equipment
	Karil the Tainted's equipment
	Torag the Corrupted's equipment
	Verac the Defiled's equipment
File:Bolt rack.png	Other items

Combat Achievements

There are 0 Combat Achievement tasks (totalling 0 points) available for Barrows.

Name	Description	Type	Tier	Comp%

Gallery

• 
  Ahrim the Blighted
• 
  Dharok the Wretched
• 
  Guthan the Infested
• 
  Karil the Tainted
• 
  Torag the Corrupted
• 
  Verac the Defiled

Music unlocked

Name	Unlock details	Music track
Dance of the Undead	Unlocked in the Barrows area.	File:Dance of the Undead.ogg
Dangerous Way	Unlocked in the crypts and tunnels.	File:Dangerous Way.ogg

Changes

Date	Changes
[[{{#explode:14 June 2023| |0}} {{#explode:14 June 2023| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:14 June 2023| |2}}]] (update)	A detailed minimap was added as a reward for completion of the miniquest His Faithful Servants.
[[{{#explode:3 August 2022| |0}} {{#explode:3 August 2022| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:3 August 2022| |2}}]] (update)	Camera effects found after looting the Barrows' chest can now be toggled in the Settings menu.
[[{{#explode:3 September 2015| |0}} {{#explode:3 September 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:3 September 2015| |2}}]] (update | poll)	A check list now appears that will show which of the Barrows brothers you have killed. A reward interface has been added that will appear when opening the Barrows loot chest. Monsters will not attack for a few seconds after the interface appears.
[[{{#explode:30 July 2015| |0}} {{#explode:30 July 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:30 July 2015| |2}}]] (update)	Doing Barrows in fixed screen mode no longer causes your hitsplats and overhead chat to appear distorted.
[[{{#explode:16 July 2015| |0}} {{#explode:16 July 2015| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:16 July 2015| |2}}]] (update)	The message stating that you have received more runes from the Barrows as result of the hard tier of the Morytania achievement diary will now only appear once.
[[{{#explode:9 January 2014| |0}} {{#explode:9 January 2014| |1}}]] [[{{#explode:9 January 2014| |2}}]] (update | poll)	Two spade spawns have been added to the building by the entrance to the Barrows.

Trivia

• There is currently a glitch where if Guthan is slain and he heals simultaneously, a message will appear in the player's chatbox stating We'll finish this later.... This message can also appear if players run too far away from a brother in the crypts.
• Despite the fact that the brothers appear to be ghosts, the Crumble Undead spell cannot be used on them.
  • Because they are not ghosts, they do not count toward ghost Slayer tasks. Instead, they count toward boss tasks.
• If your inventory is full when you loot the chest and you get a Barrows item, it will be dropped on the ground but will be in 100% condition. This and Falador Party Room drop parties are the only ways to drop Barrows weapons, chest pieces and leg pieces on the ground without them degrading. Barrows helms can also be dropped by using them on a hat stand.
• The Barrows may be inspired by the barrows in The Lord of the Rings, which are also protected by evil spirits. Notably, both The Lord of the Rings and RuneScape call these spirits "wights", a term which (at the time of Barrows' release) was not used anywhere else in the game.