Witchaven

Witchaven
Released		4 September 2006 (Update)
Also called		Witch
Members		Yes
Location		Kandarin
League region		Kandarin✓
Inhabitants		Sea slugs, Humans
Teleports		None
Music		The Mollusc Menace
Map
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Advanced data
Type		settlement

Location on World Map
Legends' Guild
↑
East Ardougne	←	Witchaven	→	Karamja
↓
Port Khazard

Witchaven is a small village east of Ardougne. A once bustling hive of industry, the village is now a run down ghost town due to the Fishing Platform stealing away local business. It provides access to the Fishing Platform and features heavily in the Sea Slug and Slug Menace quests. It is also a notable fishing spot.

Travel

The nearest teleport is Ardougne, to the west. The Legends' Guild is just to the north, and you can access the Fishing Platform by talking to Holgart or Jeb, depending on which quests you have completed.

Players with 72 Thieving can also steal from the Ardougne Castle chest, triggering "a second magical trap" on the chest and being instantly teleported to the Witchaven Dungeon entrance west of the village. Players with access to fairy rings can use the code BLR to teleport directly north of the Witchhaven Dungeon (Legends' Guild).

Notable features

Fishing Shop

Main article: Lovecraft's Tackle

The fishing store owner Ezekial Lovecraft mentions his relatives were writers, and about his grandfather Howard. Howard Lovecraft was a famous horror writer.

Other notes

• Most of the villagers are in league with Mother Mallum, and those that are have very yellowish skin.
• In one of the houses, you can find both Kennith and Kent who you help during the Sea Slug quest.
• There is an altar, spinning wheel and water sources available in the town.
• North of the town are several willow trees.
• The Pillars of Zanash, which surround the Witchaven Dungeon entrance.

Citizens

• Mayor Eustace Hobb - The mayor of Witchaven.
• Colonel Jake O'Niall - A retired Temple Knight who has a key role in Slug Menace. Partway through the quest, he becomes a slave of Mallum and disappears (along with Mayor Hobb and Maledict).
• Brother Maledict - The Saradominist priest of the town, and owner of the majestic cathedral.
• Ezekial Lovecraft - Owner of the fishing store.
• Caroline - Her husband and child have gone missing on the Fishing Platform, and she is getting worried.
• Holgart - Takes people on rides to the Fishing Platform.
• Jeb Wormwood - After Holgart's boat is confiscated by the mayor, Jeb now owns his boat and takes players to the Platform.

Music unlocked

• The Mollusc Menace - Witchaven
• Escape - Dungeon entrance
• Slug a Bug Ball - Shrine dungeon (with the lobsters)

Quests

• Sea Slug
• Slug Menace

Trivia

• The village is a reference to the fictitious titular town in the horror novella The Shadow over Innsmouth, which was a once-prosperous fishing town that had been abandoned and fallen into disrepair, with the only remaining residents being hybrid human-fish creatures. In comparison, Witchaven was also a once-prosperous fishing town that has since lost business due to the construction of the nearby Fishing Platform, with the remaining residents slowly being taken under the control of the sea slugs.
  • This is further evidenced by the fact that the fishing shop owner of Witchaven is named Ezekial Lovecraft, sharing his surname with the author of The Shadow over Innsmouth, H. P. Lovecraft.