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Raleirosen
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saradomin is evil
saradomin is evil
15-Jun-2017 23:34:20
First of all, welcome, lad.
It kind of depends what you want to do; dive into a number of storylines and discover what background they have on your own or go all-in for a spoilerific history of the world? If the latter, I'd recommend taking a look at the RuneScape Wiki's 'History' article. It's a bit outdated (missing lore from the last two or so years of quests) but still pretty accurate. Plenty of other pages filled with good descriptions of narrative and history elsewhere on the wiki, though that may not be as useful if you're new.
Honestly, I'd just start questing and exploring the game. Visit places like Varrock Museum, talk to people, etc. Also, if you have the time, read all the Lores and Histories, and Postbags from the Hedge.
Temekel's oration above concerns the creation of the universe, which is rather specific and not very relevant to most history in the game, so I would not recommend starting with that. For all intents and purposes, Saradomin, Guthix and Zamorak created the universe until you uncover some more information in certain quests.
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It kind of depends what you want to do; dive into a number of storylines and discover what background they have on your own or go all-in for a spoilerific history of the world? If the latter, I'd recommend taking a look at the RuneScape Wiki's 'History' article. It's a bit outdated (missing lore from the last two or so years of quests) but still pretty accurate. Plenty of other pages filled with good descriptions of narrative and history elsewhere on the wiki, though that may not be as useful if you're new.
Honestly, I'd just start questing and exploring the game. Visit places like Varrock Museum, talk to people, etc. Also, if you have the time, read all the Lores and Histories, and Postbags from the Hedge.
Temekel's oration above concerns the creation of the universe, which is rather specific and not very relevant to most history in the game, so I would not recommend starting with that. For all intents and purposes, Saradomin, Guthix and Zamorak created the universe until you uncover some more information in certain quests.
Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire.
OSRS: POH ideas
&
RS3 minigames
&
achievement ideas
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Perhaps you're half right; perhaps we can't win. But we can fight.
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16-Jun-2017 08:59:38
My suggestion is do the quests, question every body without skipping the chat (space barring through quests is a great way to miss relevant information!). Read all the books. But most importantly remember Runescape does something that most seem to skip, any lore gained is typically from the tellers point of view, or the story source's point of view. So it can be wrong, a guess or distorted by their own beliefs. I'll give you an example.
There was once some NPC chat that said that Saradomin spared Zamorak, in a show of his great mercy, at the end of the Battle of Lumbridge. When in fact Moia had stepped in and whisked Zamorak away before Saradomin could land the killing blow. From the preacher's point of view he was telling the truth as he saw it, even if it was essentially a misunderstanding of events. It is this kind of attention to detail and NPCs not possibly knowing things they had no way of finding out or goes against what they personally believed happened that can keep things interesting. Even if this particular example has been sneakily replaced since
But even that can be put down to the NPC gaining a better understanding of what actually happened years later, they just make no reference to them being an over enthusiastic moron at the time.
So start the quests and talk to NPCs and also remember that you enter Gielinor technically in the 6th Age (The World Awakens starts it officially) and that all the quests that come before that are supposed to be flashbacks to the 5th Age(the vast majority of quests take place then) with a sprinkling of other quests that can be done at any time.
If you want to do things roughly in order of 5th to 6th Age then List of Fifth Age quests Quick find code: 341-342-459-65128112 may help achieve that. Otherwise just have fun
The purpose of adventure is to shine light into dark places,
Poke monsters with a sharp stick, Then steal anything that isn't nailed down!
To the Manor Born QFC 185-186-367-65788716
There was once some NPC chat that said that Saradomin spared Zamorak, in a show of his great mercy, at the end of the Battle of Lumbridge. When in fact Moia had stepped in and whisked Zamorak away before Saradomin could land the killing blow. From the preacher's point of view he was telling the truth as he saw it, even if it was essentially a misunderstanding of events. It is this kind of attention to detail and NPCs not possibly knowing things they had no way of finding out or goes against what they personally believed happened that can keep things interesting. Even if this particular example has been sneakily replaced since
But even that can be put down to the NPC gaining a better understanding of what actually happened years later, they just make no reference to them being an over enthusiastic moron at the time.
So start the quests and talk to NPCs and also remember that you enter Gielinor technically in the 6th Age (The World Awakens starts it officially) and that all the quests that come before that are supposed to be flashbacks to the 5th Age(the vast majority of quests take place then) with a sprinkling of other quests that can be done at any time.
If you want to do things roughly in order of 5th to 6th Age then List of Fifth Age quests Quick find code: 341-342-459-65128112 may help achieve that. Otherwise just have fun
The purpose of adventure is to shine light into dark places,
Poke monsters with a sharp stick, Then steal anything that isn't nailed down!
To the Manor Born QFC 185-186-367-65788716
16-Jun-2017 11:59:14 - Last edited on 16-Jun-2017 12:06:30 by Solanumtinkr
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