Blood Moon Rises OSRS Guide: Requirements and 180k XP Tome

Quest Overview

The Blood Moon Rises is the sixth and final Myreque quest: Grandmaster difficulty, Very Long, released 30 June 2026. To start it you need A Night at the Theatre, Sins of the Father and ten unboostable skills topped by 74 Slayer and 74 Woodcutting, and the wiki recommends 110 combat. It starts with Sarius Guile in the Icyene Graveyard.

Finishing it gives 4 quest points, a tome worth six lots of 30,000 XP, the hallowed flail and the Sunspear, and access to Vampyrium. If you want to kill the Maggot King, this quest is mandatory.

Skill Requirements

All ten levels are checked when you start, and none of them can be boosted.

The game does not check the wiki's 110 combat recommendation. Still, you fight Lowerniel Drakan (level 1063) four times and Wyrd (level 564) once, so it is a fair number.

Quest Prerequisites

The two direct requirements are A Night at the Theatre and Sins of the Father. Behind them sit Vampyre Slayer, A Taste of Hope, Darkness of Hallowvale, In Aid of the Myreque, In Search of the Myreque, Nature Spirit, Priest in Peril and The Restless Ghost.

A Night at the Theatre needs one Theatre of Blood run, and Entry Mode counts, so do that raid first if you have never finished ToB.

Items to Bring

Required

• Blisterwood flail, or 40,000 coins to buy one
• Vyre noble clothing (free from a chest in the Myreque Hideout during the quest)
• Melee combat gear
• Tinderbox, pickaxe, hammer, knife, chisel and blisterwood logs, all obtainable during the quest (Ivan Strom hands out a bronze pickaxe)

Recommended

• Combat level 110
• A fast-hitting ranged or magic weapon
• Dramen staff, or the Lumbridge elite diary for staff-free fairy rings
• Efaritay's aid
• Food, prayer potions and stamina potions
• Drakan's medallion and Morytania legs 3 or better

Walkthrough Outline, Chapter by Chapter

The quest runs in nine chapters. Use this as a map and follow the OSRS Wiki walkthrough for exact clicks and puzzle answers.

1. 1

   Starting off.

   Meet Sarius at the Icyene Graveyard, recruit Ivan from the Myreque Hideout and survive the vyrewatch ambush at Castle Drakan while keeping Ivan alive.

2. 2

   The Truth Hurtz.

   Find Veliaf in Crombwick Manor, solve the book puzzle in Paterdomus, go with Veliaf to Ivandis Seergaze's tomb, mine through to the daeyalt refinery and reach Castle Drakan.

3. 3

   Escape from Castle Drakan.

   Collect seven keys (half moon, crescent moon, new moon, gibbous moon, gilded, full moon and solid) through the bust-lever, clock, chest-code, syringe, lockbox, bookcase and basin puzzles, then brew chemical vials to destroy the blood stockpile.

4. 4

   Blood Hunt.

   Lower the drawbridge, survive the first Drakan fight, get through the forest, the nylocas horde and the river crossing, and meet Efaritay and Sugadinti Vitur.

5. 5

   Hallowed Preparations.

   Cure Safalaan with a stew and craft the hallowed flail and blisterwood stakes.

6. 6

   Drakan's Siege.

   Defend the palace, then fight Drakan a second time with the aranei on your side.

7. 7

   Another Night at the Theatre.

   Fight waves of Theatre enemies to win over the Nylocas Queen.

8. 8

   Fighting Wyrds.

   Beat Wyrd, the transformed Safalaan, in the vampyrification lab.

9. 9

   Night of the Blood Moon.

   The third and final Drakan fights, ending the Myreque storyline.

Supplies and Death Mechanics

Once the quest moves into Vampyrium it supplies you. These items only work in Vampyrium and cannot be banked, so do not waste your own brews and restores there.

Before each major fight, a tent or table near your respawn point gives unlimited supplies. The first, second and final Drakan fights take place in Vampyrium and use these supplies, but the third fight, at Castle Drakan in Morytania, needs your own full inventory of food and a prayer restore. Dying in Vampyrium returns you to a checkpoint with every item kept. Deaths during the Theatre section are normal deaths: you respawn and pay any fee to reclaim your gravestone, and dying to Wyrd puts you outside the laboratory with your items. A hardcore ironman loses status on any death during the quest.

Combat Encounters to Respect

Drakan fights. In the first, step back and click the glimmering safe tiles opposite the blood marks to dodge his spear lunges; it ends after 450 damage, at 85% of his health. In the second you take him from 2,550 to 1,740 hitpoints while his special grows from roughly 12 to 19 damage up to 40 to 50, and Efaritay heals you and the aranei. The final fight starts at 3,000 hitpoints over three phases: blood strikes in phase 2 need Protect from Magic, lightning in phase 3 turns off overhead prayers, and his lunges are dodged by moving sideways to the direction of the attack. Save the jar of congealed blood for emergencies.

Rewards

After the Quest

Drakan's medallion, unlocked at the shrine during the quest, teleports you to the portal inside Castle Drakan that leads to Vampyrium. The Maggot King's lair is in the forest east of Sangvesti, near the Ruined Village.

Two setup jobs are worth doing first. Save an Aranei scout from three Sanguidae on the path between the Apsul Hunting Ground and the Ruined Village to unlock fast travel inside Vampyrium (a pickaxe clears the rubble south of the shortcut). Then build the bank chest with a hammer, a saw, a magic stone, 2 cupronickel bars, 2 adamantite bars and 4 ironwood planks. After that, continue with our Maggot King guide.

Optional Help

Very Long quests are where busy players stall. Our quest services or targeted skill training for the 70 to 74 gates can get you to the finale. Read which quests to outsource if you are deciding.

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Final Takeaway

Finish A Night at the Theatre and Sins of the Father, hit the ten unboostable skills from 57 Magic to 74 Slayer, bring a blisterwood flail, lean on the Vampyrium supplies for three of the four Drakan fights, and bring your own food for the third one at Castle Drakan. The payoff is 180,000 XP from the tome and the Maggot King.