Fractured Archive Rewards: Obligator, Rondache, Zorya's Tome, Zeal

Fractured Archive Rewards: The Short Answer

The Fractured Archive is Raid 4 in Old School, released on 20 October 2026 (players also call it Raids 4 or TFA). Its unique chest holds five items: the Obligator, the Ascension crossbows, the Rondache, Zorya's tome and the Horn of Bran, which unlocks the Zeal prayer. The rest of the chest gives the untradeable elemental fragments and Archivist's folio, plus tradeable Ascension shards.

None of the drop rates are public. The wiki's chest page lists every unique as "Unknown", so anyone quoting a purple rate is guessing. For the raid itself (entry, bosses, wipes and grouping), read our full Raid 4 guide.

How Raid 4 Loot Works

After you kill Ocellus, The Blade takes you to a reward room on another plane. Eight standard chests stand around the edge, and you can open only your own, the one that sparkles. If a unique was earned, a special chest appears on a raised platform to the north and gives one item (Chest (The Fractured Archive)).

1. 1

   Standard loot is rolled 3 times.

   Under conditions the wiki has not worked out yet, one of the three rolls pays 5 times the normal quantity.

2. 2

   Elemental fragments sit on that standard table

   , so you can get one without a purple.

3. 3

   Path choice does not change your odds.

   Every "choose between" boss option gives the same total contribution points, according to Jagex's Out Today post.

4. 4

   Poor performers get a cabbage

   and nothing else. The wiki has not explained the exact condition.

5. 5

   Unclaimed loot waits in the Loot Wheelbarrow

   in the lobby if you leave the room before opening your chest.

Practical rule: pick the boss path your team clears fastest and cleanest. The choice itself does not move your unique chance from a completion, so more clears per hour is what you can control.

Every Fractured Archive Reward at a Glance

Stats, slots and tradeability come from the item pages on the OSRS Wiki. "Slot" means where the item goes on your character, or what kind of item it is if you cannot wear it.

Obligator: The Crush Megarare

The Obligator is a two-handed Crush weapon that needs 85 Attack. It gives +120 Crush, +22 Stab, -8 Slash, +40 Strength and +3 Prayer. It is tradeable only when completely uncharged, so uncharge it before you list it.

It has two styles. Thrust attacks every 5 ticks and hits several targets in a line, or a large target for more damage. Smash attacks every 3 ticks but drops the damage re-rolls and the multi-target hit, so it only ever hits one target.

The passive is what makes it a megarare. It rolls damage up to four times, depending on how weak the target is to Crush compared with Stab and Slash, and keeps the best roll. It also deals 20% more damage to 2x2 targets and 40% more to targets 3x3 or larger (Out Today).

Charging costs 1 Ascension shard, 20 nature runes and 20 death runes for every 10 charges. The wiki does not list a maximum charge count yet.

The same update cut Nex's Crush defence from +60 to +35, and Jagex said the change is there so the Obligator shines against her. Chase it if you melee Nex or other large, Crush-weak bosses. Against targets with neutral defences, Jagex's pre-release poll blog still expected the Scythe of Vitur to come out slightly ahead.

Rondache: How Its Shield Bash Works With Other Specs

The Rondache is a tradeable shield that needs 80 Defence. It gives +35 Stab, +41 Slash, +38 Crush and +55 Ranged defence, -6 Magic defence and +8 Strength, with -5 Magic and -8 Ranged attack. The headline is +2 flat armour and +2 magic resistance: every Melee, Ranged and Magic hit you take is 2 lower.

The damage it blocks turns into charges for its special attack, Shield Bash, which fires instantly. How you trigger it depends on your main-hand weapon (Out Today).

With a weapon that has no special attack

The Rondache adds its own special bar to the Combat Styles tab and takes over the special attack orb next to the minimap. Most one-handed weapons people use fall into this group, so you click the orb as normal.

With a weapon that has its own special attack

Both bars appear in the Combat Styles tab, so you can fire both specs back to back. The orb keeps your weapon's special; right-click it to fire Shield Bash without opening the tab. A thin bar under your special energy on the orb fills as the Rondache charges.

Shield Bash XP goes to the attack style you have selected: Aggressive gives Strength XP, Shared gives shared XP.

Use it where small hits add up over a long fight. Let the charges build, then fire the bash as a finisher or straight after your weapon's spec. In fights where you rarely get hit, Jagex's own advice was that the Avernic defender comes out ahead.

Zorya's Tome: A Magic Special Attack Weapon

Zorya's tome is a two-handed book that needs 85 Magic and works as a powered staff. Like the Obligator, it can only be traded while it is fully uncharged. It attacks every 3 ticks with a base max hit of 18 and a 7-tile range, and gives +45 Magic attack, +15% Magic damage and +2 Prayer.

Its special attack fires one spell with 150% more accuracy and 60% more damage. If that spell hits, your next three tome attacks get the same bonuses and fire every 2 ticks instead of 3.

The wiki puts its base damage below the Eye of Ayak, so it is not your main magic weapon. It is a switch you bring for the special. As a two-handed magic weapon, it does not get the accuracy effect of confliction gauntlets.

The tome has Charge and Uncharge options, but the wiki does not yet say what charges it, how many charges it holds or how much special energy the spec costs. Jagex's poll blog aimed it at targets where Dragon claws' accuracy falls short, or whose hitpoints are too low for the Zaryte crossbow spec to pay off. It began as the Gatekeeper's Cane and was redesigned before the poll.

Verdict: bring it as a burst-damage spec on a magic setup. Keep your main staff for normal attacks.

Ascension Crossbows and Ascension Bolts

The Ascension crossbows are tradeable, dual-wielded crossbows in the two-handed slot that need 80 Ranged. They use Heavy ranged, give +34 Ranged attack and +3 Magic attack, and fire every 2 ticks on Rapid or every 3 ticks on Accurate and Longrange. Range is 6 tiles, or 8 on Longrange.

Jagex calls them a raid-tier upgrade to the Toxic blowpipe. The catch is ammo: they fire only Ascension bolts and the gem-tipped versions, so every bolt starts as an Ascension shard.

Jagex's poll blog said the bolts must be equipped for Dizana's quiver bonuses to apply. Plan the bolt supply before the crossbows: at 10 bolts per shard, 100 shards make 1,000 bolts.

Zeal Prayer and the Horn of Bran: How Zeal Is Unlocked

Zeal is an upgraded Piety. It needs 84 Prayer, 75 Attack and 75 Strength, and once unlocked it replaces Piety in your prayer book, the same way the Royal Titans prayer scrolls replace Eagle Eye and Mystic Might.

The drain rate matches Piety's, so the extra Attack and Strength cost no extra prayer points. Jagex's poll blog put the gain at roughly 6 extra Strength levels for a 99 Strength player on Super combat potions, plus the extra accuracy.

How Zeal is unlocked

You unlock Zeal with the Horn of Bran, a tradeable item from the unique chest. You cannot equip it; its only options are Inspect and Drop. The wiki says using it takes a "more involved process" than reading a scroll, and the steps are not documented yet.

Jagex hinted in the Out Today post that the Record Keeper in the lobby may help. The poll blog also said you need Piety unlocked first. Zeal is unlocked automatically in Last Man Standing and in Pete Kayer's challenges.

1. 1

   Get 84 Prayer, 75 Attack and 75 Strength, and unlock Piety.

   Our Prayer guide has the cheapest route to 84.

2. 2

   Get a Horn of Bran from the raid, or buy one if you are not an ironman.

3. 3

   Inspect the horn, then try the Record Keeper, the NPC Jagex hinted at.

Elemental Fragments: +2 Max Hit for Each Element

There are four elemental fragments: whispering wind (air), deep water (water), living earth (earth) and burning fire (fire). They are untradeable. Using one permanently raises the base max hit of that element's spells by 2.

The +2 is added before Magic damage bonuses and elemental-weakness multipliers, so it grows with both. Fragments come from the standard-loot table, which is rolled 3 times per chest, and they have duplicate protection, so you should not keep getting the same element. Jagex's poll blog expected them to be "pretty common", with pity mechanics like the Keris partisan jewels from Tombs of Amascut.

Fractured Archive bosses and their elemental weaknesses

The fragments pay off inside the raid, because most Raid 4 bosses have an elemental weakness on their wiki infobox:

Use each fragment the moment you get it. They cannot be sold, so there is nothing to gain by holding one.

Archivist's Folio: Teleports to the Raid Lobby

The Archivist's folio is untradeable and teleports you to the Fractured Archive lobby. It drops inert, and you charge it with Ascension shards at 5 teleports per shard, so 20 shards give 100 teleports.

The wiki's pages disagree on how it drops: the chest page lists the inert folio as tertiary loot, while the raid page lists it with the uniques. Its rate is unknown either way.

Until you have one, these are the ways in (The Fractured Archive):

• Teleport to Tears of Guthix with a games necklace, carry a lit sapphire lantern so a light creature takes you into the Chasm of Tears, then crawl through the opening to the south-west.
• Read a Guthixian temple teleport scroll. They drop from Tormented Demons at 1/12, in stacks of 2.
• Run from the Lumbridge swamp caves.

Once the folio drops, charge it with a small stack of shards and top it up from your raid loot.

Ascension Shards: Sources and Uses

Ascension shards are tradeable and stackable, with a Grand Exchange buy limit of 100. Three of the rewards above run on them: the crossbows for ammo, the Obligator for charges and the folio for teleports.

Three rocks are active at a time, and each depletes every 295 ticks. They cannot be tick-manipulated, extra-resource effects do not apply, and a crystal pickaxe uses its charges here. Mine them while you wait for a team to fill.

Orion, Living Record Capes and the Standard Loot

Orion is the raid pet. It is untradeable, has a robed variant and has no published drop rate. The Living record capes are cosmetic and come from an NPC at 100, 500, 1,000, 1,500 and 2,000 completions, and you can switch to any tier you have earned. The chest can also give an elite clue scroll as tertiary loot.

The rest of the standard table is bulk supplies. These are base quantities per roll, before any 5x roll:

Jagex's pre-release blog said it aims for regular loot just below Theatre of Blood and may adjust it once shard prices settle. Keep the onyx bolt tips if you use the crossbows: they turn straight into onyx ascension bolts.

Which Reward Matters for Which Account

Tradeable uniques mean a main can buy any of them. An ironman has to raid for everything, and some pure builds cannot enter at all, because the raid needs While Guthix Sleeps. Jagex's pre-release blog said builds that cannot finish that quest were not given a way in at launch.

Pick the Horn of Bran first if you melee and meet the levels: Zeal works in every melee fight you do. Pick the crossbows if ranged is your main style and you can supply bolts. Chase the Obligator if you melee big, Crush-weak bosses.

Ironman notes

• Every unique has to come from your own raids, so shards matter twice: bolts for the crossbows, and charges for the Obligator and the folio. Mine the Ascension rocks between raids.
• Hardcore Ironmen and Hardcore Group Ironmen lose their status if they die in the raid. Raid deaths are not safe deaths.
• Ultimate Ironmen with items stored at Pete Kayer cannot enter until they reclaim them, a known launch issue.
• See our ironman equipment progression for where raid gear fits on an iron's route.

Pure notes

The wiki lists no Defence requirement for the Obligator, Zorya's tome or the Ascension crossbows, so a pure can wield ones bought from the Grand Exchange at 85 Attack, 85 Magic or 80 Ranged. The Rondache (80 Defence) is out. Zeal is out too if the poll blog's Piety requirement made it into the game, because Piety needs 70 Defence. Our pure builds guide shows which builds reach those levels.

What Is Not Known Yet

One day after release, the wiki still lists these as unknown or undocumented:

• The drop rate of every unique: Obligator, Rondache, Zorya's tome, Ascension crossbows and Horn of Bran.
• The rates for Orion, the Archivist's folio and the elite clue scroll.
• The standard-loot weights, what triggers the 5x roll and what counts as performing poorly.
• How contribution points are calculated, the points-to-unique formula and whether points are capped.
• How the fragments' duplicate protection works.
• What charges Zorya's tome, how many charges it holds and what its special costs.
• The Obligator's maximum charges.
• The Shield Bash energy cost. Its 20-charge cap and damage formula are still blog-only.
• The steps to unlock Zeal with the Horn of Bran.

The only hint at a date for drop rates was a joke line from Mod Arcane in the pre-release blog: "drop rates will be coming week 2". Do not plan around it. Until the rarity column on the chest page fills in, treat any posted purple rate as a guess.

Common Mistakes

1. 1

   Picking a boss path to boost purple odds.

   Every choose-between option gives the same total contribution points. Pick the path your team clears fastest.

2. 2

   Making bolts with a Jeweller's chisel.

   It does not work on Ascension shards at launch; use a regular chisel.

3. 3

   Listing a charged Obligator or Zorya's tome.

   Both are tradeable only when completely uncharged, so uncharge them first.

4. 4

   Buying the Horn of Bran before checking the levels.

   Zeal needs 84 Prayer, 75 Attack and 75 Strength, and the wiki calls the unlock a "more involved process" without listing the steps yet.

5. 5

   Using Zorya's tome as a main staff.

   Its base max hit of 18 sits below the Eye of Ayak. Its value is the special attack and the three buffed follow-up hits.

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Where Paid Help Fits

If you want a shot at Raid 4 uniques or the elemental fragments but cannot spend launch weeks learning new bosses, our Raid 4 service is listed but not priced yet. Ask on live chat or Discord what it covers and what it costs before you plan around it. If you are still short of the entry quest, the While Guthix Sleeps guide lists what stands between you and the lobby.