The Furnaces of Meroe

Requirements

• Complete Ropes for the Fourth Cataract
• 70 Metalwork
• 65 Stonework

Walkthrough

The quest journal, step by step.

1. Start

   Teqorid, master of Meroe's iron furnaces, stands at the east edge of the city glaring at the hills where his mines are. (Requires Ropes for the Fourth Cataract, Metalwork 70 and Stonework 65.)

2. Stage 1

   Men in red have seized the Meroe Iron Mines behind the ironworks and smelt Meroe's ore for themselves. Teqorid wants six of their forge-zealots driven out.

   To do: Kill 6 × Coil forge-zealotUpdated by talking to Teqorid, master of the furnaces
3. Stage 2

   The zealots are falling back into the deep end of the mines. I should report to Teqorid.

4. Stage 3

   The zealots answer to the Iron Hand, the Coil's smith, who holds the Meroe Iron Mines with a fist of black iron. Teqorid wants him dead.

   To do: Kill 1 × The Iron HandUpdated by talking to Teqorid, master of the furnaces
5. Stage 4

   The Iron Hand is dead. I should tell Teqorid.

6. Stage 5

   Teqorid will teach me Meroe's secret. First, ore: I should mine a lump of Meroitic iron ore from the veins in the Meroe Iron Mines (Stonework 65), or take one from the Coil.

   To do: Get Meroitic iron oreUpdated by talking to Teqorid, master of the furnaces
7. Stage 6

   I have Meroitic iron ore. Now I should smelt it into a bar at a furnace with two lumps of charcoal (Metalwork 70). The furnaces at the ironworks will do.

   To do: Get Meroitic iron bar
8. Stage 7

   I've smelted a bar of Meroitic iron. I should use it on Teqorid.

   To do: Use Meroitic iron bar on Teqorid, master of the furnaces
9. Stage 8

   Teqorid has rung my bar like a bell. I should hear his verdict.

10. Complete

    Teqorid named me a smith of Meroe. I can smelt and work Meroitic iron, mine its veins, and buy it from Abratoye the ironmonger.

    Updated by talking to Teqorid, master of the furnaces

Unlocks

• Smelting Meroitic iron (Metalwork 70), and working it (Metalwork 71-84) into a new gear tier between electrum and djam: sword, spear, war axe, helm, scale armour, greaves, shield, iron-shod sandals and arrows
• The Meroitic iron pickaxe and hatchet: tier-6 tools (Stonework or Fieldcraft 60)
• Mining the Meroitic iron veins (Stonework 65)
• Meroitic iron at Abratoye's Ironmongery in Meroe

Rewards

• 3 Renown
• 30,000 Metalwork, 12,000 Stonework XP
• 4,000 deben and a Meroitic iron pickaxe
• Meroitic iron: a new gear tier, its tools and its veins

Items: Deben ×4,000, Meroitic iron pickaxe