Ancient Summoning

RuneFest art for Ancient Summoning.

Ancient Summoning is an expansion to the Summoning skill that can be unlocked at level 68 Archaeology (boostable).

In order to unlock making Ancient Summoning contracts/pouches, the mystery Dagon Bye must be completed and players must sign a pact with Dagon. Once the pact is signed, players may create binding contracts by combining a blue charm, a normal pouch, two Blood of Orcus, two hellfire metal, and 200 spirit shards at a summoning obelisk. Nevertheless, it is not required to complete the mystery to summon Ancient Summoning familiars.

Players can bind a monster by killing it with a binding contract in their inventory. When the monster is killed, the player will send it to the contract, creating the pouch itself. An inventory space must be available for this to occur; otherwise, the pouch will not be made at all. Each monster has its own summoning and slayer level requirement to bind it, whereby the slayer requirement is always equal to the summoning level needed to summon the pouch. Making the scrolls requires the player to visit a summoning obelisk.

Players get Summoning experience by using the familiar, not by making it. These Summoning creatures have special effects akin to the Slayer creatures that were killed to make it.

Pouches

Pouches		Level	Binding XP	Other requirements	Passive effect	Special move	GE price	Binding profit
	Hellhound	45 45	38.9	N/A	Absorbs 20% of any damage dealt to the player by taking the hit itself.	Heals the familiar for 10% of its max life points (2,000 life points).	74,101	35,156
	Waterfiend	50 50	42.8	N/A	Grants a 5% chance while training Mining, Fishing, Woodcutting, Divination, or Archaeology to duplicate the gained resource and store it within itself. Can carry up to 20 items.	Teleports all items stored within the familiar's inventory to your bank.	74,562	35,617
	Blood reaver	73 73	64.2	70 Agility, 70 Constitution, 70 Strength, and 70 Ranged to enter the Ancient Prison	Deals 33% of player healing done as damage to the primary target.	Transfers 5% of the familiar's max life points to players (1,000 life points).	82,730	43,785
	Gargoyle	75 75	73.7	N/A	Grants an invisible +12 Mining damage boost.	Deals 50% more damage on the next mining swing.	72,456	33,511
	Abyssal demon	85 85	73.7	N/A	Automatically teleports to the target and deal damage when it teleports.	Binds and Teleport Blocks the target for 9.6 seconds.	38,859	−86
	Kal'gerion demon	90 90	79.1	90 Dungeoneering required to damage kal'gerion demons.	Grants +1% crit chance.	Temporarily provides the player, familiar, and nearby other players with a +5% critical strike chance buff for 60 seconds.	101,601	62,656
	Ripper Demon	96 96	82.3	N/A	Deals more damage to the target according to how much missing health it has.	"Death Chop": Replicates the Ripper Demons' 'jump' attack dealing 200-320% of its max hit in damage.	88,064	49,119

Update history

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• patch 20 January 2025 (Update):
  • If a Summoning familiar from a binding contract is overridden by a recolourable pet, its colours will now be correct.

• patch 3 August 2020 (Update):
  • An ancient familiar's special move cast now grants the correct amount of Summoning XP.

• patch 29 June 2020 (Update):
  • All Ancient Familiar pouches will now convert into 20 scrolls each, up from 10.
  • All Summoning XP gained per Ancient Familiar special attack cast has been halved, as you now receive twice the amount of scrolls.

• hidden 6 April 2020 (Update):
  • Players can now renew an ancient familiar's timer by sacrificing a binding contract, just as they would with a pouch for a normal summoning familiar.

• update 30 March 2020 (Update):
  • Ancient Summoning was released with Archaeology.

Trivia

• When dismissed, they use their respective monster's death animation.