Nature Spirit

This article is about the quest. For the NPC, see Filliman Tarlock. For other uses, see Nature Spirit (disambiguation).

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Nature Spirit (#55)
Release date								13 July 2004 (Update)
Members								Yes
Voice Over								No
Official series								Myreque #2
Age								Fifth Age
Timeline								Adventurer
Start area								Paterdomus
Combat[?]								NPC combat level 30–39
Advanced data
Quest ID								133
Quest create ID								80
Official difficulty								Novice
Links								Quests

Nature Spirit is the second quest in the Myreque quest series. In it, the player must restore the Nature Grotto deep in Mort Myre Swamp to its previous glory.

Official description

“	After saving the holy man Drezel, he's seeking some assistance again. This time he has a special request for any adventurous sorts to search for the Druid 'Filliman Tarlock' and brave the terrors that infest the swamp of Mort Myre.	”
— Runescape Game Guide

Overview

Start point	Speak to Drezel under the Saradomin temple near the River Salve. Show on map (via a location)	2004#4
Members	Members only
Length as displayed in-game	Short to Medium
Requirements	Quests: Nature Spirit Priest in Peril The Restless Ghost Ability to enter Morytania Ironmen: 18 Crafting 20 Mining or 22 Divination (to obtain a silver ore) 20 Smithing (to smelt a silver bar)
Required items	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Silver sickle (Can be made from a silver bar and a sickle mould or bought from the Grand Exchange. Not able to make unless part of the Nature Spirit quest has been completed. Talk to Filliman to obtain the ability to craft this.) Ghostspeak amulet
Recommended	18 Crafting (For making the silver sickle if not bought) 10 Prayer (Or a couple of prayer potions to restore Prayer Points) Food, if you are a low-levelled player, to absorb attacks from ghasts. Combat equipment to kill the ghasts if you are a low-levelled player. A prayer potion in case you use up all of your druid pouches and you have to re-harvest fungus. Canifis home teleport The Invitation Box for teleports to Paterdomus
Combat	3 Ghasts (level 35)

Mort Myre Swamp

The start of the quest.

To start this quest, speak to Drezel, who is located in the passageway bordering Morytania and the forest east of Varrock (underground, beneath Paterdomus). If you haven't talked to him in the mausoleum since completing Priest in Peril, he will first warn you about the werewolves of Canifis, so you will need to talk to him a second time to begin the quest.

He asks you to do something dangerous for him, tells you to look for his friend Filliman Tarlock who lives in the south of the swamps of Mort Myre and warns you about the ghasts living there. Confirm that you're sure you want to help and he tells you that you should run away from the ghasts since only Filliman knew how to deal with them. Drezel then gives you six pies (3 meat and 3 apple) to take to Filliman. He also tells you that he saved a few runes which you can use after finding his friend. Put on your ghostspeak amulet now, and make sure you have it on throughout the quest. If you've lost the amulet, you can always speak with Father Urhney in the Lumbridge Swamp to retrieve it.

Some invisible ghasts.

Pass through the holy barrier south of Drezel to journey out of the temple and into Morytania, then run south towards the long fence. Go through the gate of a fence to reach Mort Myre. You will find ghasts in this swamp, near-invisible monsters who cannot be attacked and will attempt to rot your food. They often miss, but if you run out of food, they will hit damage on you. You also may lose a small amount life points at random when in the swamp. This will not happen in the nature grotto.

Go south in the swamp all the way to its south edge, where you will see a large round island with the druid's grotto. You will also see the summoning icon on the minimap. Jump across the broken bridge to the island.

The Nature Grotto

The Nature Grotto.

Filliman Tarlock should be standing outside the Grotto tree. If not, try to enter the grotto by choosing the option on the tree and he will come out. After you talk to him and tell him that he's a ghost, he won't believe that he's dead, so search the table (labelled "Bench" in game) to find a mirror. Take the mirror and use it on the spirit of the dead Filliman. After further convincing he finally starts to believe that he is in fact a ghost, although he still feels like he's alive. He has misplaced his journal and asks you to find it for him. Search the grotto tree to find it and then talk to him again to give it to him.

Ask him about his plan and Filliman will tell you that he wishes to become a nature spirit. Ask him if you can help him and he starts interpreting the vague writing in the journal you gave him. He gives you a druidic spell that you can use to cast bloom after you have been blessed in order to find something from nature referenced in the journal. You need to go back north through the gate to Drezel where you started and ask him to bless you. After that ask him to teleport you back to Filliman.

You need to get three things:

• Something with faith - Get Drezel to bless you. He will offer to send you back to Filliman using his runes.
• Something of nature - After Drezel has blessed you, find a rotting log in the swamp. There is a small group of logs north-west of the Grotto, just across from the island. The rotten log won't show up if you hover the cursor over it, only if you click it. Use the druidic spell in the area of the log (standing on it would not work) to make a mort myre fungus grow on it. Pick the mushroom quickly, as it disappears in a few seconds, and show it to Filliman. He can give you another druidic spell if you need one. You may want to collect at least 3 more fungi as you will need them later.

The ritual to transform into a Nature Spirit.

• Something with the spirit-to-become freely given - The "A used spell" card (the used druidic spell).

Now you need to go back to Filliman and do the following:

• Use the Mort myre fungus on the western brown stone.
• Use A used spell card on the eastern grey stone.
• Stand on the southern orange stone.

Use each item on the stones. Tell Filliman you solved the puzzle and he will ask you to come inside the grotto. (If he disappears before you finish, just click enter on tree again and when he appears exit the conversation by walking to the orange stone. Then click Filliman again while standing on the orange stone.)

Enter the tree and talk to Filliman, and he will become a nature spirit. He will then ask you to get a silver sickle, so now is a good time to go and make one. It can be made by using a silver bar on a furnace together with a sickle mould, which can be bought for example at Dommik's Crafting Store in Al Kharid and added to your tool belt. After you've made the sickle return to Filliman (who is now in Nature Spirit form) and give it to him. NOTE: You can have Drezel teleport you back to the grotto so you don't have to run through the swamp again. He will bless it, give you back a silver sickle (b) along with a druid pouch, and tell you to kill three ghasts.

Enchanting the silver sickle.

Return to the swamp with the blessed silver sickle and use it to cast Bloom spells (an option on the item, each cast costs a random number of prayer points). When cast right next to small bushes, rotting logs, and rotting branches in the swamp, some randomly created produce will grow that can be harvested: pears, fungi, and stems respectively. Use the druid pouch to fill it up with the default option, with different items offering a different amount of charges. Players with low Prayer should be wary of running out of prayer points; you can use several druidic spells beforehand as an alternative, see above.

Killing a ghast.

When a ghast attacks, it will use up one of your pouch's charges, causing the ghast to become fully visible and attackable. Alternatively, invoke the ghasts with the default option. While a ghast is attackable you may use any weapon to kill it, you are not required to equip the blessed silver sickle. Kill three ghasts.

Then talk to the Nature Spirit again. If you can't find him, search the branch inside the grotto and he will appear. He will redecorate the grotto and reward you. You need 3 backpack spaces to complete the quest. If you drop anything to receive the rewards, it will be lost.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

• 2 quest points
• 3,000 experience lamp
• 2,000 experience lamp
• 2,000 experience lamp
• Access to Mort Myre Swamp through the gate, which also allows easier access to Mort'ton and the Barrows activity as well as most of Southern Morytania
• 3 apple pies and 3 meat pies unless they were rotted by the Ghasts
• Access to Altar of Nature, where you can replenish and temporarily boost your prayer points by twenty
• Access to the Summoning Supplies (Wishing well) shop
• Ability to craft silver sickles
• Ability to fight Ghasts by using druid pouches
• If you lose your blessed sickle you can regain it by dipping a sickle in the Altar of Nature
  

Music unlocked

• Dead Quiet
• Natural
• Stagnant
• Grotto

Achievements

• Nature Spirit ( 0) – Complete this quest.
• Morytania achievements
  • Easy
    • Fortified Spirit ( 5) – Restore and boost your prayer points at the altar in the Nature Grotto.
    • Struck A-Ghast ( 5) – Kill a ghast in Morytania.
    • Blooming Marvellous ( 5) – Using either a Silver Sickle or the Ivandis Flail, grow some fungus in the swamp using Bloom.

Required for completing

Nature Spirit is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• A Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains
• In Search of the Myreque
• While Guthix Sleeps (full comprehension)

It is therefore an indirect requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• A Fairy Tale II - Cure a Queen
• A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift
• Hopespear's Will (miniquest)
• In Aid of the Myreque
• In Memory of the Myreque (miniquest)
• Legacy of Seergaze
• Rebuilding Edgeville (miniquest)
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• River of Blood
• The Branches of Darkmeyer
• The Darkness of Hallowvale
• The Lord of Vampyrium
• The Lost Toys (miniquest)

It is therefore an indirect comprehension requirement for the following quests and miniquests:

• Aftermath
• Alpha vs Omega
• Azzanadra's Quest
• Battle of the Monolith
• Children of Mah
• City of Senntisten
• Curse of the Black Stone (full comprehension)
• Desperate Creatures
• Desperate Measures
• Desperate Times (full comprehension)
• Dishonour among Thieves
• Evil Dave's Big Day Out (full comprehension)
• Extinction
• Eye of Het I
• Eye of Het II
• Fate of the Gods
• Heart of Stone (full comprehension)
• Hero's Welcome (full comprehension)
• Kindred Spirits
• Koschei's Troubles (miniquest)
• Mahjarrat Memories (miniquest)
• Missing, Presumed Death (full comprehension)
• Nadir (saga) (full comprehension)
• Nomad's Elegy
• Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Finale
• Once Upon a Time in Gielinor: Fortunes (full comprehension)
• One of a Kind
• Rebuilding Edgeville (miniquest)
• Remains of the Necrolord
• Ritual of the Mahjarrat
• Sins of the Father
• Sliske's Endgame
• Tales of Nomad (miniquest)
• The Death of Chivalry (full comprehension)
• The Light Within
• The Mighty Fall
• The World Wakes (full completion)
• The World Wakes (full comprehension)
• Twilight of the Gods
• While Guthix Sleeps (full comprehension)

Transcript

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Click here for a transcript of possible conversations and other messaging encountered throughout the quest.
Click here for a transcript of the quest's journal entry.

Credits

Nature Spirit
Developers
Developer				Mod Tytn
Art and graphics
Graphics				Anthony A
Quality assurance
Quality assurance				Simon B
Audio
Audio				Mod Ian
Other
Quest help				Nishal K

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• ninja 31 October 2022 (Update):
  • The Nature Spirit quest has been improved:
    • Players can no longer fail the jump from the swamp to the grotto.
    • The interaction to pick up the mirror has been changed from picking up the item to searching the table.
    • The bowl can no longer be picked up from the table.
    • When searching the tree for the journal, the player must search the strange "tree" rather than rock.
    • The following items are now destroyed rather than dropped: washing bowl, mirror, a used spell, journal and druidic spell.
    • The "Search" option on the stones at the grotto is now a left-click option.
    • The "Search" option on the stones will add the item to the stone if the player has it in their backpack.
    • Filliman Tarlock, after the first ritual, is no longer visible outside the grotto.

• patch 7 September 2020 (Update):
  • The Quest Journal for Nature Spirit now instructs you to meet Drezel at the Mausoleum to get a blessing.

• ninja 22 January 2018 (Update):
  • The opportunity to gain 30 Prayer XP from killing ghasts is now locked behind completion of Nature Spirit.

• patch 8 January 2018 (Update):
  • The quest overview screen for Nature Spirit can no longer be accessed on free worlds.

• ninja 6 November 2017 (Update):
  • Nature Spirit now awards three XP lamps worth 3,000 Crafting XP and 2,000 Constitution and Defence XP, requiring level 4 Crafting and level 3 Constitution and Defence respectively.

• patch 7 March 2016 (Update):
  • Drezel no longer stretches when casting a spell during the Nature Spirit quest.

• patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
  • Nature spirit now correctly states the quest start location.

• patch 17 March 2014 (Update):
  • Signs of the porter will no longer teleport Mort Myre fungus at certain parts of the Nature Spirit quest.

• patch 19 November 2013 (Update):
  • The Nature Spirit quest has received some minor gameplay improvements, including Filliman recognizing items in your inventory, and one time only teleports offered by Drezel.

• patch 4 January 2011 (Update):
  • Updated some code in this quest to improve the use of variables.

• update 13 July 2004 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• All the blessing effects in the quest, including Drezel's blessing on the player, Filliman becoming a Nature spirit, turning the cave into the Nature grotto, blessing the sickle and using the pouches on the ghasts are very similar to the Earth Blast effect before the spell update. When Filliman transforms into a Nature spirit, four "Earth Blasts" hit him with the visual effect like Earth Wave.
• Upon completing this quest one's Adventurer's Log will read: "I braved the ghasts of Mort Myre and aided the ghost of Filliman Tarlock to become a nature spirit."
• While this quest is members-only, it can be started by free players by speaking with Drezel under the Saradomin temple.
• If you try to put any incorrect item on the yellow or grey stone, you would be stopped by Filliman, but trying to do so on the orange stone only yields "Nothing interesting happens."