Impious ashes

Impious ashes is a free-to-play item, with a high alchemy value of 1 coins. At least 8 monsters drop it. The easiest is Imp (level 5, Always); the best rate is Smoulders, the Revenger (level 152), at 99/100, about 12 per kill.

“A heap of ashes from a demon minion. Scatter them for Prayer XP.”

Free-to-playTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 1 gp

Updated 9 October 2026. Sources from the RuneScape Wiki's drop, shop and recipe data (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), checked 2026-10-09. Item sprite © Jagex.

Ironman verdict

You can also make it yourself: it takes 1 Prayer and gives 4 Prayer XP. There are 2 other recipes below. Other sources include Alchemist's chest, Frank's Free Chest (January 2023), Pirate plunder (small) and Pirate plunder, plus 3 more listed below. 3 recipes use Impious ashes, including Impious incense sticks, Impious oak incense sticks and Impious willow incense sticks. Impious ashes is available on free-to-play worlds too. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 1 coins.

At a glance

Members: No (free-to-play)
Tradeable: Yes, but not for Ironmen
High alch: 1 coins
Monster drops: 8
Shops: None
Recipes: 3
Used in: 3 recipes

Monster drops

Dropped by	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Smoulders, the Revenger	152	12 (noted)	99/100
Maelstrom, Raging Waterfiend	142	12 (noted)	99/100
ImpEasiest	5	1	Always
Killerwatt	55	1	Always
Icefiend	35	1	Always
Waterfiend (Ghorrock)	102	1	Always
Imp (God Wars Dungeon)	5	1	Always
Spellwisp	18	1	Always