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Ancient Awakening Requirements & Quick Guide

ExperiencedMembersFort Forinthry seriesReleased 9 October 2023

Everything you need before starting Ancient Awakening in RuneScape 3: skill levels, the full chain of quests to finish first, and what completing it opens up. Check your own stats against it below.

Requirements from the RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), snapshot 2026-09-28.

Skill requirements

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Enter your RuneScape name to compare your hiscores levels with every requirement below. Unranked skills read as level 1.

Ancient Awakening itself

SkillLevel
NecromancyNecromancy50

Including every prerequisite quest

The highest level of each skill you need across Ancient Awakening and all the quests you must finish first.

SkillLevelNeeded for
ConstructionConstruction50Unwelcome Guests
NecromancyNecromancy50Ancient Awakening
SlayerSlayer10Unwelcome Guests

Quest requirements

1 direct prerequisite, 4 quests in the full chain. The tree shows each quest's own requirements beneath it.

Quick guide: order to unlock Ancient Awakening

One valid order: every quest comes after its own prerequisites. Skip any you have already done.

  1. New Foundations
  2. Murder on the Border
  3. Unwelcome Guests
  4. Dead and Buried
  5. Ancient Awakening

XP rewards

Skills Ancient Awakening gives guaranteed XP in (fixed XP or a skill-locked lamp; choice lamps not listed). See the wiki for exact amounts.

  • NecromancyNecromancy

Quests that need Ancient Awakening

Full walkthrough, items needed and exact rewards: Ancient Awakening on the RuneScape Wiki . Requirement data is adapted from the wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

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