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Runescape Quest Review: Children of Mah

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Another month, another great quest.

I gotta be honest with all of you. I wasn’t as excited for Children of Mah or Fate of the Gods 2 (which was the working title), as you might have thought. All this time I was thinking “oh crap, they’re gonna kill off some characters I like, who’s it gonna be? Zaros? Or maybe Azzanadra? I just know he’s gonna die, only question is how, I’ll bet he’ll take a bullet (not a literal one, those don’t exist in Gielinor…yet) for Zaros, like when Zamorak’s fighting Zaros and he’s about to land a fatal hit, but Azzanadra takes it instead.” I also thought “all right, I’ll probably have to write something to commemorate the one who dies.” I even made the joke that “after this quest, D-longs out for either NPC will probably be a thing,” and “I might as well play through Children of Mah with my D-long out, that way when someone dies, I couldn’t say my D-long’s already out for them.”

My second fear was that Children of Mah would reveal something about the Empire that would contradict my own theories. (For those who don’t know, I’d been planning a major scene in my Dishonour Among Thieves fanfiction, where Zamorak gives my World Guardian the truth on what the Empire was really like—and it’s not the utopia Azzanadra promised—he basically tries his hardest to redpill my World Guardian. I’d been doing my research and brushing up on my history; Zaros’ Empire was partly based on the Roman empire, and I’d wanted to work some elements of that real life empire into my story, specifically the decline). I was very worried that Children of Mah would force me to scrap everything and start again from scratch (because canon trumps fan theories).

My third and last fear was that it’d be super hard. Fate of the Gods was the quest with the hardest boss. Those nihil were the most frustratingly hard NPCs I’ve ever had to fight. They all attack you at once, and their special abilities were just overkill. Unless you were maxed out in all your combat skills, they could finish you off in a couple of hits, and worst of all, your progress wasn’t even saved; if you died after killing one or two or three of them, you had to start all over again the moment you re-enter the World Gate after respawning. That boss fight was almost un-winnable, and I wanted to throw my laptop out the window half the time. It didn’t help that Sliske would taunt you whenever you died. I only got this far because of the deathtouch darts I got from the 2014 Balthazar’s Raffle. Because there was no raffle this year, I was sure that I was dead meat.

Luckily, I was proven wrong on all accounts, and this is one of those few times where I was glad to be wrong. Nobody I like died, the quest didn’t reveal anything that’d cancel out what I had planned, and there were no super hard bosses to make me cry on the inside.

For a Grandmaster level quest, this was pretty easy and it didn’t take as long as I thought it would. It starts off in Rellekka, where you talk to Kharshai and he tells you the Mahjarrat are being drained of their power, even though the next Ritual of Rejuvenation’s not due for another five hundred years. You then have to go to the Ritual Marker up north, and it’s even marked on the minimap for you, and I appreciated that. I’ve forgotten where it was since I did Ritual of the Mahjarrat a few years back, and it was nice to have it directly pointed out to you, otherwise, I would’ve spent more time browsing the Runescape wiki trying to figure out where I should go.

After you touch the Marker, all the other Mahjarrat (except Sliske) teleport in, and they’re all…“updated.”

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Ugh, no...

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Eww...Wahisietel looks like an old man.

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Hazeel looked so much better before, these new super long horns don't suit him at all.

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Dear Zaros...what'd you do to Azzanadra's face? More detail =/= better-looking!

*sigh*

Why, Jagex? Why must you take NPCs that were (in this case, average-looking) and uglify them?

To be fair, this isn’t the worst graphical update (the elves will always hold that…“honour”). Not all of the Mahjarrat look like as butt ugly as the guys above, Enakhra and Khazard, look okay.

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Only Bilrach improved (and that’s only because he looks like the Night’s King from Game of Thrones). But it didn’t stop me from scratching my head and wondering why they did it. What was the point of “upgrading” them? There was nothing wrong with the way they looked before.

*sigh*

You used to know what a graphical update was; you used to know that it meant improvement.

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See? They used to be decent; they used to mean cleaning up an NPC’s appearance, and making them look at least average if they looked like shit before. 

Now it means taking an NPC and giving them an unnecessary makeover.

You’ve no doubt heard this many times before, Jagex and you’re probably tired of it, because everyone keeps repeating it, but the reason they do is that it’s true—don’t fix it if it isn’t broken.

They argue about what to do next, and only Kharshai seems to know that this isn’t normal, and another sacrifice would do them no good, as it’d only lower their numbers and they’re already a critically endangered race. My respect for Kharshai grew a lot during this quest. Before, I didn’t really like him ‘cause he didn’t side with Zaros, now I like him a lot more. He’s the only guy who cares about the survival of his race while everyone else is still bickering about sacrifices and the Zaros vs. Zamorak feud that did little more than further the decline of what was once a proud, glorious race.

All of a sudden with no warning at all, Zaros pops in, and everyone (even me) is shocked. He orders them all to go back to Freneskae or die in Gielinor. As soon as he teleports out, the Mahjarrat start arguing again, the Zarosians (especially Azzanadra) want to go, but the Zamorakians think Zaros is lying, they’re all like “he promised to free us from these rituals before, but he never did,” and Azzanadra’s like “he never promised, he just took an interest freeing us ‘cause we both came from Mah,” and the Zamorakians are like “Azzy, you think even Zaros’ shit tastes sweet, wake up, all Zaros does is give us promises he doesn’t fulfill,” and Azzy responds with “you wake up, you fucking sheeple, Zamorak’s the liar, not Zaros.” It goes on and on until Kharshai’s like “you know what? this is retarded, we’re never gonna get anywhere and the more we argue the less time we have left,” and then he asks you to collect some memories he buried in Zaros’ old throne room. Since he’s the only neutral Mahjarrat who isn’t biased towards Zaros or Zamorak, everyone trusts that his memory of Zaros’ betrayal by Zamorak will be true and honest.

And so, you have to go east of the Digsite in Varrock to collect all five memories with the Engrammeter Kharshar gives you. The old throne room is huge, but luckily the memories were easy to find, not once did I have to look through the wiki for answers on another tab, and it took me just a few minutes to find them, all near the entrance.

After getting all the memories and returning to the Ritual Marker, you go back to the Second Age as Kharshai. I don’t know about you, but this is the first time I’ve played through a flashback since Meeting History. I liked it, it’s a great interactive way to immerse yourself in the past, as opposed to just hearing about it from another NPC or watching a cutscene; you got to play with the camera and see what the throne room was like from all angles, you got to examine things like broken Zarosian mouthpieces, red Zamorakian graffiti and hidden stashes of weapons, and you were able to pick and choose which NPC to talk to, you could even speak to people like Trindine (talking to her wasn’t absolutely necessary to advance to the next part, but you had the option to talk to her, if you cared about that NPC in question).

The only thing I didn’t like about the flashback was that no matter what choices you made, it didn’t matter in the end. I made some very pro-Zarosian decisions; I sentenced the two traitors Tobias Bardsley and Mal’Koss the demon to die, I ousted Zamorak as the guy behind the uprising and I sided with Zaros, but none of that even mattered, because Zamorak teleported in anyways and denounced Zaros as “Scumbag Zaros, says he’ll reward us for building the empire, says he’ll free us from the rituals that’s killing our race, but he never does! we do the dirty work while he…I don’t even know what the fuck he does! all I know is that he doesn’t give a shit about us! Our race is stagnating while he’s away doing jack shit!” Then Zaros shows up and the famous Zaros vs. Zamorak fight begins, and we all know how it goes down; it’s Zarosians against Zamorakians, and Zamorak himself heads for Zaros with the Staff of Armadyl ready. Meanwhile Zaros is just sitting in his throne like “yeah…just waiting for Zamorak to stab me, nothing to do here.”

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Yeah, this image says it all, pretty much.

The flashback then ends, and all the Mahjarrat are like “well that was pointless, we didn’t even hear Zaros say what exactly he promised us!” Luckily for them, Zamorak pops in, at this point I was like “go away, lying Zamorak,” and Azzanadra basically says the exact same thing, but then Zamorak does his best impression of Peter Griffin and he’s like “shut up, Azzy.” Zamorak shows us his memory and as it turns out, Zaros transported them both to Zamorak’s own mind at the last second and he tells Zamorak that “[the Mahjarrat] are nothing but glorified mercenaries, fighting for whoever is top of the food chain.”

Harsh, especially for someone who said he “saw them as younger siblings and sought to protect them,” in Fate of the Gods (and he said that while he was in my mind, where he told me “I will never lie to you, and in this place you would sense if I did,” I assume the same rule applies in Zamorak’s mind, so which is it, Zaros? Do you care for the Mahjarrat race at all? Or did you lie about not being able to lie to gain my trust? Did you lie in both situations?)

And when Zamorak protests that Mahjarrat made his empire great, Zaros does his best impression of Zod (pre-Man of Steel Zod that is) and forces him to kneel, and then he takes a page out of my book and wonders aloud on how to punish him, he even says “death is too merciful,” implying he’s gonna torture him. Don’t worry, Zamorak fans. Before he can do anything, Zamorak realises the Staff’s connecting him to the real world, giving him the power to break from his mind prison. He does just that and stabs Zaros, whose smoking body collapses onto the floor.

Kharshai declares the memory to be true and honest and untampered, and the debate about what to do next continues. Eventually they all decide on going to Freneskae; Azzanadra insists that Zaros has changed, while Enakhra says even if he didn’t Zamorak will watch over them and intervene if Zaros tries anything funny. Once on Freneskae, Zemouregal kidnaps Kharshai saying that if Zaros was still lying, he’ll sacrifice him, then he teleports away and laughs at you for having to journey through Freneskae on foot.

I was initially like “oh crap, this is gonna suck, last time I was here doing Fate of the Gods, I had dodge lighting, bubbling lava, steam vents, and I even died once! if I’m unlucky, as I often seem to be, I’m gonna fucking die again!” But this time, Freneskae’s easier and less dangerous, all you have to do is navigate through a river of lava using a piece of flat rock as a surfboard and you can’t access your inventory, so you can’t eat any food to replenish your life points. Now, I suck at puzzles, and I wish that every puzzle came with an option where you could pay [insert number here] of GP to skip it (like in Monkey Madness), but even I was able to nimbly navigate my way through the river while avoiding the shooting lava (I managed to keep my life points up with a full set of Superior Seasinger robes, those things are a livesaver, they boost your life points to at least 10k).

After that you get to do two more easy (though slightly time-consuming) puzzles, where you have to kill muspahs until a grand muspah spawns, then you have to attack it (with auto-retaliate off, or else you could accidentally kill it and then you’d have to wait for the next one to spawn by killing more regular muspah) until its adrenaline bar fills up, then you have to get between it and this wall, so the grand muspah can shoot a blast of energy that breaks it down. I didn’t have anything against those puzzles, except for the fact I could’ve sworn the muspah here are harder to kill than the ones in the Cradle (I often train my combat skills by killing those muspah and I’ve never had a hard time, especially when I do so with Ancient Magicks, but here I couldn’t seem to land a good hit) but I guess I shouldn’t complain too much, every once in a while a bolt of lightning would shoot down, and hit the Mahjarrat I’m fighting, and if it wasn’t for that, I would’ve hated this puzzle more, as it would’ve taken me a longer time to complete. The last puzzle (for now) is another lava surfing one, and once again, I nimbly navigated my way down the river, until this cutscene of me hitting a lavafall and almost dying started playing.

But Seren (go away, Seren, by the end of this quest I’m gonna want to cut you from head to toe and then turn your entire body inside out, and I’m going to want to hit Zaros repeatedly) actually saves the player. She then makes me realise I’ve been vindicated…sort of.

You see, Zaros is planning to kill Mah, not with the repaired Elder sword (like I’ve predicted in the past), but by draining her in her sleep. Zaros is, like I said before, going to kill off his own mother. No, this isn’t the one thing that makes me feel like hitting him, I’ll let you know what is. And there might be some of you, thinking “how could he kill off his own mother? this guy’s a sociopath, I hope Zamorak kills him slowly and painfully. I don’t feel any sympathy for Mah at all, I never liked her. I’ve agreed with Zaros this whole time.  To put it simply, Mah’s a bitch. Zaros never asked to be born, but once he was, she was obligated to not treat him like shit, like she has been so far; she’s been regarding Zaros as nothing more than a plaything to be used then tossed aside. I get that she has essentially the Elder god version of mental retardation, and she doesn’t know what she’s doing, but it still doesn’t change the fact she was a terrible mother who never saw Zaros as another person; all she did was force another sentient being to act like her own personal doll/slave/whatever until she fell asleep into another nightmare. I understand Zaros completely, and I get his desire to be free from his smother mother.

The Mahjarrat are gathered around the bottom of Mah’s comatose body, and when you get there, Zemouregal’s still keen on sacrificing Kharshai. You can tell him to get him go or just get over with it or not care (why was the middle option even a thing? who’d want to kill Kharshai? he was the least divisive Mahjarrat!) Zaros then comes in and makes Zemouregal let him go, and he expands on his plan to do one last ritual, to transfer all of Mah’s energy to them, and it’d be enough to power them permanently. Before they can go ahead with that, Zamorak comes in and starts screaming about Zaros being a liar. Zamorak thinks Zaros will drain the Mahjarrat to save himself, but Zaros is like “no, I’m gonna make them stronger, watch” and when he singles out Khazard as the test subject, Zamorak’s like “nooooo! not my son!”

Then came my “aha!” moment. I knew Zamorak was his father all along, I knew it couldn’t be Zaros. Zaros is not interested in breeding, it’d be out of character for him to father children.

The idea of Zaros testing his plan on Khazard triggers (heh) his Papa Wolf side, and Zamorak vs. Zaros part 2 starts. It’s not exactly action-packed, it’s more like a Harry Potter fight scene, y’know, where all they do is fire beams of brightly coloured light at each other (in this case minus the wands). Well, Runescape's not exactly known for elaborate fight scenes, just like it's not exactly known for having state of the art Final Fantasy-like graphics. Once again, I get (sort of) vindicated. Zaros overpowers Zamorak, to the surprise of all those people that laughed at me when I said Zaros could win if they fought in the current Runescape year. (I’m not gonna dwell on it that much, I’m not here to be smug).

Zamorak’s then like “wait, before I die, know that everything I did, it was for the Mahjarrat.” And right after he says that line, the impossible happened.

They actually made me re-think my views about the guy I like to call the Usurper. I used to think he was this bad guy with no good side, who goes around burning down villages and then absolves himself of all the responsibility by telling everyone “I did it so you could better yourselves” (it’s what I got out of his god book). Now I’m thinking “huh…he actually cares about his own people, he knows they’re in decline, they have more deaths than births, and after what he heard Zaros say in his head, it’s no wonder he’s angry, and I can’t fault him for doing everything he can to make the Mahjarrats great again, all he wants is to reverse the decline, which is perfectly natural; wanting your tribe to thrive at a time like this is pertly natural, and for a man to give it his all for his people, that's something you can give him credit for.”


Zamorak sacrifices his own wings to power up the Mahjarrat, and Zaros stops attacking him, he’s like “you’re more useful alive than dead,” but Zamorak replies with “fuck off! I’m not gonna be your fucking puppet again,” and Zaros’ like “well I need to know you’re not gonna interfere with my plans, we gotta do an unbreakable oath.” Zamorak’s like “fuck no! he’s gonna give us another bad deal!” but everyone else’s like “do it or we’re gonna die!” Zaros’ like “look, just do this thing, in return for working for me just one more time, I’m gonna have you all do one last ritual,” and Zamorak’s like “fine! but if you lie again, I’m gonna enjoy watching you die.”

They do the demonic, unbreakable vow, and I think Zamorak just got scammed. Look, we all know what happened the last time Zaros got involved with a demonic deal, he scammed the guy on the other end, Hostilius for everything he owned. Who’s to say he’s not gonna try the same thing again? He’s even more manipulative than Sliske it’d be out of character if he didn’t! Zamorak is of course, not stupid, and he’s going to try his best to not get screwed over, but he’s not on the same level as Zaros. That guy’s so great at manipulating others, he makes people like Littlefinger and Varys jealous.

As they conduct the final ritual, there’s an earthquake, meaning Mah’s having another nightmare, and you have to calm her down. So you race to the top, to where Mah’s head is atop this huge rock. Seren’s there and she you have to calm her down by entering her mind, Zaros has the power to enter your mind, but she has the reverse, the power to send you into other people’s minds. She does that for you and you have to do the last few puzzles. They’re harder than the lava surfing and the grand muspah puzzles, but luckily for you, there’s an easy mode option if you get it wrong too many times. Thank Zaros for easy mode, if it wasn’t for that, the puzzles would be frustrating enough for me to scream. There’s a lot of repetition too. You basically are supposed to get Mah’s nightmare bar from 100 to 0, there’s all these shadows around you, if they reach Mah’s core, it damages her health bar, if her health bar gets to 0 before her nightmare bar you have to start all over again. Then you have to run around a dark pathway, touch a few light pillars before your “I’m afraid of the dark” bar hits 0, at which point you’ll start to receive huge amounts of damage to your life points every second. Lather, rinse, repeat three times, and the final Ritual of Rejuvenation’s done.

Seren finds out Mah’s energy is all drained. Her mind’s permanently gone, but her body remains, so she mercy kills Mah to end her body too (wait what? I thought Elder gods were unkillable!), then she teleports to confront Zaros. Bitch, if you wanted to keep Mah alive, why didn’t you do it before? You knew exactly what he was planning but instead of confronting him when you had the chance, when he was about to conduct the final ritual, you waited until after it was done? What the fuck? Did you have your hand glued on to the idiot ball or something?

Seren starts whining, “wahh! how could you kill off your own mother, you selfish piece of shit?” (Never mind the fact Mah was the selfish bitch, not Zaros, all he ever wanted was freedom). “She had the power to create life and she dared to do so, something you will never achieve!” Yeah, I think it only counts if you consciously create something, if you deliberately set out to do it.

Zamorak recognises her aura and he’s all like “hey, wait a minute! I know you! you're the one that taught us our own Rituals!” Everyone else’s like “he’s right! so that means it wasn’t Mah! it was you!” Zamorak rightfully calls her out on being the reason their race is in decline, and Seren’s only reply is saying sorry over and over again, before going “but wait! I had a good reason! it was to keep the planet alive! (Fuck off Seren, Freneskae’s deader than Mordor, what a shit excuse, just admit you’re a pathetic child who can’t bear to be separated from her even more pathetic deadbeat and now braindead mother).

Azzanadra’s reply is amazing, he’s like “so you thought the best idea was to sacrifice your own kin? With all the power and wisdom you have been gifted that was the best you could do?” (Translation: you fucking suck, Seren!) Then everyone does what I’ve wanted to do for ages—call her out on her bullshit.

Get rekt, Seren.

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Upon getting BTFO, what is Seren’s reaction you might wonder? Reasoning and logic and facts? Swearing by the old gods and the new that she’d find a way to fix this?

No. She starts throwing a tantrum like a toddler. I shit you not, she starts screaming “AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!” before teleporting away to her crib to suck her thumb.

Good fucking riddance for now, I can’t wait to make the decisions that’d result in your death in the endgame.

I didn’t think it was possible, but I’ve started to like Seren even less than before (here’s a song I’d dedicate to her) Seriously, think of what she’s done, let’s go over it, shall we?

She decided to send an entire race to near extinction to keep one person, her bitch of a mother alive; I’m no mathematician, but even I know a whole race for the price of one isn’t a fair deal, in fact it’s nowhere near fair. Their decline began the moment they started having more deaths than births (from then on it was all a matter of time), and if it wasn’t for her and the stupid Rituals she taught, they’d be doing a hell of a lot better! Anything’s better than what we have now! (With only one female left, it’s almost impossible for the Mahjarrats to recover, even if Enakhra breeds with every single male to get their numbers back up, their offspring would have to breed with each other or pre-existing Mahjarrat, that could mean inbreeding, which would mean defects, and we can’t afford any of that, not when the Mahjarrat race is so fragile). She said she did it to save Mah to preserve Freneskae…what? Freneskae’s dead, beyond dead! What is left to preserve? Azzanadra’s right! Your plan sucked! (just like your current plan to defeat the Elders). You can whine about your “guilt” all you want, and you can get down on your knees and say “I’m sorry” a thousand times, but that’s not going to change the fact you’ve brought the downfall of the Mahjarrat race; these guys are on the brink of extinction. Facts don’t care about your feelings, Seren, and your feelings can’t change the facts. Face it, you fucked up; you fucked up beyond all repair.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Zaros starts white-knighting her (and this is the part that makes me want to hit him repeatedly). Zaros, stop making excuses for your sister’s shitty actions! And by the way, by the way…It doesn’t matter how much you white knight, she’s not gonna have sex with like you! 

I’m a huge Zaros supporter, and I’ve defended everything he’s done till now, but this really grinds my gears. It’s the fact he’d blindly defend everything his stupid sister does, and the fact he said before that he “saw [the Mhjarrat] as younger siblings and sought to protect them.” The fact he chose Seren over them makes me want to pull my hair (is there anything you’d put before her?). Seren deserved the stumping, and Zaros did more than ruin the moment (acting like Seren did nothing wrong), he proved his slavish devotion to Seren; he proved he’d pick her over…whatever the other option was, no matter how important (and I consider the survival of the Mahjarrat race to be a big thing).

Azzanadra’s not disappointed at all by this; he even said “it has only strengthened my bond [with Zaros].” But I am. I’m not going to stop supporting Zaros over one thing, but it’s about time I stop seeing him with rose coloured glasses; it’s about time I start viewing him the way a sane Zaros fan would.

Zamorak then makes a speech about how the Mahjarrats have been made great again, because chaos adversity breeds strength; because they were able to make it through adversity. I disagree, I wouldn’t say adversity was the key, and I don’t think it’s what will make the Mahjarrat great again (I think we might have to resort to the Jurassic Park solution—cloning plus genetic engineering, except Gielinor’s a medieval fantasy universe, and we don’t have that level of technology!) but it’s not like I could voice my opinions to him, it’s not like he’d stop in the middle of his speech and go “hey, World Guardian? Whaddya think? Are we on the same page?” The rest of the Mahjarrat realise the Zaros vs. Zamorak division isn’t doing any good for their race, and they must unite to secure a future for themselves.

Zaros teleports to the top and you have to meet him there, once you run he explains that Mah’s core could be useful because Zaros is basically Xanatos from Gargoyles. Whatever happens, it falls into his plans, so either way he wins. And the quest ends there.

So what are my final thoughts? It’s definitely good; I haven’t seen something like this since they aired the Game of Thrones finale. When it comes to lore and gameplay, I’d compare this to Kindred Spirits; it’s a Grandmaster quest but it’s pretty easy compared to some of the other Grandmaster quests (*cough* Nomad’s Requiem *cough*), even to its predecessor Fate of the Gods but the lore’s so rich…it’s enough to make any lore fan drool.

One thing they did very well was that they made me re-think my view of a character. Once in a blue moon, they'd release a quest that reveals something so big about about a character that it shatters your view of them forever, and what they did here wasn't on the same level as the World Wakes, it's still a major achievement, considering the NPC in question is Zamorak. Sure, I couldn't really dwell on that though for long, so much was happening at the time, but the fact they managed it is an achievement. 

There were some stuff that infuriated me (like Seren) and stuff that made me scratch my head in confusion (like Zaros’ inconsistency over whether or not he actually cares about the Mahjarrat) but I expect the latter to be sorted out in the Endgame, so it’s not a big deal for now. As I said it's a huge plus that no one I like died, and it's also a good thing that none of the characters went out of character for the sake of the plot, none of them were treated as heroes for doing bad things (Zaros' white knighting aside), none of them were vilified to make another one look better etc. I'm glad that I couldn't find the tropes I associate with bad writing here.

The graphics were fifty/fifty; the Throne Room was pretty cool (especially when you got to visit it in the Second Age), but the Mahjarrat update wasn’t something I was fond of. As for the audio…I only wish it was voiced acted (it’s really a shame voice acting’s so underrated, even by the lore fans), it would’ve been awesome to hear Zaros and Zamorak talk as they fought (as opposed to just reading the quest dialogue, that would've been a much more enriching experience).

Overall I'd give this quest a 4/5. And now my wait for Sliske's endgame begins; and now I go back to being nervous, thinking that Jagex's gonna kill off some other NPCs I like.

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Hermy-one's avatar
I know this is old but I did the quest late. I like discussions on quests, so I actually thought this was interesting and amusing. Although the whingining about Seren and the difficulty of quests was a bit annoying. 

Maybe the player in your fanfic can ask Zamorak what the Empire was like after he took most of the worst of it with him, except Sliske I guess. And yes, I do wish they werent so extreme with the new Mahj faces, they barely look the same race anymore. (Especially disapointed with Wahi, he was hot.) 

About Seren, I think she may have thought of the Mahjarrat as Eluned and Seren are related (I reunited them), a part of her already, I dont think Seren's moral character is that low. And I like personally that Zaros and Seren still care for each other and will back each other up despite their differences. 

Anyway I was ecstatic the whole quest, to be included with all the Mahj in one place, I can talk to them all, Zaros here too, and we got to travel back to the 2nd age? Thank you Jagex Cry forever