Table of Contents

Brief Introduction
Pyre Logs
Killing Shades
Burning Shades
Shade Descriptions
- Riyl Shade
- Fiyr Shade
Using Keys
Salve Amulet
Recommended Strategy
Rewards and Other
- Splitbark Armor
- Black key brown
- Black key crimson
- Black key red
- Silver key black
- Silver key brown
- Silver key crimson
- Silver key purple
- Silver key red
- Steel key black
- Steel key purple

Brief Introduction

Mort'ton shades are the shade floating around in Mort'ton and the tomb nearby. They can be killed and burned for various rewards. For information about the Mort'ton Shades quest, click here. You must have done this quest in order to burn shades and enter the tomb. Also, we recommend you to use the permanent cure (Serum 208) on the shopkeeper Razmire (use Serum 207 on flaming fire altar with sanctity over 20%) and do the "In search of the Myreque" quest, which provides you with an easier route to Mort'ton.

Pyre Logs

To burn the different-leveled shades, you need different types of pyre logs. To make pyre logs, buy olive oil in the Mort'ton shop and use it on the flaming fire altar in the temple. You need at least 10% sanctity for this (takes away 3 for Sanctifying a 3 dose Olive oil).This will get you sacred oil. You can improve your sanctity by building the temple or killing the Loar shades (level 40) that are attacking the temple. Adding oil to ..............Adding Scared Oil to Use the sacred oil on logs to create pyre logs and different logs require different doses of sacred oil. Adding oil to a log gives you 10 Firemaking experience.

Pyre Logs

The level 40 shades can be found in the city of Mort'ton, but all other shades are located in the tomb. To enter, you need at least a bronze key, which can be obtained by burning a level 40 shade. Below is a map of the tomb:

Note: Any door may be opened with a key of its metal or higher. Therefore, a silver key will work on any door.

Burning Shades

Once you have obtained shade remains, you will have to burn them at a funeral pyre; these are located around the city of Mort'ton. Use your required type of pyre log on the funeral pyre, add your shade remains to that and then left-click to light the funeral pyre.

Doing this will get you firemaking experience, prayer experience and a reward. These will spawn on the little table next to the funeral pyre. This reward will hopefully be a shade key, or you may have bad luck and get some coins.

Shade Descriptions

Below there will be tables for which contain information about shades that you will encounter while doing this mini-game.

Riyl Shade

Fiyr Shade

Using Keys

There are 20 different keys you can get from shades. They vary in base metal and color coding. The different kinds of metal bases will allow you to open doors of the same or lower metals. The color and metal together shows what chest you can open with the key. The reward you get from a chest mostly depends on the metal. The metals are, from bottom to top: bronze, steel, black and silver. The 5 different colors are from low to high are brown, red, crimson, black and purple. Once you have opened a chest, a key matching the colour code of that chest will dissolve from your inventory.

Salve amulet

This amulet comes in handy at killing shades. You can get it by using the crystal from haunted mine quest with a ball of wool. When you wear the salve amulet, you will have +15% strength and attack against undead (shades). You can compare it to fighting shades with a strength and attack potion, but this lasts forever. Also, it adds +3 to prayer. We suggest you always wear it when killing shades.

Recommended strategy

This strategy is just advice, commonly used for fighting higher level shades.

First, you need olive oil to sanctify. Buy all the oil you need at Razmire in Mort'ton on an empty world. Don't forget to make 4 doses at the shop if you make yew or magic pyres. Then, bring all the oils to Canifis bank by using the "In search of the Myreque" quest shortcut.

When you have enough oils banked, swap to a populated world, where there is a higher chance of there being a team rebuilding the temple. When you have enough sanctity, use the olive oil on the flaming fire altar to make sacred oil. After that, return to Canifis bank. When you have sacrified all your oils, use them on your logs to make pyre logs. This also gives firemaking experience. The experience gained depends on the logs used.

Now, you are ready to fight the shades. The items you will have to bring are as follows:

• Around 20000 gold coins
• A tinderbox
• A key to each the shades of choice (None for 40, bronze for 60, steel for 80, black for 100 and silver for 120.)
• Your noted pyre logs
• Good armour and a fine weapon
• Then, you have to decide whether you will hi-alch your reward or sell it to the shop. The first option gives you magic experience; if you choose this bring fire runes (Staff of fire or fire battle-staff recommended) and nature runes, and the second option gives you more space for shades and rewards.
• The second choice is how you will protect yourself. The choices are food or the protect from melee prayer. The first is good for low to medium level shades (lvl 60, 80), while prayer is better for higher levels (lvl 100, 120), since they can hit pretty hard.

Now, make you way to Mort'ton general store with all your items. Un-note (sell/buy) the needed protection items and enter the tomb. Inside, find your preferred shade and kill a bunch of them, picking up their remains afterwards. We suggest you get between 10 and 15 shade remains before you leave the tomb. Un-note as many pyre logs as you can carry, then burn the remains on a funeral pyre. Don't forget to pick up the reward! Repeat this until all remains are burned.

* Note: make sure you keep 1 key to make sure you can return to your shades.

For high-alchers: un-note the needed protection at the store and return to the tomb. Open the chests with your keys and high-alch your reward. Now you can kill shades for more remains, and this goes on and on and on.

For shop-sellers: enter the tomb and open the chests with your keys. Leave the tomb and sell your rewards to the general store. Un-note your needed protection, enter the tomb and you can kill some more shades. Then it all starts over.

Rewards and Other

Splitbark Armor

Black key brown

Black key crimson

Black key red

Silver key black

Silver key brown

Silver key crimson

Silver key purple

Silver key red

Steel key black

Steel key purple