What Remains is Written: all five books, three scrolls and the ring

Before you start: necromancer set and Ghostspeak Amulet

Buy each vestige from Death’s Exchange in the Forgotten Temple, study it, then craft the piece at an Armour Bench. The materials below are the wiki’s recipes; check your bench in case a patch has changed them. Since 0.12.0 the set is made at the Armour Bench, not the removed Smithing Anvil.

The Ghostspeak Amulet comes from the crumbling well in the Brynmoor ruins of Bramblemead Valley, near the Wise Old Man, as part of Restless Ghosts. The quest lists partial Restless Ghosts progress for it.

1. Meet Abraxus in Coalridge Pass

MetaBot’s objective list also includes “Find the owner of the sinister text”. That suggests picking up a book first may start the quest from the book’s side. No walkthrough we fetched describes that route; Abraxus is the documented start.

Jagex added this quest in update 0.10.2 on February 24, 2026, so many guides and videos predate 1.0. Where 1.0-era and older sources differ, this page says so.

1. Put on the crown, robe top and robe bottom, and carry the Ghostspeak Amulet. Find Abraxus The Eternal in Coalridge Pass, just north of the fork in the road.
2. He takes you for his apprentice and asks you to recover five books from the eastern sub-regions without reading them. The journal objective reads: “Find five of Abraxus’ missing books in eastern Fellhollow and return them to him.”

2. All five book locations

Use the numbers as checklist labels, not a required order. All five locations come from the community wiki, from its quest walkthrough and each book’s own page. Gaming Toolkits’ patch 1.0 page lists the same five, and a 1.0 video says it shows all five spots. The Hidden Gaming Lair’s map has five Quest Book markers and three Quest Scroll markers, the same counts as this quest; its guide pages don’t name the items. Kingy hasn’t checked these spots in game.

Spoiler clip · The first of Abraxus’ books: take it, don’t read it · reveal

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3. Hand in the books, then take back three scrolls

Blightscale is a named green dragon. A gamever guide lists ordinary Green Dragons as weak to Water and resistant to Fire. No source we fetched gives Blightscale’s own weaknesses, so check her in your Journal.

The community wiki calls the third thief Razlem, the Deranged. The boss bar in a 1.0 video reads “Razlem the Necromancer”, so match either name.

1. Wearing the full set, speak to Abraxus with all five books. He then says three of his secret scrolls were stolen.
2. Recover all three scrolls. Each thief and spot is listed below.
3. Return to Abraxus, still wearing the set, with all three scrolls.

4. Reward: the Abraxus Ring

The final hand-in gives one Abraxus Ring and unlocks its recipe. While equipped, the ring has a chance to cut the rune cost of utility spells. The wiki flags an open bug note: the refund has no set amount, so don’t expect a fixed saving.

Extra copies are made at a Jeweler’s Bench from 6 Vault Shards, 1 Clay Mould, 2 Silver Bars, 2 Sapphires and 8 Necrotic Bonemeal (wiki recipe). Jagex fixed an unobtainable-gemstone requirement in 0.10.2.2 and made the recipe accessible at the Jeweler’s Bench as intended in 0.11.0.9.

Jagex’s 1.0.1 update added separate Ring and Amulet slots. The community pages we fetched still call the Abraxus Ring a trinket, so check which slot it takes in your build.

Spoiler clip · Handing in to Abraxus and the Abraxus Ring reward · reveal

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If Abraxus won’t talk or won’t take the items

The Steam reports above are from before 1.0 (March and June 2026). These checks can’t repair every quest-state bug. If the objective stays stuck, note the step, your platform and installed version before reporting it to Jagex.

1. He only moans: carry the Ghostspeak Amulet. A June Steam thread was solved this way after the player had the full set but not the amulet.
2. He still asks for books: compare your quest items against the five names in the table. In a March thread, one of the player’s items turned out to belong to another quest; the reply that solved it suggested a Restless Ghosts item. The Laboratory Note lore book just north-east of Abraxus is not one of his five.
3. A scroll or book seems to have vanished: open the quest-items tab of your inventory. In a March thread, a scroll picked up before its stage wasn’t in the main inventory but still counted at the hand-in.
4. He ignores the hand-in: wear all three necromancer pieces when you speak to him, not just carry them.
5. In co-op, check each player’s own objective. Jagex’s 1.0.1 notes fix a related multiplayer case, where quest items picked up early blocked entry to the next region; they don’t name this quest. The same update adds a Completed Quests tab, so you can confirm whether the quest already finished.