Portrait (scenery)
| Portrait | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Released | 4 January 2001 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Members | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quest | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | See main article | ||||||||||||||||||
| Actions | None | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examine | A painting of our beloved king | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Object ID | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||
Portraits are decorative scenery found on some walls. The portrait is a painting of a king wearing a crown and red robe with a white and black-spotted fur collar. He is holding a golden sceptre. There is no way to interact with the portrait other than to examine it.
Given the portrait's initial locations in the game being mostly in Varrock, it would be reasonable to assume it is a portrait of the King of Varrock. However, it's worth noting that the King in the portrait has brown hair and a beard. King Roald the VIII would not sport a beard in-game until his graphical redesign on 27 March 2007, in RuneScape 2. Also, King Roald has black hair in RuneScape Classic, not brown hair. However, the counterpart of this portrait created for the release of RuneScape 2 does strongly resemble King Roald's initial design in RuneScape 2.
The examine text refers to the portrait as being of "our beloved king", which would typically mean the current king. But being found all over RuneScape, the most accurate statement may be that this portrait is not of any particular king at all. If more detail were available, it may have appeared to be a different king's portrait hanging in each location.
Locations[edit | edit source]
There are 20 portraits of the King in RuneScape Classic:
- On the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] of the Blue Moon Inn of Varrock
- Upstairs of the house directly east of Aubury
- House in the southern corner of the gated community in east Varrock
- At the bottom of the stairs in Varrock Museum
- On the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] of the Varrock Palace, in the bedroom closest to Reldo's library
- In Juliet's library
- On the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] of Draynor Manor hanging on the northern wall
- In the eastern wall of the Examiner's building, at the Digsite
- On the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US] of Grum's Gold Exchange in Port Sarim hanging on the northern wall
- On Tutorial Island, northern wall of the Quest advisor's room
- Inside Luthas' house on Karamja hanging on the northern wall
- On the upper floor of Hickton's Archery Store in Catherby hanging on the eastern wall
- On the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] of King Arthur's castle in Camelot hanging on the northern wall of Merlin's room
- Sinclair Mansion, by the fireplace on the ground floor[UK]1st floor[US]
- By Sir Radimus Erkle, in the building in the Legends' Guild courtyard
- Directly north of the Tribal Totem chest in Handelmort mansion
- Two copies in Glarial's tomb
- In hadley's Tourist Information Centre
- Inside the West Ardougne General Store
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Players can create a graphical distortion by standing in front of the portrait and rotating the camera. The portrait clips into the players model.
- Four of these portrait locations can be seen on the map from November 2000, all initially in Varrock. (Blue Moon Inn, Varrock Museum, Varrock Palace, and Juliet locations). Another may have existed upstairs of the inaccessible-at-launch Draynor Manor when RuneScape was released.
- Because of its locations in Glarial's tomb, if the painting is of the modern King Roald, the only way the portrait could have made its way inside the tomb is if the gnomes who stole Glarial's pebble over 100 years ago (per book on baxtorian) placed them there. If it's not of modern King Roald, the presence of paintings of a human King in the tomb implies that whoever the king is, made a good impression on Glarial or her descendants who visited the tomb.