Get Ready For Leagues VI: Demonic Pacts - April 15th
It's officially leagues Reveal Season - let's get demonic!
To make the wait a little more bearable before Leagues VI: Demonic Pacts launches on April 15th, we'll be dropping a surprise reveal about the league every day until just before launch, and gathering them all here in one handy newspost!
Overview
Rules
Your character starts in Yama's Lair with an exit to Civitas illa Fortis.
Your character begins restricted to the area of Varlamore. As you complete tasks, you can unlock more areas. Karamja will be locked at the start of this league, but will be a forced unlocked once you reach your first area unlock, followed by three additional regions you choose yourself. Misthalin is completely inaccessible during this league.
Full information about each of the areas can be found in the Area Selection menu. This can be accessed from the leagues menu in the Journal panel.
All experience gained is heavily increased, and this will further increase as you unlock more relics. Exact multipliers can be viewed in the Relics menu.
Sailing will not be enabled this league and content released during Leagues VI will be reviewed and enabled for the league on a case-by-case basis.
We're not ready to reveal this just yet, you shouldn't be looking here... naughty naughty!
Each area has an Echo Boss, these are enhanced bosses that pose a higher challenge and drop new unique rewards. Killing the regular boss may drop an Echo orb that lets you access the Echo variant. More information can be found in the area interfaces.
Leagues VI: Demonic Pacts will run from April 15th until the game update on June 10th (a total of 84 days).
Initial Setup
Your character is an Ironman, meaning you cannot trade with other players or use the Grand Exchange.
You will start off in a new area this League, Varlamore.
You will auto complete the following quests:
- Dragon Slayer I
- Learning the Ropes
- The Restless Ghost
- Rune Mysteries
- Children of the Sun
- Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire
- Druidic Ritual
- Eagles' Peak
- Elemental Workshop I
- Fairytale I - Growing Pains
- Fairytale II - Cure a Queen
- Lost City
- Nature Spirit
- Perilous Moons
- Priest in Peril
- Twilight's Promise
You will auto complete the following Combat Achievements:
- Back to Our Roots
- Demonic Rebound
- Grub Portal
- Perfect Doom
You will start with the following stat increases:
- 3 Herblore
- 5 Runecraft
A Dramen staff will be added to your Inventory along with the usual starter items so that you can access Fairy rings. If lost, you can reclaim it from the leagues tutor in Yama's lair.
You can also claim a free spade, Impling jar and two Strange devices from the leagues Tutor in Yama's Lair.
As you progress through relic tiers, you'll also gain powerful passive effects starting with:
- All experience is multiplied by 5x.
- Items from eligible sources will be 2x as common.
- Farming ticks will occur every minute instead of every five minutes.
- Minigame points received are boosted by 4x.
- Run energy is never drained whilst running.
- All Clue scrolls will drop as stackable scroll boxes, and clue-step progress is saved between clues.
Content Changes
Bosses & Monsters:
- Echo Boss rewards are a guaranteed drop over a certain threshold
- Chambers of Xeric: Challenge Mode, Theatre of Blood: Hard Mode & Tombs of Amascut: 500+ have significantly buffed drop rates and difficulty, ToA and ToB will now provide uniques to all players in the raid if the raid obtains one
- Wilderness Bosses can be accessed without the Wilderness Medium Diary
- Zulrah has no damage cap or melee damage immunity
- Impling spawn rates and rarity of rare implings have been increased
- Dragon Implings drop reduced Dragon bones
Items:
- Most shop stock will not deplete.
- All Soulreaper axe pieces will drop from every Desert Treasure 2 boss
- Items that drop as components that require multiple regions to create a usable item will drop as the finished item
- The Twisted bow, Scythe of vitur, and Tumeken's shadow are available from all three raids
- Scythe of vitur can be charged with just Blood runes
- Nihil shards drop in increased quantity from Nex
- The Leagues Tutor in Yama's Lair can sell Max capes once you are eligible
Access:
- The Abyss and Zanaris are now counted as general regions, meaning you can access them from anywhere via a fairy ring (This includes the cosmic altar)
- Slayer Masters will assign you the same tasks, taking into account the areas you have currently unlocked
- Players can enter the Ancient Guthixian Temple from the Chasm of Tears without While Guthix Sleeps completed
- Teleports and transportation methods to locations outside of areas you have unlocked are restricted
- When purchasing your Player Owned House it will be accessible from Aldarin. Your house can only be moved to areas you have unlocked
- Unlocking new areas will complete various quests and Achievement Diary tasks but will not award any quest completion XP. However, you may complete some quests on your own to gain thier XP before unlocking the area which auto-completes it
Misc:
- Forestry Events are three times as likely to spawn
- Pets and any pet transmog items that roll over between leagues do not count towards the collection log tasks
- Pet transmogs will now roll over between leagues
Yama's Lair
The way you begin this league will be unlike anything else you've seen so far as Yama's created a unique version of his domain where you will spawn upon your arrival and as you go through the leagues Tutorial. After that you'll have free reign to explore this new lair which features lots of demons running around making sure everything's in check for the league to commence!
One very nice thing Yama has done for you this league is allowed you to use the stepping stones in the lava pool to train your Agility from level 1. Be careful though as this agility course is slightly different and you're likely to get burnt if you mess up. You'll also be able to come back to the lair at any time if you use your home teleport in the spellbook.
New Starting Area: Varlamore
You may have seen some cryptic messages before that hinted towards this and while we still aren't sure how that happened, Yama is finally ready to confirm your very first area will be Varlamore!
While the Master of Pacts had some bane-related issues with Misthalin, he already wanted to mix things up this league to give everyone the same fresh start and what better place than an area we recently released. A land of wonder, nostalgia and exploration that offers you plenty of what you already seek.
We'll admit, this new region doesn't have everything, but that's half the fun of leagues, discovering new ways to progress and challenge yourself to unfamiliar paths.
So what does Varlamore have?
Bosses
- Amoxliatl
- Doom of Mokhaiotl
- Gemstone Crab
- Hueycoatl
- Moons of Peril
- Sol Heredit (Fortis Colosseum)
- Vardorvis
Notable Monsters
- Ancient Zygomites
- Blue Dragons
- Brutal Blue Dragons
- Custodian Stalkers
- Frost Naguas
- Earthen Naguas
- Red Dragons
- Sulphur Naguas
Quests
- At First Light
- Death on the Isle
- The Final Dawn
- The Heart of Darkness
- Meat and Greet
- Perilous Moons
- The Ribbiting Tale of a Lily Pad Labour Dispute
- Scrambled!
- Shadows of Custodia
- Twilight's Promise
- Vale Totems
Services & Shops
- Anvil
- Archery Shop
- Armour Shop
- Axe Shop
- Carter Ship
- Crafting Shop
- Farming Patches
- Farming Shop
- Fishing Shop
- Furnace
- Gem Store
- General Store
- Helmet Shop
- Herb Supplies
- House Portal
- Hunter Shop
- Loom
- Magic Shop
- Pickaxe Shop
- Sawmill
- Shield Shop
- Spinning Wheel
- Staff Shop
- Stalls (Baker, Fur, Gem, Silk, Spice)
- Stonemason
- Sword Shop
- Tanner
Skilling Activities
- Blessing Bone Shards
- Colossal Wyrm Agility Course
- Forestry
- Hunter Rumours
- Mastering Mixology
- Stealing Valuables
- Sunfire Runecrafting
- Vale Totems
So yeah, that's quite a lot! While there are things we've missed, we're sure you'll have fun planning the beginning of your route around this new start and we've notified Civitas illa Fortis to be prepared for the flood of new arrivals and they've helped us prepare:
- You auto-completed quests will mean instant access to:
- Fairy Rings & Zanaris
- Cam Torum & The Moons of Peril
- Vardorvis
- You can train Slayer instantly by speaking with Chaeldar in Zanaris. All Slayer Masters will assign you the same tasks, taking into account the areas you have currently unlocked.
- Agility can be trained from level 1 with the new stones around Yama's Lair and gives similar XP rates to Draynor Village Rooftop Course, so should bridge the gap between 1 and the Wyrm Agility Course. This course works slightly differently to others, so get ready to hotfooted!
- Some shop have expanded their wares:
- The Elemental shield and Anti-dragon shield have been added to all Slayer Equipment shops
- Something, something, something have been added to the Fortis Blacksmith
- Box traps & Bird snares have been added to the Fortis General Store
- Mysterious things have been added to Arcuani's Archery Supplies in Tal Teklan
- Hunting crossbow at the Sunset Coast charter ship just like the previous league
- For those who are unaware, you can use the Bank in the Hunter's Guild before completing At First Light
- Some creatures such as cows & Hill Giants will respawn more frequently to help with the influx of players to the region
This list represents the key drops affected in Varlamore:
- All unique rewards from:
- Moons of Peril
- Colosseum
- Amoxliatl
- Frost Nagua / Sulphur Nagua / Earthen Nagua
- Hueycoatl
- Vardorvis
- Doom of Mokhaiotl
- Vale Totems
- Pendant of Ates
- Hunters' Guild loot sack rares
- Tecu Salamander
- Antler guard from Custodian slayer creatures
Area Information
Not sure where to go this Leagues? We're going to give you a nice overview of each area and what's beneficial to you region by region!
Asgarnia
Desert
Fremennik
Kandarin
Karamja
Kourend & Kebos
Morytania
Tirannwn
Wilderness
Relics
Passive Effects
Tier 1:
- All experience is multiplied by 5x
- Items from eligible sources will be 2x as common
- Farming ticks will occur every minute instead of every five minutes
- Minigame points received are boosted by 4x
- Run energy is never drained whilst running
- All Clue scrolls will drop as stackable scroll boxes, and clue-step progress is saved between clues
Tier 2:
- XP multiplier increase from 5x to 8x
Tier 3:
- Combat skills (including Hitpoints & Prayer) have 1.5x Multiplier (Multiplicative with other modifiers)
- The 'Bigger and badder' slayer unlock is unlocked for free
- Slayer points are 5x from tasks and you aren't required to complete 5 tasks before earning points
- Slayer Superior rates are increased to a 1/50 chance to appear
Tier 4:
- Items from eligible sources will be 5x as common
- Minigame points received are boosted by 8x
Tier 5:
- XP multiplier increase from 8x to 12x
Tier 6:
Tier 7:
- XP multiplier increase from 12x to 16x
Tier 8:
Demonic Pacts
Echo Bosses & Echo Rewards
Echo Bosses are back and they want their revenge! Taking out contracts with Yama has infused them in a devilish new look and they are eager to see you take them on. Of course, you'll need to fight the original version of the bosses to acquire their respective Echo Orbs to unlock this demonic variant.
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Reveals & Teasers
If you want to catch up on all the latest reveals and the awesome videos made by LilSmokey, check them out below!
March 23rd: Tier 1 Relics
The day has arrived to gift you some of that knowledge you crave. A powerful choice of three, perfectly chosen for where you begin... Varlamore.
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— Old School RuneScape (@OldSchoolRS) March 23, 2026
FAQ
As we begin to reveal more and more information, we'll try to gather the most frequently asked questions and update them here. So keep an eye on this section for frequent updates!
Head on over to the official OSRS Discord and add your question into the #leagues-vi-faq channel!
You can also discuss this update on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.
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