How to Complete A Room with a Garou in RuneScape: Dragonwilds

A Room with a Garou is one of the shortest secondary quests in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and it involves no combat objective at all. An elderly, blind garou named Caratacus the Elder is sitting on a ruined wooden foundation in the Fractured Plains, and he wants a house built around him — the one he never got around to making for his late wife, Cliodhina. The whole thing comes down to wood, walls and a roof.

Quick answer: Talk to Caratacus the Elder in the northwestern Fractured Plains, build four walls and a roof around him using at least 20 ash logs, then speak to him again.

A Room with a Garou quest details

Detail	Value
Quest type	Secondary quest
Region	Fractured Plains, Ghornfell
Start	Speak to Caratacus the Elder
Objectives	1 (build a home around Caratacus)
Requirements	None
Enemies to defeat	None
Added in	Eye on Ashenfall (0.11.1), 21 April 2026

There are no skill gates, no prerequisite quests and no items to fetch from elsewhere on the map. The only real cost is the wood, and ash trees grow all around the quest site.

Where to find Caratacus the Elder

Head to the northwestern corner of the Fractured Plains. Caratacus stands on a broken wooden deck overlooking the water, marked with the secondary quest icon once you get close enough for it to appear on your map.

Map Location — The map marker for Caratacus the Elder in the Fractured Plains. Shown at 00:06 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Jagex

If you are approaching from the east, the deck sits close to where the Fractured Plains meets the Stormtouched Highlands, so the border between those two areas is a useful navigation cue. Walk up to him and interact to accept the quest — he cannot see who you are, but he asks for help anyway.

Materials needed to build the house

Ash logs are the cheapest way to finish this, and the trees you need are already in the woods next to the deck. The minimum viable build is four walls and a single roof section covering the floor space.

At least 20 ash logs, or an equivalent amount of another building material
4 walls (cabin walls work, and one can be a door frame)
1 roof section, with roof support walls if your walls sit low

Bring more than 20 logs. Adding a door, extra roof supports or a second row of walls to close gaps pushes the total higher, and running back to the trees mid-build is the main thing that drags this quest out.

How to build the home around Caratacus

Chop ash trees in the woods beside the deck and collect the ash logs. The astral axe spell speeds this up considerably if you have it, since it fells trees without a melee swing chain.

Open the build menu and go to the walls category, then cabin walls. Place walls along the edges of the broken foundation Caratacus is standing on, working around him rather than moving him.

Building Walls — Placing cabin walls and a door frame around Caratacus on the old foundation. Shown at 01:11 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Jagex

Swap one wall segment for a wall with a door frame and fit a wooden door into it. This is not strictly required, but it gives you a way in and out once the structure is sealed.

Add roof support walls on top of the wall ring, then snap roof tiles across the gap. A 45° roof is the standard choice, and a 30° roof works just as well if you prefer a lower pitch — just keep the angle consistent so the pieces snap together.

Adding Roof Supports and Roof Tiles — Roof support walls go on first, then the 45° roof tiles snap above them. Shown at 02:02 in Jacob Fox’s video. Image: Jagex

Step inside and look up. Any leftover holes in the ceiling need filling with additional roof pieces or medium roof support walls before the game counts the structure as a finished home.

Hostile wildlife can wander in while you are building. A Garou Berserker can turn up at the cabin entrance mid-construction, so be ready to break off and fight before going back to placing pieces.

Combat Interruption — A Garou Berserker interrupting the build at the cabin doorway. Shown at 02:52 in Jacob Fox’s video. Image: Jagex

How to confirm the quest is complete

Talk to Caratacus again once the walls and roof are up. If he tells you a roof still needs to go over the structure, the enclosure is not finished — go back and patch the ceiling, then speak to him once more.

When it registers, a QUEST COMPLETE notification appears on screen and the quest closes out in your journal. The three new build pieces also show up in your build menu right away, which is the easiest way to double-check it went through.

Quest Completion — Speaking to Caratacus inside the finished home triggers quest completion. Shown at 03:32 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Jagex

Rewards: unlocked building decorations

Hanging Tools
Pots on a Bench
Sawhorse

All three are cosmetic decorations for your own base rather than gear or stat upgrades. None of them change how you play, but they fill out an empty workshop or cabin interior nicely. Given that the whole quest takes a handful of minutes and needs nothing but wood, it is worth clearing while you are already in the northwest of the Fractured Plains.