Runestone

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The Witcher

Permanent runes are branded onto blades to produce silver swords of a higher quality than the base weapon, they can not be used on steel swords. The permanent rune stones are combined in threes.

There are also temporary runes, which Geralt can apply himself. These have blade enhancing effects similar to oils, and cannot be used at the same time as an oil on a given blade. Temporary runes can be applied to either steel or silver swords and provide a temporary upgrade to the weapon, similar to weapon oil in duration. The enhancement depends on the rune stone used, but all last for a period of 24 hours.

Permanent runes:	Temporary runes:
Earth rune	Perun
Moon rune	Svarog
Sun rune	Vodon

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Runes are placed in the rune slots for swords to enhance their base statistics.

Weapon enhancements: Earth rune Fire rune Moon rune Sun rune Ysgith rune

Magical glyphs: Animal rune Death rune Sky rune Time rune

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Runestones can be applied to empty upgrade slots on armor and weapons.

• Similar to glyphs, runes give upgrades to stats and apply buffs to weapons.
• Runes are acquired from monster nests, weapon smiths, armor smiths and crafting.
• Runes can be crafted with crafting diagrams in 4 stages: 'Empty' Lesser Runestone -> Lesser Runestone -> Runestone -> Greater Runestone.

Lesser Rune	Image	Rune	Image	Greater Rune	Image
Lesser Dazhborg Runestone 2% Chance to cause burning	File:Lesser Dazhbog Runestone.png	Dazhbog Runestone 3% Chance to cause burning		Greater Dazhborg Rune 5% Chance to cause burning	File:Greater Dazhborg Runestone.png
Lesser Chernbog Runestone 2% Attack Power	File:Lesser Chernobog Runestone.png	Chernobog Runestone 3% Attack Power		Greater Chernbog Runestone 5% Attack Power	File:Greater Chernbog Runestone.png
Lesser Stribog Runestone 2% Chance to stagger		Stribog Runestone 3% Chance to stagger		Greater Stribog Runestone 5% Chance to stagger	File:Greater Stribog Runestone.png
Lesser Svarog Runestone +10 Armor piercing	File:Lesser Svarog Runestone.png	Svarog Runestone +20 Armor piercing		Greater Svarog Runestone +30 Armor piercing	File:Greater Svarog Runestone.png
Lesser Triglav Runestone 2% Chance to stun	File:Lesser Triglav Runestone.png	Triglav Runestone 3% Chance to stun		Greater Triglav Runestone 5% Chance to stun	File:Greater Triglav Runestone.png
Lesser Perun Runestone 2% Adrenaline point gain		Perun Runestone 3% Adrenaline point gain		Greater Perun Runestone 5% Adrenaline point gain	File:Greater Perun Runestone.png
Lesser Veles Runestone 2% Sign intensity	File:Lesser Veles Runestone.png	Veles Runestone 3% Sign intensity		Greater Veles Runestone 5% Sign intensity	File:Greater Veles Runestone.png
Lesser Morana Runestone 2% Chance to poison		Morana Runestone 3% Chance to poison		Greater Morana Runestone 5% Chance to poison	File:Greater Morana Runestone.png
Lesser Zoria Runestone 2% Chance to freeze		Zoria Runestone 3% Chance to freeze		Greater Zoria Runestone 5% Chance to freeze	File:Greater Zoria Runestone.png
Lesser Devana Runestone 2% Chance to cause bleeding		Devana Runestone 3% Chance to cause bleeding		Greater Devana Runestone 5% Chance to cause bleeding	File:Greater Devana Runestone.png

Hearts of Stone Expansion

Along with runewords and glyphwords, two new basic runes were introduced:

• Pyerog Runestone
• Tvarog Runestone

See also

• Glyphs
• Enchanting

For more information

• Meteorite ore
• Rune swords
• Silver swords
• Blade enhancement
• Is there a complete rune/meteorites collection list yet? thread on the official forums.