Runestone

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 enchantments	Magical glyphs
Earth rune	Animal rune
Fire rune	Art rune
Moon rune	Sky rune
Sun rune	Time rune
Ysgith rune

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Runestones can be applied to empty upgrade slots on 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 Dazhbog runestone 2% Chance to cause burning		Dazhbog runestone 3% Chance to cause burning		Greater Dazhbog runestone 5% Chance to cause burning
Lesser Chernobog runestone 2% Attack Power		Chernobog runestone 3% Attack Power		Greater Chernobog runestone 5% Attack Power
Lesser Stribog runestone 2% Chance to stagger		Stribog runestone 3% Chance to stagger		Greater Stribog runestone 5% Chance to stagger
Lesser Svarog runestone +10 Armor piercing		Svarog runestone +20 Armor piercing		Greater Svarog runestone +30 Armor piercing
Lesser Triglav runestone 2% Chance to stun		Triglav runestone 3% Chance to stun		Greater Triglav runestone 5% Chance to stun
Lesser Perun runestone 2% Adrenaline point gain		Perun runestone 3% Adrenaline point gain		Greater Perun runestone 5% Adrenaline point gain
Lesser Veles runestone 2% Sign intensity		Veles runestone 3% Sign intensity		Greater Veles runestone 5% Sign intensity
Lesser Morana runestone 2% Chance to poison		Morana runestone 3% Chance to poison		Greater Morana runestone 5% Chance to poison
Lesser Zoria runestone 2% Chance to freeze		Zoria runestone 3% Chance to freeze		Greater Zoria runestone 5% Chance to freeze
Lesser Devana runestone 2% Chance to cause bleeding		Devana runestone 3% Chance to cause bleeding		Greater Devana runestone 5% Chance to cause bleeding

Hearts of Stone expansion

Along with runewords and glyphwords, Hearts of Stone adds two new runestones which are only needed to craft the Dumplings runeword.

• Pyerog Runestone
• Tvarog Runestone

See Also

• Glyphs
• Enchanting
• Blade enhancement