Runestone

In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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

• See: The Witcher 3 upgrades

In 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

In The Witcher computer game

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. 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 • (locations)	Perun • (locations)
Moon rune • (locations)	Svarog • (locations)
Sun rune • (locations)	Vodon • (locations)

See also

For more information:

• Meteorite ore
• Rune swords
• Silver swords
• Blade enhancement