Runestone

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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 three's.
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
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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 	
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Runestones can be applied to empty upgrade slots on weapons.
* Similar to glyphs, runes give upgrades to stats and apply buffs to weapons.
* Runes can be looted from monster nests and many treasures, received as rewards for quests, crafted, or purchased from blacksmiths, alchemists and occasionaly some regular merchants.
* 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	
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Along with runewords and glyphwords, Hearts of Stone adds two new runestones which are only needed to craft the Dumplings runeword. Unlike base game runestones, both of them must be crafted and the diagrams for them are found in specific locations.
* Pyerog runestone
* Tvarog runestone
== Notes ==
* An additional runestone called "Quentin" (in all three variations) has been cut during the development of . The game files still contain a few remnants from it, but the only thing known about it is that it would've had the same base value and weight as the Morana runestone.
== See also ==
* Glyphs
* Enchanting
* Blade enhancement
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