The Witcher
Any combination of three Runestones can be branded onto a silver sword by a blacksmith to create a rune sword with different effects.
Locations
- In Chapter II, received from Zoltan Chivay as reward for Memory of a Blade.
- In Chapter III, received from Andrew Gablodda as one of three possible rewards.
- In Chapter IV:
- found on the corpse west of the ruined bridge outside Murky Waters.
- received as one of three possible rewards for Old Habits Die Hard.
- sold by the Blacksmith's son
- In Chapter V:
- Sold by the fence.
- found on the corpse near the campfire in the Old manor swamp area.
- found inside the Old Manor, in the room where Geralt fights two greater brothers. Re-enter the catacombs after the fight with Javed. In the trunk against the far wall.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Geralt starts the game with one earth rune. Later, they can be purchased from a number of merchants, including the mysterious merchant, Haggard or Thorak in Vergen, or Falas, the Incredible Lockhart or Polycarp of Rinde during Chapter III.
To use a rune, Geralt simply drags it over to one of the rune slots on a suitable sword in the inventory panel.
Earth runes can also be used to craft blue meteorite ore, though given that the price of an earth rune is eight times that of a piece of ore, it seems a poor use of the rune.