This is a list of the various Runestones that can be found in the game. There are three kinds of Runestones: Potency Runes, Essence Runes, and Aspect Runes. The type of runestone can be readily determined by its shape and color. Potency Runes are blue and square, Essence Runes are yellow/green and six-sided, and Aspect Runes are red and circular.
Runestones are used to craft Glyphs, which can in turn be used to enchant armor, weapons, or jewelry. Each Glyph must contain one of each type.
You can get runestones from runestone nodes, by extracting them from Glyphs, or by receiving them from your hireling. The color of the flame flickering in a runestone node will tell you what type of runestone will be dropped. Potency runes are determined by the area in which the node is found, for example Coldharbour will drop Jaera, Rekude, Pora and Hade runes. Essence runes and Aspect runes are random, and the highest quality Aspect runes may be found even on the starter islands.
Potency Runes
The Potency of the rune determines the level of items the Glyph may be applied to. At each Potency level, there are two types of rune, "Additive" and "Subtractive". A different Glyph will be made depending on whether an Additive or Subtractive Potency rune is used.
Changing the type of Potency rune from Additive to Subtractive will change the type of items the resulting Glyph may be applied to. Generally, Subtractive glyphs can only be applied to weapons and jewelry, while Additive glyphs can also be applied to armor.
Additive Potency
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Subtractive Potency
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Essence Runes
The Essence Rune determines what the Glyph actually does. It may have a different effect depending on whether you use it with an Additive or Subtractive Potency Rune, but the two options will be related. For example, a Dekeipa Rune ("Frost") with an Additive Potency will cause Frost Damage when applied to a weapon, but with Subtractive Potency, it will provide Frost Resistance when applied to jewelry. The amount of damage or resistance is determined by the Aspect Rune as well as the potency of the Potency Rune.
| Name | Translation | Potency | Item Type | Glyph | Effect | ||
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Dekeipa | "Frost" | Additive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Frost | Deals X Frost Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Frost Resist | Adds X Frost Resistance | |||
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Deni | "Stamina" | Additive | Armor |  |
Glyph of Stamina | Adds X Max Stamina |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Absorb Stamina | Deals X Magic Damage and recovers Y Stamina | |||
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Denima | "Stamina Regen" | Additive | Jewelry | 32px | Glyph of Stamina Regeneration | Adds X Stamina Recovery |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Reduce Feat Cost | Reduce Stamina cost of abilities by X | |||
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Deteri | "Armor" | Additive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Hardening | Grants a X point Damage Shield for Y seconds |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Crushing | Reduce targets Armor by X for Y seconds | |||
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Hakeijo | "Prism" | Additive | Armor |  |
Glyph of Prismatic Defense | Adds X Max Health/Magicka/Stamina |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Prismatic Onslaught | Deals X Magic Damage to Undead and Daedra | |||
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Haoko | "Disease" | Additive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Foulness | Deals X Disease Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Disease Resist | Adds X Disease Resistance | |||
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Kaderi | "Shield" | Additive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Bashing | Increase bash damage by X |
| Subtractive | Jewelry | 32px | Glyph of Shielding | Reduce cost of Bash by X and reduce cost of Blocking by Y | |||
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Kuoko | "Poison" | Additive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Poison | Deals X Poison Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Poison Resist | Adds X Poison Resistance | |||
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Makderi | "Spell Harm" | Additive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Increase Magical Harm | Adds X Spell Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Decrease Spell Harm | Adds X Spell Resistance | |||
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Makko | "Magicka" | Additive | Armor |  |
Glyph of Magicka | Adds X Max Magicka |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Absorb Magicka | Deals X Magic Damage and recovers Y Magicka | |||
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Makkoma | "Magicka Regen" | Additive | Jewelry | 32px | Glyph of Magicka Regen | Adds X Magicka Recovery |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Reduce Spell Cost | Reduce Magicka cost of Spells by X | |||
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Meip | "Shock" | Additive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Shock | Deals X Shock Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Shock Resist | Adds X Shock Resistance | |||
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Oko | "Health" | Additive | Armor |  |
Glyph of Health | Adds X Max Health |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Absorb Health | Deals X Magic Damage and recovers Y Health | |||
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Okoma | "Health Regen" | Additive | Jewelry | 32px | Glyph of Health Regen | Adds X Health Recovery |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Decrease Health | Deals X unresistable damage | |||
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Okori | "Power" | Additive | Weapon | 32px | Glyph of Rage | Increase your Power by X for Y seconds |
| Subtractive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Weakening | Reduce target Power by X for Y seconds | |||
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Oru | "Alchemist" | Additive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Potion Boost | Increase Potion effect by X |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Potion Speed | Reduce the cooldown of Potions below this item’s level by X seconds | |||
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Rakeipa | "Fire" | Additive | Weapon |  |
Glyph of Flame | Deals X Fire Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry | 32px | Glyph of Fire Resist | Adds X Fire Resistance | |||
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Taderi | "Physical Harm" | Additive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Increase Physical Harm | Adds X Weapon Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry |  |
Glyph of Decrease Physical Harm | Adds X Armor |
Removed Runes
These two bugged runes could originally be received from hireling mail before it was fixed in Patch 1.2.3. However, they still exist in game and can be traded.
| Name | Translation | Potency | Item Type | Glyph | Effect | ||
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Jaedi | "Gain" | Additive | Jewelry | |
Glyph of Bashing | Increase bash damage by X |
| Subtractive | Jewelry | 32px | Glyph of Shielding | Reduce cost of bash by X and reduce cost of blocking by X | |||
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Lire | "Physical Harm" | Additive | Jewelry | |
Glyph of Increase Physical Harm | Adds X Weapon Damage |
| Subtractive | Jewelry | |
Glyph of Decrease Physical Harm | Adds X Armor |
Aspect Runes
The Aspect Rune determines the overall quality of the Glyph. A low-Potency Glyph on a low-level item with a high Aspect Glyph may be more powerful than a higher-Potency Glyph with a low Aspect.
| Name | Lvl | Translation | Effect | |
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Ta | 1 | "Base" | Produces Base quality items |
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Jejota | 1 | "Fine" | Produces Fine quality items |
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Denata | 2 | "Superior" | Produces Superior quality items |
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Rekuta | 3 | "Artifact" | Produces Epic quality items |
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Kuta | 4 | "Legendary" | Produces Legendary quality items |