Runesword

Runeswords (ルーンソード Rūn Sōdo), of the Magic Sword subcategory of swords that first appeared in Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi, are moderately powerful weapons capable of attacking at a 1-2 Range with a Dark Magic (or Light Magic in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance) technique, absorbing health much like the spell Nosferatu, but suffers from low accuracy.

In the Game Boy: Advanced Fire Emblems, It uses half the characters Strength stat ar range for damage calculations, and is effected by the magic weapon triangle at range, while taking full weapon might+full strength into account, and uses the sword+axe+lance triangle in melee, dealing physical damage.

They are very rare, to the point of there only being two in Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken (both located in Chapter 32x in Hector's Story). In Fuin no Tsurugi, one cannot be obtained in the main story, but after beating the game it can be obtained from the Trial Map character Narcian.

One is obtained in the game from a chest in Chapter 19, and another one during the Creature Campaign by recruiting Orson. It is sometimes dropped by Bonewalkers or Wights. In Sacred Stones exclusively, it uses all the same calcuatlions as the rest of the GBA games except it checks against Resistance instead of Defense in a direct attack, still doing full damage and checking against regular weapon triangle advantages and disadvantages..

In Path of Radiance, the Runesword returns, but with some changes. The Runesword uses Light Magic instead of Dark Magic and also relies completely on Magic rather than Strength. It is almost equally rare to the previous Fire Emblem games as can only be obtained after killing Bertram in Chapter 26, Clash!, or by stealing it from an enemy paladin in the penultimate chapter

Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi

 * [[File:Runesword.gif]]Runesword
 * Sword
 * A
 * 15
 * 12
 * 65%
 * 0%
 * 1-2
 * 11
 * 1
 * 3,300
 * Drains opponent's HP to user, is a magic sword in ranged combat.
 * }

Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken and Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

 * [[File:Runesword.gif]]Runesword
 * Sword
 * A
 * 15
 * 12
 * 65%
 * 0%
 * 1-2
 * 11
 * 1
 * 3,300
 * Drains opponent's HP to user, is a magic sword in ranged combat.
 * }

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

 * FE9RuneSword.gifword
 * Sword
 * A
 * 15
 * 15
 * 65%
 * 0%
 * 1-2
 * 19
 * 2
 * 7,200
 * Drains HP from an enemy. Does light-based magical damage.
 * }