Soul rune

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This article is about the rune. For other uses, see Soul rune (disambiguation).

The official world for RC Running & ZMI Altar is world 36 (P2P).

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Soul rune
Release																				23 October 2002 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Values
Value																				410 coins
High alch																				82 coins
Low alch																				54 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0 kg
Examine
Used for powerful curse spells.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				2,236 coins (info)
Buy limit																				25,000
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Advanced data
Item ID																				566
Links																				MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The soul rune is the highest level rune in RuneScape. It is used for the strongest curse spells, the teleport-other spells, and the Seren spells in the Ancient Magicks book. They can be crafted at the Soul Altar in Menaphos after completing the quest 'Phite Club with a level of 90 Runecrafting. Alternatively, they have a chance to be crafted when using the Ourania Runecrafting Altar (which has no level requirement). They can also be bought from the Magic Guild in Yanille, Ali Morrisane in Al Kharid (via the Rogue Trader miniquest), or Baba Yaga, who lives in the walking house, on Lunar Isle.

There is a rift to the Soul Altar in the Abyss and an obtain soul rune option on the wicked hood (provided it has been fed a soul talisman or tiara first).

The mechanics of crafting soul runes vastly differ from the standard runecrafting process. The altar must first be charged with pure essence by putting pure essence into the 'charger'. Four essences generate one charge and give 10 Runecrafting experience. 1.25 charges create 3 soul runes. This means it takes 5 essences to make 3 soul runes. The experience gained is 220 per charge or 91.7 per soul rune crafted.

The 'Charger' has capacity of 100 essences, after which they must be converted into charges; and the altar can hold up to 100 charges, after which they must be crafted as runes.

To maximise the experience gained, the 250% bonus experience of abyss rune crafting (thus the Demonic Skull too) is applicable to the rune crafting step. A maximum of [91.7 per soul * 240] = 22,000 further multiplied by 2.5 = 55,000 experience can be gained by binding a fully charged altar into at least 240 soul runes.

Grand Exchange rune average price comparison
Nature rune	1,009
Law rune	269
Death rune	327
Blood rune	1,879
Soul rune	2,236

Spells

Only members can cast these spells:

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Animate Dead	84	6151530	Ancient	Combat
	Carrallanger Teleport	84	22	Ancient	Teleport
	Crystal Mask	90	4567	Ancient	Skilling
	Crystallise	88	6666	Ancient	Skilling
	Emerald Aurora	79	13	Ancient	Combat
	Enchant Bakriminel Bolt (Dragonstone)	97	11115	Normal	Skilling
	Enchant Crossbow Bolt (Dragonstone)	68	1115	Normal	Skilling
	Enfeeble	73	11	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat
	Incite Fear	98	1210	Ancient	Combat
	Intercept	77	223	Ancient	Combat
	Mazcab Teleport	70	113	Normal	Teleport
	Opal Aurora	75	13	Ancient	Combat
	Prism of Dowsing	86	3333	Ancient	Skilling
	Prism of Loyalty	82	626	Ancient	Combat
	Prism of Restoration	76	626	Ancient	Combat
	Prism of Salvation	80	626	Ancient	Combat
	Rapid Growth	88	3333	Ancient	Skilling
	Ruby Aurora	81	13	Ancient	Combat
	Sapphire Aurora	77	13	Ancient	Combat
	Senntisten Teleport	60	12	Ancient	Teleport
	Shield Dome	84	333	Ancient	Combat
	Smoke Cloud	74	55510	Ancient	Combat
	Stagger	80	11	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat
	Tele-other Camelot	90	21	Normal	Teleport
	Tele-other Falador	82	111	Normal	Teleport
	Tele-other Lumbridge	74	111	Normal	Teleport
	Vulnerability	66	11	Normal, Daemonheim	Combat

Removed spells

Spell		Level	Runes	Spellbook	Spell type
	Miasmic Barrage (historical)	97	444	Ancient	Combat
	Miasmic Blitz	85	323	Ancient	Combat
	Miasmic Burst	73	242	Ancient	Combat
	Miasmic Rush	61	121	Ancient	Combat

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Carrallanger teleport (item)	84	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 2 × Soul rune	4,196
Dragon bolts (e) × 10	68	10 × Dragon bolts 15 × Earth rune 1 × Soul rune 1 × Cosmic rune	3,120
Dragonstone bakriminel bolts (e) × 10	97	10 × Dragonstone bakriminel bolts 1 × Cosmic rune 1 × Blood rune 1 × Soul rune 15 × Earth rune	19,160
Mazcab teleport (item)	70	1 × Soft clay 1 × Law rune 1 × Soul rune 3 × Cosmic rune	10,444
Senntisten teleport (item)	60	1 × Soft clay 2 × Law rune 1 × Soul rune	4,565
Soul-in-a-box	24	500 × Soul rune 150 × Tensile parts 50 × Smooth parts 10 × Subtle components 10 × Pious components	N/A
Urn enhancer	24	500 × Soul rune 100 × Tensile parts 100 × Clear parts 10 × Subtle components 10 × Precise components	N/A
Vulnerability bomb	103	1 × Bomb vial 1 × Primal extract 5 × Soul rune 5 × Chaos rune 2 × Bottled dinosaur roar 1 × Clean dwarf weed	25,661
Vulnerability bomb (Improved +1 recipe)	105	1 × Bomb vial 1 × Primal extract 5 × Soul rune 5 × Chaos rune 2 × Bottled dinosaur roar 1 × Clean dwarf weed	25,661
Vulnerability bomb (Improved +2 recipe)	107	1 × Bomb vial 1 × Primal extract 3 × Soul rune 3 × Chaos rune 1 × Bottled dinosaur roar 1 × Clean dwarf weed	25,661

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Abyssal lord	133	12–22	Uncommon
Ancient mage	103	25	Uncommon
Armadylean shaman (Treasure Trails)	105	20	Uncommon
Bandosian wild mage	84	20	Uncommon
Cabbagemancer	105	20	Uncommon
Chaos witch apprentice	121	4	Unknown
Chaos witch channeler	143; 147	4	Unknown
Chaos witch mender	109	4	Unknown
Chaos witch	141	4	Unknown
Croesus	N/A	120–180	Common
Dark wizard (The Zamorakian Undercity)	114	4	Unknown
Dust devil (elite)	95	5; 25	Uncommon
Dust devil	85	5	Uncommon
Elder Trove (Bik, T3)	N/A	40	737/19710
Elder Trove (Ful, T3)	N/A	40	192/5079
Elder Trove (Jas, T3)	N/A	40	25/492
Elder Trove (Wen, T3)	N/A	40	93/2921
Elite Dark Mage	98	4	Very rare
Essence impling jar		11	1/100
Essence impling	42	11	1/100
Ghostly warrior	61	1–5	Uncommon
Giant ant soldier	70	1	Rare
Giant wasp	70; 84	1–3	Uncommon
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	5–11	Uncommon
Greater demon ash lord Wilderness		6–10	Common
Greater demon berserker Wilderness		5–10	29/450
Kerapac, the bound Hard mode	3000	150–300	Common
Kerapac, the bound Normal mode	3000	80–120	Common
Mazera, the Dark	148	15	99/100
Nightmare	128	20–30	Common
Professor Onglewip	N/A	5–11	Uncommon
Raksha, the Shadow Colossus	6000	125–175	Common
Skeletal Wyvern	109	5–14	5/128
Spiritual mage	49; 98	20	14/128
Steel dragon	100	5	5/128
The Zamorakian Undercity		4	Unknown
Tortoise	50	5–11	Rare
Warped terrorbird	82	1–10	Uncommon
Wyvern (elite)	133	16–30	Uncommon
Wyvern	127	16–30	5/128
Zamorak crafter	26	3	Uncommon
Zamorak, Lord of Chaos		150–210	1/13

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For a full list, see here. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Ali's Discount Wares	Al Kharid	410	Coins	100
Baba Yaga's Magic Shop	Lunar Isle	410	Coins	100
Magic Guild Store - Runes and Staves	Wizards' Guild	410	Coins	100

Disassembly

Soul rune
Disassembly category	Runes and talismans
Disassembly XP	2.7
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	0.0%
Common materials
Magic parts	85/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	13/100
Rare materials
Powerful components	2/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• ninja 14 March 2022 (Update):
  • Soul Rune production has been increased to give triple the amount of Runes per charge than previously. XP remains unaffected.

• patch 12 June 2017 (Update):
  • The soul runes entry has been removed from the Invention skill guide and added to Runecrafting skill guide.

• patch 15 February 2011 (Update):
  • Blood Barrage no longer takes an additional soul rune in PvP combat.

• update 29 March 2005 (Update):
  • Cost in the Magic Guild reduced.

• update 23 October 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Before the release of Menaphos on 5 June 2017, soul runes were the only conventional type of rune that could not be crafted using a normal Runecrafting altar. The only way to craft soul runes was by using the Ourania Runecrafting Altar.
• Upon release of the Soul Altar, soul runes were mistakenly listed as requiring level 90 Invention to craft, instead of level 90 Runecrafting.