Sudden Death Rune

Combat Properties
Element	Death
Requirements
Level	45
Vocation	knights, paladins, sorcerers, druids
Magic Level	15
General Properties
Name	Sudden Death Rune
Item ID	3155
Classification	Attack Runes
Stackable	✓
Weight	0.70 oz.
Trade Properties
Value	Negotiable gp
Sold for	(not bought by NPCs)
Bought for	135 gp
Marketable	✓
Other Properties
Usable	✓
Words	adori gran mort
Version	4.0; May 20, 1998
Status	Active
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This article is about the item called Sudden Death Rune. For the spell to create them, see Sudden Death.

Properties

You see a sudden death rune.

It can only be used by knights, paladins, sorcerers, druids with level 45 and magic level 15 or higher.

It weighs 0.70 oz.

Notes

Shoots a powerful Death Damage attack on a single target.
This is arguably the strongest rune in the game. At high Magic Level and Level you can do around 600 damage. However, as it is a quite expensive rune, it's mostly used to kill strong Monsters fast, or gain a large amount of Experience in a relatively short time span.
For the spell, see Sudden Death.

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History

Used to be used by Paladins, but since the Summer Update 2007 magic level is more important for the damage done from runes than your characters experience level, therefore all vocations do less damage with SD runes nowadays.

Before the Winter Update 2007 SD runes did physical damage, but since that update they do death damage. Note that many creatures are immune to SD runes even though the rune is very powerful. The magical formula was adori vita vis but has been changed to adori gran mort in the same update to better match the new element system.

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Trade Details

Buy From

NPC	City	Value in gp
Asima	Darashia	135
Chartan ¹	Farmine*	135
Chuckles	Yalahar	135
Fenech	Ankrahmun	135
Frans	Venore	135
Frederik	Liberty Bay	135
Ghorza	Rathleton*	135
Gnomegica	Gnomegate	135
Khanna	Issavi	135
Mordecai	Rathleton	135
Nelly	Svargrond	135
Onfroi	Bounac	135
Rabaz	Farmine	135
Rachel	Carlin	135
Rock In A Hard Place	Gray Beach	135
Romir	Svargrond*	135
Shiriel	Ab'Dendriel	135
Siflind	Svargrond*	135
Sigurd	Kazordoon	135
Talila	Feyrist	135
Tandros	Port Hope	135
Topsy	Thais	135
Valindara	Feyrist	135
Xodet	Thais	135

Notes:

¹ Only after completing the first three missions of the Wrath of the Emperor Quest.

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Players only.