Runecarver

The Runecarver is found imprisoned in the Runecarver's Oubliette in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. Using Soul Ash, this master smith can help the Maw Walkers craft powerful pieces of equipment.

The Runecarver was imprisoned in Torghast long ago and no longer remembers his life before he was a prisoner. His designs were extracted from him and used for the Mawsworn army. He was forced against his will by the Jailer to craft Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination, referred to by Zovaal as the "vessels of Domination". Ve'nari believes that the Runecarver shouldn't be trusted.

During the Chains of Domination campaign, after recovering the sigil of the Necrolords and bringing it to the Runecarver, it was revealed that the Runecarver was actually the Primus himself. After defending against the Jailer's attack on the Runecarver's Oubliette, the Primus left an echo of his Runecarver form to aid other Maw Walkers and left for Korthia.

After reaching max level, choosing a covenant, and completing the first chapter of the covenant campaign, players are directed to Torghast. There, they will discover a mysterious key that unlocks the way to the Runecarver. Once players manage to release one of the Runecarver's hands, players are granted the ability to craft Shadowlands legendaries.

• 1) Deep Within
• 2) Reawakening (quest)
• 3) A Damned Pact
• 4) The Weak Link
• 5) Ashes of the Tower
• 6) The Final Pieces

• The Vessels of the Thread
• The Vessels of Jewels
• The Vessels of Leather and Bone
• The Vessels of Metal

To craft a legendary, players will need a base item from one of the production professions (Tailoring, Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, or Jewelcrafting), two missives crafted with Inscription, Soul Ash, and a memory of the Runecarver legendary recipe, which is unlocked by completing other objectives in the game (raids, PvP, mythic dungeons, etc).

Players who have Tailoring, Leatherworking, Blacksmithing, or Jewelcrafting as one of their primary professions will unlock the recipes for base items by playing max-level content. The crafted items are not soulbound, and can be traded or sold on the Auction House to other players.

Base items start at item level 190 and have four ranks, up to item level 235. Crafters can produce base items for all eight armor slots, as well as necklaces and rings. As players repeat crafts they will unlock higher ranks of the item, which require the same ingredients, but more of them.

• Ring: Shadowghast Ring
• Neck: Shadowghast Necklace

Scribes create missives, which define which stats the final legendary will have. Two different missives are required to craft a legendary:

• Missive of Critical Strike
• Missive of Haste
• Missive of Mastery
• Missive of Versatility

Legendaries start at item level 190 (rank 1), which requires 1250 Soul Ash, and scale up to item level 235, which requires 5150. Patch 9.1 adds the 249 and 262 item level upgrades, which require Soul Cinders. Patch 9.2 adds a final 291 upgrade, which requires Cosmic Flux.

Soul Ash and Soul Cinders are obtained by completing Layers of Torghast, Tower of the Damned. The amount of soul ash and soul cinders awarded by each layer is cumulative, so there is no benefit in running trivial layers. For instance, defeating a boss on layer 4 will award 375 Soul Ash. As of patch 9.1.5 there is no limit to how much can be earned. Cosmic Flux cannot be obtained in Torghast, and is instead found in Zereth Mortis. It is also possible to purchase packs of 5150 Soul Ash and 1650 Soul Cinders for 3000 Cosmic Flux (allowing one to craft a Rank 7 legendary for a total of 5000 Cosmic Flux).

To upgrade legendaries to a higher rank, return with a higher-rank base item and the requisite amount of soul ash and soul cinders. For instance, to upgrade to rank 3 from rank 2, 1200 Soul Ash is required.

Players will be able to loot Memories of the Runecarver after they first unlock the Runecarver in The Weak Link, which awards the achievement The Forgotten One. After that, players can obtain memories through various means (such as killing specific bosses, gaining reputation or Renown, etc).

The Adventure Guide lists all available powers and their sources.

General powers are usable by all classes and specs.

• Echo of Eonar
• Judgment of the Arbiter
• Maw Rattle
• Norgannon's Sagacity
• Sephuz's Proclamation
• Stable Phantasma Lure
• Third Eye of the Jailer
• Unity (runecarving power)
• Vitality Sacrifice

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• General
• Abomination's Frenzy
• Death's Embrace (runecarving power)
• Final Sentence
• Grip of the Everlasting
• Insatiable Hunger (runecarving power)
• Phearomones
• Rampant Transference
• Superstrain (runecarving power)
• Blood
• Bryndaor's Might
• Crimson Rune Weapon
• Gorefiend's Domination
• Vampiric Aura
• Frost
• Absolute Zero (runecarving power)
• Biting Cold (runecarving power)
• Koltira's Favor
• Rage of the Frozen Champion (runecarving power)
• Unholy
• Deadliest Coil
• Death's Certainty
• Frenzied Monstrosity
• Reanimated Shambler

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• General
• Agony Gaze
• Blazing Slaughter
• Blind Faith
• Collective Anguish (runecarving power)
• Darkest Hour
• Darkglare Boon (runecarving power)
• Demonic Oath
• Fel Bombardment
• Havoc
• Burning Wound (runecarving power)
• Chaos Theory (runecarving power)
• Darker Nature
• Erratic Fel Core
• Vengeance
• Fel Flame Fortification (runecarving power)
• Fiery Soul (runecarving power)
• Razelikh's Defilement
• Spirit of the Darkness Flame (runecarving power)

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• General
• Celestial Spirits
• Circle of Life and Death (runecarving power)
• Draught of Deep Focus
• Kindred Affinity
• Lycara's Fleeting Glimpse
• Oath of the Elder Druid
• Sinful Hysteria
• Unbridled Swarm (runecarving power)
• Balance
• Balance of All Things (runecarving power)
• Oneth's Clear Vision
• Primordial Arcanic Pulsar (runecarving power)
• Timeworn Dreambinder
• Feral
• Apex Predator's Craving (runecarving power)
• Cat-Eye Curio
• Eye of Fearful Symmetry
• Frenzyband
• Guardian
• Legacy of the Sleeper
• Luffa-Infused Embrace
• The Natural Order's Will
• Ursoc's Fury Remembered
• Restoration
• The Dark Titan's Lesson
• Memory of the Mother Tree (runecarving power)
• Verdant Infusion (runecarving power)
• Vision of Unending Growth

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• General
• Bag of Munitions
• Call of the Wild (runecarving power)
• Fragments of the Elder Antlers
• Nesingwary's Trapping Apparatus
• Pact of the Soulstalkers
• Pouch of Razor Fragments
• Soulforge Embers
• Craven Strategem
• Beast Mastery
• Dire Command (runecarving power)
• Flamewaker's Cobra Sting
• Qa'pla, Eredun War Order (runecarving power)
• Rylakstalker's Piercing Fangs
• Marksmanship
• Eagletalon's True Focus (runecarving power)
• Secrets of the Unblinking Vigil
• Serpentstalker's Trickery (runecarving power)
• Surging Shots (runecarving power)
• Survival
• Butcher's Bone Fragments
• Latent Poison Injectors
• Rylakstalker's Confounding Strikes
• Wildfire Cluster (runecarving power)

• General
• Death's Fathom
• Disciplinary Command
• Expanded Potential
• Grisly Icicle
• Harmonic Echo (runecarving power)
• Heart of the Fae
• Sinful Delight
• Temporal Warp (runecarving power)
• Triune Ward
• Arcane
• Arcane Bombardment (runecarving power)
• Arcane Harmony (runecarving power)
• Siphon Storm (runecarving power)
• Fire
• Fevered Incantation (runecarving power)
• Firestorm (runecarving power)
• Molten Skyfall
• Sun King's Blessing (runecarving power)
• Frost
• Cold Front (runecarving power)
• Freezing Winds (runecarving power)
• Glacial Fragments
• Slick Ice (runecarving power)

• General
• Bountiful Brew (runecarving power)
• Call to Arms (runecarving power)
• Escape from Reality (runecarving power)
• Faeline Harmony (runecarving power)
• Fatal Touch (runecarving power)
• Invoker's Delight (runecarving power)
• Roll Out
• Sinister Teachings
• Brewmaster
• Charred Passions (runecarving power)
• Mighty Pour
• Shaohao's Might
• Stormstout's Last Keg (runecarving power)
• Mistweaver
• Ancient Teachings of the Monastery
• Clouded Focus (runecarving power)
• Tear of Morning (runecarving power)
• Yu'lon's Whisper (runecarving power)
• Windwalker
• Jade Ignition (runecarving power)
• Keefer's Skyreach
• Last Emperor's Capacitor (runecarving power)
• Xuen's Battlegear (runecarving power)

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• General
• Divine Resonance (runecarving power)
• Duty-Bound Gavel
• Of Dusk and Dawn (runecarving power)
• Radiant Embers
• Relentless Inquisitor (runecarving power)
• Seasons of Plenty
• The Mad Paragon
• The Magistrate's Judgment
• Uther's Devotion
• Holy
• Inflorescence of the Sunwell (runecarving power)
• Maraad's Dying Breath (runecarving power)
• Shadowbreaker, Dawn of the Sun
• Shock Barrier
• Protection
• Bulwark of Righteous Fury (runecarving power)
• Holy Avenger's Engraved Sigil
• Reign of Endless Kings
• The Ardent Protector's Sanctum
• Retribution
• Final Verdict (runecarving power)
• Tempest of the Lightbringer (runecarving power)
• Vanguard's Momentum (runecarving power)

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• General
• Bwonsamdi's Pact
• Cauterizing Shadows
• Measured Contemplation
• Pallid Command
• Shadow Word: Manipulation
• Spheres' Harmony
• Twins of the Sun Priestess (runecarving power)
• Vault of Heavens
• Discipline
• Clarity of Mind
• Crystalline Reflection (runecarving power)
• Kiss of Death
• The Penitent One
• Holy
• Divine Image (runecarving power)
• Flash Concentration
• Harmonious Apparatus (runecarving power)
• X'anshi, Return of Archbishop Benedictus
• Shadow
• Eternal Call to the Void
• Painbreaker Psalm
• Shadowflame Prism
• Talbadar's Stratagem

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• General
• Deathly Shadows
• Deathspike
• Essence of Bloodfang
• Invigorating Shadowdust (runecarving power)
• Mark of the Master Assassin
• Obedience
• Resounding Clarity (runecarving power)
• Tiny Toxic Blade (runecarving power)
• Toxic Onslaught
• Assassination
• Dashing Scoundrel (runecarving power)
• Doomblade (runecarving power)
• Duskwalker's Patch
• Zoldyck Insignia
• Outlaw
• Celerity (runecarving power)
• Concealed Blunderbuss
• Greenskin's Wickers (runecarving power)
• Guile Charm
• Subtlety
• Akaari's Soul Fragment
• Finality (runecarving power)
• The Rotten (runecarving power)

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• General
• Ancestral Reminder
• Chains of Devastation
• Deeply Rooted Elements (runecarving power)
• Deeptremor Stone
• Elemental Conduit
• Raging Vesper Vortex
• Seeds of Rampant Growth
• Splintered Elements (runecarving power)
• Elemental
• Echoes of Great Sundering (runecarving power)
• Elemental Equilibrium (runecarving power)
• Skybreaker's Fiery Demise (runecarving power)
• Windspeaker's Lava Resurgence (runecarving power)
• Enhancement
• Doom Winds (runecarving power)
• Legacy of the Frost Witch (runecarving power)
• Primal Lava Actuators
• Witch Doctor's Wolf Bones
• Restoration
• Earthen Harmony (runecarving power)
• Jonat's Natural Focus
• Primal Tide Core (runecarving power)
• Spiritwalker's Tidal Totem (runecarving power)

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• General
• Claw of Endereth
• Contained Perpetual Explosion
• Decaying Soul Satchel
• Languishing Soul Detritus
• Pillars of the Dark Portal (runecarving power)
• Relic of Demonic Synergy
• Shard of Annihilation
• Wilfred's Sigil of Superior Summoning (runecarving power)
• Affliction
• Malefic Wrath
• Perpetual Agony of Azj'Aqir
• Sacrolash's Dark Strike (runecarving power)
• Wrath of Consumption (runecarving power)
• Demonology
• Balespider's Burning Core
• Forces of the Horned Nightmare
• Grim Inquisitor's Dread Calling
• Implosive Potential
• Destruction
• Cinders of the Azj'Aqir
• Embers of the Diabolic Raiment
• Madness of the Azj'Aqir (runecarving power)
• Odr, Shawl of the Ymirjar (runecarving power)

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• General
• Elysian Might (runecarving power)
• Glory (runecarving power)
• Leaper
• Misshapen Mirror
• Nature's Fury (runecarving power)
• Seismic Reverberation (runecarving power)
• Signet of Tormented Kings
• Sinful Surge
• Arms
• Battlelord (runecarving power)
• Enduring Blow
• Exploiter
• Unhinged (runecarving power)
• Fury
• Cadence of Fujieda
• Deathmaker
• Reckless Defense
• Will of the Berserker
• Protection
• Reprisal (runecarving power)
• The Wall
• Thunderlord (runecarving power)
• Unbreakable Will (runecarving power)

Once a base item, legendary power, and two missives have been selected and the player chooses to create the item, a cutscene plays, showing the Runecarver gathering Domination energy as the dial under him rotates before slamming his hand into the item to imbue it with power.

• Gossip
• Do I know you? You don't look familiar...

• If the adventurer has a crafting profession
• You have the look of a... crafter?
• If you possess the skills, I can impart my knowledge to you of how to create the vessels to hold the rune powers.

• During Ashes of the Tower
• Have you recovered any more of my memories?
• The more you find, the more both of us shall benefit.

Have you recovered any more of my memories?

• Gossip Echo form

The more you find, the more both of us shall benefit.

• Greetings
• I... remember... you.
• I will aid you as I can.
• We must stop him.
• I recall... so... little.
• This place holds countless legends.
• Fate has brought our paths together.
• The past is a shattered mirror.
• What have you found?

• Farewell
• Do not lose yourself to despair.
• We walk among the fragments of memory.
• Go carefully into the darkness.
• Beware the Jailer's Eye.
• Safeguard your soul, mortal.
• Within these halls lie horrors beyond imagining.

• During development, the Runecarver was referred to as the Runesage or the Blacksmith.
• The idea of a blacksmith that made magical weapons is likely rooted in, while the notion of a master runesmith could be an attribution to , who is said to have invented the runes.