Life-Rune

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Life-Rune
Released							N/A
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							Yes
Spawn time							204 ticks (~2 mins)
Examine							Used for summon spells
Values
Value							1 coin
High alch							0.6 coins
Low alch							0.4 coins
Advanced data
Item ID							37

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Life-Runes are unobtainable runes which were planned to be used for summoning spells, but the idea was eventually shelved. Summoning later returned as a skill with different mechanics in RuneScape 2.

The Life-Rune remains as an Unobtainable item in the client, but all spells using it were removed in December 2001. The spells were never visible in the spellbook, but existed in the data file "config", and could be made visible by editing the data file.

Spells

Level	Spell	Description	Runes needed
45	Call animal	Summon an animal follower	3 Earth-Runes, 3 Air-Runes, 3 Water-Runes, 1 Life-Rune
51	Raise skeleton	Raise a skeleton warrior you control!	5 Earth-Runes, 5 Fire-Runes, 5 Bones, 1 Life-Rune
61	Summon demon	Summon a demon you control!	10 Fire-Runes, 10 Earth-Runes, 10 Air-Runes, 1 Life-Rune

Trivia

• Even though life-runes were introduced into the cache extremely early on (possibly before release), when Pay-to-play was released over a year later, the Life-rune was updated to mark it as a members only item.