Minor changes:
These runes are obviously the same.
Alert / Alertness
Goss / Gozz
Drain / Draining
Sword of Elemental Rune / Elemental Sword Rune
Major changes:
True Holy Rune (S1, S2) / Godspeed Rune (S4, S5) The best example. The True Holy Rune was a mistranslation in the first game, and therefor often confused with a True Rune. The issue was fixed later. Both names refer to the same rune.
Blue Gate Rune (S2) / Pale Gate Rune (S3, S5)
I'm not sure about this, but these two could be the same rune as well. The spells are almost identical (we have similar minor changes among the spells for the elemental runes as well in all games) and both are sub-runes of the Gate Rune.
Double-Strike Rune (S2, S3, S4) / Double-Edged Rune (S5)
Both increase the DMG dealt to enemies, and recieved by them. Notice that there is no Double-Strike in S5. (not to be confused with the Double-Beat Rune, which deals two hits in a row)
Magic Drain Rune (S2) / Magic Absorb Rune (S5)
Both restore magic points sometimes while performing physical attacks. The Magic Drain restores lv1 spells only, while the Magic Absorb restores all spells, starting from the lowest possible.
Greath Hawk Rune (S2, S3, S5) / Hawk Rune (ST)
Well, there are Firefly and Great Firefly Runes, but in this case, both are used by bow wielders and have the same meaning. The Hawk Rune goes with the other weapon specific runes in Tactics (like Unicorn, Titan, Goss, ...).
Beast Rune (S2) / Beast Rune (S5)
Obviously not the same. One is the True Rune in possession of the Blight familiy, the other is a rune for transformation used by Ernst. I wonder if these two are connected nevertheless, and how the latter was called primarily
Does anyone can confirm that all these runes are the same? Played the original games perhaps?
What is your opinion? Can you think of more like these?
