hide the true runes existance??

[ramenNrice]

hey ive been wondering this whole time . luc possessed the wind rune since at birth right ?? then y is it that we couldnt use his true rune at suiko 1 and 2 .. and the weird thing is that you can put w/e runes you want on his right arm.. but isnt the trie wind rune equuped at his right arm???? how odd.. any speculation would do.

[Firefly]

He used his true rune in II. I think they just equipped his true rune to his right hand for gameplay purposes, but in reality, the rune was inside of him, as part of himself.
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[Buff]

he kept it hidden like how geddoe kept his true rune hidden up until a certain point in his chapter 3.
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[John Layfield]

He also used the rune in Suikoden I.

It's gameplay mechanics, don't bother trying to logically apply it to the story.
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[Ujitsuna]

Yeah they probably only decided to give him the true rune until 2/3.

[John Layfield]

No, he used the True Wind Rune in Suikoden I. It's a localisation error that it's only called the Wind Rune in the translation.
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[Solitude]

Right I'm sure that Konami meant for Luc to have the True Wind Rune from the beginning. If you remember he used the True Rune on Magicians Island in the first Suikoden as Johy Layfield has already said. Then again in Suikoden II when battling Sassari in one of the strategic battles, and of course in Suikoden III. So I think it is safe to say that Luc was meant to have the True Wind Rune from the beginning.

[ramenNrice]

hmmm never thought of it that way . i guess i was jsut confused =_= but yea.. thanks

[Parallax]

It's about the same thing as Geddoe possessing the True Lightning Rune but choosing to use a lesser Lightning Rune instead, mostly to hide the fact that he possessed such a powerful Rune in the first place. It was probably especially necessary for Geddoe since he was working for Harmonia. I doubt that the Harmonians would have been incredibly comfortable with leaving that particular Rune in Geddoe's hands.

That's about the only way I could think of to explain it via story terms. Like John Layfield said, it's mostly a gameplay mechanic, and so there's not necessarily a strict storyline explanation for it, other than the various dangers of people knowing you possess True Runes. Windy might have been after Luc if she had known!

Luc possessed the True Wind Rune the entire time, though. I'd forgotten about him using it in Suikoden I, but he definitely uses it in II to defeat Sasarai. Obviously, he has it in 3.
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