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Bow	Powers	Sphere	Description	Story	Status
Khryselakatos	can bring sudden death and disease to women who betray the Moons stronger under the waxing moon, especially the crescent arrows will pierce esoteric energies, reflecting them back can alter the phase of the moons when used lunar aether	Moons	a bow made of moonlight, silverwood, and gold	the personal bow of the Huntress of the Moons	in possession of the Huntress of the Moons
Bow of Csillag	damage rating varies gains the power of any prey felled by it imbued with the powers of the Wild Hunt, blessed by the Huntress can only be used by someone who is a hunter of skill 25+ b'qar	Hunt	a vilagfa wood longbow ornamented with the antlers of legendary deer, feathers of legendary birds, bones of legendary beasts	fashioned by Wild Huntsmen for a mortal who proved herself a skilled hunter, then imbued with the power of every prey it struck down for Ages	kept by an old witch in the forests of Idangar
Bow of Tangwystl	damage rating varies consumes identities of those it fells poisonous thorns on bow, power 22 thorn energy	Envy	a thornwood great bow covered in thorns	owned by the doppelganger who taught the Poacher how to hunt, cursed to be unusable by anyone	in the hunting lodge of the High King of Mwyr Aeld
Bow of Khismariy	damage: 23/27/31 imbued with the power of the taiga stronger in autumn creates cold winds when fired only usable by one vowed to protect the forest autumnal aether	Petrichor	a tyvka larch shortbow, seemingly brittle like leaves in autumn, colored the hues of the changing leaves, woven together by spirits of autumn	crafted aetherially by one communing with the taiga, fashioned to arm protectors of the vast woods	in the forests of Colesh
Bow of Varpuli	damage: 27/34/41 stronger in winter draws all the heat from the air and converts it to frost when it fires summons the North Wind when fired in to the northern sky freezes targets solid made for brumal focus brumal aether	Ice	a longbow made of ice, with the swirling darkness of winter within it, and a sliver of the Absolute Zero inside	made by the North Wind for one of his children	in the skyhold of the North Wind
Bow of Gelgeis	can be used in the dark of night without penalty instills fear in targets while pointed at them kills fairies instantly and transforms them into goblins uafas	Nightmare	a shortbow made of fire and shadow, imbued with the fears of a hundred fairy princes	given by the Master of the Wild Hunt to the King of the Goblins before they rode together one Samhain	in the nightmares of the fairy Tamlin
Bow of Hwlcyn	shrieks when string is drawn back unleashes a sonic boom when fired arrows become soundwaves shatters wood, stone, glass, bone cacophony energy	Cacophony	a longbow made of the wood of a man-eating tree and imbued with the screams of a thousand dying nightingales	empowered in a ritual of torture in the heart of the Shrikewood	wielded by the Prince of Nails
Hero's Bow	only the bravest and most bold may wield it will kill any user afflicted with hubris damage: 30/39/48 empowered by bravery glory energy	Valor	a great bow of scarlet wood and string, glowing in the sun, with the heroism of a thousand heroes in its shaft	a bow owned by hero after hero after hero, passed along through the Ages	owned by an exiled warrior seeking his way home
Halisko	if arrows do not kill, they lay a doom upon the target arrows can knock down walls +6 archery when used on horseback arrows explode when fired into the midst of an army	Doom	a great bow made with the bones and blood of a thousand thousand enemies	wielded by the Eschatonic Horseman Conquest	in the armory at the World's End
Fail-not	never misses cannot be used by any but those it personally chooses if the bells ring, it will leave you krakaohy	Skill	a longbow with three tiny bells on its top	owned by a legendary knight who died tragically for sleeping with his master's wife	in the forests of Albion
Qaws al-Riyah	fires powerful winds that carry its arrows for miles allows bearer to fly allows bearer to see for miles wind aether	Wind	a horsebow made of glass, with a hundred kiir sealed within	one of the legendary weapons of the Windkin people	kept with a specific Windkin tribe
Chotgoralagch	doesn't miss when target is a violator of sacred laws +9/+9 vs. evil will break if used against an innocent lhair	Justice	a horsebow of the steppes, woven together with feather, horseblood, and tears of the agrieved	used to capture the infamous criminal Khasarsaikhan, who had poisoned the water of six tribes	owned by the Staves of Justice
Sunbow	fires rays of sunfire stronger under the dawn sun only usable by one who can resist the heat of the arrows and string solar aether	Sun	a dawnwood bow (golden in hue) with silver arrows, with a string made of liquid sunfire	wielded by a legendary Ledean poet, healer, and archer	in the armory of the Sunbearer
Banebringer	any arrow fired from this bow will bring bad luck to any it hits does not wound, only stuns on a roll of triple 6s, the target will die horribly on a roll of triple 7s, the bow snaps and will never be repaired cursed misfortune	Misfortune	a longbow crafted from the bones of a peridot dragon, strung with its guts	the crafter of this bow was cursed by the children of the dragon killed to make it, and that curse lives on in the bow	buried at a seven-point crossroad in Jesenya somewhere
Uumakkagrupiat	applies aetherial energy to anything fired from it shaft will not break, strings easily trees spring up where its arrows fall kills beings of brown aether instantly prasinofos	Flora	a finely crafted shortbow made with wood from the World Tree, green in hue, with bright green leaves at either end	made for whalers in the far north, but because of what it was made of, it had greater power than they could imagine	kept by a human nation in the ice floes around Cassaru
Bow of Guizhong	only the righteous may hold this bow +6 archery to user will not harm the meek dazzling arrows, iridal lights leaves a rainbow trail behind arrows fired will destroy the iniquitous and cruel radiance	Heaven	a longbow made from fusang wood and rainbows, dazzling colorful lights flow off of it as it moves	the hero Guizhong was told by Heaven to shoot an arrow from her bow into the heart of a warlord, and when she did, the bow sprang into rainbow light	kept in a shrine in the high mountains of western Unbul
Pinaka	arrows cannot be stopped or intercepted very difficult to use or string kills morags and hexars Foundation	Creation	shortbow made of fashioned wood, a lurid purple in hue, with two bends	made as a gift for the Creator by the Alpha Shemir	lost in the deep woods of Vimala
Swallowfeather Bow	ignores armor ignores walls made of mundane wood or stone, but is stopped by paper does not need arrows, fires blasts of fulvous energy liberation power	Liberation	a very plain looking longbow with the feather of a swallow on the top of it	a bow used by outlaws in ancient Dhun in fighting unjust kings, every cruel tyrant slain by it left a mark upon it for hundreds of years	sealed in a chest at the bottom of a lake in Dhun, put there by a tyrannical king
Burning Tiger Bow	cannot be held by any but those resistant to intense heat turns any arrow into a bailaohu-tipped weapon as the molten metal cools rapidly when fired automatically shapes said metal into a very sharp tip when fired bailaohu jinghua (white tiger aether)	Metal	made of molten bailaohu metal	in a deep lava pool in the Hypogaeum, four dwarven smiths invoked aetherial powers as they forged this weapon for a dongxue archer going to face a legendary titanium dragon	in the horde of the titanium dragon Izhzaradaean
Sh'rawaz	can draw on user's lifeforce to empower shooting of the bow, which can kill the user arrows can travel up to three days the path of the arrow will create a boundary that cannot be crossed for three days must be used with special arrows gebvel	Boundaries	gaokerena-wood shortbow with a double bend, given power by being the focus of a Moment	fired by a legendary geliqurofi archer in order to stop two armies from warring and create the boundary of a country	in the armory of the armies of Jenil
Taiyang Shashou	can shoot the sun out of the sky (temporarily) +9/+9 bonus against sun/solar aether/desert beings allows user to aim even in the night lunar aether	Moons	jianmu-wood shortbow with ten moons carved into it, washed in the tears of the Moons	used by a Consort of one of the Moons to force the sun out of the sky	in a cave lost on the Grey Moon
Bow of Tazrzit	fires arrows that will cause love or hate in the target +9/+9 when protecting one's loved ones beautiful to behold, easy to string strengthened by true love dumaqu	Love	a sapphire shortbow with golden arrows, fashioned via dumaqu	used by an Attendant of the Beloved Divine to make people fall in or out of love	at the bottom of a cold lake high in the mountains of Wymmeria
Vijaya	unbreakable string twangs thunder (intimidation 25) arrows flash lightning (blinding) cannot be lifted by average mortals empowers every arrow fired can be fired once to lift an island from the sea wielder is unkillable while firing	Storm	dark blue longbow made of lightning and rowan wood, made impossibly as the lightning struck	used by many legendary heroes in Vimala	sealed in the heart of an eternal storm in the Great Southern Ocean
Gandiva	strung with 108 strings made from clouds imbues user with confidence unbreakable immune to fire strength of 100,000 bows poioumenon	Story	shortbow made of walnut wood and clouds, appears out of nowhere by the power of poioumenon	wielded by one of the Chosen rakshasa of the Storyteller	covered in mud at the bottom of the Great Southern Ocean
Sharanga	just a very, very good bow viridian aether	World	a longbow made from wood of the World Tree	owned by the nephesh Elam	owned by Elam
Kodandam	+9/+9 vs. demons empowered by virtue only usable by the reincarnation of a legendary hero heavenly virtue	Virtue	a longbow made from banyanwood, connected to the virtuous around the world	owned by a demonslayer from Vimala	left at Lovers Rock in Vimala long ago and forgotten there
Indradhanush Sir Jhukaana	fires lightning brilliant and dazzling storm aether	Storm	a shortbow made of rainbows	drawn from a rainbow by the Storm Father	sealed in the heart of an eternal storm in the Great Southern Ocean
Bow of Chelorel	only pure wooden arrows may be fired from it poisonous to creatures of msawhat aetherial blasts can be fired if the bow is charged by a forest viridian aether	Nature	a longbow made of greenheart wood and adorned with ancient carvings of sea eagles in flight and adorned with their feathers	owned by a ranger of the far north who wandered the arctic forests from Cassaru to Ranu to Ansulym, gathering the powers of each forest as they went	the last undefiled artifact in the hoard of the brown dragon Bandahhuram
Singing String	the string vibrates and creates beautiful music when plucked or drawn fires euphonic arrows that pierce through armor easily +9 against creatures of cacophony +6 against evil +3 against beings of mystery euphony	Music	a longbow made of gold and strung with a strand of the hair of the Songstress	given to a bowwoman fighting against the armies of the Shrikewood during a Divine war	buried under the rubble of a ruined city, long forgotten, in Melodia
Robber Hood's Bow	+6 aim vs the powerful no penalty to called shots no penalty to trick shots no penalty to double or triple arrow shots +3 aim to hit an arrow it has already shot poioumenon lhair	Story/Justice/Crime	a simple longbow made of strong wood	said to be the bow of the legendary hero	legendary, unknown
Bow of Mal'sk	fires poisonous arrows that weaken and cause pain but do not kill drains power from any target with 6 or more less strength than the user drains power from any target with 6 or more less willpower than the user hollow energy	Abuse	a large great bow strung with gut-string made from slaves	bow of the king of Mal'sk who fathered Hollow Jack	in the hunting lodge of the current king of Mal'sk, unusuable except by the most powerful and cruel
Bow of Galamarien	can only be used by an elf from each Name it has a different power Ashara: +6 awareness to user Daenil: +6 damage vs evil Da'sabash: prescience Endhathef: bow cannot be harmed by esoteric powers Ennasrion: perfect aim Jheshemirath: one arrow every 12 years may dilate time Kohae'nuadkiero: arrows come alive as flying animals if user wishes Lamaera: wooden arrows +9 damage Noinalla: arrows can be fired underwater with no penalty Notamit'qaeten: arrows ignore winds Rindacsa: arrows absorb esoteric energies and take on new properties if user wills it Rodaxana: arrows can pierce stone Thannas: argent fire on arrows Yloquith: arrows of gold freeze the blood of targets True Names/ashar	Life	a slender longbow made of silverwood and strung with fine elven hair, carved with elven runes that invoke the Names of the Last Elves	made by the elven bowsmith Galamarien in the early days of Third Shem in order to protect the forests from the nine undead Agikaani Elven Warriors	kept by the Elf Queen
Arkumitikoa	anyone can use it at 13 skill unless they already have higher skill arrows will equal toughness+armor rating of target unless already higher if protecting the weak, arrows will be equal to the difference in STR or WIL between those you are protecting and those attacking them added to the toughness+armor rating of the target ujjval aatma	Equality	a common great bow with the soul of its original owner, a legendary archer, inside of it	the bow used by a hero of a small Jesenyan country [basque] in the mountains in defense against conquest	lost in those same mountains
Zver'kishka	cannot be used by anyone living in a city or town will not harm non-intelligent animals takes on qualities of one of the nine Great Beasts of northern Ranu: Indrik, firebird, cicavac, great snake, gamayun, gagana, goldhorn, tur, or Yekyua nzware murazvo	Fauna	a shortbow made of antler, horn, fur, and gut, scale, feather, fang, and claw; an old rhyme in many northern Ranic tongues refers to each of these component parts being given willingly by magical animals	a hunter from a small tribe in the cold northern regions of Ranu lost his way while trying to find food for his people; he fell, broke his leg, and would have died if not for the kindness of the animals who saved him. in turn, he refused to kill them for food. knowing that hunting was part of life for animals and for the wilderness, and knowing his people would starve if he did not, they came to him and gave of themselves to make this bow to show him he should do his duty, sparing them only the once to repay the kindness.	kept by Yekyua
Kashat Kasamum	only fires magical blasts casts one of 11 attack spells when used against void beings, witchfinders, or magekillers repels other esoteric attacks targeting the bow itself mana	Magic	a shortbow made with the bones of one hundred familiars	after the Fall of Magic, witchfinders and magekillers slaughtered weakened witches and mages, leading a powerful cabal in Mahad to gather the bones of their fallen familiars and craft this weapon and a handful of others	owned by the cunning mage Tesoro
Krektantak	fires blasts of dragonflame accumulates energy if its blasts hit someone must have STR of 22 to use it draconic power	Dragon	a longbow made from drachesch and leuce wood, carved with the Names of five powerful dragons	made by five powerful dragons for a warrior they needed to defeat a dragon who had lost control of baleblood	in the hoard in Kren'atan

Topic revision: r10 - 08 Jan 2022, SallyJaneBlack

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