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Arrow Fletching

* Before you even attempt to make an arrow; please note the minimum requirement is 10 ranks in bows.

Arrow Fletching - Arrowhead Making - Arrow Chart

Equipment:

carving knife (easily found on Madmen or Goblins,also bought at Shard or Theren General Stores and Knife Clan)
shaper (purchase in Leth Deriel or Lagenfirth bowry)
stick (forage for your favorite)
feather flights (buy them at a bowry)
glue (buy it at a bowry)
shears (buy them at a bowry)
arrowheads [bodkin, bishop, broad-tip, barbed, warhead] (buy them at a bowry)

Steps:

With a stick in your left hand, and carving knife in your right hand: SHAPE SHAFT FROM MY STICK - 2x or until you see: You shave excess wood away from the stick revealing the clean wood beneath. It finally looks like a shaft.
With the shaper in your right hand, SHAPE SHAFT
With the knife in hand: NOTCH MY SHAFT WITH MY KNIFE, you will see: "You carefully notch the shaft's tip preparing it for the arrowhead."
Again with the knife: NOTCH MY SHAFT WITH MY KNIFE, you will see: "Being careful to center it just right, you notch the shaft creating its nock."
Now FLETCH MY SHAFT.
Grab some feather flights and FLETCH MY SHAFT.
Get your glue and FLETCH MY SHAFT.
Get your shears and FLETCH MY SHAFT.
And lastly, grab your favorite arrowhead and AFFIX ARROWHEAD.

Notes:

If at any point you miscarve/fletch any step in the process, you will have flawed the arrow. The arrow is no longer "perfect" or "flawless". It will still be useable and work, but will not be good. You are much better off to drop it, and start over from step one.

Every 10 ranks in a bow skill will allow you to carve a better arrow. Hence an arrow I fletch at 43 ranks will be superior to one I fletch at 38. However, a arrow I fletch at 48 will likely be about the same as one I feltch at 45. Appraising a fletch can tell you it's approximate value. I have no info on a rating system for arrows, other than their appraisal value - assuming more value corresponds to a better arrow. I lose arrows left and right anyway so I don't really worry about it.

Arrowhead Making

Arrowheads can be puncture, slice, or impact primary depending on who is doing the actual crafting.

Equipment:
Blunt Weapon
Arrow head materials: Elsraleal tooth, Angiswaerd tooth, Hele'la tooth or Boar tusk for each arrowhead.

Steps:

With the material in one hand and blunt weapon in the other, POUND <material> INTO ARROWHEAD
Next, POUND ARROWHEAD INTO ARROWHEAD
Continue doing this until you recieve the message that you are finished pounding on an unfinished arrowhead.

Here's a chart listing the Woods and Type of Hits you can expect from the arrows made from them.

Wood Name	Type of Wood	Arrow Benefit
Alder	Soft	Accurate
Ash	Hard	Strong Hit
Birch	Soft	Accurate
Ebony	Hard	Strong Hit
Elm	Soft	Accurate
Fir	Soft	Accurate
Mahogany	Hard	Strong Hit
Maple	Hard	Strong Hit
Oak	Hard	Strong Hit
Pine	Soft	Accurate
Spruce	Soft	Accurate
Teak	Hard	Strong Hit
Walnut	Hard	Strong Hit
Willow	Soft	Accurate
Yew	Unknown	Unknown
Ironwood	Hard	Strong Hit
Rosewood	Hard	Strong Hit

Arrow Appraisals
Pucture/Slice/Impact

Arrows (Crossing store-bought)	Moderate Poor Poor
Barbed Arrows Fair Fair Poor
Bishop Arrows	Fair Low Poor
Blunt Flint-tip	Low Low Low
Bodkin Arrows (regular)
Bodkin (Taisidon)
Bone head
Broadhead
Broad-Tip Arrows	Poor Low Moderate
Gorbesh Barbed Arrows	Moderate Fair Low
Ironwing head
Long Arrows	Fair Poor Poor
Needle-bodkin
Razor Arrows(old)	Heavy Low Poor
Razor Arrows	Heavy Low Poor
Serrated arrowhead
Serrated head
Shark-tooth
Slender Tip Arrows	Moderate None Poor
Tempest Head
Triple-fluted
War Bodkin
Warhead Arrows	Moderate Poor Poor

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