Ash Arrow
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An arrow fletched with crow feathers and tipped with ash wood, the only wood that can pierce fae flesh and kill an immortal.
Also known as: Ash Shaft, Mortal's Mercy, Faebane Bolt, The Equalizer
What They Know
- Ash wood is the only natural substance that can kill a faerie; iron wounds but does not kill, and faebane only suppresses magic.
- The trees from which ash arrows are made grow only south of the Wall, in the mortal lands, and are carefully guarded by human woodcutters.
- A single ash arrow, properly fletched and tipped, can fetch a king's ransom in the fae markets of the continent, though trading them is punishable by death in most courts.
- The Illyrian war-camps have a legend that the first ash arrow was carved from the branch of a tree that grew from the grave of a faerie who betrayed his own kind to save a mortal lover.
- During the War five hundred years ago, entire forests of ash were burned by the fae to deny the mortals their greatest weapon.
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