Ash Arrow

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.