Description : As the name might suggest a crystal bow is made from living crystal, similar to the armors fancied by most troll skyraider clans. Like most crystalline items a crystal bow needs magic (which means a thread attached) to work properly. As soon as a thread is woven to such an item, the bow starts to shine with a dim light of the same color as the crystal it has been fashioned from. In addition to that the crystal grows flexible and allows an archer (not necessarily an archer adept) to fire an arrow from the bow. Like most threaded bows the string is not an integral part of the item and may be replaced by any type of string the wielder wishes to use. (Note: although the picture shows a very nice quiver it is not a part of the crystal bow - in the beginning at least) Most crystal bows are longbows although a few short and warbows have also been seen across the country ( -1/+1 Damage Step respectively)
No. of Threads : 3	Spell Defense : 12
Basic Statistics : Weight: 5 lbs    Damage Step: 4 Ranges: 40/100/220    Minimum Strength: 11

Rank I    Cost : 200 Legend Points Key Knowledge : As always the character has to know he name of the item, which the GM has to provide. Some bows have their names etched into the crystal, while others have their names within the crystal itself, allowing the name to be read only when a successful Spell Casting test against the bows Spell Defense is made. Effect : Crystal Spitter, for the cost of one point of strain per shot the shooter may cause the arrow to transform into an arrow-shaped crystalline replica during flight, which adds three steps to the damage step due to the incredible sharpness of the crystal arrow. If the damage step results in a bonus die the arrow shatters after hitting the target otherwise the arrow reverts to normal after a number of minutes equal to the current thread rank of the crystal bow. Shattered arrows dissolve after the same time. Rank II    Cost : 300 Legend Points Key Knowledge :None. Effect : Diamond Tip, using an additional point of strain when firing a crystalline arrow (that 2 pts then) transforms the arrow's tip into a razor sharp diamond wedge, which allows the wielder to score an armor-defeating hit on level earlier than normal. Rank III    Cost : 500 Legend Points Key Knowledge : Obviously an earth elemental has used some of its power for the creation of a crystal bow, which one ? (name) Effect : Hail of Crystals, for the cost of five points of strain the character may create a crystalline arrow which shatters shortly after being fired, resulting in a cloud of razor-sharp crystalline pieces, flying towards the target in a cone (like dragons breath) 45 yards in length and 10 yards in width at the end. Due to the area effect of this attack a poor success is sufficient to hit characters in the cone. The damage step for this attack is 10. Rank IV    Cost : 800 Legend Points Key Knowledge : None. Deed : The character must seek the earth elemental which empowered this bow and swear allegiance to it, possibly gaining a supporter (level 2) due to this action. The deed is worth no legend points, but the character is granted a .. Effect : Crystal Quiver. This quiver creates (diamond-tipped) crystal arrows without the need to strain yourself. It creates 3 arrows per day (one every 8 hours or so) and can hold a total of 24, which dissolve 4 minutes after they are removed from the quiver and may only be fired with a crystal bow. Firing them with any other kind of bow is impossible due to the fact that the crystal arrows are totally unbalanced and will stray of target within the first few meters. If the character thinks the quivers rate is too slow, he may spend a Karma Point to roll his Karma Dice and create a number of additional (non-diamond tipped) arrows in the quiver equal to the Karma test result. The damage step(s) increase(s) by two. (normal arrow, crystal arrow, cone)