The Silverleaf Bow

The Silverleaf Bow is carried by Silver Warden captains when warning has failed and Lysvar must answer without spectacle. Its authority is moral rather than ornate. A shot loosed from it means the border has spoken, and someone ignored every gentler language first. The bow smells of wax, rain, polished wood, and old leather. Its earliest captains taught that an unseen arrow should be the last courtesy, not the first habit. Beautiful in craft and dreadful in silence, it asks every bearer whether concealment has become justice or merely a cleaner way to kill.