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  who needed payment. 
  Already on the verge 
  of financial collapse 
  and with greedy armies 
  ready to turn on the 
  Protectorate if not given 
  satisfaction, the Tsar had 
  no choice but to open 
  up his armories and 
  magical 
  storehouses, 
  allowing 
  them 
  to 
  take their payment in 
  weapons and magical 
  items as well as money. 
  The bow fell into the 
  hands of a group of 
  adventurers who were 
  master saboteurs and 
  scouts during the war. 
  Their leader, a ranger 
  and 
  archer 
  named 
  Yergev 
  Sermikovski, 
  took the bow as his 
  personal 
  weapon. 
  Impressed by its power 
  and range he traveled 
  to the Dominion in 
  peace time and had 
  it enchanted by the 
  sorcerers there into an 
  even more formidable 
  magic 
  weapon. 
  Dominion sorcery and 
  Protectorate technology 
  combined would make 
  a poignant remark about 
  the potential power 
  behind any unity of the 
  nations, as the weapon 
  served with distinction 
  in minor conflicts and 
  adventures all around 
  the 
  continent 
  for 
  years.  Eventually the 
  adventurers 
  founded 
  their 
  own 
  private 
  mercenary 
  company, 
  the Lightning Dragons.  Ever since wherever this company 
  went the Protectorate 
  Twilight Bow went with 
  them.
  Not every weapon is created with the individual in mind. 
  In the modern world of Exodus many weapons are built 
  with the intent of mass production to fuel the march of war. 
  Thus it was with the Protectorate Twilight Bow.  A weapon 
  built with massive battles with Dominion forces in mind, 
  its overwhelming cost and difficulty in manufacture made 
  it a laughable example of bad military spending.
  HISTORY
  In the year 93 BU during the Twilight War, Tsar Georgy II 
  of the Arman Protectorate commissioned his researchers to 
  create a weapon that could be handled by his archers and 
  bowman that would potentially end the war.
  Though the engineers and artificers of the Arman 
  protectorate at the time were clever they lacked the 
  creativity and military sense required to fulfill the projects 
  main goals.  In the end, after years of failed lines of research 
  into explosive weaponry, crossbows that utilized wands as 
  ammo, and various other forgotten weapons, the group 
  applied their mechanical knowledge to the old standby, 
  the longbow.  Utilizing the latest theories regarding the 
  efficient application of mechanical force, they used a 
  high tensile wire and pulley system to lend an incredible 
  amount of strength to the shot with relatively little pull on 
  the bow.  The design was complex and required a great 
  deal of maintenance but was quite ingenious in adding 
  a modern twist to an ancient weapon.  Unfortunately the 
  cost of deploying the weapon to troops in the field was 
  exorbitant in the extreme, and proper utilization would 
  have bankrupted the Protectorate.
  So furious was the Tsar at the failure of the engineers 
  to produce anything of worth after spending scandalous 
  amounts of money on the project, he immediately replaced 
  the engineers and sentenced them to serve on the frontlines 
  as regular soldiers.
  The bow itself was stored in the armory of the capital and 
  was mostly forgotten. The occasional engineer or noble 
  with a certain mechanical bent would bring the bow out 
  to showcase its novelty and power.  Though it was never 
  considered for mass production it did gain some minor 
  notoriety as an example of Armanian technical skill 
  and the folly of over-thinking a problem.  It might have 
  remained that way were it not for the end of the Twilight 
  War.
  At the end of the war there were a number of mercenary 
  armies 
  and 
  adventuring 
  groups who fought under the 
  banner of the Protectorate 
  TREASURES OF NEOEXODUS:
  PROTECTORATE TWILIGHT BOW
  3.5 SYSTEM COMPATIBLE
  LPJ94XX
  
  Aura strong evocation; CL 12th;  
  Slot None; Price 62,500; Weight 3lbs
  DESCRIPTION
  This +4 seeking mighty composite longbow functions in all ways like a normal bow except for the following:  it 
  acts as if the wielder has a +4 bonus from their strength score even if the wielder even if their bonus is lower, 
  though it does not grant an additional bonus to a higher Strength.  It has a range increment of 200 ft.  This bonus 
  is an extraordinary ability, not a magical or supernatural effect. The weapon also magically confers on its wielder 
  extraordinary aim, such that it ignores the first 5 points of hardness of any object it hits, and that object’s first 10 
  points of damage reduction.  
  CONSTRUCTION
  Requirements Craft Magic Arms and Armor, true seeing, creator must have at least 15 ranks in Knowledge 
  (engineering); Cost 31,250gp
  DESCRIPTION AND CONSTRUCTION
  The Protectorate Twilight Bow looks, for all intents and 
  purposes, like a 5 foot tall heavy composite longbow made 
  of brass and lightweight mithril.  It is strung with a high 
  tensile wire and pulled with the assistance of a number of 
  highly complex gears and pulleys, allowing even a weak 
  wielder to lend incredible power behind the projectile.  
  Thanks to Dominion sorcery the weapon glows with an 
  eerie blue fire when the bow is drawn.
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  3.5 SYSTEM COMPATIBLE
  LPJ9516
  folding circle
  enemies of Neoexodus:
  first ones
  e ne mie s  o f  Ne o e xo du s :
  3.5 SYSTEM COMPATIBLE
  LPJ9506
  3.5 SYSTEM COMPATIBLE
  LPJ9484
  3.5 SYSTEM COMPATIBLE
  LPJXX22
  world of Exodus
  Neoexodus Chronicles:
  THE WORLD OF EXODUS NEEDS HEROES...
  
  Aura strong evocation; CL 12th;  
  Slot None; Price 62,500; Weight 3lbs
  DESCRIPTION
  This +4 seeking mighty composite longbow 
  functions in all ways like a normal bow except 
  for the following:  it acts as if the wielder has a 
  +4 bonus from their strength score even if the 
  wielder even if their bonus is lower, though 
  it does not grant an additional bonus to a 
  higher Strength.  It has a range increment of 
  200 ft.  This bonus is an extraordinary ability, 
  not a magical or supernatural effect. The 
  weapon also magically confers on its wielder 
  extraordinary aim, such that it ignores the 
  first 5 points of hardness of any object it hits, 
  and that object’s first 10 points of damage 
  reduction.  
  CONSTRUCTION
  Requirements Craft Magic Arms and Armor, 
  true seeing, creator must have at least 15 ranks 
  in Knowledge (engineering); Cost 31,250gp
  PROTECTORATE TWILIGHT 
  BOW WEAPON CARDS
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  TWILIGHT BOW
  
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