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Crafting Motif 94: Ancestral Reach Maces
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Crafting Motif 87: Ancestral Reach Maces
by Lieutenant Abrienna Nestoro, Imperial Legion
A description of what Ancestral Reach maces should look like

Reachfolk warriors are known far and wide for their ferocity in battle and the primitiveness of their arms and armor. Few Reachfolk smelt iron, let alone steel, and at its best Reachfolk metalwork is poorly made. Instead, Reachfolk rely on materials provided by nature to fashion their weapons: wood, stone, hide, and bone. During Empress Hestra's recent campaign to establish Imperial rule in the Reach, we learned that a Reachfolk's hide shield can stop a hard-driven arrow just as well as steel-bossed birchwood, and an axe fashioned from the shoulderblade of a Druadach bear can part the links of light mail. Primitive, yes—but effective as well.

MACES

Given the materials at hand, clubs of different types are among the easiest weapons for Reachfolk to manufacture. A typical Reachfolk mace is made from a hefty piece of ironwood, to which sharpened flakes of stone are secured by rawhide thongs.