Crow quill
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| Name | crow quill |
| Appearance | feather-etched rapier |
| Damage vs. small | 1d8 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d8 |
| Damage type | piercing |
| To-hit bonus | +2 |
| Weapon skill | saber |
| Primary attribute | dexterity |
| Secondary attribute | strength |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties |
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| Base size | medium |
| Base price | 200 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Default weight | 34 |
| Base material | metal |
A crow quill is a type of saber that appears in dNetHack, notnotdNetHack, and notnotdNetHack. It is a medium-sized piercing weapon that has a base-material of metal. It appears as a feather-etched rapier when unidentified.
For Noble Half-dragons, the artifacts Fire brand and Frost brand may be reshaped into a crow quill by dipping them into a forges and fountains, respectively. A mercurial crow quill can be named The Sky Reflected and merged into The Amalgamated Skies while retaining its special study effects.
Generation
Crow quills do not randomly generate, but may be wished for.
Corvian knights are generated with a crow quill 1⁄8 of the time.
Carcosan courtiers generated in the future have a 3⁄4 chance of being generated with a crow quill.
Description
At Skilled and Expert skill, crow quills gain the focus fire, stop thrust, lunge, and bleed expert traits.
Any hit with a crow quill makes the target vulnerable, adding 4 points of study to them, observable by applying a stethoscope.
A crow quill wielded as the main weapon gains full dexterity damage bonus of (DEX - 10)2 rounded down, except at 25, where it instead gains +8. They only receive halved strength bonus damage, for at most +4 at 25. Additionally, a wielded crow quill increases the hero's AC by the lower value between their saber skill (with 1 point per level) and (DEX - 13)4, up to at most 3 points of AC: this is a trait shared with the rapier, rakuyo, the rakuyo-saber, and the soldier's rapier.
Origin
The crow quill is a thrusting sword that appears in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC for the 2016 game Dark Souls III. Its description states: "Thrusting sword wielded by Corvian Knights, and a special paired weapon. When twin-handed, brandish four thin-edge blades in the left hand. In their infatuation with Sister Friede, the Corvian Knights swore to protect the painting from fire, and to this end, took to the execution of their own brethren."
