Scientific Longbow Skin gleams in the daylight, a slender arc of walnut and brass. The limbs are wrapped in a braided leather grip, and thin brass bands run along the belly like a string of tiny beakers. A pane of pale sapphire resin sits near the riser, housing a minute clockwork heart that tics softly as the bow is drawn. The whole surface is etched with micro-gears and etched runes that catch the eye and the imagination, as if a laboratory and a hunter's shack were pressed into one artifact. The texture is cool and smooth, the lacquered wood slipping easily under finger tips, while the brass is cool and slightly warm to the touch where the sun hits it. The skin's lore is whispered among merchants and wayfarers: it was born from a traveling tinker's caravan that accompanied field researchers into the jungles and laboratories of a distant outpost, a prototype intended to marry optical science with wooded stealth. Some say it contains a fragment of how light travels through resin and wood, captured so that the longbow appears to whisper when drawn. In practice, the skin does not alter your stats; it alters your story. It gives a hunter’s weapon a look of measured calculation, as if every shot were part of an experiment. When the bow is drawn, the etched lines glow faintly with a cold blue, and the sapphire pane catches the light in a way that makes a target appear crisper, almost analytical. Players speak of the satisfaction of “powering up” the aesthetic of their marksman, of feeling like they’re guiding not just arrows, but hypotheses toward a conclusion. It pairs naturally with precision builds, where careful aim and patience matter as much as speed. The item’s place in the world feels woven into the broader tapestry of trade and tale. A craftsman in Divinity's Reach might trade a fragment of a lab diary for a sample of resin from a distant outpost, then a traveler could turn around and offer the skin to fund their next expedition. Price, as always, dances to demand and scarcity. In bustling markets, you’ll hear whispers of the Scientific Longbow Skin trading hands for several gold, depending on the season. If you head to Saddlebag Exchange, the mood shifts; here the same skin might be barter-bait for rare scraps or a bundle of trade notes, with sellers quick to mention its timeless elegance and the faint promise of “proof in the field,” a nod to its scientific aura. A buyer notices not just the beauty, but the story—someone’s measured approach to risk, a plan that took shape between experiments and expeditions. And so the bow makes its quiet contribution: not a weapon of brute force, but a symbol that science and craft walk side by side in the same pocket, ready to shape the next scene of the hunt. Some nights in camp, the bow’s ticking becomes a lullaby, a reminder that curiosity and courage travel together each day.