Fashioning Bows

A high quality Compound Bow takes five years to produce correctly. A good quality Longbow takes about one year to produce. Even a simple Recurve Bow takes about six months. Most of this time is for selecting, shaping, and seasoning the wood. Metal weapons take far longer. Even when a sufficient quantity of metal is available at all, it can take quite some time to make even just one good quality sword. The vast majority of this time is really spent catching up on other orders. Large armories are kept by the Emperor, or Kings, and other rulers. Many weapons are kept in store there in case of need.