Skyrim:Auriel's Bow

Artifact: Auriel's Bow (xx000800) (lore page)
Type	Bow
Added by	Dawnguard
Editor ID	DLC1AurielsBow
Statistics
Damage	13
Damage	13		{{{health}}}
Speed	1.000
Speed	1.000
Weight	11	Value	1436
Tempering	Refined Moonstone
Tempering	Refined Moonstone	Perk	Elven Smithing
Enchantment
20actually 10 points of sun damage. Undead targets take triple damage. Sun Damage, 10 pts for 2 secs Sun Damage, 20 pts for 2 secs; if the target is Undead
Charge/Cost = Uses		1000/38=26

Auriel's Bow

Auriel's Bow is a powerful bow allegedly used by the elven god Auri-El. It is received from Gelebor during the quest Touching the Sky. Shooting the sun using Auriel's Bow with Bloodcursed Elven Arrows will block out the sun until the following morning, negating its negative effects on vampires for the duration.

Additionally, shooting the sun with Sunhallowed Elven Arrows will cause the sun to shoot out rays of light at nearby enemies in a similar fashion to Storm Call.

It can be improved with an ingot of Refined Moonstone and the Arcane Blacksmith perk, with the Elven Smithing perk doubling the improvement.

The Bloodcursed sun rises over Whiterun

Related Quests

• Touching the Sky: Find and retrieve Auriel's Bow.
• Kindred Judgment: Confront Lord Harkon.

Achievements

One achievement is related to Auriel's Bow:

• Auriel's Bow^DG (20 points/Bronze) — Use the special power of Auriel's Bow

Notes

• Be wary about shooting the sun with Sunhallowed arrows in a populated area (such as Whiterun) as townspeople will likely be hit by the rays which shoot forth.
• You can obtain Bloodcursed elven arrows from Serana after Touching the Sky. Simply speak to her and select the dialogue option. Note that your own elven arrows must be used to create their Bloodcursed version.
  • Bloodcursed elven arrows cannot be obtained if you have convinced Serana to cure herself of vampirism.
• If you ask Valerica to make Bloodcursed arrows she will politely refuse and say that she never wanted any part in the prophecy.
• Blotting out the sun will sometimes cause vampires to attack a city and many NPCs will make comments about the sky.
• If you blot out the sun, Sunhallowed arrows won't work until the next day.
• When you point at the sun with Auriel's Bow drawn and Bloodcursed or Sunhallowed arrows equipped, the screen will briefly tint red or yellow, respectively. This can help you aim at the sun even behind mountains or cloud cover.
• If you blot out the sun, reading either the Elder Scroll (Sun) or Elder Scroll (Blood) will return the sun to normal and allow you to use the Sunhallowed arrows without having to wait a full day.
• Sunhallowed arrows shot at enemies will cause explosions when using Auriel's Bow.
• While Auriel's Bow also appears in Arena and Daggerfall as a powerful enchanted weapon, in Morrowind this artifact is unenchanted.
• If the bow is given to Harkon before you battle him, it can be retrieved from his ashes when you defeat him along with other rare items.
• With the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, Auriel's Bow counts as a Daedric artifact for the Oblivion Walker achievement, despite the fact that it is an Aedric, not Daedric, artifact, and is therefore tied to the plane of Aetherius, rather than the planes of Oblivion.
• Hendraheim^CC, Myrwatch's gallery^CC contains a special holder for this item.
• With 13 base damage it is equivalent to an Elven Bow. However, it fires 45% faster, giving it DPS between a Daedric Bow and Dragonbone Bow. With the addition of top-tier arrows, it deals the most damage of any bow in the game.
• The damaging "sun ray" effect when shooting Sunhallowed Arrows at the sun is similar to that of the lightning bolts created by the Storm Call shout, but with a few big differences: there is no lengthy cooldown (assuming you don't exploit certain glitches); the effects don't move with you like they do with Storm Call; you cannot use it at night; and instead of coming straight down from the sky, the sun rays come from wherever in the sky the sun currently is. This means that enemies can take better cover from the rays if you use this ability early in the morning or late into the evening, when the sun is at more of a horizontal angle. The sun ray effect lasts for 60 seconds.

Bugs

• Its critical value is set to 13 damage, equal to its base damage, rather than 6 as would be expected.
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 1.2.3, fixes this bug. (details)
• Anything that forces a weather change will appear to end the darkened sun effect prematurely, such as Clear Skies. The returned sun will have a red tint to it, vampires will not take sun damage, and NPCs will react as though the sun was still darkened until the next day.
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 2.0.3, fixes this bug.
• The Sun Damage enchantment is bugged. The damage is split into two parts: a 1-point component that affects all creatures, and a 50-point component that only affects the undead.
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 1.1.1, fixes this bug.
• Unlike other Sun Damage effects, the one used by Auriel's Bow isn't in the Restoration school, so Restoration skill and Fortify Restoration effects don't enhance it as expected.
  • The Unofficial Dawnguard Patch, version 1.1.1, fixes this bug.
• If Auriel's Bow is in your inventory when you're arrested during The Forsworn Conspiracy, the bow will be lost and will not be returned at the end of the quest.
  • The bow should be recoverable in the evidence chest inside the prison.
• Shooting Sunhallowed arrows at the sun may cause it to become dark like the bloodcursed arrows.

See Also

• For more information, see the lore article.

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