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When the time comes to smite the powers of darkness, there is often no better way in the realm of fiction than to use the Sacred Bow and Arrows. A set of bow and arrows blessed by the gods is employed, weaponizing their holy power in the projectiles. Symbolic of this, the arrow will likely be fired in a streak of light, or the bow may fire an arrow of light. The medium may also depict bows as holy weapons in general, associating them with the gods and divinity.
Historically, bows are one of the oldest projectile weapons in history, going back thousands of years, and there are numerous gods associated with hunting and archery. The most prominent examples are the Greek gods Apollo and Artemis; Both Apollo and Artemis have been referred to as the gods of archery, and both are commonly depicted wielding bows. In China, the invention of the bow is credited to the Yellow Emperor, one of the most important Chinese deities.
Compare Energy Bow, Arrows on Fire, Mage Marksman. May overlap with Forged by the Gods, Light 'em Up and Holy Hand Grenade. See also Archer Archetype, Cupid's Arrow and Heroes Prefer Swords.
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In Clock Tower 3, when Alyssa is ready to face a boss, she manifests a bow and arrows of light. They are the only things able to permanently banish the evil spirits she encounters.
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madoka's bow takes this role in aesthetics and divine function when she takes on her Ultimate form to destroy Walpurgis Night.
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In Arena, Auriel's Bow is a massively powerful bow enchanted with fire damage. However, it only has a finite supply of energy. Once exhausted of this energy, the bow will vanish and reappear where ever chance puts it.
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In Disgaea, the angel Flonne is able to use an attack called Holy Arrows. However in practice it's more a case of Feather Flechettes, as she fires angel feathers as projectiles without actually using a bow.
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Bleach: Quincies fight Hollows with Energy Weapons which fire what their enemies, the Shinigami, call "Arrows of Light". The Quincy Progenitor King stole the name of the Abrahamic God and created the Vandenreich, a xenophobic, military organisation that regards itself as messengers of God, whose powers create sacred Heilig Pfeil (Holy Arrows). Although the Hollows are a very real threat to humanity, Yhwach is a mysterious, quite evil being who is trying to remake the whole world in his image. The Quincy holy crusade is therefore threatening the entire cosmic balance.
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Hyrule Warriors:
Zelda uses and abuses the Light Arrows all over her moveset and will lend them to the player character for the final battle. (Though if Zelda is the player character, Ruto gives her them for some odd reason). This final battle upgrade can be gained temporally during any battle if the player finds a Bow Upgrade on the field. The amount of time it lasts depends on the character's badges.
The 3DS Version includes Tetra, who also has access to the Light Arrows in her move set. Fitting as she's another incarnation of Zelda.
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The Seventh Heaven, the weakest greatbow in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and the strongest in Final Fantasy Tactics A2, is holy-elemental and teaches Ultima Shot. Thanks to Ultima abilities in these games having the same element as the user's weapon, you'll be invoking this trope at least until a character masters the ability and can move on to another weapon. The archer technique Burial is also holy-elemental and has a chance of banishing undead that increases as the targets health goes down.
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In Kirby, some games have the copy ability Angel that comes with a pair of wings, a Holy Halo, and a bow and arrow.
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In Eberron the Church of the Silver Flame's preferred weapon is the longbow.
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In Inuyasha, main heroine Kagome and her past incarnation Kikyo use arrows as mediums to channel their priestess powers to attack enemies.
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The Atalanta summon in Golden Sun: The Lost Age is a wind-element Rain of Arrows. In order to progress through the Jupiter lighthouse, several statues that shoot arrows of light need to be turned on.
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In Kid Icarus, Pit is able to use the holy Light Arrows, once wielded by the goddess Palutena.
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Auriel's Bow appears again in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC as a major plot item. It has a relatively mediocre base damage, but a high "critical" value. It is also enchanted to deal "Sun" damage, and deals triple damage to undead. Over the course of Dawnguard's main quest, it gains the ability to fire "Sunhallowed" or "Bloodcursed" arrows. Sunhallowed arrows, when fired from the bow at the sun during the day, will cause the sun to deal damage to any nearby enemies for a time. Bloodcursed arrows, fired similarly, block out the sun for the rest of the day and prevent vampires from taking sun damage.
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In Digimon Adventure, Angewomon's attack is Holy Arrow (Celestial Arrow in the dub), an arrow of light energy. As an Angel Digimon, she's particularly powerful against demonic enemies like Vamdemon and LadyDevimon.
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Fire Emblem Fates references the tale of a golden kite (kinshi) empowering Emperor Jimmu's bow with the Kinshi Knight - a Hoshido-exclusive class that wields bows while mounted on giant birds, and has a capstone skill named Amaterasu.
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Super Robot Wars: The Angelg, debuting in Super Robot Wars Advance, invokes this trope by being an angel-themed mecha wielding an Energy Bow. For bonus "divinity" points, its strongest attack shoots a flaming arrow that transforms into a phoenix before exploding into a Pillar of Light.
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Blood of Zeus: Heron's weapon of choice is a bow and arrow, primarily due to him being a hunter. In the final battle, a bow and arrow set created by Hephaestus.
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The Dungeons & Dragons Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia has game stats for various deities' bow weapons.
The Native American deity Heng has a bow that shoots lightning bolts that do 6-60 Hit Points of damage and have a range of 30 miles.
Chinese Mythos
The deity Chih-Chiang Fyu-Ya has a magical bow that can hit any target within sight and causes any weapon thrown at him to return and hit its user. If anyone else attempts to use his bow, the arrows from it will hit the user.
The deity Tou Mu has a magic bow that never misses a target within 100 yards.
Greek Mythology
The god Apollo has a bow with a range up to his line of sight.
The goddess Artemis' bow has a range of 1,000 yards.
The bow of the demigod Heracles can only be wielded by him. It can hit targets up to a mile away and cannot miss at a range of 1/2 mile or less.
Hindu Mythology
The god Indra has a bow made of rainbows that can fire 2 lightning bolts per minute up to 1,000 yards away that each do 3-30 Hit Points of damage.
The deity Rudra has a magical black bow that can fire arrows that inflict a rotting disease in any creature hit.
Vishnu's avatar Rama is identified by the bow he wields.
Elven deities
Correlon Larethian's bow fires arrows that never miss.
Arrows fired from Rillifane Rallathil's bow always kill their target.
Norse Mythology deities
Odin has a +3 bow that can fire 10 arrows per minute. note This may not seem impressive, given that one in-game round takes place over a period of six seconds, and therefore 1 minute equals 10 rounds; however, most characters can't fire an arrow every round without devoting several feats to archery or using their entire round doing nothing but loading and firing the bow. Odin's bow basically takes care of the logistics of advanced archery for him.
Uller's bow is plus 5. Arrows from it can hit any target he can see with no penalties for range and he automatically hits at a range of 200 yards or less.
In the Greyhawk campaign setting, the goddess Ehlonna has a bow that never misses its target, even when fired at maximum range. Half of her arrows have a plus 3 bonus, and the rest are Arrows of Slaying for various Evil woodland creatures.
Solars, the most powerful angels in the game, wield enchanted longbows that create their own ammunition and can strike any target dead on a successful hit.
In Eberron the Church of the Silver Flame's preferred weapon is the longbow.
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Mortal Kombat:
Kung Jin fights with a mystical bow which can also be used as a staff and a flame thrower. The bow is an Ancestral Weapon which was given to Raiden as a gift and was kept in the Sky Temple until Jin stole it back.
Fujin, the God of Wind, has a crossbow that can fire glowing arrows of white light.
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In Ramayana, King Janaka of Mithila used an exceptionally heavy bow, given to him by Shiva, as an Engagement Challenge for his daughter Sita's suitors to prove themselves worthy. Prince Rama of Ayodhya was the only one who manages to wield it, and he breaks it in half when he tries to fire it.
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The Legend of Zelda:
The Light Arrows are special holy arrows that can dispel evil magic, and are often employed or created by Zelda. They're commonly used to aid in fighting Ganon. Notably, Twilight Princess is the one of the few games in the franchise where the player does not get access to them at all, and are only used by Zelda in the final battle.
In earlier Zelda games, particularly the original game and A Link to the Past, Silver Arrows were the only thing capable of defeating Ganon.
Hyrule Warriors:
Zelda uses and abuses the Light Arrows all over her moveset and will lend them to the player character for the final battle. (Though if Zelda is the player character, Ruto gives her them for some odd reason). This final battle upgrade can be gained temporally during any battle if the player finds a Bow Upgrade on the field. The amount of time it lasts depends on the character's badges.
The 3DS Version includes Tetra, who also has access to the Light Arrows in her move set. Fitting as she's another incarnation of Zelda.
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In Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, the goddess of the Lifestream, Minerva, combines her armor pieces into a giant bow and fires her staff like an arrow for her ultimate attack, Judgment Arrow.
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Slightly Damned has the Holy Arrow, which so far is an Instant Death Bullet. A currently-unknown angel used one to kill Sakido when she escaped Hell with Rhea and Buwaro. Buwaro's mother was also killed with a Holy Arrow.
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In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah's Limit Break is Artemis Arrow, mistranslated as Ultima Arrow in the English localization. (Though the association was unintended, there's a summon in Ivalace known as Ultima the High Seraph.)
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The three major gods Sarodomin, Guthix and Zamorak in RuneScape have their own bows and arrows which they have blessed.
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Doki Doki! PreCure: The team's Mid-Season Upgrade, the Love Heart Arrow, is a Morph Weapon which takes the form of a bow when wielded by team leader Cure Heart or as part of the team's Lovely Force Arrow Combination Attack.
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The Brave of Gold Goldran: The final combination of the series, Great Goldran, trades Goldran's usual katana for the enormous bow "Great Archery" in its "Golden Arrow Final Shoot" Finishing Move.
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In Brawl and Smash Bros. 4, Zelda and Sheik both use Light Arrows for their Final Smashes.
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Assassin's Creed Origins: As part of the mission to discover The Lizard, Bayek experiences a drug-induced hallucination in which he floats along a river on the solar barge of the god Ra, fighting and defeating the god Apep with a glowing bow that shoots unlimited arrows.
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Helluva Boss: Angels fight with gilded crossbows that shoot holy-magic arrows. They also can make said crossbows appear out of thin air.
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In Demon of the Lute, the demon's sole weakness is a set of three blessed arrows, which is used to destroy the lute in order to neutralize the demon's powers. Naturally in the final battle all three arrows are used, the third which successfully defeats the demon once and for all.
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The Elder Scrolls:
The Auriel's Bow, an artifact weapon said to have been wielded by Auriel (sometimes spelled Auri-El), the Golden Eagle God and Aldmeri (Elven) aspect of Akatosh, the draconic Top God of Time. Aldmeri legend holds that Auriel wielded it during the Dawn Era during the wars of the Ehlnofey against the forces of Lorkhan. When Trinimac, Auriel's champion, slew Lorkhan, it is said that Auriel tied Lorkhan's Heart to an arrow and fired it with the bow across the mortal world, landing in modern day Morrowind and forming Red Mountain around it. The details of Auriel's Bow vary in each game where it appears. To note:
In Arena, Auriel's Bow is a massively powerful bow enchanted with fire damage. However, it only has a finite supply of energy. Once exhausted of this energy, the bow will vanish and reappear where ever chance puts it.
In Daggerfall, Auriel's Bow is one of three possible rewards for completing the knightly order quest, "The Artifact". On top of its powerful base damage, it deals lightning damage and absorbs Magicka of the targets it strikes. (It is also a possible to acquire a version of the bow during Nocturnal's Daedric quest. It functions exactly the same as the real bow, however, it will crumble to dust after several in-game days.)
In Morrowind, Auriel's Bow is tied for the most damaging bow in the game in terms of base damage, however, it no longer comes with an enchantment. You can enchant it yourself, but its relatively low enchantment rating (7) prevents it from being particularly useful. (A standard Daedric Longbow deals the same damage and has an enchantment rating of 10.5, but, on the downside, is 33% heavier.) You can exchange it during a particular quest for a Daedric Cuirass and Greaves, both enchanted with the Feather effect to make them lighter. You can also sell it to the Museum of Artifacts in Mournhold with the Tribunal expansion for a cool 15,000 gold.
Auriel's Bow appears again in Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC as a major plot item. It has a relatively mediocre base damage, but a high "critical" value. It is also enchanted to deal "Sun" damage, and deals triple damage to undead. Over the course of Dawnguard's main quest, it gains the ability to fire "Sunhallowed" or "Bloodcursed" arrows. Sunhallowed arrows, when fired from the bow at the sun during the day, will cause the sun to deal damage to any nearby enemies for a time. Bloodcursed arrows, fired similarly, block out the sun for the rest of the day and prevent vampires from taking sun damage.
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The 3DS Version includes Tetra, who also has access to the Light Arrows in her move set. Fitting as she's another incarnation of Zelda.
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Volume 2 of Red Hood and the Outlaws introduces the Bow of Ra. As the name implies, it is a weapon created by the Egyptian god Ra and bestowed upon the Amazons of the Bana-Mighdall and can only be wielded by the Shim'Tar. Those who try to wield the bow without being considered worthy end up becoming corrupted, a fate that befell Artemis' friend Akila.
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Touhou Project: As a former miko, Mononobe no Futo uses a sacred bow for some of her attacks.
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Final Fantasy:
The strongest Bow-type weapon in most games that include them is usually the Artemis Bow, and less commonly the Perseus Bow. There are sometimes accompanying arrows bearing the same names.
In Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, the goddess of the Lifestream, Minerva, combines her armor pieces into a giant bow and fires her staff like an arrow for her ultimate attack, Judgment Arrow.
In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah's Limit Break is Artemis Arrow, mistranslated as Ultima Arrow in the English localization. (Though the association was unintended, there's a summon in Ivalace known as Ultima the High Seraph.)
The Seventh Heaven, the weakest greatbow in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and the strongest in Final Fantasy Tactics A2, is holy-elemental and teaches Ultima Shot. Thanks to Ultima abilities in these games having the same element as the user's weapon, you'll be invoking this trope at least until a character masters the ability and can move on to another weapon. The archer technique Burial is also holy-elemental and has a chance of banishing undead that increases as the targets health goes down.
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In Magic: The Gathering, on the Ancient Egyptian-themed plane of Amonkhet, the white-aligned deity Oketra's weapon of choice is a bow and arrows. With a Fantastic Nuke-level payload.
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In Underverse, Dream!Sans can create a bow and holy light arrows out of thin air. They are the only things that can hurt his brother, Nightmare.
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In earlier Zelda games, particularly the original game and A Link to the Past, Silver Arrows were the only thing capable of defeating Ganon.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The mystic arrows that bestows Stands isn't exactly divine, but its origins are revealed in Golden Wind as being forged from a Magic Meteor that fell centuries ago, and the man who created them believed the meteor came from the gods.
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In Morrowind, Auriel's Bow is tied for the most damaging bow in the game in terms of base damage, however, it no longer comes with an enchantment. You can enchant it yourself, but its relatively low enchantment rating (7) prevents it from being particularly useful. (A standard Daedric Longbow deals the same damage and has an enchantment rating of 10.5, but, on the downside, is 33% heavier.) You can exchange it during a particular quest for a Daedric Cuirass and Greaves, both enchanted with the Feather effect to make them lighter. You can also sell it to the Museum of Artifacts in Mournhold with the Tribunal expansion for a cool 15,000 gold.
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Marle's ultimate weapon in Chrono Trigger is Venus' Bow, always dealing 777 damage.
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Accel World: Utai's Enhanced Armament "Flame Caller", as part of her miko theme. However, when she's using her most "sacred" abilities, it turns into a fan.
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Shana and Miranda in The Legend of Dragoon, who both and represent the light/holy Dragoon spirit and fight with bows and arrows. They're also quite useful at healing.
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Fable has an inversion: the God of Evil Skorm grants the strongest bow in the game as a gift to a Hero who commits enough Human Sacrifice in his name.
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In Mahabharata, Arjuna's exceptionally powerful bow Gandiva was given to him by the gods. Several characters, including Arjuna, wield celestial weapons, highly powerful Finishing Moves granted to them by the gods as a reward for their piety or devotion.
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In Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, GaoGod's Finishing Move is "Divine Punishment: Power Arrow", which transforms his horns into a bow and uses them to launch the Detachable Blade of his sawshark arm as a projectile imbued with holy energy. Likewise for his Power Rangers Wild Force counterpart Animus and his finisher "Animarian Arrow".
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In Little Witch Academia (2017), The Shining Rod can transform into one, depending on the spell that's cast.
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The first two bonus items from Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp.
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In Daggerfall, Auriel's Bow is one of three possible rewards for completing the knightly order quest, "The Artifact". On top of its powerful base damage, it deals lightning damage and absorbs Magicka of the targets it strikes. (It is also a possible to acquire a version of the bow during Nocturnal's Daedric quest. It functions exactly the same as the real bow, however, it will crumble to dust after several in-game days.)
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Fairy-types have the Silver Bow and Arrow weapon to power up. The Fairy-types Skelengel and Number 102: Star Seraph Sentry wield bows in their artwork, and in some video games other Fairies are depicted as fighting with bows.
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Xu Tao aka Celestial Archer of the Great Ten wields the Celestial Bow which once belonged to the mythological archer Hou Yi. Xu discovered the bow in an old temple below Mount Tai while hiding from gangsters. He touched the bow and was bestowed with Hou Yi's divine archery skills.
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In the Greyhawk campaign setting, the goddess Ehlonna has a bow that never misses its target, even when fired at maximum range. Half of her arrows have a plus 3 bonus, and the rest are Arrows of Slaying for various Evil woodland creatures.
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Super Smash Bros. has some appear across the series.
In Brawl and Smash Bros. 4, Zelda and Sheik both use Light Arrows for their Final Smashes.
Pit has used the holy Arrows of Light for his Neutral-B ever since his debut in Brawl.
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