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**Small bow**
The small or better known short bow can be fired and drawn rapidly, as it is said that no gorean weapon can match it in its quick rate. The skilled Warrior can sweep from one side of His mount to the other with the small bow. The Tribe can make many different arrows which can be used with the bow. Made from horn, tem wood, or even kalana wood, the bow demonstrates its strength and flexibility from the Warriors constant use. However, the small bow has less distance and penetration power compared to a long bow.
**Long bow**
The long bow has lesser fire rate compared to its counterpart
the small bow. But, its distance and penetration ability is far superior.
Many of the Warriors will use the long bow from kaiila back but the accuracy
diminishes. The long bow is ideal for attempted shots at tarns and targest
of longer ranges. Since the long bow is hardly used by Free Women of the
Tribe for it requires great strength to notch an arrow and the Warriors
do it with such ease....
"looping one end of the larl sinew on the bottom of
the bow in the notch made for it then places the end of the bow to the
ground with My instep, holding it as I bend the bow and pull the
larl sinew up to loop the top end, making sure it is secure as any mistakes
can cost You grave injuries."
ARROWS
**Hunting arrow**
The hunting arrow has a long tapering point firmly
fastened to the shaft
thereby making it easier to withdraw from its target.
**War arrow**
The war arrow is fashioned to be much more difficult
to remove from its target.
The head is angled backwards forming barbs as well
the shafts are made with
less durability so as to break off and leave the arrow
head within the wound.
LANCES AND SPEARS
**War Lance**
The War lance is a long slender spear, about 10 feet long, designed to be used from the back of a kaiila. Carried in the right fist, the war lance is primarily a thrusting weapon. Made from young tem trees, they are very flexible and may be bent over double before even breaking. Heavily decorated and carved the war lance has a loop of kaillaiuk hide which wraps around the fist to add extra strength while thrusting from back of a kaiila. The weapon is nearly never thrown.
**Hunting Lance**
The hunting lance is longer and heavier than the War lance. Not as decorated or marked like that of the War lance. The head of the hunting lance is longer and narrower than the War lance, as it is designed to pierce deeply into the heart of a kaillaiuk. The shaft is temwood while the head is either metal, carved bone or shaped stone.
**Tarn Lance**
The tarn lance is very similar to the War lance except
it is much more slender and flexible so it
is easier to use from the tarn.
**Spear**
The spear is much like the Gorean spear except it is usually not tipped with metal but with bone or stone. It is very highly decorated and carved according to Tribal customs.
**Staff**
The staff is made from tem wood and and usually 10 to 12 feet long. Rather sturdy and light excellent for practice sparring when speed is needed.
KNIVES
**Sleen Knife**
The sleen knife is a broad bladed, double edged knife with a crossguard. Usually used as an utility knife. Best suited as a skinning knife, hunting knife and well suited for combat.
**Tarn Knife**
The tarn knife as the name states, is used by tarnsmen as a utility knife. A short bladed one edged knife kept in the tarns saddle.
**Quiva**
The quiva is a narrow double-edged blade of between 9 and 12 inches in length mounted on a shaped handle of wood, bone, or horn. It is honed to razor sharpness, and its blade tapers to a needle point. Designed for use primarily as a throwing knife, the quiva is also perfectly functional as a hand weapon and general utility knife. It is mostly used by the nomadic Wagon Peoples of the southern hemisphere, who will carry matched sets of seven in special sheaths attached to their kailla saddles.
**Turf Knife**
The turf knife is a wooden-bladed, saw-edged, paddle-like tool, used by Red Savages to cut and saw sod. When the handle is held in the right hand and the blade is supported with the left, it may be used as a shovel.
AXES, CLUBS, and SWORDS
**Canahapi (Tomahawk)**
The Canhapi consists of a shaped wooden handle up to
two feet in length,
capped with a narrow hatchet-type blade comprised
either of sharpened metal,
shaped stone or obsidian glass. Often carved with
ceremonial inscriptions. Can
be used as a hand weapon, often in conjunction with
a shield of dried rawhide over
a wood frame, or thrown as a missle weapon. It is
gives a particularly vicious attack.
**War Club**
The war club is a carved, shaped club of wood or bone, often mounted with a stone or metal head of some sort. This weapon is approximately two to three feet in length and may have nails or blades in it.
**Short Sword**
The Gorean short sword is the basic weapon of all warriors of Gor. Approximatly twenty to twenty-two inches in length from hilt tip to blade tip, the blade is doubled-edged, and leaf shaped ... narrower at the hilt base and then widening to a width of three or four inches and then descending to a curved and pointed tip. The grip is generally either of polished wood or leather covered wood, with an oval cross-guard. The Gorean short sword is hand forged of hight carbon steel. The leaf shaped blade is ideal for thrusting ... Perfect for close combat, its point giving it excellent armor penetrating properties. It is generally carried, in a sheath slung over the left shoulder by means of a leather harness, but may also be worn at the hip.
**Shields**
Shields are made from the hide of the kailiauk, from the thick hide of the back of the neck. It is a belief of the Red Savages that if they are unworthy, or do not speak the truth, that their shield will not protect them. The shields are small, round shields inscribed with medicine signs.
MISCELLANEOUS WEAPONS
**Bola**
It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack which contains, sewn inside, a heavy round metal weight. Developed for hunting fleet-footed and flighted game it is also used as a weapon of war. Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim's legs, tangling and tightening the straps. Thrown high it can pin a man's arms to his sides; thrown at the throat it can strangle him; thrown at the head the whipping weights can crush his skull. Once a victim is entangled with the bola, typically another weapon, usually a quiva, is then utilized to dispatch the victim if he or she still lives. There is also a bladed bola used more to kill than to capture. Also employed as a game where slaves are ordered to run while the Masters attempt to ensnare them with the bola.