Without a doubt the most important component in the creation of armor in the modern age is the riven arcana transmogrifant patch. Every type of armor demands this path though the necessary quantity depends on the coverage required. Specifically, the chest piece uses four patches, legs require three, head, arms, feet two, and wrist and hands one.

Crafting these fantastical pieces is a complex affair requiring the combination of several riven arcana components including a metal sheet, chainmail links, leather, and heavy fabric. Bind them together with a filament silk thread in a process requiring a sewing needle, pliers, and smithy hammer.

When the requisite number of patches are complete, the next step involves adding an unraveling armor lining, a class emblem, and a coat of arcana fortifying medium. But should you require the pinnacle of protection, well, then simply combine the patches with a fractured armor lining, enhance via an arcana invigoration medium, and finish with three doses of riven arcana powder.

Should you expect to clash on the front lines of battle, a shield may also be a life-saving tool you are interested in creating. Such an object can be crafted using riven arcana lumber in varying amounts depending on the shield type. Tower shields require four pieces, medium shields need three, and bucklers are formed with only two. Each shield is then treated with a layer of high impact lacquer for durability. The last step is to select an appropriate enarmes to fully and comfortably wield the shield in combat. Equipping your shield with an unraveling shield enarmes will grant formidable protection, but even more protection can be found by using a fractured shield enarmes, further bolstered with a coating of riven arcana powder.

With the damage inflicted upon Magic, fragments of the Plane itself have filtered throughout our reality and have imbued various aspects with Riven Arcana. And Arcana, in its various forms, can be harnessed to serve our purpose.

Arcana Infused Ore can be smashed into Riven Arcana powder by heating it in a forge and smiting it with your smithy hammer. It can also be heated in a forge and molded into a Riven Arcana Sheet by striking it with your smith hammer and quenching it with water. Additional it can be heated in a forge and shaped into Riven Arcana Chainmail Links with pliers before again being quenched with water.

Finally Arcana Infused Ore can be refined into Honed Riven Arcana with a jeweler’s kit by heating it with two gnomish heat sources before quenching it with water. This will harden the material just enough to be utilized for a variety of adornments.

Animal Pelts that have become infused with Arcana can be treated and used as Riven Arcana leather. Use your sewing kit and elm handled shears to trim these pelts. Be sure to treat the pelt with tanning chemicals for the best results.

Strands of silk have also been imbued with arcana. Such silk can be woven into a heavy fabric by collecting eight and threading them together using your sewing kit with a spool of simple thread and a sewing needle.

You may create a hearty armor patch by combining riven arcana sheet, chainmail links, leather, and heavy fabric together with a sewing needle, smithing hammer, pliers and filament silk thread. This process is unusually flexible and can be performed using either a sewing kit or forge.

Certain weapons may call for lumber infused with riven arcana. Simply use your fletching kit with a planing tool, arcana infused timber, and smooth with basic sandpaper.

Even fish scales can become supple, cloth-like materials. After preparing your fish, save the scales (along with the meat). Weave ten scales together to make a patch, then patches to create a swatch, and ten swatches for a sheet.

The creation of weapons is a precise and somewhat meticulous affair. Once must always be mindful of the origin and the quality of the materials that each type requires. This document will outline the needs of each weapon category below.

Axes, Swords, and Knuckles

Axes, all varieties of swords, and knuckles all require a hilt mold, primordial coal, and two riven arcana sheets (less one for knuckles). Shaping is performed with a smithing hammer while edges are refined with sharpening stones. The primary variance lies in the type of cut riven arcana crystals used:

Longsword: two square cut crystals

Axe: two trillion cut crystals

Sword Breaker: marquise and square cut crystals

Broadsword: marquise and oval cut crystals

Knuckles: half-moon and trillion cut crystals

Scimitar: half-moon and oval cut crystals

Clubs, Hammers, Maces, Censers, and Wands

Clubs require battle staff plans and all others in this category of weapons requires rod plans, high tensile lacquer, and lumber infused with riven arcana. The wood shaping is done with a planing tool. Crystal differences for each weapon are:

Hammer: two oval cut crystals

Mace: two round cut crystals

Baton: half-moon and trillion cut crystals

Spike Mace: trillion and oval cut crystals

Flanged Mace: round and oval cut crystals

Wand: oval and half-moon cut crystals

Daggers, Rapiers, and Athames

These weapons require a small hilt mold, primordial coal, and one riven arcana sheet. Shaping is done with a smithy hammer, with sharpening stones used for edge honing. The key difference remains in the crystal cuts.

Dagger: two pear cut crystals

Short Spear: two round cut crystals

Athame: two half-moon cut crystals

Injection Dagger: one half-moon cut crystal

Note: Injection daggers have an extra step, involving purified clay primed with the bite of the Shissar.

Spears, Greatswords, Greataxes, and Bardiches

These larger weapons utilize a long hilt mold, primordial coal, and four riven arcana sheets. The ritual spear is an exception, requiring only one sheet and one piece of riven arcana lumber. Shaping and honing are done with a smithy hammer and sharpening stone, respectively. Crystal types include:

Long Spear: half-moon and trillion cut crystals

Greatsword: marquise and oval cut crystals

Ritual Spear: trillion and oval cut crystals

Greataxe: oval and pear cut crystals

Bardiche: two pear cut crystals

Mauls, Staves and Great Censers

Most of these weapons follow staff plans, except the Bo staff, which uses battle staff plans. Three riven arcana lumbers are shaped with a planing tool and treated with high tensile lacquer. Crystal usage is as follows:

Maul: two oval cut crystals

Bo Staff: half-moon and trillion cut crystals

Lucern Hammer: oval and trillion cut crystals

Arcane Staff: two round cut crystals

Bows

Crafting bows requires bow plans, high tensile lacquer, a shimmering steel bow string, and two pieces of riven arcana lumber, where shaping is done with a planing tool. Crystal types are:

Longbow: square and half-moon cut crystals

Short Bow: two half-moon cut crystals

Empowering your weapons

For one-handed weapons, an unraveling essence of finesse enhances performance. Two-Handed weapons benefit more from unraveling essence of power. Bows are best equipped with an unraveling string serving.

For those seeing the pinnacle of weapon potency, instead use an equivalent fractured essence or string serving along with a light dusting of riven arcana powder.