Superior Weaponry

Enhanced Weaponry
The blacksmiths of the North Island have developed a variety of forging and crafting techniques that provide superior weaponry. These break down into the following categories:
==Superior Weapons==
(Requires Advanced Smithery skill)
The skill of the smith enables construction of weaponry that whilst non-magical gives a +1 to hit (superior balance) and +1 damage (sharper edge or better top end weighting).
Such a weapon takes x4 construction time and x2 material costs and is normally sold at x4 cost (players handbook).
Note: After any combat in which the weapon is actively used, there is a 20% chance that the bonuses will be lost due to slight damage. A character with Smithery skill or better can repair this damage in 1-3 hours.
==Silvered Weapons==
(Requires Smithery skill)
The use of silvered weaponry to protect against undead (not that effective) or lycanthropes (effective) has led to a market for such items.
Such a weapon takes x2 construction time and x3 material costs and is normally sold at x4 cost (players handbook).
==Mithril Weapons==
(Requires Legendary Smithery skill)
Dwarven smiths discovered that incorporation of small trace elements of Mithril into the forging of a weapon resulted in a weapon that is able to hit those undead that required magical weaponry to take any damage. Such weapons, whilst expensive – provided a way of enabling soldiers to protect themselves against undead. Also, these weapons were found not to decay or corrode over time.
The scarcity of Mithril means that few such weapons are forged currently, but there are a large number still surviving from the Age of Chaos.
Such a weapon takes x4 construction time and x10 material costs and is normally sold at x10 cost (players handbook).
Note: Scarcity of these weapons will drive prices up significantly.
==Sigil Engraved weapons==
From [Day 35-41 – The fourth week in Northlake]]:
Taking the piece carefully, you can now look at it more closely, and it is certainly a very old spearhead and was probably of very good quality. Scratched clearly into the blade is a sigil that matches the silverwork on the brooch you found a few weeks back.
When you pick up the Chainmail from the blacksmith the next day, you have an inspiration and ask the smith about have sigils inscribed into a blade. The smith explains that masterwork grade smiths are able to add extra potency to weapon blades by engraving the foes identifying sign, normally a piece of heraldry or similar sign. These weapons retain their potency for quite a long time and so the technique has been used for elite military units.