The Hornbacked Bow
Yakbaal of Retenu, a trader in the Iunu market, makes bows the way they do beyond the Ways of Horus. (Requires The Slinger's Trial and Archery 15.)
Requirements
- Complete The Slinger's Trial
- 15 Archery
Walkthrough
The quest journal, step by step.
- Start
Yakbaal of Retenu, a trader in the Iunu market, makes bows the way they do beyond the Ways of Horus. (Requires The Slinger's Trial and Archery 15.)
- Stage 1
Yakbaal will make me a hornbacked bow from a tamarisk log, two gazelle horns and a length of boar sinew. Gazelles graze west of the Giza pyramids; marsh boars root in the fields north-east of Medum.
Updated by talking to Yakbaal of Retenu - Stage 2
The bow is curing. Meanwhile Yakbaal wants three vultures knocked out of the sky over the south of the Giza plateau.
To do: Kill 3 × Plateau vultureUpdated by talking to Yakbaal of Retenu - Stage 3
Three vultures fewer over Giza. I should see Yakbaal about my bow.
- Complete
Yakbaal gave me a hornbacked bow and taught me how to string one.
Updated by talking to Yakbaal of Retenu
Unlocks
- Hornbacked bow (Archery 20)
- Recipe: string a hornbacked bow (Handicraft 25)
Rewards
- 1 Renown
- 1,800 Archery, 700 Handicraft XP
- 100 bronze arrows
- The hornbacked bow, and how to string one
| Skill | XP |
|---|---|
| Archery | 1,800 |
| Handicraft | 700 |
Items: 
Hornbacked bow, 
Bronze arrows ×100