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[–] warm@kbin.earth 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am talking about arrows which are lit on fire, not gunpowder arrows. Which even then, only handful of situations are listed out the how many thousands upon thousands of battles bow and arrows were a part of throughout history?

From the Wikipedia entry for "flaming" arrows:

Flaming arrows required the shooter to get quite close to their desired target and most will have extinguished themselves before reaching the target

I will add flaming to my original reply, but I have seen both used interchangably for the same thing.

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, just adding some sourced context. I was curious about your statement and when looking into it, found more details to add to the convo