Artifact Armors!

[ViolentDjango]

LOOK CLOSELY.

Those aren't harp strings. Those are ARROWS.

ARROWS.

You can clearly see arrowheads and fletchings.

IT IS NOT A HARP.

No...

You can shout it all you want, but no respectable archer would put bows on top of the limb like that -- it serves no practical purpose when you already have a quiver that allows arrows to be easily accessed. The ornamental design of the top of the limb, coupled with the fact that, by itself, it looks like it'd be a very gothic styled harp makes me put a lot more faith in it being a harp attachment.

Furthering the ridiculousness of this preposterous idea, those -strings- are less than half the length of the arrow the character is holding...

That is clearly a harp-type thingy attached to the top of the bow. Without question. Looks a bit weird, but wont knock it until tried!

II does seem weird, but mostly just because its a completely alien concept -- first thing I did when looking at it was imagine myself as an archer trying to play the harp after firing a shot... and it works out.

The most interesting part, in my mind, is the fact that the bow string would actually work like a giant bass note -- so that's pretty cool in my mind.