Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26894987-20170617210207/@comment-26894987-20170618020128

Now you mention it, I begin to wonder if anywhere else in the game mentioned Lord's hunters...Maybe Artorias was supposed to lead them? He was very much like a ranger with his pet Sif anyway. Just speculations.

It is just a matter of word selection. It can as well be translated into "Black Wood Arrow" or "Blackwood Arrow". I think this name referred Darkroot and Pharis's Blackbow both.

The Japanese name for Darkroot Garden is "黒い森の庭", while the bow is called "ファリスの黒弓", so you see in Japanese and Chinese version "Blackbow" and "Darkroot" used the same Chinese character for "dark" and "black".