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During my last session a level one character wanted to craft Crossbow Bolt, Fire (CBF) (ideally many) using existing crossbow bolts and some stolen bed linens. The kicker is that we all acknowledged that these would be "improvised" CBFs with the normal -4 penalty.

Normally, a single bolt costs 50 gold. I had absolutely no idea how to adjust that value for improvised bolts. Main question: Is there any kind of RAW or clear RAI for this?

Context - how I handled it in the moment
Ultimately I was far more generous than the rules allow, yet my player still balked at her slow progress. I allowed her to roll once per hour, and she rolled pretty high (I forget the exact total) on her first try; and so I simply hand-waved the monetary calculation and said that she could, with an hour's effort, create one. The idea of her character sitting there and wrapping linen around existing bolts and needing an hour to make one didn't sit well with her, but I stuck to the decision, reasoning that doing this in a way that wouldn't stop the bolt as it departed the crossbow would be difficult.

I'm kind of guessing that there's no clear answer here. RAW and RAI are preferred, but in their absence I'll take any useful suggestions for next time.

First post. If I mess something up then please let me know.

Warrior of the Holy Light is a paladin archetype: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/paladin/archetypes/paizo-pala din-archetypes/warrior-of-the-holy-light

One class ability it grants is "Power of Faith". This power creates a "nimbus of light" which confers various effects to allies, and at level 12 "...is treated as daylight for the purposes of affecting creatures with sensitivity to light" (note that "daylight" here is lowercase and does not seem to reference the spell of the same name).

However, the power never explicitly states that it provides illumination. In contrast, various other class features and spells state that they provide illumination. For example, Divine Bond (on a weapon) states "...causes the weapon to shed light as a torch", which is a well-defined amount of illumination providing "normal" light.

I am interested in both RAW and RAI. I have three questions about this power, all closely related to one another:
1: Does this power provide any illumination at all?
2: If so, how much illumination does it provide at level 4?
3: If so, how much illumination does it provide at level 12?

Although I think that my questions are well-defined and useful without context, I'll share the impetus for asking:
Yesterday my level 18 Warrior of Light fought a Night Wing which used Deeper Darkness. I used my Power of Faith to create the nimbus, and at the time quickly scanned the text, saw "daylight", and thought that it created bright light. I told my DM "bright light" was normal for the nimbus, and trusting my answer she rolled with that. Bright light plus Deeper Darkness equals dim light, so that's how we played it. However, after the session I re-read the power and realized that it never actually says it illuminates as daylight. Worried that I abused my power, I confessed to the DM and now I'm trying to determine the RAW and RAI answers.