Answer:
What is pronounced like one letter, written with three letters. And belongs to all animals?
Sleeping during the day, I hide away. Watchful through the night, I open at dawn's light. But only for the briefest time, do I shine. And then I hide away. And sleep through the day.
My first is in wield, sever bones and marrow. My second is in blade, forged in cold steel. My third is an arbalest, and also in arrows. My fourth is in power, plunged through a shield. My fifth is in honor, and also in vows. My last will put an end to it all.
There are millions of me. I am very small but when moving fast I am deadly.
What can be big, white, dirty and wicked?
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?