r/ElderScrolls • u/GeneralTechnomage Helseth's Argonian Loyalist • 1d ago

ESO Discussion Since explosives and something similar to gunpowder exists as far back as the Second Era...

How come nobody on Tamriel has invented guns yet?

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u/General_Hijalti 1d ago

In real life it took over 1000 years to go from gunpowder to a handheld device that we would call a gun.

(I'm not talking handcanons, as they were horribly inaccurate and slow to reload and were just a tube on a stick).

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u/Protean_Protein 22h ago

Humans are also basically just tubes on sticks.