Are Guns Lore-Friendly?

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

I've seen a few mods out there on Nexus that add guns to the game and thought that they would be fun to use in my playthrough. Though, I am trying to keep my playthrough as lore-friendly as possible so if it dosn't fit into theh lore I don't want to install it. I don't know a whole lot about the Elder Scrolls lore so came to the community to see what other people have to say on it.

[Mr. Monday]

No

[shakira]

If you whip out a DSR 50 on some druagr, your lore is out the window. If you want to make a steam powered full-auto crossbow like the single shot ones in DLC, you could probably explain it by a rogue engineer or some odd rumor

[fauxpas]

Honestly, I'd have to say no, even to the idea of steampunk auto crossbows, as cool as the idea is; because "just because its possible based on existing lore" does not make it "lore friendly" per say.

[fauxpas]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez fauxpas:

because "just because its possible based on existing lore" does not make it "lore friendly" per say.

Yes, I agree a mudcrab with a poison dart gun is not lore-friendly. lol

Apples and oranges.

[fauxpas]

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Apples and oranges.

Horse and buggy.

Horse always comes first.

[_ALuX_]

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No

[Alliecienti]

Początkowo opublikowane przez _ALuX_:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Mr. Monday:

No

This is the simple answer. NO ... Guns are not strictly lore friendly. Gunpowder isn't in Skyrim.

There is however the long standing term:

YSYW = Your Skyrim Your Way ... MSMW =My Skyrim My Way

So if finding say a hand carried Dwemer artifact that fires bolts via a steam mechanism similar to what is installed in Sphere Masters and other automons is an ok idea with your vision of the lore... then go ahead and use it.

The main fact is that when you add your first mod, your game becomes unique to you. It's your game and your prefrences that feed YOUR vision of what should or should not be available in YOUR game. Anyone else's opinion doesn't really matter.

[Green Raven]

The dwarven ruins have combat droids, why not a gun?

[cyäegha]

well, technically depending on both your definition of a 'gun', and how canon you consider anything kirkbride wrote

cannon's are, well, canon, at least according to TES2, though no mention of gunpowder is made
TES3 implies that bombs are made from fire salts, so it would be fair to assume cannons work the same way

if you dive into kirkbride's writings, supposedly argonians used to have like aetherial cannons and ships that could travel between mundus and oblivion and other weird ♥♥♥♥ like that, so YMMV

a gun in the traditional sense - a projectile weapon that uses gunpowder as a medium - definitely doesn't exist in established lore, but cannons do

that isn't to say that becuse cannons do, the logical conclusion must eventually happen; mundus has been going through various eras of socioeconomic turmoil that has reset technological and scientific progress, and the most technologically adept race ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off somewhere at some point so that didn't help matters any

[alexander_dougherty]

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It depends on the type of gun. Nord dungeons have projectiles in the walls and creating a handheld version of those would not be too far from the realm of possibility. Also steam or magic propelled weapons would also be ``lore-friendly'' as that is not out of the realm either.
There is no black powder in the game, so firearm like we have in our realm would not be ``lore-friendly'' at all. You should just play Fallout 3/NV/4 if you want Skyrim with guns. ;3

No it wouldn't.
In the Lore there has been zero guns, the most advanced weapon (as a weapon) has been the crossbow. Dwemer created Automatons and mechanised creations, but even here the most advanced weapons have been Crossbows.

Magic essentially eliminates the need for guns, why bother with flintlock pistols when a fireball does more damage. And without the earlier clumsier versions, the technology never develops for breechload guns, let alone automatic and machine guns.

This doesn't mean they never will develop guns, just makes it extremely unlikely, and not in the least bit Lore-friendly.

[Varkonas_norse]

When you look at the period costumes in the original format, you are basically looking at 12th or 13th century in earth terms, so the latest weaponry advancement would probably be a crossbow, if anything. Guns wouldn't even be invented for at least 200 years. So no, nix on the guns.

[Lifeisagame]

that guy covered that deep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQK26X4gpSw

[Dwight Hut Pizza]

Thanks for the feedback all!