[quote=Frettzo]
It took real humans about a thousand years more or less to go from inventing gunpowder up to modern guns. Guns have existed for what, six hundred years? I don't think anyone in Tiien has the expertise to make a gun :p
[/quote]

Exactly. Though it isn't impossible since maybe the information [i]does[/i] exist in a ruin somewhere, or maybe people invented a magical alternative.