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On Kamal archery, bows exist but they are very rare and serves as specialist equipment. Their mages are several magnitudes numerous than archers, and their ships have more ice launchers than archers. I actually imagine their bows as shortbows rather than longbows. Due to Kamals not producing bows on their own, and whatever they got their hands on are captured from Tang Mos or traded with neighbors. Being the isolationists they are, the latter happens infrequently. 

I know what you guys are thinking; Gcold, isn't the bow universal to every culture? Actually, the native Australians never used bows. Instead, they use spear-throwers to achieve comparable effects as the historical bow. Kamals do have regiments of spearmen, and a simple device converting their melee weapon to ranged is far more effective than dedicated missile troops. 

The Australian aboriginals also tossed boomerangs. Anyways, [@Hyperdrive] is Aussie, he should know more about this.

ES lore has near nothing on Kamals, despite them obliterating Windhelm in 2nd era and forced the founding of the Ebonheart Pact. [i]Mysterious Akavir[/i] did mention the snow demons' homeland as mountainous and arctic, not exactly favorable conditions for obtaining wood and fletching. Their advances in metallurgy compensates for absentee woodworking. 

Here's a theory tracing from Kamals' hypothetical origin, nothing official or proven, just a potential excuse.

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One of many unofficial theories on Kamals is that they are actually Snow Elves fleeing Atmoran onslaught. The Snow Elves bargained with a daedric prince (Dagon? Clavicus?) for greater strength, in turn, he took their grace. Now, shrines to Auriel in [i]Dawnguard[/i] confer archery benefit, which means the bow is important to Snow Elf military (or at least, symbolic). What if the said prince mutated them into giants, gave them a land with strong ores and in exchange, took away whatever they learned about archery? 
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