User blog comment:The king of war/The mysteries and theories of The Elder Scrolls/@comment-104.54.174.149-20150910224745/@comment-107.5.145.227-20170120225613

they don't necessarily need gunpowder to make guns. With access to magic and magic glyphs they could achieve the same effect. All gunpowder does for a gun is create an explosion behind the bullet/projectile, if a magic glyph were to be designed to say act as an explosive force than in essesnse it would work like a gun