Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-173.76.160.189-20140907224522/@comment-17114085-20140921201734

1)Crossbows were in the Morrowind base game, so they have been around in Tamriel for at least 220 years. What do you mean by other modes of transportation? They already have ships, horses and carriages. Anything other than that would be outside the realm of medieval fantasy. As fort the cannons, there is no gunpowder in TES, so they can't make cannons.

Anything Akavir related is extremely unlikely Bethesda has so far chosen to keep the continent and its people as a mystery, and with political strife already being pretty large in Tamriel it is unlikely that they will have an external source be the main enemy.