[@Orior] I mean, yes, there was a Golden Age, but surely, if orcs can muster an invasion even in that time period, there would have been a definite need to develop better weapons over the course of the earlier periods? Just saying, guns seem like an obvious way to go. Hell, I'd even be down for magic guns; I don't think it's unreasonable for a relatively intelligent mage to look at a piece of metal tubing (assuming that's a thing) and think to himself "if I made an explosion happen at one end, I could shoot stuff out the other end". Boom, world's first cannon. For bonus points, if the shot thing also explodes, world's first grenade launcher.