Collapse Era Firearms

Firearms became popular in Indratera from the 14th century TE, when they were pioneered by the Vortic Mercatorium, the world's strongest seafaring power. Ever since, they became the favoured weapon of pirates, cowboys, and soldiers everywhere. They were easier to use than bows, but more expensive to make. Over 60% of the world's sulfur, the key ingredient for gunpowder, was mined from Burning Hills - that's why the Vortic Mercatorium invaded and colonised it in the 14th to 16th centuries.

In the Collapse era (18th century onwards), here are some of the notable firearm types and their history.

## Pistols

### Charteyn Flintlock

One of the earliest modern guns, a Vortic noisy, messy, inaccurate flintlock pistol

### King Mazander Over-Under Flintlock

A two-barrelled, two-hammered flintlock made in Bracken in the 1400s. Its barrels were vertically stacked. Named after King Altor I of Bracken.

### King Mazander Over-Under Lever

A lever-action version of the flintlock pistol which could hold 8 shots.

### Lozirou

A Vortic bolt-action long pistol made for use at sea.

### Cassalanter Lionheart

A heavy single-action mechanical pistol made late in the 16th century. It was the most powerful sidearm around.

### Hippo Pistol

A Xantic four-barrelled percussion pistol for defence against wild animals. Loud, noisy, and brutish.

### Wolcott Wheellock

A wheellock percussion pistol made during the age of sail in the mid 1400s by the Lusken Empire. Accurate but slow.

## Revolvers

### Cassalanter Mark 3

Known as '*the gun that freed Lakay*', the Mark 3 was the stereotypical cowboy revolver. 6 shots, single action, gate-loaded. Stylish and sleek. The world's most mass produced sidearm.

### Imola Snap-Top

A slender break-action single-action six-shot revolver made in the Fallo

### Lusken Niner

A nine-shot single-action long revolver made in the Lusken Peninsula, quite expensive

### Lakayan Double-Action

A small, compact, double-action revolver. Inaccurate but fast.

### Tamerlane Mk1

A gas-seal single-action gate-loaded revolver. It could be suppressed. Made in Felonil in the 17th century, a later revolutionary leader named himself after it.

## Rifles

### Decimus 1486 Repeating

Later known as '*the greatest machine in the world*', a reliable lever-action breech-loaded repeating rifle with a magazine of 8. It rarely broke down, was easy to repair, simple to use, and cheap to make. Invented in Felonil, it became the most common weapon of guards worldwide.

### Klebel Navy

A rugged four-chambered revolver-rifle made by the Vortic Mercatorium for its sailors.

### Aurochs Gun

A single-shot heavy black powder rifle used for felling big game.

### Boomstick HD-9

A breech-loaded flintlock musket. Powerful, but slow. Primitive, and eventually outclassed.

### Vettro 1400

A trapdoor musket made by the Lusken Empire. The standard rifle of its armies until the 1480s when the Decimus took over. Single shot, but really reliable.

## Shotguns

### Datrian 1477 Defender

A noisy, loud top-break double-barrel shotgun, favoured by farmers and guards in the East Danderillon. Easy to saw-off and conceal, so it saw use in some urban assassinations in Datria and later Halcyon.

### Chantillon Privateer

A sail age blunderbuss made by the Vortics.

## Special

### Peacekeeper Rotary 1539

A rotary mounted machine gun on wheels, like a Civil War era Gatling Gun. Required multiple people to operate it. Saw use in the early God Wars.

### Tachka Rotary 1512

An eight-barrelled hand-cranked rotary gun which used to be mounted on flatbed carts. Clunky and outdated, the predecessor of the Peacekeeper 1539.

### 1544 LMR

The world's first and only 'light machine gun', a magazine-fed 30-round repeating rifle made from parts of the Peacekeeper 1539 and the loading mechanism of the Decimus rifle and Cassalanter revolvers. Famously stolen in Felonil in the Agents of Chaos campaign.

### Relent 51

A Vortic magazine-fed mounted machine gun with a curved magazine. Expensive prototypes which were heavy and clunky.