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I actually considered this in my world. There's two reasons firearms are rare: 1. Magic is relatively easy to get access to - about 10% of the population has some kind of magical ability. Many of them don't realize it, or channel it in ways that aren't obvious.

2. "Technology" (guns, mostly, but also steam engines) was used by a historically horrible group, and their use of it makes it shunned. The forces of the god called "The Corruptor" used it because, for reasons no one understands right now, they couldn't use magic at all.

That being said, there are people who have studied this stuff, understand that it's not innately evil, and its use is growing. There's also people fusing magic and technology and doing some very scary things with it.

"Gun" is just a pipe filled with explosives and you can make those explosives from coal, sulfur and bird shit. It's not any more high tech than a sword.

Rather than historicity specifically, I wish more fantasy settings would just get *weird* . Make a halberd that throws its blade like a boomerang or something. Make me feel like this is a strange unknown land.