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Yes, muskets, which are used in canon as I described. The difference between a pistol and amusket isn't range, it's stopping power.

While a dragon's crew do use fire arms, my impression is that in canon they are primarily used when the dragons are in claw range or boarding actions, i.e at ranges where there is little to no benefit from rifling, and conditions where being able to reload is unlikely. Providing rifles for a...

Very nice chapter, so will Iona invent the Breech loading rifle for Non to carry to battle?

Most people in the first books, even excluding the Dragon riders did not treat the dragons as monsters, they did react as if they weren't familiar with dragons, but not as if they were monsters.

Granting this incredibly biased statement for the sake of argument, so what? That something was the norm did not mean it was impossible for a person to think differently, or act differently while serving as an officer.

Granting that for the sake of argument, that doesn't mean it has to be his plan in this story. True in general, but that doesn't mean there weren't people who were not racist there, or that you had to be racist to be a British officer.

If I understand what you're saying, you're claiming that Laurance must either be a racist idiot when it comes to Dragons, or desert, inciting others to mutiny and running off to another country under the assumption that they'll treat dragons better (despite the character not having any evidence...

The story doesn't involve a SI, and I doubt this story will have the canon idiocies because those are pretty implausabile. Doesn't mean you're wrong about them being idiots, but politicialns are often idiots and soldiers still serve their country.

According to them there were also cities of gold in south America, people with their heads below their chests in Africa, and a bunch of other nonsensical stories. People tales tall tales all the time, and when the people they're talking to have no idea about the place you're talking about they...

Obsidian will not go through steel.

Yes, because they didn't work they way your cite claimed. However your cite if claiming magical bows able to punch through shot-proofed breastplate and kill the man wearing it were found in the 16th century and ignored, this despite the fact that much less effective bows were used in war as late...

Right, this is why the Spanish started using such bows themselves, and why stone age obsidian arrow heads are considered superior to steel. The spanish were not stupid, if such superior magic bows actually existed they'd have used them. Even your own cite refers to the unsubstantiated stories of...

LOL! Sure, if the bows were 1000lb pull , then maybe. There are lot of fictional accounts about what bows can do, but whenever someone actually examines what is possible they are proven far less capable than the myths.

Since English longbows with steel arrowheads were incapable of killing a man in plate armor that is very obvious nonsense.

No. You can argue that Pre-history up to say ~20,000 years ago was essentially the same, but the point is even if by some magic that happened, you'd have things diverge rapidly (i.e within a generation) from that point on, and be completely unrecognizable not long afterwards Yes, the fact the...

Hence why I specified spices. Even a few pounds of rare spices would make the trip worthwhile. Exactly.

The ones in the series are, if you want to argue that ancient ones were slower I'll grant the argument, but the point remains. The simple fact of having one person travel that distance safely and bring news of events would change things. Yes, you do. Not in a sprint, but humans are persistence...

They are dumb relative to humans, they are still able to talk and actually form sentences, they are definitely sapient and that makes them MUCH smarter than any predator humans have dealt with. 1)They are armored, except for some vulnerable spots. 2)Conceding for the sake of argument, Elephents...

It's not hard, it simply makes absolutely no sense. You have a sapient, armored, airborne predator that can grab a full grown man and fly away with them, or probably even a cow or horse. That means human development will diverge from ours going back to the Pleolithic since in any region where...

I don't much about the polish serfs in the 19th century, you may well be right about that.