[Emet-Selch's own reasoning for spending time observing as people make use of the archery is, to extent, more personal than mere curiosity, but it's true enough that he himself hasn't ever really felt any desire to bother with bow and arrow. Not that he suspects he couldn't, given reason enough to try and time to devote to learning, but as matters stand he has neither.

And it is... perhaps not anything he'd consider medieval, but certainly something that pales in comparison to some of the technological wonders out even Garlemald had managed.]

I would say rather that it is a difference in technology. In the right hands, a bow can be quite effective - especially when a society has neither means nor access to other technology.

[Even if he has made something a career in leaning heavily on outclassing the weaponry of his would-be opponents.]