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Interview #231: KOD Signing Report - Tim Kington, Entry #8

Question

Was Mat’s use of crossbows in Knife of Dreams based on the way crossbows were really used?

Robert Jordan

The thing that made crossbows better than longbows was that you could train someone to use a crossbow much faster than you could train them to use a bow. Then when muskets came along, they were better because they didn’t require much training, and the firing rate was improved.

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