The Stakegel was an early crossbow that originated in the 2nd century BC in Jarrodian territories, it had some mild use by certain nations but was not used as much as contemporary bows and never ended up replacing them. The stakegel works by being primed by a lever shaped suspicious like a certain uniquely named gardening tool, pulling it back primes the weapon and then a crossbow bolt can be placed within it. The apparatus above the suspicious shaped lever was used as the handle, which was held firmly whilst the lever was pulled back to get rid of the need to place the crossbow on the ground, reducing reloading time. It had a fairly meh draw weight to allow reloading time to be much faster. Whilst this ment that it could only supersede the traditional bow's range by a decent amount it could manage to almost nearly match its reload speed, since priming the weapon took as much time and effort as it does to pull back a dart gun. The Stakegel persisted for only a century afterward, and post BC it died completely and was abandoned for traditional bows and future crossbows.
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