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It's a matter of presentation. The Javelin of Lights could be dumb, but they're handled in an unobtrusive way. They superficially resemble ballistic missiles and are meant to evoke them, but they're not actually missiles as we know them in reality. They're rods with some Agarthan runes engraved on them. The simplest form of an explosive projectile dropped from orbit would just be what these are, so it makes sense that, even in a setting where technological advancement is based on magic, this is just the natural shape a weapon like this would take. There's also just a whole lot we don't know about them and how they work, nor even a precise explanation on why the Agarthans aren't spamming them, but we can gather that the sheer devastation they cause is too costly for their purposes in the long run (hence Ailell) and the number of them the Agarthans have is actually limited because they're artifacts from a lost age, so they're conserving them. They're a plot device that really don't clash with the aesthetic or logic of the setting when you think about them.

Meanwhile, the gun in Fortune's Weave straight up is shaped like an SMG because...? This really isn't the shape a weapon like this would necessarily intuitively take; SMGs are the result of refining a design that started with cannons and gradually evolved into this contemporary form for very specific reasons. We see this firearm shooting laser bolts, so it seems derived from magic, but why would a magic weapon necessarily look so much like an irl SMG rather than being derived from tomes or staves? Because it's loaded with cartridges of a magical substance? Why? Because they wanted to put a modern-looking gun in Fire Emblem. I get the feeling the cart is coming before the horse. Maybe it'll be fine, but it raises a bunch of questions that I'm really not sure the people writing this are prepared to answer, if they even care to.

Wanna place bets if even a single character will show trigger discipline?