Archaic
Early
Early adjective - Being or occurring at an early stage of development.
Usage example: early forms of life
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It should also be mentioned that ballistic technology in this series is fairly archaic; probably about an 18th-to-early-19th century level (think Flintlock muskets and Smoothbore Cannons).
Source: Guns Are Worthless -
This is also justified as Translation Convention, as Hydaelyn/Eorzea are NOT Earth, and it can be assumed that they're not speaking English at all, but another language entirely, and it's just translated for our benefit (with some more archaic dialects being translated as early modern English).
Source: Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe -
As a result, their dialects are less divergent than the tongues of the southeast, although Southwestern Mandarin is rather difficult for speakers of other Mandarin dialects to understand—it reflects Ming and early Qing Dynasty usage, and thus preserves some archaic features we won't get into now.
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