Literally nothing in your post is true. Be it the “not regular humans thing” (that’s not in the lore, mate), or the allegedly lacking dimensions of their gut (it is literally so big they count as overweight, regardless of age; their build is something you see on 70 year olds, not people in their 30s, usually). Female Kul-tirans are spot on for lymph disorders, too. They really nailed that.
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They aren’t normal though, even if they are Hominidae-Sapiens.
I don’t know where you missed the fact that they’re, oh, I don’t know. Taller than Draenei and broader at the shoulders? Having a little gorilla gut at that size would be normal. Look at various strongmen. Particularly older ones.
Modern vanity culture has poisoned people into thinking disgusting six-packs are indicators of strength and health when in reality they’re the opposite.
70 year olds are tall and jacked with enough muscle to break a car by punching the engine out?
No? They look more like female powerlifters too. Elephantiasis doesn’t look like that.
Again, you’re showing your ignorance
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Female kul-tirans look like soccer moms, not power lifters. You people keep tossing the term “power lifter” around. Do you even bench? I doubt it. Or you’d know what body types are healthy and what aren’t.
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Most soccer-moms are waifs or landwhales.
Yes, because that’s the inspiration.
I do more than bench. Of course, knowing you’re probably an ego-lifter that’s all you brag about.
I can tell you a power-lifter who is mostly muscle everywhere except his gut is pretty damn healthy.
Looking like a bodybuilder isn’t healthy. If you knew anything about fitness and health you would know that.
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I 100% agree Vulperian are like cockroaches you squash one of them and ten other appear.
We should gather them all in one spot and butcher them and then make a huge feast out of them for all of the horde and alliance to enjoy and bonus a lot of poor Stormwind and org hobos will get new clothes.
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I can tell you the male Kul-tiran combines forward head with lumbar lordosis. Look it up and weep. The females just have hollow back syndrome, which is perhaps a mercy, but still rather -unhealthy-. Healthy people who exercise correctly exercise in a manner that does not cause significant posture problems.
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Again, you’re faced with the reality that they aren’t normal humans and that they’ve developed in a different way. That lordosis and forward head posture is likely normal to them.
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Mechagnomes for sure lol
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Except it’s not present in most of the Kul-tiran NPCs. In those where it is, you have Lady Ashvane, who looks supremely unhealthy (and deliberately so), a poacher boss mob who looks like the Heavy and a druid who looks to be in his 60s. These are outlayers. They’re not the norm.
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I mean the giant kul tirans.
Since you’re such an intellectual bantamweight, allow me to slam my zoology books on the counter and educate you.
The playable kul titans are larger and much more massive than regular humans. They are a genetically stable population that has emerged naturally among Kul-Tiras. They are fully capable of breeding with other humans, and presumably have normal offspring that later grow to great sizes or stay normal due to genetics. The hardy weinburg principles would keep this gene from disappearing in an isolated gene-pool like Kul Tiras.
Humans have a spinal curve as a result of our bipedalism. Instead of four limbs bearing the weight of our body. Our legs have to take that force. In order to keep from folding in on ourselves, the spine takes the force and helps transmit it down to the legs.
The spine(which is C-shaped or flat in quadrupedal primates) curves in order to better support this workload. As the body mass increases, so too does the curvature.
With this in mind, it becomes clear that the Kul Tirans have a larger degree of lordosis due to an increased body-mass and height. As an organism grows it not only needs a larger, and more powerful heart. It needs larger lungs, digestive tracts and other things. It also needs larger and sturdier bones, which all increase weight.
In increased lordosis most likely serves to better support their weight, and provide more balance to offset the new size, weight and density of their internal components
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You might want to look a bit deeper into your biology textbooks, or just open one on neurology while you’re at it. You’ll find some interesting things about nerves and spinal curvature. Furthermore, you previously attempted to argue that the Kul-Tirans exhibited healthy, earth human traits, so your allusion to any form of education is tenuous at best. Any licensed medical practitioner will tell you that a human with too much mass and postural problems is going to have severe issues as they grow older and a diminished life expectancy. This is the exact opposite of “healthy”.
The new supposition that the Kul-tirans are an entirely new subspecies is unsubstantiated and speculation at best. It’s not even a hypothesis. Hypothesi are based on -facts-.
Oh my god you’re worse than I thought.
The nerve cord runs through the hollow sockets on the back of the vertebrae. If we can have gigantic sauropods with necks the mass of several kul-tirans that have functioning nerves. Than by god. The slightly increased curvature doesn’t matter.
They do. If you only have a pot-gut but you’re ripped elsewhere. You’re doing pretty good. Again, ‘posture’ only comes into effect when it’s detrimental. Otherwise it’s just how the person is. Applying broad averages never works out the way you want it.
And the person will naturally shrink provided they’re eating healthy. Granted, we’d argue heavily on what’s healthy. But, regardless. The medical profession makes alot of money by making mountains out of molehills.
I don’t know where you missed the memo, but since you’re this dense I’ll state it to you directly. They’re 8ft tall, have a much wider bone structure and are morphologically different from a regular human. Theoretically you could classify them as another species of human. However, they can interbreed perfectly. Which makes things a grey area. A safe bet would be subspecies. Again it depends on DNA difference and what else have you, but they are physiologically different enough to not be treated like an average human.
I would ask you to consider taking a break, and perhaps swallow your pride.
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Except they’re not “ripped” except in the arm musculature, which correlates with someone who lifts crates all day but otherwise does not move much and has an unhealthy diet. They have excess fat in the back shoulder regions which impacts their lung volume and puts excess strain on their frame as a whole. I would see this as healthy in a person who is, perhaps, approaching sixty. The curvature in their spine plus that increased mass on it can (and often does) pinch off nerves and cause spinal issues resulting in,best case scenario, temporary back pains. Best case scenario. Regardless of if they are a new subspecies or not, the -physics- on their -physique- determine this. They would need hyperdense muscles and an interior support structure beyond the normal human skeleton, or some kind of post-human nervous system, to alleviate this. And until you show me a kul-tiran who has been dissected or vivisected appropriately, I’m not just going to assume they have that.
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Least favorite BfA AR: Easy, Kul-Tiran Human. They look like poster children for Weight Watchers.
I actually like Mechagnomes, though I admit they need some model work. I just wish male Gnomes in general had less creepy looking faces.
Favorite BfA AR: Vulpera, hands down. I like small races(illusion of running faster) and Vulpera is the first one I can stand to look at while playing a male character.
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It’s pretty hard to tell what female Kul’Tirans look like cause no one actually plays them. Seriously, not one poster on the forums I’ve noticed has posted as a Fem-KT, don’t see them when I’m out questing, nor when I hop on my Dark Iron Pally and am actually in Alliance areas.
People can defend the design till they’re blue in the face, but if no one plays your “woke” character, that’s not a win.
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Ironic coming from a race that’s just half baked gnomes. Y’all look like trash and were a mistake to be added to the game.
Yea, mainly see male KTs running about when I’m playing and most KT tend to be druids. Considering that the playable KTs are those with drust ancestry and drust were a Vrykul group. Blizzard could given them a much more vrykul look.
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thats true by a lore standpoint, from a game design standpoint the green orc model came out first since warcraft 1.
Not quite, they are pretty much the same, the blessing of cenarius its the only true difference of them.
yangols and taunka are sub races for tauren, but highmountain its not
but if you think about it, its pretty much like giving a skin for a gnome, same race with a more appealing look, like those skins for moba characters
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Kul Tiran. I don’t like the female model.
Males are fine but I don’t play male toons.
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isn’t yangols and taunka the original taurens. they showed this in MoP quests i think. then they basically naturally adapated to climate changes thus body changes like RL adapatation basically.
as for the moba thing yea that is true. i mean if your looking at it lore wise some of the AR’s lore is kinda sloppy imo.
i mean in reality this doesn’t even benefit anyone but RPers tbh where they can choose to take lore into consideration idk if they already do that i don’t RP. i simply just play based on looks and i am more attracted to the OG races then the AR’s. i have all the horde ones unlocked though. only thing that really attracts me is their heritage armors outside of that i mainly pick due to racials/xmog looks
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