Why are Kul'Tirans so damn big?

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Not necessarily.
Not everything needs to be outright said, like how before it was explicitly said that Night Elves came from Trolls. Trolls and Night Elves are extremely similar in body type and even somewhat culturally, and what was known was that Night Elves changed due to the well into what they are today. So one could imagine, and I see this case as being something similar. They don’t even need to completely reveal it, and it could still be a possible explanation.

They don’t have to completely be a “Different race” either, since it was presumably generations upon generations ago, the effects are just still seen today.

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The beer belly is so gross. And the fact we’re never going to get playable vry’kul because of them enrages me to no end.

:frowning:

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You weren’t going to get them anyway, they’re too tall to fit in almost all of the city doors. And they would have looked absolutely stupid on any mount smaller than the proto-drake.

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Theres like three toys that turn you into practically sized vry’kul. Plus tauren arent supposed to either but they were scaled down.

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Implying that tauren dont look stupid on any mounts not a kodo and even then some.

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Well quite frankly, the range of mounts that Tauren look anything but awkward on is pretty huge. Blizzard tries scaling the mount to it’s rider, but that doesn’t really help when you see a bull Tauren on a hyppogryph or hawkstrider.

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Steroids :clown_face::clown_face:

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cuz they eat a lot?

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Not so much how much they eat, but what they eat. They eat a lot of seafood and beef… that’s a heavy protein diet, the Atkins of the Atkins diets.

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Blizzard said that Kul Tirans are a hardy people of monster-hunters. Given that Daelin Proudmoore was all about genociding the Orcs (and would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!), I think that’s an apt description.

Meta reasons is that Blizzard wanted to give more appearance options for Humans. It’s a shame they stopped at the big humans and didn’t give us skinny humans too.

Headcannon reasons - probably mixing with the Thornspeakers that survived the war between the human settlers and the Drust, seeing as the Drust were basically Vrykul.

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[quote=“Arlifrex-moon-guard, post:45, topic:108624”]

  • Non-playable Kul Tiran human models include thin, normal and fat body types. The playable Kul Tiran use the fat body type. They are not intended to be a separate race, they are simply variants on Kul Tirans made because Blizzard wanted bigger and smaller models to fit the various NPC roles and add more flavor to the world. They are not biologically different from other humans.[[3]]

Vrykul. Drust, Humans and Kul’tirans are all humanoids of very similar body shapes and the Vrykul and huge, but are demi-giants. The Drust are in turn taller than humans, but likely smaller than Vrykul or at best almost the same size. Humans are anywhere half the size of a Vrykul or at most almost to their breasts. Kul’tirans are almost to the size of a Vrykul’s shoulders. They’re plainly bigger and broader than a normal human. They clearly have giant’s blood.

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I’m not against players having that headcanon. I’m not against players having that as a role play background.

I am saying, that in Blizzard’s point of view, unless they add further or different reasons, Kul Tirans are larger simply because they are.

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They don’t openly admit those reasons. And they could have implemented the Dark Irons, Lightforged, Kul’tirans, and even the Zandalari as just unlockable customization options like the night warrior and goldeneyes. But they didn’t. What they do hint at is through the lore of Drustvar. My guess is that Drust were actually as big as Vrykul in some cases.

But those that mingled created the not so large but still large Kul’tiran variants. I do want to see scrawny humans though.

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Remember the MoP cinematic? That human is massive, somehow able to hold his own in hand to hand with an Orc albeit by being a bit dodgy, and looks to be a sailor so maybe a Kul Tiran. I think that it’s possible they’re just a bigger offshoot of the regular humans. Like if Dirk Nowitski found an Island and founded a country

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That’s what she said.

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Mostly agree, but can we point out that female goblins mine using the broad side of the pickaxe?

I mean… it’s a pickaxe. You smack the pointy bit into the object, it’s all very rudimentary and simplistic. Why are you smacking it with the flat, broad, non-pointy side?

Edit: Welp. Didn’t notice this was almost a month old.

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You weren’t going to see them anyway. they’re too damm tall to fit in most other doors.

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Could a drust hybrid even exist? Weren’t the vrykul rendered incapable of producing more vrykul and instead made humans or was that like one generation, and otherwise they still can make vrykul babies?

Though, were the Broken Isle vrykul even afflicted with that anyway?

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I used the orb of deception on my Zandalari and thought I had been turned into a Dwarf… They don’t seem that tall to me.

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With the help of N’zoth, all things are possible!

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