Why do I have a tail?

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I haven’t needed it to balance.

I can swat flies with my hands well enough.

I can’t climb a thing with these hooves anyway, so I don’t need it to swing on trees.

I can’t seem to attach anything at the end to swing it around like a weapon.

My frown says all about my hostile intentions, and not like it goes up or down to indicate my mood.

It just gets in the way when I’m sitting.

And unlike those knife ears, it’s nowhere near sharp enough to automatically pierce through helmets and whatnot, so everytime I pick up useful gear the first thing I have to do is punch a hole through it.

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You’re an alien. Of course you have weird things like that. That’s the price you pay for being an abomination.

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How do you know, you’ve always had it.

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Evolution and genetics. Same reason humans have that little thing on their eyes that used to be a nictitating membrane: we don’t need it, but it’s never gone away.

Until you find a draenei without a tail, draenei are just going to keep having tails.

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Then you aren’t running around corners fast enough.

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It proves your swag.

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It used to be a third fist, but over time it has evolved into a deformed stump.

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Says the undead? Ironic

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The real question is why dont you have a longer tail?!

This has been in the game files for years but Blizz wont add it as an option! Blizz pls

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Says the walking, slow-rotting corpse. :skull_and_crossbones:

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I’ve seen some… questionable art that highlights some unique uses for the tails…

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it’s sexy, that’s why.

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The tail is needed for the waggle to have full effect.

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For Balance.

You’ve got that anterior pelvic tilt… and you’re really tall. So your center of gravity is really high. You’ve also got those forward canted lower legs… which would be fine if you had four legs and a massive base of support. But instead, your base of support and line of gravity are thrown off…

The tail helps a little.

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I stand corrected! This has been quite a convincing argument.

And like others who pointed out, I guess I don’t really know if I even needed it to balance or not since I’ve always had it?

That would just get in the way even more! Wouldn’t it?

Edit: I have epic failed to use the quote function on mobile!

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T is a fair enough summary of what I said, tbh

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The male Draenei model stands with its feet together… (and they have massive tails) and their line of gravity definitely falls down infront of their hooves…

Which means that they’re essentially forced to always generate torque to keep from falling forwards.

But they’ve got that big heavy tail. So that helps.

Female Draenei don’t stand with their feet together on the character select screen. Because why not anteriorly rotate your hip with that anterior pelvic tilt!

Doing everything they can to accentuate that…

tail…

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I’d wager you have a tail still because the male Draenei find it attractive.

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But then why do the Male Draenei have tails?