I’m a bit confused about why some Vrykul developed into humans and others didn’t. Back in WotLK it seemed like developing into humans was inevitable and the only Vrykul around were those who sent themselves into hibernation to avoid it.
But since then we see several populations of Vrykul that didn’t go into hibernation and did not become humans: Stormheim Vrykul and the Drust.
If the giant Kul Tirans are technically drust-human hybrids (not sure if that is confirmed or just player speculation), then there is another example.
The Curse didn’t effect every child in the first place and the Vrykul in the Broken Shore left long before the Curse of flesh was unleashed following Odyn.
Humans descended from Vykrul, as in, Vykrul were having Human Infants. This was noted as happening among the Northrend Vykrul, but we don’t have any evidence this phenomenon affected the Vykrul on the Broken Isles.
Its never said they were human only that they were smaller and weaker than Vrykul children should be. It was probably more gradual like how the Earthen turned to stone slowly over time.
Yes but the curse did not start to effect the size of the children till much later. Also it at first was very rare and only became a greater problem over time.
I never got the impression that it was all children, only a portion.
There’s a couple of potential reasons why humans evolved in this case and not elsewhere. The most simple is that the other Vrykul went through with culling their weak children.
The alternate possibility was that it was due to the proximity to the prison of Yogg Saron and its spreading influence. This might have just been a random mutation and may/may not have eventually been bred out, but they were all transplanted to another location and ended up forming a stable breeding colony.