Humans.
While it seems dwarves lost some height in the curse of flesh it was like maybe 20% meanwhile humans from earthen lost like over half their size.
Why did humans shrink so much? dwarves barely shrunk and gnomes barely if at all shrunk?
I want to throw a Macross reference, but…
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The Curse of Flesh seems to have mutated at some point in the past with the Vrykul. Half the Vrykul stayed their giant size and an offshoot shrunk down to humans, making them more malleable. Even giving them the ability to breed with species not descended from Titan constructs like the elves.
Blizz has never explained why this happened, or why it hasn’t really happened to the other Curse of Flesh races.
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More so, they are “deformed” vrykul that were supposed to be disposed of to keep the race “pure”. Parent’s being parents, not all vrykul could do this. So they took them to the eastern kingdoms to survive.
Boom. The human race lol.
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Genetics
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We are the resilient dregs of the vrykul! Fear us!
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They were in the pool. It was cold.
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I think all races shrank to some degree.
There are some huge mechagnomes out there.
And Mimiron is kinda large, himself. Larger than any gnome, anyway.
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Common creation trope from humanity, that those that came right after the start of creation are greater than those that became farther from the start of it all.
Well until we started having steam engines and balloon (flight).
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To compensate for inflation but keep the price of the individual human steady.
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Something something weak apes that were kicked out of the trees theory.
Mirmiron isn’t an OG mechagnome. He xfer’d his soul
If we go into details, we’d be at it for a while but I speculate that our once-rocky/metallic bodies cannot maintain the size. Humans are the “most balanced” thus are as tall as they are based on the amount of flesh taken whereas the Dwarves are rather stocky yet stout yet are the least affected because they are considered FAR stronger than most humans. Gnomes would feel it the most, they aren’t meant to be large in any possible way with how their structure is built.
If ignoring any of this… I dunno, I just guessed my assumptions why. The Vrykul are far more capable to retain their size for a reason, just being able to support their own size before they suffer a case of gigantism whereas Dwarves aren’t necessarily suffering from dwarfism where a Human stature with dwarfism would otherwise suffer in conditions. Which again, just assumng.
It could be the result of Vrykul having children with non-vrykul races. It’s possible humans are half Vrykul and half elf, or even half troll. Which would also explain why elf + human children can happen.
Damn you! I was here to say the same thing!
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Maybe cuz we’re made of star stuff (titanic magic) humans are like neutron stars - those super dense cores after a big ol’ star collapses?
You wanna talk about shrinkage? Orcs come from Ogres, which come from Ogron, which come from Gronn, which come from Breakers.
Not sure why pandaren got hit too, but I’m doing my best to raise the average.
The Vrykul to Human story always reminded me of the Greek god story of Cronus and Rhea, where Cronus ate his children to prevent them from overthrowing him, and Zeus was secretly saved by Rhea and raised on the island of Crete until he was old enough to save his siblings.
It also reminds me of the Norse story of Loki, where Loki is smaller than the Frost Giants and Odin takes him in becoming an Asgardian.
The Vrykul/Human story in WoW probably has some inspirations from these myths.
That’s what you get with amateur breeders folks.
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