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(10-08-2014, 07:29 PM)GloryRhodes Wrote: Ok, let's talk about CHIMPS.
A chimpanzee male, at its heaviest, can weigh up to 150lbs. The head of the Yale Primate Research Laboratory, a guy named Glen Finch in the 40s did strength tests on captive chimps and found that adult males can lift a pretty hefty weight and are, on average, pound for pound, about twice as strong as human beings. Why? Chimpanzee muscles have longer fibers than those of humans, allowing them to produce twice the amount of energy in the same range of motion. A 150 pound chimp is on par with the strength of a 300 pound man.
So, you see all these Brass Blades and Sultansworn with beat ass bronze swords and shields, not magical enchanted weaponry, and you have stories of Lalafel pugilists, and you see several in action. You also see Lalafel anatomy as being short, thick, peoples with heavy, meaty torsos. For their size they have a lot of mass.
I speculate that Lalafel musculature is simply different than that of other races, specifically that of Hyur. It's not too much of a stretch to assume that Lalafel, who are very agile but tend to move without bending their limbs much (look at that Lala walk) have a different structure to their muscles. If we give that Lalas have a muscle structure like that of chimps, twice as powerful as that of a Hyur's, pound for pound, then suddenly everything makes sense. No more "They must be more highly trained!" and other problems like that.
Lalas are just physiologically different, as much so as a human and a chimp.
This is actually really interesting. If it actually worked out that way, it would suddenly make sense that your average lala could pack a punch hard enough to match that of a hyur. Or at least hard enough to make bigger, bulkier races think a little.
Somehow I don't see the FFXIV lore-team thinking this far. :V