(07-24-2014, 04:52 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: Well, there are two ways of looking at it.
The fact remains that Lalafells and Roe's are shown to be roughly equal physically speaking. Otherwise no one would ever make a lalafell a brass blade, and papashan wouldn't be the hero of the sultansworn. So clearly a person can be roughly on par with someone 4 to 5 times their height and bodymass.
So either A: Roe's have the worst muscle density ever, and lalafells have the best.
Or B: Physical musculature is only a part of strength, and everyone, even fighters use aether to reinforce their actions.
I think option B is more plausible. Not everyone may be aware they're doing it, but they probably are.
The only flaw in this plan is that Garleans can't channel aether at all, so theoretically they'd be weaker in combat than most eorzeans. Maybe that's why the pureblooded garleans you see are all buff dudes. GOTTA COMPENSATE.
There's a third option. Maybe Papashan's just developed enough technique to overcompensate for his size? Relying on agility and being entire magnitudes smaller than your foe is a valid tactic, as is letting them think you're going to go down easily. If it was so simple to just be aetherially reinforced, there'd never be any reason for people to have sculpted bodies or actually try; Magic is just making us better. Having everyone on the planet be functionally equal because reasons feels like a cop-out to me. Having those who are able to hang with the bigger/smaller/faster/stronger/magical folk through experience and effort is what makes them heroes (or villains!) in the first place. Handwaving it away with magic makes for poor storytelling.
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