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The Four Revelations of Cinial'jin
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--- Quote from: Swense ---At least it so far plays no role in the story beyond making Ciogli badass.
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--- Quote from: Borque ---Maybe they shrink when they do non-heroic stuff. Like betraying someone. Or just taking a walk in the sun, or brushing their teeth. So in the end it balances out, except for a select few with poor dental hygiene.
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--- Quote from: Sideris ---I dunno, they all have that 'perfectly clean' thing most fantasy elves have going on. They DO consider bathing holy, which puts them far above their human slaves already. :P
And back on the story itself, I think I prized this one for Conphas's eerie questioning, the dangling of the knife, etc. I'd long wondered since reading the books what'd it have been like for him to meet a Nonman. And Bakker delivered! Horrifically (in the best way).
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--- Quote from: lockesnow ---The stress thing makes sense the more you think about it. Consider elite bodybuilders or Olympic Weightlifters. Once you reach a certain point, the response curve of the human musculoskeletal system more or less flattens and makes it INCREDIBLY difficult to 'grow' to increase a maximum number (this is why everyone resorted to steroids when chemistry let us enhance the human body). A nonman may not have those limitations and would be able to continue growing in proportion to the physical stress. A lot of muscle (male) and fat (female) growth in adolescence is primarily controlled by hormone release, whether it's developing muscles or filling out thighs/breasts, hormones primarily dictate what will happen to a growing body. it's easy to see a small difference between our species and another species--in the chemical system--that would result in radically different outcomes.
Male humans respond to musculoskeletal stress by 'growing' more muscle and becoming stronger (to grossly oversimplify). Is it so huge a leap to think that Cunoroi might undergo musculoskeletal stress by literally growing more proportionally, rather than just growing muscle?
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--- Quote from: Curethan ---Actually their maximum size is determined by the relative size of their existential balls. Obviously you need balls like watermelons to break a dragon's neck wit yo bare hands.
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