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Zwartekraai was curious about the heights of the Ragged Edges characters, so he could better imagine how they relate to eachother.I slapped together this junk in an attempt to offer the basic range of heights. I can offer other people's heights upon request for the curious.
From left to right: Boone, Branz, Nada,Raege,Myers,Magpie,Yaroslava,Redding, Cuddles
Magpie is a character by: akandofharakon.deviantart.com/ from his Ragged Edges fanfic, most of which is so on the money it may as well be canon.
You may notice that Cuddles looks bigger here than usual. Truthfully, as a biomancer she is often shortening herself to make it easier to move around the ship and talk to people. This is merely the height she defaults to if she relaxes.
I am quite sure that, if measured this chart and its numbers are messed up.
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Yeah now that I think of it, Voidborn tend to be unnaturally tall.Β I guess I will rewrite this stuff then. Thanks for the help.
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Dot let physics or the real world trouble you too much. I read a warhammer novel where the inhabitants of a dark planet had dark skin. Illogical.
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Unless they needed the natural night camouflage in their pigment. Thus creatures that live on a planet where all is dark, blending in would make a lot of sense. Or having more acute night vision or non photoreceptive senses.Β
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Present day biologic evidence seuggests that they would be almost tranlucent in skin tone with enlarged eyes and poor day time eyesight. They would also possibly be hairless. I'm basically describing the subterranian gang 'House Delaque' from Necromunda, though.
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You could also be describing most subterranean creatures, as pigment typically evolves to defend against sun exposure, which can still kill modern day humans in large enough amounts. I would say fair point on that. Mole rats as an example.Β
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Yeah, but warhammer 40k writers (Matt Ward and someone else who's name I forget specifically) Are known for doing things like that.Β I like to try and keep things at least somewhat realistic.Β Also, with the whole "Heights are taller than modern day,"Β They would be more of an average height in the modern day.
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Thanks again, I am perfectly fine with the height change.
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Really?Β I thought that all the muscle mass would make height a thing... hmm
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I'm going to need to rewrite some heights then.
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Nope, more gravity=less efficient to have taller creatures, they would actually be shorter than the average human, but have much higher muscle and bone density thus making them proportionally much stronger and tougher.Β
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Yep, that was what I figured and I changed the heights on the characters accordingly.
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Yep, James Cameron tried to justify the blue cat people from Avatar being so tall by saying the planet had weak gravity and thus larger creatures. He never took into account that the humans should have in that case been jumping around several stories and been much stronger than anything on Pandora.Β
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now I wouldn't say she's a midget....I would say that she is portable!Β
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8 freaking feet?! holy shit cuddles.
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Apparently she can biomance her way down to 6.8, but dear god that is tall. To quote Patrick Rothfuss "In other times, a temple would be built around a woman like that"
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Horrifying, isn't it
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Wanted my first attempt to be simple. Glad you like it!
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Did I tell you he was 6'7" or is that another one of our shining moments?
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I'm not sure...it just seemed right? I think one of the stories mentions that he's a bit taller than the 6'6" Levy?
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rereading it now for continuity sake before I put out the next chapter, I don't think I expressly mentioned his height but you seem to have pictured it perfectly.Β
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A well realised characte is sufficiantly real that you can just see them.
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That means a lot, I'm not so fortunate as yourself as to be able to actually show my characters so when it comes across through literature I count that as a huge victory.
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And rightfully so
I'm gonna ake that Magpie profile someday for sure.
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You're off to a good start, I love the mercenary grunt outfit from fallout new vegas you gave him... not far off the mark either.
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I seem to remember he wears a t-shirt, not a vest.
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Well not quite, he wears the standard Catachan Flak vest... he just actually buttons the damn thing up while in combat, you nailed the t-shirt but he wears that rather than the traditional sleeveless Catachan shirts you see in GW artwork and models.Β
Basically just add a green flak vest, a black bandana, a scar horizontally across his nose, slightly darker hair and maybe some tiger stripe camo and it's pretty much spot onΒ
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Basically my vision for Magpie is that he's the next generation Catachan, if his fathers generation of Catachan were the Vietnam era American soldiers then (specifically L.R.R.P, or Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol units being the equivalent of a Catachan Devil) then Magpie is the Panama/Grenada era special operations soldier if that's potentially helps with adding bits and pieces of accouterments like bandoliers, extra rope, and the such... maybe even a nifty sub-vocal Comm-bead... I don't know, I actually made his regiment and him using the Only War rules so if looking at that might give you some ideas then let me know.
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Sounds pretty solid in genral, dude.
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That explains all those really heretical space marines.
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I know, right? Just keep adding bits to yourself and BOOM, you're the arch-traitor
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aaaand another eason to love cuddles
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Being as tall as just one of her legs?
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(naughty thougs) yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah btw i dont iv i have to take a stair Β to hug her^^ she's just so lovely to me
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Wow... 6'1" is on the short end....
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40k is mental with character height
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It kind of makes sense though; humans have been getting taller throughout known history, so it's not entirely unreasonable to say that people in the 41st millennium would be taller on average than people in the 3rd millennium.
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Mostly this has to do with better access to protein, especially during childhood; and partially with the general Β reduction in malnutrition. Example being, North Koreans and South Koreans are the same peoples- the nations only separated in the 1950's, and many families have branches on both sides- Β but North Koreans averageΒ 2-4" shorter (depending on age andΒ whose study data you use) Β andΒ are noticeably lighter Β than South Koreans. Β Advantage: Capitalism!
In the 40K universe, I'd think that (gravity and ancestry being equal) the 90% of the population who live on the subsistence level- corpse-starch rations and the like- would be substantially shorter and less healthy than the elites (Adminitratum, officer-rank, and other 'status' families), very much like during our own Middle Ages.
As far as Lady Alice Boone goes... some girls are just short.
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The Dark Heresy character generation tables show a spectrum of heights around modern average for Hive and Imperial worlders, so if they're living under poor conditions it could be argued that the maximum height increased slightly between our time and the 41st millennium. Void born tend to be taller yet weaker likely due to the weak gravity of ships. Feral worlders are a bit if an oddity; the table generates them as bigger than hivers and Imperial worlders, which makes little sense since they have arguably the worst living conditions. That one should probably be chalked up to GW not doing the research and/or deferring to Rule of Cool.
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Not really. There is a hard upper limit, biologically, to how tall we can get. We've hit that with good nutrition and such in the West. In 40k most of it has to do with mutation or augmentation.
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Even without the mutation it is quite possible that in the space of 38 millennia humans could have evolved to be capable of growing at least slightly taller, at least among the aristocracy and almost certainly among the often noodle-people proportioned void born.
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Slightly, yes. But 38 thousand years is not really enough time for evolution to encourage growth on such a scale. After all, we are not so much taller than humans who lived 200,000 years ago.
It's all quite irrelevant, because science has no real bearing on fantasy. In 40k mutation is a thing that happens all the time, and in ways quite at odds with science. That's the beauty of IMAGINATION DUST.
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It is true that 40k could easily be considered more fantasy than sci-fi. Sometimes I think Games Workshop just got everyone together and said, "OK, people, we've already got giant mutant supersoldiers, exploding psychics and ships that travel faster than light by taking a shortcut through hell... how can we make this TEN TIMES MORE OVER THE TOP?!?"
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This is true. It's part of its charm, I believe.
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