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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7701787" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p>The problem with this argument is that it presupposes that fire giants themselves are inherently physically and biologically plausible, which they aren't. A fire giant, or any giant for that matter, even without armor, should have their own legs shatter under the stress of their own weight (they obviously have human-type leg bones and not the elephant-like leg bones they would need to carry their own weight). Moreover, any large warm-blooded creature has to deal with the surface area/volume problem, wherein, as a creature gets larger in size, its surface area grows by units squared while its volume grows by units cubed. This means that heat radiation becomes more inefficient with size, getting to a point where a large warm-blooded creature fries its own biological processes since it can't get rid of the heat it's producing fast enough. And, given that fire giants are fire-based creatures, this problem would be massively exacerbated, meaning that any reality-based fire giant would rapidly overheat and die. For a fire giant to even exist we would have to presuppose a non-standard biology, and, once that becomes a given, any questions on physical limitations goes out the window. So, until we have a detailed examination of fire giant biology that would contradict it, we have to assume that fire giants are able to carry the weight of that armor and those shields...</p></blockquote><p></p>

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