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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarellion" data-source="post: 2223321" data-attributes="member: 6254">I am not adamant about having giants in Aleasana, I have my problems with the biology that was used to justify that every member of the species shrunk. If Rhialto wants to cut out my stuff about the pure old bloods it´s fine with me. I would prefer that we get out the magic/divine intervention/weaponeffect explanation instead of using theories about evolution and biology. I am not an expert in these matters either, so there could be some holes in my theories, too. It´s just my opinion that the whole no food idea has some flaws. I think that we should give the whole size matter the "It´s magic, dude " treatment. If we keep some of the original Asani, they could have evaded the effect somehow.    If we stay with the food I could say now that animals in colder climates are often bigger because of the lower ratio of surface area to size. Other reasons for giantsized people could be atavism. Assuming that we still have a lot of large monsters running around for adventurers to kill, being large would sure be a benefit.  Please don´t mention that the enraged humans killed off the Asani, I am speaking in general terms now without considering the stuff about an enclave I mentioned earlier.  And the genes of the humans are still Asani in nature. The original template is large and it takes time for the whole evolution thingy to take hold. As an example: Some of my family members who go hunting regularly often shoot young deer (deer youths) who are  too weak and small in size to survive. This small sized deer occurs because of lack of food. But this doesn´t mean that this deer would reproduce resulting in smaller deer. They are rather unable to reproduce or if they did their offspring would be too frail in health. These weak deer dies off and the population would shrink in numbers until the population numbers are low enough that the land can sustain them.I didn´t contribute anything further in this matter because I am not sure if everyone would be fine with it.</blockquote>

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