Fat people? Seriously?

[Gandrake]

Most NPCs on Kul Tiras use standard human models, the skinny and stout models are there to add some diversity to the humans.

people always ask me why i play a female character in RPGs and every time i succinctly explain i am tired of human males being portrayed as fucking He-Man doing the fusion dance with Hulk Hogan and being someone's grandpa that's still juicing up at 50yrs old

why can't we be like some of the manlier men of FFXV like Cor Leonis or Gladiolus? why do human males always look like they tasted cock and liked it or some comic book hero? Hell, even Jack Morrison looks better than your typical WoW human.

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They arent fat, they're bulky. They arent ripped, they are more swole.

they are overweight, therefore fat.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

If you seriously thought they were a joke then it's you who is the joke. Why would you see a model on a fan site and think it wasn't going to be a part of the game?

[Doffen]

Why? They're not from Stormwind, they're Kul'Tirans.

Just like Draenor orcs are becoming their own subrace, because they're not Durotar orcs.

The fault lies with Blizzard though, for not calling them allied factions

Thats the thing really, they could have made them subraces, because all allied races so far is actually a subrace. Except two: Nightborne and Void Elves. But since they wanted to switch those to make the playerbase happy, they had to call this whole thing: Allied Races. Because if the two elven races were to be subraces, NB would have to be alliance(night elf) and VE would have to be Horde(Blood Elf)

So now we get allied races wich is already attached to the factions(DI Dwarves and Outland/Draenor orcs) So it might not make sense to call those Allied Races, but the term Allied Races is just used to give blizzard more possibilities.

Sorry if that goes beyond your point btw. I do agree. The term Allied Race might seem weird for some of the races.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I love it humans should come in all shapes and sizes.

[Najnaj]

I would not call them fat. They are obviously bigger but more of a heavy build than fat.

[cuafpr]

they are overweight, therefore fat.

you do realize u can be overweight and still have a low %body fat..... not saying the KT's are that way but its possible. also considering that the seem to be larger than typical humans what is overweight for a KT human?

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Not to derail the devolution of the thread into a tiresome quarrel about political correctness and fitness, but HAVE KUL'TIRANS ACTUALLY BEEN OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED AS AN ALLIED RACE OR NOT?
Sorry about the caps, but I think I'm the third person here asking about this, and no one answered yet because you are too busy explaining to the rest of the universe that fat people have feelings too.

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they are overweight, therefore fat.

Bodybuilders are technically overweight most of the time. The real big ones at least.

Besides. The big Kul'Tiran men look more like guys who go to the gym a lot, but with a shitty diet. They're more strongfat. They still have treetrunks for arms.

The women though. Yeah they're pretty fat.

[Goldielocks]

By the way Jaina IS fat. Have you seen her tits?

Jaina has perfect body proportions and massive tits. That's not fat. That's wish fulfillment. Most fantasy characters are, especially elves.

Not that I'm complaining though lmao

[ro9ue]

Most NPCs on Kul Tiras use standard human models, the skinny and stout models are there to add some diversity to the humans.

But they along with the skinny humans definitely feel more like barbershop options than allied race material, moreso than Highmountain tauren and LF Draenei as they're more of a different bodyshape than a different human race.

I'd argue the high mountain and light forged could easily just have been additional cosmetic options for Draenei/Tauren

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Fat humans may actually allow me to play alliance again after a period of ~5 years. I just cant stand all the other ally races, while fat humans look interesting and unusual.

[Nnyco]

Have the announced that they are an allied race?

ofc not, but on mmo-c we take everythin out of context

[Techno-Druid]

I'd argue the high mountain and light forged could easily just have been additional cosmetic options for Draenei/Tauren

Except Highmountain tauren are a separate race of tauren and Lightforged—while vastly inferior to Broken—are draenei infused with the Light.

The bulky humans in Kul Tiras are just...bulky humans. It might be over training to hunt sea monsters or whatever, but they're still biologically normal humans.

[McFuu]

Bro they aren't fat, they are on their bulk. I'm looking forward to them, although it's not even guaranteed they will be playable, so don't freak out yet. That bigger build is what I'd expect of warriors and paladins though. Most WcIII art made me think that Uther looked more like these humans than the planet CrossFit version we have in game. As WoW came out, most art pushed him into that thin looking human for game reasons.

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I wonder if OP bailed because they realized they were being silly

Edit: Whelp, guess not.

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you do realize u can be overweight and still have a low %body fat..... not saying the KT's are that way but its possible. also considering that the seem to be larger than typical humans what is overweight for a KT human?

do they look like they have low bf percentage

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do they look like they have low bf percentage

I'd say they look like the Mountain from Game of Thrones with WoW's artstyle.

That man is many things, but fat isn't one of them.

[CasualFilth]

Speak for yourself. I'm looking forward to my high cholesterol, near heart attack, potato crisp nibbler, fatty acid glutton thick human.

You know it's genetics right? And Blizzard pushing the body positivity card <3

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Except Highmountain tauren are a separate race of tauren and Lightforged—while vastly inferior to Broken—are draenei infused with the Light.

The bulky humans in Kul Tiras are just...bulky humans. It might be over training to hunt sea monsters or whatever, but they're still biologically normal humans.

It's funny how you use biological criteria,... biologically seen lightforged are no different than normal draenei, the only difference is of magical nature. And that in turn is basically just result of a different culture developed over the millenia of fighting the legion.

In the same light Kul'tiran humans have a vastly different culture to Stormwind humans; coming from the environment they grow up in. My best guess is that we are getting a special faction of them, which due to their lifestyle receives their bulk.