Turbine Games Q&A/Backstory/Q-63

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Why are Asherons hands so small?

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Asked:	2000.12.23
Name:	Seamus (aka Hisba Nasab)
Question Title:	Why are Asherons hands so small?
Category:	Backstory
Question:	Strange question, and worthless really. So if you wish to pick between this, and my last question, go with the other one! Heh. I do wonder though, about Asheron. His hands were so small. He was tall as well. Now he is of a different race than the Humans we know of. (Although there must be some connection between the two races, as they both look alike.) Does this mean the gravity on Dereth is weaker? (That would explain the jumping skill some people have, heck I've heard of some people jumping off of the Tou-Tou light house and surviving!) So if they evolved on Dereth, then the gravity must have been weaker for them, as they are humaniode, to appear as they do now. Taller, with a thinner body than our own. Then again.. There is Bael'Zharon to considered. Any ideas here? Thanks a bunch. -Seamus.

Answered:	2000.12.26
Name:	Stormwaltz
Answer:	His hands are small and fine because he specced lockpick. No, no. I jest. Considering that you can leap tall palisade walls in a single bound, assuming lesser gravity would be a logical assumption. Bael'Zharon was once an Empyrean like Asheron. He's artificially empowered, and thus does not conform to the standard morpotype. And no, there is no connection between the Empyrean and the Isparian. For whatever reason, this universe prefers humanoid forms (Drudges, Tumeroks, Lugians, etc...). IRL, of course, the world prefers humaoids because they can share animation sets, saving our artists weeks of work.