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Shapeshifting and size-changing
kazimmoinuddin:
I think the alphas transform into a kind of dire wolf, the huge bear a type of dire or Kodak bear. When they change they add mass from the never never to assume an animal form.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on April 25, 2018, 10:28:18 PM ---I think the alphas transform into a kind of dire wolf, the huge bear a type of dire or Kodak bear. When they change they add mass from the never never to assume an animal form.
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They're really not that big. Larger than normal wolves, yes, but that's largely because they're human-mass, not wolf-mass. The average weight of a male wolf is 66-180 pounds.
Someone as built as Billy's described is probably at least 225 pounds.
At most, they're maybe Mouse's size.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: kazimmoinuddin on April 25, 2018, 10:28:18 PM ---I think the alphas transform into a kind of dire wolf, the huge bear a type of dire or Kodak bear. When they change they add mass from the never never to assume an animal form.
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I dont think they really have to, on the basis that the largest actual Wolves alive today hit the mass range of a small to mid-sized human (Mackenzie Valley Wolf, between 110 and 175 pounds) so even if the alphas are doing a direct mass conversion they would still be qualifying as notably oversized for an average wolf, and quite possibly record breaking for anything alive today. BUt they'd not be reaching the Twilight-sized ridiculousness
PS The actual prehistoric "dire wolves" were (speculated since they only have skeletons) smaller than the Mackenzie, averaging 150 lbs and having a skeleton that wouldnt function above 240.
Kindler:
Fun side note about dire wolves; there's a breeding project out there somewhere that is trying to bring them back. They can't really make one from mixed descendants, but they can make something that's close physically, if not genetically.
KurtinStGeorge:
So is it explained how someone gets smaller, like when LTW turned himself in to a bird when he was fighting the Naagloshii? I mean it's one thing to add mass by grabbing some ectoplasm from the nevernever and magically animating it as part of your chosen form, but how do they do it in reverse? That seems problematic to me.
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