: So what? Let's say I paint a Trow a human skin color.
: Except for the baldish thing (and the ugly-as-sin
: face), he's going to look like a human would for that
: size. The humanoid form is one of the most common.
: Hell, I didn't even know fir'Bolg were non-human until
: after I beat TFL (years back, of course; I'm
: ejamacated now!:-)
Well, yes--if you
• painted a Trow,
• gave him a facelift,
• gave him a wig,
• added another finger to each hand,
• put prosthetics over those elephant feet, and
• shrunk him down to a half or a third of his original height,
he could pass for human. But that's a lot of changes to make, don't you think? :-)
Besides, the Trow seem to have been unusually humanoid--most of the other Elder Races depicted are even more alien.
On the other hand, the only physically inhuman thing about the Watcher is his unusual size. I just replayed the level, and based on that and his postgame pic, he looks to be about 8-8 1/2 feet tall. Which is unusual, but not unheard of even for ordinary humans who aren't Dark Sorcerers of Awesome Power. Furthermore, we can see from the arm-whittling pic that he looks entirely human both inside and out.
fir'Bolg do resemble humans to a startling degree--but GURPS makes it clear that such a strong resemblance between different species is unusual. And if you don't follow GURPS, then there's no reason to believe that the fir'Bolg and humans are different species at all--or that they can't interbreed.
I've no problem with a theory that the Watcher's a fir'Bolg, though. :-)
--SiliconDream
