: I wouldn't deride the fir'Bolg's archery skills that
: much, nor make out that the humans were way better
: than them.
: That's only derived from changes to a Fear tag between
: TFL and Myth 2, whereas all the flavours point to
: fir'Bolg being truly gifted bowmen. The Dwarves gained
: far more skill with their cocktail making between TFL
: and M2 if the tags are anything to go on, but this is
: never remarked on as relating to anything meaningful
: in Myth history. In the same way, changes to melee
: gameplay aren't explained as new fighting skills
: discovered by Alric etc.
If their extensive chest muscles (which are very important in archery) are anything to go by, I'd have said that Fir'bolg specifically evolved as longbow machines, simply because the Bre'unor and other assorted forest nasties would have tended to kill off anyone who couldn't handle a bow properly. It's also worth noting that the skeletons of medieval English archers shows that they would have had to, in effect, dislocate their own right arms through extensive training in order to achieve maximum bow potential. Fir'bolg could well be born like this, and is probably this, along with their extensive chest muscles, that sets them apart as a separate race.
