Guild Wars 2

So, I did a little measuring from a picture of my Norn female. She’s a tall thin Norn, so I put her at 9 foot, then did proportional measurements from a few angles on her body from several pictures. This is what I got from a starting height of 108 inches;

Body (trunk): 50.7" long
Legs: 57.3" long
Arms: 39.2" long
Chest: 62.0" Circumference
Waist: 39.3" Circumference
Thigh: 30.4" Circumference
Hand (from flexural crease at the wrist to the tip of the middle finger): 9.5"

She carries a rather plain great sword which measures 108". (I wonder if this is the same for all Norns or if it’s scaled to their height. Probably scaled.)

Since she’s thin, I did two sets of calculations, one using a BMI calculator and the other on a human female then scaled her up to 108 inches.

The BMI calculator said she should weigh about 335 pounds for a thin female 108 inches tall if her BMI was 20.

If you take a thin human female at 66 inches tall with a BMI of 20, she weighs about 125 lbs. Scaling this to a Norn at 108 inches gives a weight of 547 lbs.

Quite the discrepancy there. I think a 108" tall Norn female weighs more than 335 lbs.

Anyway, this was a fun little exercise. Let me know if you’ve done anything similar and your results.

Foot? "/inches? lbs? I don’t recognise any of these units I humbly request measurements in cm and kg.

Regarding the weights. BMI is mostly an arbitrary measurement that doesn’t mean much outside it’s interval, it’s mostly for quick glance for an average human. Going through scaling is the correct way as body volume (and thereby mass) will scale cubically with height, if proportions remain. To illustrate this we can look at Robert Wadlow who was close to 9 foot and weighed 439 lbs and he looks rather skinny.

Also 9 foot isn’t tall for Norn, it’s average :P

Is it me or do the hands seem small??

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Is it me or do the hands seem small??

Yes. Your observation is right on. The hands on both the Norn Female and Human Female are displayed smaller than they would be for a ‘normal’ person…whatever that is. Hand measurements for human females from the wrist flexural crease to the tip of the middle finger are about 1/10 (10%) of the height. As I measured my character, her hand length is 8.7% of her height. This does give the character a more feminine appearance, I suppose, since larger hands are associated with a more masculine physique. Also, female hands are more slender than males hands. AND, our dominant hand is thicker and wider than our non dominant hand.

Of course, maybe Norn females have different body proportions. Who knows.

Also, maybe, their bone density is different!

Yeah, I’d expect that and a few other differences. Muscles per unit weight is probably stronger to make up for the increased size (and weight). Conventional wisdom is that strength increases with the square of the height while mass increases with the cube of the height. So while a person twice as tall may be four times as strong, they weigh eight times as much, if body proportions are scaled accordingly. So, I’d guess there would be several changes to compensate for this.

I did some work on running speed for a Norn using a study of sprinter’s stride length and stride frequency. If we use comparable numbers for a Norn, we can calculate some interesting values.

At full running speed…i.e. a sprint, we would have an optimum stride length of about 130 inches, assuming a bunch of average values. Stride frequency for elite runners varies from about 4.3 to 4.5 strides/second. A little math and a running speed emerges of about 32 to 33 miles per hour for a ‘good’ sprinter. With some minimal changes in physiology, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine a 20% to 50% increase. That’s pretty impressive.

As a comparison, a world class human (he he) male can hit 25 to 27 (Usain Bolt as an example) mph at top speed for short bursts, while an okay sprinter running an 11 second 100m is doing 20 to 22 mph.

All these weird measures make no sense. Can’t contribute to thread, error.

Here you go. Numbers are rounded up;

Legs: 128.77 cm
Arms: 99.57 cm
Chest: 157.48 cm
Waist: 99.82 cm
Thigh: 77.22 cm
Hand: 24.13 cm

1 mile = 1.609 km

So a Norn chest is almost as big as me, that’s scary.