I've heard rumors that his parents put steroids in his food when he was little...

I want my knight to be smaller than it is now :3
All small and adorable

I think a Height change would be interesting, game play wise.../

The larger you are, the slower your movement and attack speed, but with higher defense, with the converse being true for smaller knights.

Naturally there would be a limit, else we would be seeing parties of Vanadukes and Gremlin Knocker equivalents running around.

Or it could all be cosmetic, too.

But he also looks a bit fatter/chunk than before

Feron is dumb dumb.

Obviously he's wearing out-of date armour that's bigger and bulkier, compounded with the fact that he's taller than average to begin with. He's a bit of a Luddite and resistant to tech changes, and insists his old suit is good enough.

And it is, for the most part. Until a bunch of ninjas shank him, anyway.

Height/Size slidebars, within reason, would actually give a whole new level of customization to this game that could be pretty neat... it shouldn't have any impact on gameplay, though.

If Feron is Hagrid, then Ozlo must be Dumbledor, and if Ozlo is Dubledor then all the players must be Harry's. And if were all Harry, King Tinkinzar must be Voldemort. And if King Tinkinzar is Voldermort were all effed, he probably threw the Horcruxes into the core.

Someone said that Feron and some other NPCs sort of remind them of WoW and they think there's some inspiration drawn from it.

Incidentally WoW will make a few important NPCs larger than life. I remember seeing this chick, Jaina, and she was much huger than my character. Maybe they're following that trend.

Plutogold, I'm utterly amazed I didn't think of that myself. What's saying that the knights' species stops growing after reaching what would be considered adulthood?

Oh, look, you've got me doing it again. XP

I wouldn't like it either if everyone were of the same height. :P

We are part of the swarm itself, sent to scan the ever changing world of cradle. However, the gremlins saw the ship performing a scan, and dragged it down, hoping to do what gremlins to with technology.

Upon the crash, we all got explosive amnesia! We began to fight the swarm, and the swarm retreated. However, as the swarm did so, we were unable to maintain ourselves without the swarm seed. And the strangers designed the first armor created with crystal energy. This allowed us to thrive in haven, as well as make us faster and stronger than the swarm ever could.

It's a fantasy video game, 'nuf said. :D

Edit: But lol no really, c'mon now. From a logical point, trying to put that kind of logic in the game, is like asking, "How is a troll a troll and called a troll and not a human?" I mean, sure, there's obvious reasons pointing to why, but check it, Trolls don't even exist, but they're probably the more socially accepted possibility of a species. It's all fantasy in the end, so why not fantasize the details too?

Hahaha yeah I see your point and where you're coming from but that's just it for me haha.
I think i'll have to agree to disagree with your POV, but I understand and respect your view. :D

Already beaten to it, but I assume the reason some of the important NPCs we talk to are larger than normal is to allow them to be easily spottable in a crowd. When the mission system first rolled out, for example, there was nothing but a sea of knights talking to Feron. Making him taller than the average knight allows to stick out from the crowd, allowing ease of access to talk to him.

This is what is seen in WoW as well, where bosses, important faction leaders/lore characters (who are killable in huge raids), and certain quest givers are scaled larger than the average player. When you're in a large raid or it's the first day of an expansion pack, being able to see quest givers and killable enemies in a large party is just makes things easier. This way you're not spamming the tab button, which cycles through targets, or spam clicking the mouse to attempt to interact with NPCs.