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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WOK Spoilers: Parshmen
« on: September 15, 2010, 04:19:20 PM »Pg 15
The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red spots on the arrowhead face, as if created by a fire burning deep within the stone.
Pg 850
Massive creatures, easily five or six times the seize of a person, their skin dull and grey like granite. They had long limbs and skeletal bodies, the forelegs-or were they arms?-set into wide shoulders. The faces were lean, narrow. Arrowlike.
I guess 5-6 man-sizes didn't seem like enough to warrant a 6-foot-long hand (also stated on page 15). But I suppose that's over 30' tall.
You're assuming that the creatures have the same physical proportions as the human body. If they're proportioned as having hands twice as long as an equivalent-sized human but are also five or six times the size of a person, there's no problem.