Red Ferring he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 We learn in HoA that koloss skin is flayed from their dead and applied to new koloss, which they then grow into and out of, causing the infamous tears and stretching. So that's where the skin comes from for new ones, from the old ones. But where did the first skin come from? When the first generation of koloss was made, the skin had to have come from somewhere as we're led to believe the human's skin isn't what turns blue when made into a koloss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I believe it was stated that TLR provided skins and spikes for the Koloss whenever they needed to replenish their stocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arook he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I thought that people born from Koloss had a blue tint to their skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ferring he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I thought that people born from Koloss had a blue tint to their skin? That's true of the AoL era when they became a legit race. But during the FE, they were made from people using hemalurgy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ferring he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I believe it was stated that TLR provided skins and spikes for the Koloss whenever they needed to replenish their stocks. He supplied people and spikes but no mention of skins. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 This is the second time that I've seen this pop up but I don't think the koloss re-use the skins? Like their "koloss skin" is just their normal human skin, it's just changed just like the rest of them? Human just ripped it off so he could get to the spikes more easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ferring he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I'm pretty sure they reuse it because why else is their skin disconnected from their body and so oversized to the younger/smaller koloss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 We learn in HoA that koloss skin is flayed from their dead and applied to new koloss, which they then grow into and out of, causing the infamous tears and stretching. So that's where the skin comes from for new ones, from the old ones. But where did the first skin come from? When the first generation of koloss was made, the skin had to have come from somewhere as we're led to believe the human's skin isn't what turns blue when made into a koloss? I'll look up the reference after the Kidlets are in bed, but I don't remember Human applying "skin" to the person he intended to make a Koloss. The dead Koloss was "flayed", but that was because it was necessary to get the Spikes out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 The passage is rather Vague. It's on pages 335 and 336 of the Paperback edition. Human the Koloss rips the skin off of a koloss, and takes out the spikes, but he doesn't go to put the skin on the wounded soldier, just the spikes. But red ferring does raise a point that the Skins are too big for humans, they're sized for ten foot koloss, not immature koloss. And they don't grow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Hemalurgy does plenty of weird things especially for Hemalurgic monsters like the Koloss so it's not unreasonable to think that the skin is a product of that, it could follow the pattern of the rest of TLRs use of the Wells power in that he created the Koloss then realized their enhanced skin wouldn't grow with them so he made the skin bigger to compensate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arook he/him Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I'm pretty sure they reuse it because why else is their skin disconnected from their body and so oversized to the younger/smaller koloss. Magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 I'm pretty sure they reuse it because why else is their skin disconnected from their body and so oversized to the younger/smaller koloss. You're doing genetic modifications to a human soul in order to essentially create the Hulk. Them being super huge and buff is acceptable due to the spike charges in question, even loss of intelligence as a side effect makes sense to you, but disconnected skin suddenly doesn't seem natural? They're a new species, that's just how it works. You're better off asking where Kandra flesh comes from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 You're doing genetic modifications to a human soul in order to essentially create the Hulk. Them being super huge and buff is acceptable due to the spike charges in question, even loss of intelligence as a side effect makes sense to you, but disconnected skin suddenly doesn't seem natural? They're a new species, that's just how it works. You're better off asking where Kandra flesh comes from. From being a Mistwraith? Kandra have relatively few changes, just intelligence apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 With regards to not genetically being human. Disconnected skin is far from the most unusual bit of anatomy TLR has wound up making over the . . . well, it's probably more ten minutes than years, but hey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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