Where did the first koloss get their blue skin?

[Red Ferring he/him]

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?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I believe it was stated that TLR provided skins and spikes for the Koloss whenever they needed to replenish their stocks.

[Arook he/him]

I thought that people born from Koloss had a blue tint to their skin?

[Red Ferring he/him]

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

[Red Ferring he/him]

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.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

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. 

[Red Ferring he/him]

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.

[Guest]

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

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

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.

[Voidus]

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.

[Arook he/him]

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

[natc]

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.

[Voidus]

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.

[natc]

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.