Why don't Yordles have whiskers?

Voidac··1 votes·591 views

I mean, like, they got cat eyes man. And fur and ears and stuff.

Why don't they have whiskers, man.

Dude also I'm seeing that new artworks of the female yordles show that they actually do have fur on their faces, it's just really fine. So do they somehow trim it or just it just grow that way like beards and crap on humans? I believe it would just grow that way.

Alright, but what about the noses? Some are more human while males are more animal-like.

Or like why do male Yordles have ears closer to the top of their heads while females have years closer to their necks?

Why doesn't Ziggs have lips? How is he able to form words, man. Bomb would be really hard to say without lips. I mean, I get that it's more of a cartoonish characteristic especially with his primary design being a happy bomber having finally found his purpose or at least a place he can belong next to his heroes. But we can see all of his teeth, man. All of them.

Did Kled sharpen his teeth or do Yordles change according to their temperment/moral standing? Kind of like how the dark side affects force-sensitive people by changing their eyes and skin and shit. You know, to visually better display the personality of the individual.

Is Veigar's fur black? I feel like that would be adorable. Or again, his appearance changing to match his temperment/dark magics/whatever. I like that idea.

Why aren't Heimer's ears as furry as other male Yordles? It it because of age? Just something that happens to some Yordles as they grow old? Why aren't Kled's ears almost bald?

Rumble's fur is much more streamline to his skull it seems, revealing more of a snout than just a normal mouth. Kled's and Zigg's mouths are more rounded and the snout isn't seen on any of the female Yordles. There's Gnar, though.

Yordle anatomy is all over the place. Even with the new stuff.

Nature sure is a mystery.

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Catastrop1 votes

I think any differences in fur for males is personal aesthetic, no clue about the rest though.

Gear Kitty1 votes

Two things.

One, whiskers would only be an evolutionary adaptation if they were needed. Their purposes lay in giving you sensory data just a little ahead of your head. Rodents and felines have them for a few reasons, but there is one major one. For both, it's because they can fit into amazingly tight spaces and operate in low-light/dark areas. Those whiskers let them know what's (almost) directly ahead of them, much like how you run your hand along a wall when you walk through a dark hallway.

Secondly, yordles are weird. Their original lore was that they were are aliens that came to Runeterra on a giant spaceship. Legit, no lies, that's what it is. And it still may be canon, we don't know, cause the Foundations Team or whatever they've decided to call themselves this year never want to set down any hard info. Like a map. There's no map of Runeterra, because that would lock in their writers to sticking to that. Yes, I've shanghai'd the thread to give a Lore rant. Anyway, yordles are weird.

Yordles are unique amongst themselves, even before the story retcon:

Gnar may or may not be related to them. Veigar actually looks like a black cat, like, that's what his model was. Corki doesn't have fur. He is the least yordle looking yordle. Tristana hasn't always been a yordle, she was originally of a race called meglings. This was later switched into being the name of the yordle soldiers that wield cannons like she does. This is why Yordles have sexual dimorphism as this change happened after her creation, but before the release of the next female yordle Poppy, almost a year later.

Yordles may be semi-immortal under current lore. The only ones that have been truly touched since the Great Retcon are Poppy and Kled, and both have points in their given info that they've just kinda... always been doing what they've been doing. If not immortal, very long lived.

So uhhh, Yordles don't have whiskers cause they didn't need them, or shave them down, and because they're weird.

Voidac1 votes

All information I know, but I would argue that since Yordles seem more primal with their eyes, fur, teeth, claws, one would assume that they'd have whiskers. Almost all mammals have whiskers. I'm aware of the Megling race that was retconned out of existence, I thought that was justified since it didn't really add anything to the overall story that there are multiple races of little people.

You'd think with the types of noses, snouts, and incredibly feline characteristics, that whiskers would be a thing. No, I don't think "they aren't there because they don't need them" is a good answer. My that logic, certain tendons in our wrists, muscles around the back of our skull, certain organs that don't server a purpose, all would have just disappeared. I believe they are a race that has evolved and so probably in a more realistic world would definitely have whiskers.

I believe the decision to not add whiskers was merely an artistic method to separate them from animals, they already have so many animalistic characteristics that maybe whiskers didn't fit an upright, super intelligent species. I don't think it would have hurt their image, but it's up to the artists. Honestly, if not for the eyes, I'd say Yordles align more so with primates like lemurs and the like. Then again, even lemurs have whiskers and the cat-like eye of a Yordle would dictate otherwise.

Gear Kitty1 votes

My second point was what I really wanted to drive home. As far as current game lore is concerned (because the Foundations Team refuses to actually give us lore) Yordles are not from Runeterra. They're from 'elsewhere', not to be confused with Elsweyr where the locals do have whiskers.

We do not know what their original home is like, therefore, we cannot say they should have whiskers. What if their homeworld was a completely flat planet with no vegetation higher than their shins, with no natural predators? Feelers on their faces would of served little purpose under such conditions.

I'm not saying I believe that, but until we actually have real info on the little scamps that's more than Riot giving a vague shrug in their general direction... we can't say they should have whiskers in this current state.

And this isn't to say that I'm against them having whiskers. I think it'd be down right adorable if they all had a set. I'm just against a semi-random change without a reason in the Foundation of the game.

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