any comments i've seen on aliera's height have referred to her as being 'short for a dragaerian' not short for a dragaerian female. other than that i've got nothing off the top of my head. but then i've only seen vlad referring to a very few male dragaerians as having 'muscles you can actually see'. andy > > > > > and quite possibly a lack of sexual size dimorphism (no > > > textev either way, AFAIK) > > > > I'm pretty sure Dragaeran women are proportionately shorter > > than men, though still taller than Easterner men. Can't > > remember where I read it though. > > Fwiw (aka zilch) I've wondered about this for a few years without > coming across evidence either way. Except that armies seem to be > evenly mixed in gender, and I suspect that strength/size are sufficiently > important in swordfighting that there can be very little sexual dimorphism > (which is what I would pararectally expect for an artificially evolved > species). > > In case someone hasn't mentioned it, differences in size between male and > female members of species is apparently strongly inversely related to the > degree of monogamousness (monogamosity?).