{"id":1227563,"date":"2026-02-24T21:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqECPCPqu3rbb8DiHtn8HJ"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:40:35","slug":"i-was-surprised-and-delighted-to-learn-that-every-fromsoft-protagonist-outside-of-elden-ring-nightreign-is-5-feet-7-inches-tall-aka-the-best-height-for-cool-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-was-surprised-and-delighted-to-learn-that-every-fromsoft-protagonist-outside-of-elden-ring-nightreign-is-5-feet-7-inches-tall-aka-the-best-height-for-cool-people\/","title":{"rendered":"I was surprised and delighted to learn that every FromSoft protagonist outside of Elden Ring Nightreign is 5 feet 7 inches tall, aka the best height for cool people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aside from when it’s wildly out of whack with the game world, I don’t think about the height of videogame characters much. At a modest 5’7, I generally assume that most videogame protagonists are taller than me. There have been a few occasions where a character’s canonical height has surprised me, though. For example, a while back I read that Thief’s antihero Garrett was a strapping six footer, but a recent search revealed that this is actually not the case, and in fact he might be even shorter than me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had a similar reaction watching Zullie the Witch’s recent video discussing character height in FromSoftware’s games<\/a>, in which she reveals that every FromSoft protagonist up until Elden Ring Neightreign<\/a> is roughly 1.7 metres, or 5 foot 7 inches, tall. I’d always figured they <\/em>were strapping six footers, if only because it further accentuates how massive the game’s bosses are.<\/p>\n

This is, I should stress, not the central point of Zullie’s video. The vid explores how Elden Ring Nightreign’s new character height modifier affects the game mechanically. Elden Ring’s playable characters have noticeably different heights, even though they’re all based on the same player model. The smallest avatar, Revenant, is a petite 4’9, while at 6’6, the Guardian is at risk of bumping his head on doorframes a lot.<\/p>\n

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