Following my obsession with these fictional animals, I decided to seek an answer to one of my biggest questions about them: Their speed.
Using the aether compass, I’ve determined that the squares on the in-game map to be exactly 50 yalms/yards by traveling from the line of one map square to the other.
Next, I timed how long it took my chocobo to make the same journey, using a stopwatch to take three separate times:
5.49
5.57
5.64
For an average of 5.57 seconds, rounded up to the nearest hundredth of a second.
50 yards / 5.57 seconds = 8.98 yards per second, or 8.211 meters per second.
Plugging this value into a converter gives us a speed of
18.37 MPH, or 29.56 KM/H
Not at all a bad speed for a chocobo! An ostrich of Earth can run at a sustained speed of 31 MPH, or
49.89 KM/H. That is without an armored rider on its back, making this estimate totally plausible for a chocobo, which could likely reach similar speeds unburdened.
Since all ground mounts move at the same speed, this would apply for Coeurls, Behemoths, etc. Though I have a feeling that the biomechanics of chocobos in particular were the model to decide the speeds of the game’s mounts.
AND AN EVENING QUICKIE yes hello i am jumping on the druid train b/c i rolled this guy literally like a day before the Galestorm stuff started going around lmao, he on WrA tho
Iadren, my durid, is a grumpy baby child. He tends to stay in shapeshifted form most of the time, namely a bear – because while he is of an average Night Elf height, he is also unfortunate to be of an average Night Elf build (wide shoulders, long legs), though… Not enough muscle to make up for it. So he looks like a bunch of sticks lmao.
He kind of despises most people for various reasons, but he has no choice but to put up with Ongjen. Poor guy.
me: *asks friend to do anything with me*
me: bUT IT’S TOTALLY OKAy if you don’t want to i mean i know you’re probably super busy actually you know what nevermind i’m so sorry i’m s
