The State of Male Character Creation

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This is definitely still a dude who works out. He's maybe not a dedicated gym rat but he probably still lifts regularly. At the very least he's a runner or something. The point is, this is not the body of an untrained man.

The thing is those "muscle sliders" don't actually change the character shape. It just adjusts the shading to accentuate the muscles more. Seen from the side, this dude definitely still has significant pecs, and his arm muscles bulge just the same.

And our character isnt an untrained person? Even if you're playing as a mage, your character is still doing an aweful lot of running around etc.
You actually cant play the game without playing a character who is - thanks to storytelling and gameplay - working out in some fashion. Unless ofc you create a character only for RP-purpose and keep him/her at level one, sitting on a bench for their entire lifespan.

I know that specially in the light of the recent annoucments lore is a bit of a shifty argument and the logical idea of "the WoL has to be a fit person to be the WoL" might have not even been the real reason not to have a "fat-slider", but it definitely makes sense that out characters appear as if they're working out, because... they are.