Quote Originally Posted by Cassar View Post
This is explained by an NPC dialogue in between the first and second battles of the raid:

Ruissenaud: "I've read that the ancients were much larger than the people of our era... Perhaps Athena endeavored to make them less imposing."
What I really love about this is that the explanation is wholly satisfying without it being an explanation at all - it's a character speculating.

It goes to show that often we don't really want wholesale explanations for everything, we just like to see that the characters (and by extension the writers) ask questions just as we do.