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Apparently Human Merfolk: The sea people look exactly like land people, except for the ena that covers their skin — a scale-like layer that absorbs and holds moisture.
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It used Mode 7 (a hardware kludge to dynamically scale and rotate its 2D background layer, giving the illusion of 3D space) originally, so the visuals were already a convincing simulacrum of 3D.
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But that means a model farm to the same scale as the figures might accommodate the base quite comfortably, while in real life the soldiers would have had to be stacked on some form of multi-layer shelving to even try to fit in.
Source: Units Not to Scale
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Scale and Layer. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 20, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/layer/scale
Layer & Scale. N.p., 2016. Web. 20 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/layer/scale>.
Scale or Layer. 2016. Accessed July 20, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/layer/scale.
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