why in wurt's victorian outfit do they turn into a goat

[i do gaming]

in wurt's the victorian outfit, they become a half-goat half-fish thing, is there some story behind this or is it just a cool design choice?

[minespatch]

1 minute ago, i do gaming said:

in wurt's the victorian outfit, they become a half-goat half-fish thing, is there some story behind this or is it just a cool design choice?

Maybe a dev will explain someday.

[DajeKotlyar]

Just try to play Gorge, you will learn something new)

[-Variant]

I've got a lot of questions about it.
On a stream they mentioned her horns were because she was a merm warrior and not a goat but then what's with the skin?
Also what's with the tail? Goats nor merms have tails like that.
I love the skin, its gorgeous don't get me wrong but there's some oddities with it.

[GelatinousCube]

Its a reference to Billy, Mumsy and the other goat people who live in the gorge. The Gnaw can transform them into merms so wurts costume is this process backwards, a merm turned into a goat =p

[ArubaroBeefalo]

The question is why she had fish tail

[Ralsei Fan]

The "Victorian" line of skins are based on the old Gorge event, and in that two of your helpers are a goat named Mumsy and her son Billy, and that Wurt skin is a reference to them

[Cheggf]

3 hours ago, Ralsei Fan said:

The "Victorian" line of skins are based on the old Gorge event, and in that two of your helpers are a goat named Mumsy and her son Billy, and that Wurt skin is a reference to them

I also believe the lore is that merms are (or at least their ancestors were) transformed goat people. At least that's what the event seems to imply, since failing it turns you into a merm.

[minespatch]

44 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

I also believe the lore is that merms are (or at least their ancestors were) transformed goat people. At least that's what the event seems to imply, since failing it turns you into a merm.

Makes me wonder how old Wurt is, especially since the horns and warrior merm status implies she had a previous merm king.

[Zeklo]

37 minutes ago, minespatch said:

Makes me wonder how old Wurt is, especially since the horns and warrior merm status implies she had a previous merm king.

I'd say Warrior Merm is less a status and moreso a sub-species with that name, depicted by the horns.

During the construction of the Royal Tapestry Wurt's quote is "There lots of Kings in fairy stories... look easy to make!"
Where as her quote for the King is: "Yay! You look just like Kings from fairy stories!"

So I reckon she hasn't met a previous merm King, even there were any. She just builds up a new one based on Fairy Tales.

[SonicDen220]

I like to imagine that this skin is a reference to the time when she was speculated to be a goat before she came out (based on Wortox's "NEXTCHARACTER" quote from a really long time ago).

[Scrimbles]

In the Gorge, beings are transformed into Merms by a god in the sky.

The Gorge prominently features Goats as a race.

Wurt is a Goat who turned into a merm?