Tenebrous said: OK, got a wild theory for you guys. Argonian females have breasts in the games they appear in. But why would reptiles need them? My theory is that the Hist, when guiding the Argonian evolution or whatever, deliberately made them like that to facilitate interaction with the other races. Which also explains how their consciousness, while definitely alien, does bear traits from the other races. What do you guys think? Too crazy? Or does it make sense?
Yeah... technically Argonians aren't reptiles (sorry for being late). While there is never any mention of it they could be perfectly capable of breastfeeding, there's actually an example of a creature laying eggs and breastfeeding in our world (it's the platypus... Which doesn't help my case. If god exists (debatable) those things are testament to his horrible mental state).
Further evidence that supports they aren't reptiles is the fact that while they really don't like cold, they aren't cold blooded. Species-wise Argonians actually appear to me to be some kind of amalgamete of all types of vertebrates on our planet; they have gills as a fish, lungs like all vertebrates that aren't fish, they have an amphibious lifestyle, have scales and a physiology often very similar to reptiles, have feathers, lay eggs and have mammaries. Basically we end up with a list of traits that could work with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals all in one creature. There's no way to tell what the fuck they are supposed to be.
Them having mammaries isn't all that strange seeing we don't know what they should be classified as. If we knew then yes, we could start hypothesizing as to what they actually are, in the meantime, let's just agree with Karver and go with: Argonians are crazy.
[blockquote][b][url=/profile/Tenebrous]Tenebrous[/url] said:[/b] OK, got a wild theory for you guys. Argonian females have breasts in the games they appear in. But why would reptiles need them? My theory is that the Hist, when guiding the Argonian evolution or whatever, deliberately made them like that to facilitate interaction with the other races. Which also explains how their consciousness, while definitely alien, does bear traits from the other races. What do you guys think? Too crazy? Or does it make sense?[/blockquote]
Yeah... technically Argonians aren't reptiles (sorry for being late). While there is never any mention of it they could be perfectly capable of breastfeeding, there's actually an example of a creature laying eggs and breastfeeding in our world (it's the platypus... Which doesn't help my case. If god exists (debatable) those things are testament to his horrible mental state).
Further evidence that supports they aren't reptiles is the fact that while they really don't like cold, they aren't cold blooded. Species-wise Argonians actually appear to me to be some kind of amalgamete of all types of vertebrates on our planet; they have gills as a fish, lungs like all vertebrates that aren't fish, they have an amphibious lifestyle, have scales and a physiology often very similar to reptiles, have feathers, lay eggs and have mammaries. Basically we end up with a list of traits that could work with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals all in one creature. There's no way to tell what the fuck they are supposed to be.
Them having mammaries isn't all that strange seeing we don't know what they should be classified as. If we knew then yes, we could start hypothesizing as to what they actually are, in the meantime, let's just agree with Karver and go with: Argonians are crazy.
