Hi,

I post this thread just to clalify my confusion about their anatomy specifically legs and feet. (i'm not a native english speaker, sorry for bad grammar)

before i was reading lore , i was planning to do a cg art for argonian (based on my teso account), upon viewing images for internet for reference, i found argonian anatomy have different type of legs-> plantigrade/digitigrade. and that time, i was confused , i started to read more lore but i'm not satisfied on those answer. so i'm posting this to summarize what i read earlier, so please correct me if i'm wrong.

based on

TES:Arena = plantigrade

TESII:Daggerfall = plantigrade

TESIII:Morrowind = digitigrade

TESIV:Oblivion = plantigrade

TESV:Skyrim = plantigrade

TES:online = plantigrade

*plantigrade = feet on ground / digitigrade = toes on ground

viewing cg-art, both are awesome and cool

digitigrade - more beastly or primal

plantigrade - more humanoid

some info from posting i read: (just paraphrasing it a little) and my opinion afters my readings.

1. they did not do digitigrade legs because dev't was lazy or something about the cost.

my opinion: I found he is false because of TES:Arena and daggerfall are plantigrade. therefore it is a upgrade or something on morrowind.

2. why female argonian have briast?

a. attractive endornment something.

b. like other reptile especially anaconda/crocs female (not bewbs but their body size compare to male) to store energy for preparation of their eggs.

c. to adapt other races because to protect their ritual stuff and for better communicating to other races.

my opinion: I found this answer good.

3. Argonian Eggs and hatchling. - argonian ovoviviparous. they bore egg with a foamy shell and put to their hatch pond.

argonian says to their hatching to lick the hist sap but not much, until their ritual naming stuff (which their gender be distinguish).

my opinion: i read some post , that if they lick more sap they will be prone to more arcane stuff (intelligence). and if lick less for primal stuff (strength). they need to balance it to be perfect for shadowscale person(agility and stealth) which is the high ranking status person of their community. or based to the trait of their tribe, like 5 tribes named on the wiki.

my opinion:

Therefore i conclude upon their legs type is based upon the time of their hatchling period. plantigrade type are the argonian who develop with more sap to adapt other race and to control elements and affinity to arcane while digitigrade are mostly primal looks like more closely to reptile-like creatures that's why in morrowind on the time of slaving the argonian, some argonian birth have lack or proper ritual to the hist tree to develop plantigrade type legs.

that its justifying my readings so i can understand it, so please if i'm wrong ,please reply.

ps: reading lore is fun XD

Judging by the ESO vs Cyrodiil jungle case, I think the Argonians of Morrowind took arrows in knees avant la lettre and that bent them poor legs. This will probably be the excuse in a future lore book.

Now seriously, Vsions (an artist in the development team of Skyrim) said here in the forums that they did want to make beast legs for the beast races in Skyrim, but ran out of time. Maybe next time we get all flavors, especially if the game is in a beast province.

Oh god why did they have to release the game too early....why!!!WHY!!!