Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-1407576-20130806141841

Legate Alexandros wrote: Jake Von wrote: Legate Alexandros wrote: Phew, thanks for making this clear. Now all man can focus on the plans to derail Thalmor plans. Perhaps they should also get Argonians to help. I don't think Thalmor would be counting on men to be so smart and calculating. "Thalmor think we all are lawless beasts, I am proof of their ignorance."

Seriusly, it's nice to know that Argonians are peaceful. Except most of their kind are unfriendly to outsiders. From what I know, out all of the Argonian tribes, there are only two that are friendly to the outsiders. However, you would see only one of those two tribes outside Argonia, the Hist tribe. The other friendly tribe, never leaves their homeland.

And indeed, Argonians do resemble dragons in the way. When I made my first Argonian character, I tried to make him look as closly as posible to the dragons and gave him black scale color to be sort of the color of Alduin. If I remember correctly, Alduin is the only black dragon around there, the red dragon Odaviing supposed to be rare. The only other red dragon I know of is Nafalar/Nafaliargus.

Anyways, Argonians are cool in many ways, I just hadn't devised a comfortable to me playby with an Argonian yet. Oh and did you know there is one Argonian tribe that looks basically like giant lizzard. They reach 10 feet in lenght, have long necks and I think short arms and legs (Icould be wrong on that part). They are very hostile, they are known to attack trading caravans, slaughtering everyone and looting the goods. Tall tales, the lot of them. None of it is true. Is it really? Have you read the article on the Argonians on this wiki? I could copy and paste that one too if you want. Unless you are refering to specific part of my post as being tall tales? Or maybe someone around here dislikes Argonians so much, they don't even bother learning about them from the wiki. No offense to anyone. Please. You show a massive lack of understanding regarding the Argonian race. The "Hist" is not a tribe, for one. Secondly, these "lizard-like" Argonians likely do not exist. Probably retconned, along with dragonlings. The main difference being that dragonlings actually existed in a previous game, which gives the "lizard-like" tribe even less validity. If they do exist, I don't think it would be a good idea to call them Argonians. That would be like calling Goblins "Orcs". Both are greenish and humanoid in appearance, and both seem like uncivilized brutes to many. I think it would almost be like calling Giants "Humans" or "Elves".

(It might also be worth mentioning that "Argonian" was originally used as a blanket term for all the bestial reptilian races, and that the race we today know as Argonians might not be directly related to any of them.)