Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4659579-20130915082315/@comment-15271256-20150521045406

You have to consider two things:

The first is that every person/creature you can play as in the Elder Scrolls series is either Human or Humanoid, meaning it looks like a human but has difference in physicality. While anatomically and zoologically speaking Argonian females should not have breasts, as there are no reptiles that produce milk due to the fact that that ability is reserved only for mammals, to fit the Humanoid image they would have to have these characteristics. It is also a trait that seperates Argonians from the many more beastlike reces of Black Marsh, showing that they are more akin to Human or more humanistic races and therefore have an (assumably) high or equal intelligence. The Khajiit are the same way: real life cats don't have two large breasts, that trait is almost completely reserved for primates like Humans, but yet that it how they are shown in the games.

The Second is that you have to remember that this game, and the other Elder Scrolls games, were created by nerds. I apologize for using such a term, and I am in no way condoning this trait as negative, but to explain let's go back to the Daggerfall days. Back in the mid-1990's, every fantasy-related game had to have some sexual innuendo in it or no one in the male population of the market (which comprised most people) would be very interested. This may seem a bit exaggerated, but if you look back at this and other games of the era I'm actually correct, or at least close to the truth. Example: The original Daggerfall book of "The Real Barenziah Book II" actually described the scene in which Barenziah has sex with Therris, though in later games they were forced to make that part of the book say "{this passage has been removed by order of the Temple}" because the Xbox had come out and the market had changed. I'm not calling the original game designers perverts or anything, but in that time, making a fantasy RPG without any sexual images or mentioning was considered almost ludicrous. I'm also not saying that Skyrim doesn't have it's share of innuendo (Ex. The lusty argonian maid) but I'm really just trying to explain why things were the way they were back then.

From a Lore standpoint the only real purpose of breasts on female Argonians is completely cosmetic. From a gamers' standpoint they are only there because some of the game developers kept some of their views from the 90's and exchanged realism for traditional form.