Why does every Argonian look like a dinosaur?
I've been wanting to ask this for ages: why is there basically zero visual diversity in Bethesda’s Argonian design?
Every Argonian looks like “Jurassic Park but make it a romance movie” and somehow we ended up with an army of bipedal dinosaur babies. Thick crusty scales, random horns, faces that look like they haven’t touched water since hatching.
Why are they all just… dinosaur guys?
Imagine an Argonian with huge gemstone-like eyes. Toothless mouths. Thin arms with delicate clawed fingers. Strange proportions—big bellies, short legs, bodies that feel fundamentally off in a way that reminds you this thing is not human.
That wouldn’t stop them from being cool, creepy, or even cute. Honestly, I think it fits the lore perfectly. The Hist literally bioengineers Argonians—why wouldn’t there be wildly different body plans? Why assume every Hist decided “yes, muscular velociraptor man” was the peak design?
And before people say “ESO added variety”—sorry, but most of them still just look like humans in reptile cosplay. I don’t want human-with-scales. I want actual lizard people.
Khajiit got wildly different furstocks, weird body types, and tons of personality in their designs. Why can’t Argonians get even a fraction of that treatment?