How can Argonians be werewolves?
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Since they're reptilian, why would there be any in Skyrim in the first place? Even Riften would get cold as the 9th Circle in winter.
I totally agree with everything you said there, 'nuff said, except for the glass thing, because when you melt glass and thread it into glass fibre it gets a really great amount of tensile strength. In fact it is strong enough, yet light enough that that's what they use to build the inner frame of aeroplanes. I'm just throwing that out there because I've heard people complain about the glass thing before and I thought you might be interested to know that not all molecular structes of glass are brittle.Talux said:
My question is not how that would happen--lycanthropy could be explained as giving certain specific symptoms regardless of race, a la real diseases having the same/very similar symptoms across all demographics, all other things equal--but rather what would you really call that? Nerg/linguist/picky person moment incoming, by the way. "Werewolf" literally means "man-wolf", from Old English. So would an Argonian be "lizardwolf" or something like that, depending on the OE word for "lizard"? Am I being too picky here? (hint, the answer is "yes")
Exactly!Tamrin said:
Argonians are *resistant* to diseases, but not *immune*. Lycanthropy is, usually, a supernatural curse-disease - good luck resisting something that powerful. Same with zombie-ism and vampire-ism. As for why they look like every other werewolf, well, if you were the designer, it'd be a pain to have to design different werewolves for every race, right? Okay, typically lycans in their human form are hairier... but for a lizard, there'd be no outward signs, at least as far as fur goes. No matter what you are, if you turn into a werewolf, you transform. It was probably an oversight, or one of the little things that they didn't have time/motive to flesh out properly.
But short answer: a wizard did it.
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I'm mean seriously, you get to be a sentient raptor person who can shout things off cliffs and then tear it's buddy's to shreds with claws and fangs. What's to question when you get to be something that cool.
o/` Khajiit-Drog! Khajiit-Drog! Ahrun ister vorl yasor yil Khajiit-Drog! o/` Queue timpany and soaring flutes.Mimsofthedawg said:
Yeah if werewolves come from a daedric lord (Hircine) then pretty much anything goes, Daedra have a history of ignoring conventional wisdom.
Hmm, well, if you'll notice the female ones have breasts, so they at least partially resemble their primate counterparts. The disease resistance is circumvented with repeated exposure. The scales would of course break due to the size increase.
Overall, I guess it would be similar to when it happens to a human, But I don't know how shape-shifting works in the TES universe, as this is the first example of it happening, that I know of.
Overall, I guess it would be similar to when it happens to a human, But I don't know how shape-shifting works in the TES universe, as this is the first example of it happening, that I know of.
