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Leftover Lore Ep.1: https://youtu.be/oTTZFS1i_YQ 
Leftover Lore Ep.2: https://youtu.be/FVZfpE_WYWw 
Argonian Belly-Buttons: https://youtu.be/A82nhRZ9dh8

Have you always wondered what Argonian breasts really consist of? Why do the “people of the Great Root” have boobs, if they’re cold blooded lizard people? Are Argonians mammals? The main theories in the lore community are that Argonian boobs either contain 1.) Breastmilk 2.) Hist Sap 3.) Nothing (or for attracting a mate). Today we’re going to look into all three using sources, ingame evidence, and science!

00:45 - Part 0: Eggs
04:38 - Part 1: Breastmilk
08:09 - Part 2: Hist Sap
12:33 - Part 3: Sex Appeal
14:53 - Caveats/Conclusions

Eggs are a really important thing to talk about when understanding breasts on Argonians. Babies born out of eggs will generally receive nutrients a little differently than other creatures via the egg yolk. In fact, on an evolutionary scale, some scientists, like Olaf Oftedal PhD at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, believe breastfeeding has ancient origins in with the egg. Soft, porous eggs were used to give more water and nutrients to early land creatures. While some creatures developed harder shelled eggs (reptiles, birds), other creatures kept making porous eggs. Creatures used skin secretion to transfer nutrients, and some still do this today (platypus, emperor penguins, coqui frogs, caecilians, etc.) Other creatures do this through Historophy, or uterine secretion. Oftedal believes this was the evolutionary precursor to breastmilk. 
Histotrophy is interesting to us for a few reasons. First, obviously because the name has the word Hist in it. Second, because uterine secretions make for a compelling nutrient transfer argument for Argonians.

This is because of Bethesda’s Pete Hines in 2003 stating that Argonians are Ovoviviparous. This means that eggs can be hatched inside the mother, and other comments by Mark Nelson suggest to us that they can do this depending on their need.

Ovoviviparity makes uterine secretions that much more useful and intentional. Basically if Argonians are laying eggs anyway, they’re that much less likely to be breastfeeding at all, and having uterine secretions with ovoviviparity makes breastfeeding that much less likely, because babies are getting all those nutrients. If Argonians are giving Hist Sap to their babies, the uterus is the place to do it, especially if the Hist’s magical energy flows through all Argonians anyway.

When Argonians are disconnected from the Hist, ESO hints via The Case of Ja-Reet that they in turn get more disconnected from Black Marsh Argonians. They are “born without something essential”... unable to read certain social cues, deprived of normal emotional intuition. Ja-Reet isn’t the only one, we also have Kassandra in a similar situation.

Labeling Ja-Reet as “autistic” would normally be unfounded, but autistic members of the lore community have remarked connecting to the character, and Zenimax’s Matt Firor in an interview confirmed Ja-Reet and multiple others in ESO being on the spectrum.

But with this disability, it does not prove Hist Sap boobs. In fact, it proves the opposite to me. If an Argonian mother had any amount of Hist Sap in her breasts to make a difference, surely Ja-Reet and Kassandra would be normal. You could also imagine another scenario where the Hist actually dropped connection from Ja-Reet and slaves in Morrowind on purpose, to make Argonians seem more docile, so Black Marsh is less apt to invasion. They can buff up Argonians, like they did on Umbriel, Lord of Souls, during the Oblivion Crisis.

More than likely, Argonians have boobs either for sex appeal, or for literally no reason whatsoever. The Hist, according to Lawrence Schtick in the “Parable of Becoming”, created Argonians in the image of man & mer. This trailed off into creating tribes like Agacephs, Nagas, etc. Argonians came from reptiles and amphibians, like Crocodiles, as noted in quests in Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire DLC.

The Saxhleel, mechanically, do not have belly-buttons in any of the Elder Scrolls games either. Daggerfall and Morrowind show them having no areola or nipple. We’ll talk about canon with Todd Howard regarding these kinds of things, too.

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MUSIC USED (order of appearance):
The Black Nag & Childgrove - Bill Spence
Sexy - Bensound
UnReal World Theme - Enormous Elk
Sunrise of Flutes - Jeremy Soule
A Winter’s Tale - Jeremy Soule
Around the Fire - Jeremy Soule

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ХakеRл0 Mar 16, 2022 @ 9:26am

Наконец-то полезная информация.

The Heavy Flamer Oct 22, 2021 @ 12:55pm

Im sorry, excuse me?

baglebite1988 Jun 24, 2021 @ 9:22pm

whY-

real tibetan grape* Apr 9, 2021 @ 11:50pm

This was uncomfortable to watch.

sólstöður Mar 18, 2021 @ 8:39am

what the...

izabelawilson Sep 13, 2020 @ 5:53pm

They developed all an acceptable argument about the hist sap, but... "nah, the boobs are there just because reasons"... @Warsun, maybe the pure hist sap is a drug, but "metabolized" by the female's body it can has different effects.

Kai Sep 8, 2020 @ 4:21pm

piss off coomers

Hedonistus Aug 17, 2020 @ 9:15am

wow, just wow...
i never thought about it.
wow

Warsun Aug 17, 2020 @ 6:14am

I disagree. He claims not drinking his sap from the tree an only drinking it from breast will separate one from the tree. There is no evidence of that. If anything this sap is a drug an it will attach one closer to the his than it would the sap from breast. The breast in a female may simulate the sap but is no replacement for it. So yes Females can generate an facsimile of it. But not a perfect copy of it. Drawing them closer to the need to go home to the actual his tree.

JEAN GRAY May 1, 2020 @ 8:12am

but why tho?

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