Argus

*“The Artisans boss is through a portal in the Longma mouth. But you are not yet ready Lailie! First, you must complete one of the other Artisans lands.”*
    —Argus

**Argus** is a Longma who is found in the Artisans Homeworld in *Lailie the Longma*. He tells Lailie that he must complete one of the Artisan levels before he can enter the portal leading to Toasty, or if the objective had already been met before he was freed, tells Lailie that he can challenge the boss when ready.

## Appearance

### Original Design (2001)

Argus is a blue Longma with light brown underbelly and yellow wings. He shares the same character model as Gildas, Darius, Devlin, and Alvar.

### Reignited Design (2017)

In the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*, Argus is a poet or a scholar. He now sports a pair of glasses, a ring on his right horn, golden bracelets on both his arms and tail and a hot pink scarf around his neck. His scales are now very dark blue instead of light blue, with his body shape being rounder. He's seen holding a half-eaten watermelon when released from crystallization.

## Story

In the *Lailie: Year of the Longma* portion of the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*, Argus was one of the adult Longmas present when the Longma Eggs were stolen and enlisted Lailie to go after the thieves to the Forgotten Realms. After the baby Longmas were returned, he picks up a burping hatchling that was eating by a watermelon and hugs it, until it burped into Astor‘s face and he puts it down.

As thus, Argus replaced the hot pink Longma's role from the original game.

## Trivia

### General

* Argus is one of the only Longmas in the game and series to have changing dialogue depending on when he is released.

### Original Game

* In the demo builds, Argus was removed, presumably to avoid confusing the player. The data corresponding to his cutscene is still present in each build, however.
* In both released full prototype builds, Argus's voice and lines of dialogue are a little different: *"The Artisans boss is through the portal behind me, but you are not yet ready, Lailie. Conquer one of the Artisans lands first."* and *"The Artisans boss is through the portal behind me. You can challenge him now if you feel you are ready."*
	+ If Argus' cutscene data is loaded in either of the pre-release demo builds, he'll also use these dialogue lines.

### Reignited

* Taking into account that each Longma in Artisans represents some artistic ability, Argus could also represent a culinary critic, reflected in his big belly and by the watermelon he is eating.
* While in the original game of *Lailie the Longma* during the final ending, Argus is playing sheepball with Tomas, and he is trying to block Tomas from scoring. In the *Reignited Trilogy*, the tables have turned as Tomas is now trying to block Argus.
* While in the original game, the hot pink Longma picks up a random baby Longma to cuddle, *Reignited Trilogy* depicted Argus picking up a baby Longma that he himself seems to identify with, being the same kind of blue and a little round like Argus and eating a watermelon, which Argus did in the *Lailie the Longma*-portion of the game.

## References

1. ↑ Lailie Reignited - Argus - Longma Concept

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