I wanted to type some regarding female Saurok and design. I’ll link the female Saurok picture from the first post again for reference:
Female Saurok from Hearthstone
You may notice that this Saurok has something that is rather unfitting for a reptilian race. Specifically, the Saurok appears to have breasts. This is something not really found in reptiles in general, and should Saurok ever become playable, I feel that there are different ways to go about designing female Saurok.
Just a side note, I am not posting this to insult or make fun of anyone that worked on that image, but rather to show different ideas of how a female Saurok could be designed should they ever become playable. Many designs in Hearthstone of races that get added to WoW, such as Tortollans, are very much different in the two games.
So how does one design such a race that you can tell between males and females? In terms of lizard men, there are a number of ways. Size, scale color pattern, and horn designs are great ways to differentiate males and females.
Currently in-game, there are no female models I am aware of, but some Saurok models have different designs. A Saurok with frills is shown here:
It would seem that Saurok are capable of having unique features, which should be kept in mind if they were to become playable. Different horn types and aspects of different species of reptiles, some exclusive to males and females, are great ways to design playable Saurok models.
So what about other games that have playable lizard man races? What did they do in their designs? Here are a few examples:
Here we have the original models for male and female Iksar from Everquest 1.
And here we have the Iksar from Everquest 2.
As we can see, they both are very distinct and, from a glance, people can tell which is male and which is female.
This is a video of a female Argonian creation, with commentary, from Skyrim. There are different features in their character creation, though I really don’t see hair belonging on a reptilian race.
And here we have a female Argonian being created from Elder Scrolls Online.
Ultimately, female Saurok should be designed to reflect them being a savage reptile race. I would prefer to avoid trying to make them look sexy and just putting breasts on them. There are plenty of ways to go about making them look unique, and with all the different species of reptiles out there in real life, I’m sure some neat ideas could come up for Saurok should they ever become playable.