No bathrooms in Skyrim? : V - Skyrim

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:05 am

uuh did you know? the last bucket you stole to put some tomatoes?

it used to pee!

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:50 pm

Toilets of one variety or another have existed since Roman times and definately existed in medieval times...Rome was very advanced...medieval society NOT so..poor sanitation unless you lived in a castle.
However Skyrim is in an alternate time in no way connected with any history of earth so one cant really compare what we have with what they have

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:35 pm

How could they forget BATHROOOMS!!!?? Seriously, the last thing i search in a Game liek Oblvion, Skyrim or other is a Bathroom. Why not playing The Sims? They have HUUUUUUGE Bathrooms, and you can build it as big as you like it. :pinch:

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:07 pm

What they use buckets as toilets? Man, I used them as helmets. :confused:

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:38 am

You have buckets, rolls of paper and bushes and trees. What else do you need?

It's not like there is any running water or sewer systems to hook plumbing up to, so where would a toilet be put? People in our world did not have toliets until well into the industrial revolution, and even then they were more a novelty at first than something one would expect.

To CCNA: The Imperial City does have sewers but i guess they were made to keep rainwater at bay.

Clearly Skyrim is more realistic than you might think. The old nords didn't have bathrooms or toilets, not even outhouses. They used it the same way as the animals.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:12 pm

BTW there are many reason why EVERY civilization started near water. My guess is this was one of the reasons.

Sources of water are important to a town. However the biggest reason most towns started near bodies of water is that was the main method of transportation back then for both people and commerce. If you could not put it on a boat or barge at some point, you probably could not get it to a market to sell. Railroads started to change that in the 150 years ago, and motor car roads continued that change in the last 60 or 70 years.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:11 pm

Went into one fort or dungeon and there was three stalls with a high chair and a bucket, one had a book resting on the low wall separating the stalls.

Well I knew what that was the moment I saw it; I wanted a proper WC so I still haven't gone...

Ha ha.. I saw this one too! I think there was a book in each stall. I literally laughed out loud when I saw this one! "Look, they even have reading material!"

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:07 pm

To CCNA: The Imperial City does have sewers but i guess they were made to keep rainwater at bay.

Clearly Skyrim is more realistic than you might think. The old nords didn't have bathrooms or toilets, not even outhouses. They used it the same way as the animals.

Rain sewers have been around for a long time. Romans even had them. It is just using them to carry away human waste was a new addition. I am sure the crews that carried away the night soil would use the existing sewers to dump stuff into. Pipes from a house into the sewer systems? That is a recent development.

The connection between human waste and disease was not made until the late 1800's with the beginnings of research into microbes. Up until then, people only knew it was a bad idea to poop upstream from where you drank, but not why it was a bad idea.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:05 am

Theres no bathrooms in TES universe.People simply..crap in their pants.

OMG...seriously? wow.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:08 pm

There were no bathrooms in the midldleage either. Castles didn't have bathrooms. People did their business outside. I really don't see why there should be bathrooms in Skyrim except maybe in the imperial palace (as the romans had bathrooms).

PS: As as sidenote, romans had http://www.worldiv.com/pixs/RomanToilet.jpg where they used to make business deals together. That's where the expression "to do one's business" comes from.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:12 am

I often see little enclosed spaces in dungeons with a little hole with a bucket, or just a bucket, which is clearly a medieval bathroom. But in the average house there doens't seem to be much in terms of bathrooms.

Yep, clearly people in dungeons are more sophisticated. :ahhh:

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:48 am

buckets

Yes, bucketts, urns, and pottery! Prolly why you cant pick up/interact with most. :yucky:

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:59 pm

I used to whine about the lack of bathrooms too, but then I got an arrow in the knee...

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:27 pm

http://www.medieval-castle.com/architecture_design/medieval_castle_toilets.htmMedieval castles did have them, they were called garderobes

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:15 pm

You don't want to dive in Riften's waters.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:49 am

Well, seen that bowl on the cabinet in Breezehome?.... that's not a fruitbowl..

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:00 pm

One of the generic NPC sprites in Daggerfall is a guy reading a book while sitting in a bucket. The way it's drawn it took me years to clue in. they get points for being consistent.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:38 pm

Ohai troll

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:10 pm

And we need to be able to drink from the toiler to cure diseases!!

It it kinda funny though, you go into Fallout and every single building has like 5 bathrooms...but in Skyrim, everyone just poops on the ground I guess.

All joking aside, I did find a poop bucket in a bandit cave...I found it very amusing.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:48 am

hhaha WARDrobe, so all servants smelt like moth wards.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:49 pm

hhaha WARDrobe, so all servants smelt like moth wards.

I'd choose the moths...

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:54 am

Finally we have the reason why in spite of the extreme cold in Skyrim, nobody wears pants.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:08 am

cant wait for the DLC of a mini game going potty.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:29 pm

Yes, the lack of bathrooms is clearly the biggest problem with Skyrim.

» Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:55 am

Theres no bathrooms in TES universe.People simply..crap in their pants.

Yep, that's why they walked so funny in morrowind.