Hello good people of the Bethesda forum,

Firstly, I hope this isn't some kind of taboo forum post because - oh my god, we're all advlts, but we can't talk about swearing, nooo, the children who shouldn't legally be playing this game might be online and reading. If that is the case, then I apologize for crossing some kind of line (though I honestly looked for the rules of this forum here and on google for ten minuites before I gave up trying to find them again).

Anyways, I was planning some writing for a mod of mine this evening, when I came across an instance in which a character would be swearing in a fit of rage. As I sat and pondered about it, more and more did the actual dialogue seem out of place with the Elder Scrolls universe. I got to thinking, and realized that, though the scene was dark, it wasn't the subject matter that made the scene not click - it was the actual vocabulary, the swears. The more I thought about it, the harder it was for me to actually think of a time when anyone in the Elder Scrolls actually swore - why is that? While I can vaguely recall a few instances of [a B-word with conitation to dogs] and it's [wh-counterpart] (lovely social messages there), all that really comes to mind is a few voices calling out Milk-Drinker (oh no~..).

So I though it'd pop the question to the forums, can anyone recall any swearing in the Elder Scrolls, H's, S's, F's, or Q's? If not - just what the hell do these people seem to do when they're angry?

The forum rules are stickied in a thread at the top of the forum page, entitled "http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1385999-important-forum-information/".

However, I wouldn't worry about your mod using bad words. In fact I support profanity, along will everything else that makes a mature game. Or supposed to make it a mature game.

filthy n'wah qualify?

Milk drinker is more offensive than you give it credit; though, I imagine you didn't put much thought into it, which is understandable.

The idea is that if you're called a milk drinker, you're being told that you're so infantile that you were never weaned off of your mother's briast milk. You don't even chew your own food, muchless do anything else. It's basically implying you're worse than useless.

I thought "milk drinker" was just some racial slur

Being called Snowback, N'wah, Cannibal? Happens a lot to My characters in Game(s). Oblivion to me was the cleaner than Morrowind or Skyrim, but insults did exist. ABC's for Barbarians, complete with pictures for Thrud

I personally do not mind some profanity in My Game, as long as it is appropriate to the situations it happens in.

There's no real world swears in any of the games, other then the occasional 'b' word here and there. For example when you retake kvatch and clear out the first area of enemies, Salvlin Matius gets a bit excited.

Then there's the other b word when ulfric gets moody with the thalmor lady.

Personally I don't class these words as 'swear words' and they don't bother me. But i have to say, i wouldn't want the C word or F to be used in skyrim or any TES.

Spartacus: Vengeance was on TV the other night, so i thought I'd watch it, see if its as good as people claim it to be, and I'm a svcker for roman films and stuff.

Honestly, the swearing (and over glamorised combat scenes) really started to irritate me after a while, and i don't get offended by anything! IMHO if a character has to swear every time he describes the bad guy, or even talks to the bad guy, it just shows really bad, sloppy writing skills. It's un-needed.

I can tell you right now... I don't live in a world with a stick up my ass. Every other word spoken in my place of existence is considered to be profane.