You've never found the Bloody Rags?

Now I have to be nitpicky and point out that nearly everything in game that isn't magical fits into the Current/Common Era...every "real" thing in game is based off of something from the real world and falls within the A.D. time frame.

As for the 16 thing, I guess no one is spanish here as in many spanish speaking cultures the Quinceanera or girls 15th birthday is a celebration of her becoming a woman.

And yes, that was sort of my point. Some things aren't shown. It's the same thing with movies and books. Who wants to read about how many times a day the hero uses the bathroom?

They are both dumb, so it would make sense. They could make some more dumb barbarian kids. The blades of Skyrim are unfortunate. I miss captain steffan and them from Oblivion.

Esbern would not marry a [censored]

I've always wondered about how Superman pees without shooting through the toilet

His breath is strong enough to blow things away so his pee should be powerful enough to cut through porcelain like the machines that use water to carve metal.

It's still pretty broad, as I said in an earlier (later?) post, from Antiquity all the way up to Colonial America. Sure, some things are consistent throughout time, but others aren't (like clothing, architecture, etc.). As it is now, the series is very anachronistic, and I'm fine with that.

As for quinceaneras, they're more like bat mitzvahs. At least in Mexico, you still have to be 18 to be legally considered an advlt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnfYrcV2qi8

Culturally, a Hispanic girls 15th birthday would mean she becomes a woman (may need to act like one too). Not legally though.

That's exactly what I meant to say.

True it's broad but I had to point out that much of the "real" things do fall under that umbrella...obviously the architecture is loosely based off of real cultures but also some fantasy elements mixed in.

As he said below, they're culturally considered women but not legally which I think also applies to Jews and their mitzvahs but I'm not sure. I'm a stickler for seeing things from different perspectives so I just had to mention a counter point to the one's mentioned here