But then again, you are very small... Perhaps you're right.

Yes it does. It's in the canon.

maybe we could meet the lusty Argonian. You just all think she is a fake character in a book..

Lol, at the people that thinks a world filled with violence is also filled with celibate people. Some of you guys have some twisted values based on your support for extreme violence, but your distaste for anything sixual. Also, those saying it doesn't fit the setting NEED TO READ THE LORE. It fits the lore as it is FROM the lore. If people want to make porm mods then it will happen no matter what. Including the prosttutes Guild does not mean Bethesda needs to add advlt content and I don't want them to add advlt content.

As soon as I saw this, I was like "Hey, that's my idea!" .... ya know, because I'm planning to make a mod for the prosttutes Guild for TESIII. But uhm, yeah, it should be in the game. It was definitely in TESII, although the guild wasn't joinable. I think it should be more of a mod thing than in game, unless they could do it right and not make it cheesy or stand out too much.

I think it does. Anything that is mature, lore friendly and contributes to building a believable and rich atmosphere does. We already have corruption, politics, religion, thievery, cold blood assassins, prisons, drugs, gore, slavery, houses of 'delights', it seems we're about to have executions, all these have supporters and haters in real life, I don't see why prostitution couldn't make it on that list.
The Witcher has prosttutes that can be "used" and it's by no means a story or atmosphere breaker by the contrary, it's mature and believable.

Pretty much. I don't want corny takes on six like the Witcher had.

Considering they have a god of banging it just seems like a given that they would have an organization. They already have an organization in fact.

Yeah, I don't see it being joinable. I don't expect the tailors guild to be joinable either.

Are you sure you're in the right place? This is the Elder Scrolls forum, not Duke Nukem. They totally have guilds.

All from the same book. Why not treat them the same?

Right on. This gets to the heart of it: these smaller guilds don't need individual guildhalls, they just operate out of their own shops. They hold their guild meetings at the town hall to decide policy and prices, and the weaker guilds would band together politically to hold sway over the larger guilds, like the Fighters and Mages.

Rock on.

So they should go back to the old games and take out the references? There were brothels in DF you know.

How many people think that out of all those guilds from the lore, prosttutes Guild is the one that would add the most to the Elder Scrolls experience?

OP, I think prosttutes guild is a bad way to put it, it gives the connotations of a major institution with questlines like the Fighter's Guild.

Brothels would be fine.

Play TESII Daggerfall and TESI Arena. You'll see lots of prosttutes all over the place. Arena has them outside and inside. Daggerfall just has them in temples and taverns and random homes. So yeah, they most certainly did fit in Tamriel since they were in the first two games.



I'm with ya!

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Desele%27s_House_of_Earthly_Delights

Doesn't need to be a joinable guild with a questline, ranks and so on.

But maybe a brothel in one of the seedier towns, with a couple of side quests where you protect the 'girls' from extortion or deal with over-zealous clients.

I for one would welcome this addition. I think it is something that adds to the atmosphere and it fits the Nords as I imagined them. I don't like to take my real life prejudices with me in the game worlds, otherwise I'd never swing a sword in the first place. I can totally see interesting quests related to a prostitution organization whether you work in their favor or against them.

Absolutely. I think there's a tendency for people to associate a suggestion like "prosttute's guild" with real world prostitution, which isn't what I'd picture in the context of Skyrim, nor what (I assume) Shades had in mind when he posted the thread.

In any case, I second Cloudrest's post above. A frolicsome nordic brothel with plenty of music and characterful NPCs could only improve the game's atmosphere and sense of being a living world.

I am in favour of this. :celebration:

I'd join it, hihii.

No but on a serious note, it could be part of the thieves guild. In many fantasy books I've read the building have been a safe heaven for thieves and heardquarter for them too.

Considering Bethesda's attempt at bringing the game world to life (giving everybody a job, having an economy each town relies on, people continue working when you talk to them) it would make sense to have some minor guilds that are unjoinable but might be a good source of quests and would certainly play a part in making the game's economy feel believable.

I like this idea. The more guilds, the better. They are optional and I like options. This is what I love most about Tes, that it offers a lot of options that I'm not forced to use.

Who wouldn't enjoy being an argonian [censored]?

I kinda like the idea, just make it tasteful.

The people thinking this thread was going to be closed at the beginning make me laugh. If this was closed that would be ridiculous. six was only ever slightly eluded to, as it is all the time in an unavoidable way. It's perfectly fine to discuss prostitution and even a guild based around it in a non-advlt forum. Honestly.

As for my opinion, I concur with this:

First, remember what 'guilds' came into being for in the first place; as a way to gather talent, train -all- members to a credible standard of performance, and to create a structure where the members had protections. A prosttute's guild fits right in there. Second, remember that historically, this has been one of the major point sources for spending capitol for governments, when they admitted it (look into Earth history, and the number of cathedrals built primarily with the taxes off prostitution. Interesting research there....). Third, pro's have always existed at the boundary between 'polite' society and shadow society. Not a safe business. But one where by its very nature secrets get spilled or passed. That was how it was intended to be implemented in Daggerfall; The prosttutes guild, the thieves guild, and the Dark Brotherhood were to be quest sources, and information pipes from the seedier side of life, for when you goofed and locked off main quest paths with the royals. Unfortunately, time and bugs led to the first being deactivated, and the other two being gutted to a degree.

And keep in mind that such a guild would not be a brothel; that is a local business structure. It would be an overarching organization that would include everything from the streetwalker to the very charming ladies that get paid to entertain very rich individuals, and only rarely does carnal interests come into it. The thrill being =seen= with an elegant 'lady of ill repute'....and being able to afford her attentions. Just the potential for information there is staggering, and when you get to it, aside from killing orcs and rats, information is what questing is about.

This constant assumption that if anyone mentions any topic even remotely related to six must mean that the poster somehow wants Elder Scrolls to descend to a cross between Leisure Suit Larry and one of the H games from Japan is really getting ridiculous. Or reflects lack of knowledge about the topic in question.....

I got as far as completing the MQ and the fighters guild without using a weapon or hand to hand. But this was really time consuming, I just summoned and had reflect damage spells cast on myself and enchanted items with the same.

Was fun for a while but gave up after the MQ and Fighters guild.

Why not? There are [censored]s in Fallout 3 and New Vegas, and Gomorrah is practically a brothel Not to mention many RPGs in the past and currently have brothels, there are ones in NWN, Arcanum, more recently in DA and DA2 and i'm sure many others. Besides as has been said, it's in the lore, read the "History of the Figthers Guild" book in Oblivion.

But there are better guilds from the lore for the devs to spend their time on.