How do people in Skyrim bathe?

[Lurknir]

There's no baths or showers or anything. Do they just go a lake or river and bathe themselves there?

 

[Seanu Reaves]

Or they just don't do it. I think since Skyrim is based of Nordic culture, I think you could look at Viking bathing habits.

Funny thing, apparently, if I recall, vikings actually had better bathing habits than the other Europeans at the time. That is just from memory. No quotes

 

[nightmare16]

i bathe in the blood of my enemies if that helps your analysis at all.......if not then you should have a cookie and relax

 

[TheJokerLover]

I imagine if you are speaking as in it was real life, the the 4th era would probably be c. 4th- Possibly 7th century IRL, and back then, during those times, there were public bathing situations, such as rivers and lakes, the only problem with this is that it polluted the water and was soon restricted in the c. 10th century when you had to use a "tub" and water to bathe instead of going to a river/lake.
-- Funny thing about this is, if you look at the water in Whiterun you notice that it is more dirty than the rivers you find outside the city, so that could suggest people might have bathed in that water at the steps to Dragonsreach.
--Also the skeleton in the water under the bridge to Dragonsreach suggests that maybe a person who wanted to bathe accidentally drowned in the water. (My own theory)

 

[raido KASAI]

The real question is what do they do to 'go potty'




For the record, I usually just fling it at a Battle-Born (not named Jon)

 

[Ivory]

If you watched my let's play, Lydia has some unlocked dialogue "Ugh, I'll need to bathe thoroughly to get this stench off me"


But she never does. Seriously. I should rename the series Tales of the Dragonborn and the smelly Housecarl.

 

[shadowkitty]

There is a natural hot spring bath underneath Jorrvaskr. I thought everyone knew that..

 

[raido KASAI]

If you watched my let's play, Lydia has some unlocked dialogue "Ugh, I'll need to bathe thoroughly to get this stench off me"


But she never does. Seriously. I should rename the series Tales of the Dragonborn and the smelly Housecarl.

That would be a good idea.

She never takes that armor off now that I think of it. She even wears it to watch me sleep.

 

[raido KASAI]

There is a natural hot spring bath underneath Jorrvaskr. I thought everyone knew that..

I usually just stand next to Torvar and everyone thinks the stench is him instead.

 

[shadowkitty]

There is a natural hot spring bath underneath Jorrvaskr. I thought everyone knew that..

I usually just stand next to Torvar and everyone thinks the stench is him instead.

You'd have to do a lot of mouth breathing, so you don't smell his stench yourself..

 

[raido KASAI]

There is a natural hot spring bath underneath Jorrvaskr. I thought everyone knew that..

I usually just stand next to Torvar and everyone thinks the stench is him instead.

You'd have to do a lot of mouth breathing, so you don't smell his stench yourself..

.. or get a really good "contact" drunk.

 

[AS88]

Weekly pilgrimages to the Eastmarch hot springs.

 

[JoeReese]

 

[LuChao]

if ur on PC they have mods that install baths and showers but if ur on console like me then they smell bad XD

 

[JoeReese]

Stinkypants console characters.

 

[LuChao]

lol

 

[raido KASAI]

Stinkypants console characters.

So that's what the aroma in here is.

I was thinking rotten eggs smeared on a wet dog, but it's the smelly console bastards.

Good thing I perfected that aroma cloak spell

 

[AS88]

Stinkypants console characters.

Traitor

 

[shadowkitty]

Well considering you have to journey all they way home to use your bath Joe I would say it was YOU who is the stinky pants...

Us console users bathe wherever, whenever we want and there is water a plenty in Skyrim.

 

[Daelon DuLac]

As much swimming as they do, my characters never have the chance to have BO. Sure, they smell like old fish, but BO, no.

It comes from never having the patience to actually go around an obstacle of stick to the road. Raging waterfall or lake filled with hungry fish with razor sharp teeth? No problem. SPLASH!