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People throw dung onto the streets, the rain washes it away, and it fall into the river or grains in the streets.

Storm drains?

It's there for one important character.

its funny theres no type of toilet anywhere, even in big cities like solitude...makes you wonder what they do with number 2

Theres even a manhole in solitude that makes sewer noises but like you said, whats it for? To wash the poo from the street?

Maybe I should think twice before I swim in the river next to Riverwood again. Where else would they put it?

If you are saying there are no toilets, as in the modern plumbing and porcelain version, then you are correct.

But if you are saying there are no toilets, as in lavatories - places for people to defecate, then that is incorrect. There are plenty of houses in the cities where you'll find buckets and small stools tucked into a corner or in a very small seperate room. Even bandit caves usually have seperate pits with a bucket in them.

Bethesda's attention to detail in this particular case is quite nice in my opinion, I theorize the idea is everyone defecates in a bucket then either throws it out on the street or into a sever grate if one is available. Which coincidentally is pretty much how it worked before in many places in real life.

They just take it to the nearest ruin or cave and toss it in.



Now you know why Draugr and Falmer are so darn angry.

So when I put buckets on NPC's heads...

Yes.
Yes indeed.

They needed somewhere to keep the diseased vagrants and lowlifes.

Because its a video game and not everything has to be 100% believable and make perfect sense.

I've never found a full bucket. Have you? Wouldn't be awesome if you could find one and dump it on someone's head?

What would be awesome is if I found one *and* had the speech perks necessary to sell it at Radiant Raiment.

The Ratway may be the remnants of Riftens original Palace and Dungeon, The city was rebuilt after it was burned to the ground during riots

Given what certain parts of the Warrens and Vaults are like, I think you may be right.

the buckets you see in people's houses...

Riften has sewers for the same reason Venice has canols, to handle the water in the area. The lake near Riften could rise with Spring snowmelt, so there needs to be way to move the overflow through the city. People are stubborn like that. Instead of moving a city that floods, that they built on the shore, they come up with complicated, usually successful, ways to deal with it.

Someone needs to watch more History Channel or... maybe a read a book once in awhile. Cities like London and Paris have had extensive underground sewer systems long before homes had indoor plumbing. Even the ancient Indus Valley city of Mohenjo-daro had sewer systems 4,500 years before the invention of the toilet.

Reminds me of a fort with bandits in it, there i a room with 2 stools and 2 buckets and potion of true shot

Sorry for not being a poop expert?... And the history channel isn't exactly what I would call "historical" unless you count ancient aliens, pawn starts, shows about doomsday, and ufo hunters "history"

haha. 3-pointer!!!!

I'm probably thinking of another game or something, but I have in my head a wooden thing with a hole in it, like a cess pit castles had..
But I guess they need the sewers to help run water through the city and power water mills etc

Maby the sewer system isn't a sewer system? I mean, the sewer system isn't that old,
or maby i am mistaken.

Oh, so you don't like aliens, eh? Who do you think built the sewers in the first place?