Why yes, bordellos. Why do you ask, dear reader?

Now, now hear me out before closing this window: I am not talking about animated six or even too skimpy outfits, none of that crude stuff. If you want that, dear reader please look for hentai-themed mods on the Nexus.

With that out of the way, what does he mean, you ask? Well, while playing Skyrim and being rwally and utterly blown away by season two of Game of Thrones, I noticed several similarities between that character I play and a certain character from the series: Lord Pety Baelish, better known as Littlefinger.

Littlefinger is not only the Master of Coin at the royal court (something of a treasurer) no, he also owns and operates several bordellos throughout the capital not only to make money but to get at the juicy, juicy secrets of many an important person.

Now, my character, being a Dunmer he hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell to gain political influence legally or even openly. The only chance he has is through subterfuge, blackmail and a little not-so-figurative backstab here and there. And that's where the bordello comes into play: It would be quite awesome to own and operate such an establishment (even a gentleman's club) in Windhelm and Solitude.

Prominent figures frequent the place, spill their secrets in the embrace of a wench which are promptly used to gain influence or even cold, hard gold. With establishments in Solitude and Windhelm, respectively it could even tie in to the civil War questline...

What say you?

If it's an equal-opportunity bordello and not about titillating the player, I might play it. It's plausible that prostitution would exist in Skyrim, but given that a high proportion of soldiers, warriors and other types who might frequent such a place are female, it wouldn't be convincing to have only 'wenches' working there.

Sounds like it could be fun...

If you wanted to show the act in progress you would definitely need those animations, other than that the atmosphere shouldn't be too hard to create, would involve a lot of NPC packages, possibly scenes, definitely a new interior, additions to an exterior for entry to the interior. Scripting would be rather easy, mostly dialogue based stuff.

I can see it now... Adding the Potentialprosttute faction to make certain NPC's able to be recruited as such... Override their default sandbox package to use the building and hourly specific ones.

I see the bards having something of this function--like how in the "Diplomatic Immunity" quest, there's a bard from the College at the Thalmor party. You have to think she'll be reporting any gossip or secrets she overhears to somebody.

There's been some talk in the http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1293973-wip-unique-taverns/ thread about making some of the taverns seedier--that would fit in with this as well.

Sure, it'dt have to be equal opportunity to get te maximized effect, ie. getting info on ALL the important people, Jarl Elisif comes to mind.


Well, I'd be very fine with it if "the act" stayed behind closed doors. The goal here is not to be titilating but adding another (seedier) alternative to gather (political) influence and income. Not all characters are cut out to be thieves or assasins.

You should try contacting http://tes.nexusmods.com/modules/members/index.php?id=1281817 and see if you can port his http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=38776 to Skyrim. I never got to see it put to good use in Oblivion, and it would fit this like a glove.

Its a long shot, as you probably won't be able to get a hold of him. But the design is there, should someone attempt something similar for Skyrim.

assassination and thievery aside, there's very little "morally dark" content... though there's something of a bordello in Riften. would do wonders for that specific facet of Riften, and i'd imagine the new gnisis club in windhelm wouldn't be too far a stretch for a more carnal clientele. would be a joy to say, add in alternate routes through some of the MQ quests.

Well, since my idea wasn't rejected outright (which is nice) I would need some people helping me out with this.
I'm quite good at 3d-modelling and a blast with layouts, typography and illustration/2d stuff.
(y'all may wanna check out my personal homepage at www.blaxxer.de - beware it's in german.)

What I cannot, for the life of me figure out is all the scripting mess so there'd be an open position right there.

Would like to see something like "Desele's House of Earthly Delights".

Two vaguely related request topics:

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1356244-idea-bard-college-skyrims-school-of-spying/page__fromsearch__1

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1346900-guild-of-spies-idea/page__fromsearch__1

It would be interesting to see the advertising and seduction quests for a mod like this. I mean on one hand you would have to establish this organization, make sure people know what it is, but not the people that don't need to know, you'd need to make it fairly high class so you actually get people worthwhile, you'd need to make sure your workers are trustworthy because one 'wench' saying: "Yeah, we sell your secrets" would ruin the whole thing. It's very hard to run a morally dubious, semi-illegal, organizations that targets a specific group.

If you really just wanted info, it'd make more sense to run a ignorant boyfriend/girlfriend experience scheme. Have people actually seek out and seduce important people in order to become their lovers, or their affairs. That way you negate the aspect of waiting for them to come to you. Could still have the Bordello as a front/ training ground on human behavior and seduction.

You could also mix the two. 'wench' poses as bard, she seduces high up person, she tells high up person about this wonderful place where she learned all of her sixual prowess, high up becomes a customer.

Just seems a little odd for every important high up to just happen to have a dark sixual side which they need a bordello to satisfy; most likely you'd have to give them a little nudge in that direction.

Alternative: Someone else spent years setting this up, and you just happen to take over somehow... but that just seems lazy, and you lose out on a lot of cool quest ideas for seduction/advertising.

I'll love any kind of advlt-themed gameplay or lore element. I see Skyrim as a game for advlts (more so than Oblivion, with a darker theme) set in a barbarian land amidst a civil war. Skyrim needs houses of Earthly Delights and all the associated lore and gameplay.

Riften would be a good place for it, or maybe a smaller town can be transformated into the proper environment for it. Skyrim needs to have at least a town or pub for degeneration and debauchery, it's screaming for it. If Skyrim existed and I lived there, that's where I'd hang out (well, maybe until I can marry Haelga — be my character male or female). Also keep in mind that TES has lore related to this that can be used, such as anything related to Sanguine or Dibella worship got out of hand. Or maybe Uncle Crassius introduced a new business division in House Hlaalu and exported it out of Vvanderfell. Crassius is the kind of man we need behind all this, some 200 years ago.

Of course, if the mod has six, great, and if it's graphic and animated, all the better, as long as it's not just just a gimmick to watch, but a part of the normal gamplay. Skyrim is an advlt RPG, not an advlt six game, so there has to be more than six, but six is alright. six is an important part of advlt life and if we're having an advlt game it's going to have six. And of course I'd only get it anywhere near my game if it's lore friendly (i.e. I don't have a problem with Hatsune Miku somewhere else, but she ain't in Skyrim last time I checked).