You will be waiting awhile, Skyrim is still set in the equivalent to our Middle ages here on Earth, I guess noone back then thaught it would be nicer to have their 'business' dissapear rather than have to cart it to a hole and bury it? Same thing with aqueducts and running water I guess, the Romans were a clever bunch, surprised the Dwemer didn't figure it out

Btw that pic above, that isn't a MAN'S toilet, where is the copy of 'Argonians Illustrated' or 'PlayNord' or at the least 'Imperial Times' ?

*Nord looks all around him*= Your standing in the bathroom.

Well urine was collected and used to clean clothes and what not. The latrines they used a "community sponge" instead of toilet paper.

I can say the Romans had a good step to modern hygeine, it it was still far from our modern comforts.

Yeah, that's a Bandit toilet, where the reading level is around Children's Annuad. There's also supposed to be a potion of Sure Shot in that pic, but someone seems to have looted it already. Perhaps due to an urgent need...


Romans did use urine for laundry, but they did later switch to soap. Soap was also used in "Dark"/Middle Ages Europe. And interestingly the Vikings were known for their cleanliness among the contemporaries.

Here's an http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2960146.stm on personal hygiene in the Middle Ages, if someone fancies doing some reading. There were toilets in the late Middle Ages, but chamber pots would have been the norm for most people, due to money and space concerns.

Skyrim isn't set in the equivalent of anything. It's full of technology newer than the middle ages.

What we're forgetting here is Riften has sewers as the IC did. Solitude has manholes too. Perhaps these are primary for rainwater and melting snow or perhaps they dump the buckets in there. That would explain why the streets are so clean.

Nothing more evil than doing it in the drinking wells.

The sewer systems in Oblivion and Morrowind were obviously for rainwater management and not in any way connected to toilets. As I said before the people of Tes games biologically don’t pinch loafs. All those buckets laying about are just buckets used for bucket stuff not to poo in.

Real men take a dump on their foes.
But I suppose you could take a wiz in the stream or by the bushes.
They would be used for toilet management if there were toilets to begin with.

I know the mine just southwest of Riverwood has a latrine, and a forge...it's like a medieval version of a man-cave.

The Jarl of Markarth has his own personal shower/bath area.



Most people take baths in the rivers and lakes or they just walk around smelling with dirt on their faces. As for toliets well there are buckets and next time yuor character goes swimming in a river, that's not a dead slaughterfish floating

Daggerfall depicts a guy using a bucket. Well, really it depicts hundreds or thousands of clones of a guy using a bucket.

What a useless thread, why dont we make threads about THE REAL problems in skyrim, theres a conncept

I bet he's simply using it for something to sit on.

Then as relevant a question would be "Where are the flintlock pistols in Skyrim?" Some technologies were never invented, some perhaps because people saw no need for them. Some advances are resisted by tradition. Notice how swords are still issued to soldiers in the real world in many armies, even though they ceased to largely matter on the battlefield roughly 500 years ago?

How do you explain the stools and stone dividers next to them? Needless to say of the spell tomes of "true shot" I found near some.

Go find a bear cave. Those aren't brown rocks scattered about...

Obviously the lack of a True Shot potion...

He's sitting in the open end and reading a book, almost always in a room full of other furniture that would be more comfortable. Definitely using the bucket.


My point was you can't pin down a specific time period, so there's no surefire way to confirm everyone in Tamriel uses buckets or the bushes. It's not surprising to see a lack of water-powered toilets, but it is surprising to see a lack of other designs like outhouses or holes in seats mounted over rivers, etc. Well, it would be surprising if we didn't just accept that having one method shown in a game is more than enough since production time is best spent on other things.

You can always "bathe" in the hot springs or lake. And I don't think people in Skyrim takes a bath that often. As for toilets, just use the buckets.

60 seconds? Sooo not enough time.

No wonder that water has a brownish tinge, and watch out for those bubbles they are doozy's It has been told that you come out of those springs dirtier than when you went in!

I agree, but every franchise(Ye gods I hate that term! Makes me feel like we're queuing for a Big Mac and Fries here...) has it's fans speculating on stuff that was left unsaid, or logical inconsistencies. Hopefully for fun. It's just easiest to speculate based on material that the designers likely used as reference. No one in this thread is right about the toilets in Tamriel, unless Todd Howard or The Great Pagliarulo descend on this thread and go: "No, actually everyone in Tamriel uses the Alteration spell Shalidor's [censored] Evacuation. Nobody goes to toilet."

I've come across another toilet area in Skyrim in a different fort. It had 3 or 4 'cubicle' areas separated by stone dividers and everything. Can't remember where it was but if I come across it I'll be sure to take a screenshot and post it.

I remember seeing that too, now that you mention it. Might've been in the fort where
But yeah, the toilets are there if you look for them.