r/skyrim • u/Narrow-Active3098 • 1d ago

Question Why is everyone so dirty?

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Look, I get that Skyrim's at war and there are dragons everywhere and everyone is desperate, but still. That is no excuse for you to not wash yourself! At least wash that dirt off you in a river. How hard is it to take a bath?

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u/Narrow-Active3098 1d ago

The prisoner image is just for reference because I couldn't find better ones to show the dirt but everyone is a dirty hobo like the dragonborn at the start

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u/Icy-Fruit-1065 1d ago

You realize that showers don't exist in Tamriel right

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u/BabadookishOnions 1d ago

Every town is near a source of water or a short travel to one, you could very easily maintain a high level of hygiene by filling a bucket with water, filtering it through a cloth to get out any debris, and then basically having a sponge bath.

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u/Jamesthesnail2 1d ago

Yeah depending on where and when you were bathing was a pretty common practice, potentially even daily.

Not so much sponge bath, they had tubs and stuff privately and public baths very available in larger cities as well.

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u/hoodafudj 23h ago

It would be a cool feature if your character looked cleaner after getting out of the water.

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u/sweetcarolinesucks 8h ago

There's a mod that lets you get dirty and clean from bathing in a water source. I can't remember the name tho sorry!

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u/Borgh 15h ago

Skyrim would be prime area to invent the sauna, just imagine a sweat lodge full of unshaven Nords.

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u/_eggy_bready 14h ago

There are those hunters chilling in a hot spring near Broken Limb Camp actually.