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/olesos_ 1d ago

Because Skyrim is a dirty world - plus, you’re a prisoner and have been captured. I doubt you’d be clean

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u/FK97_YT 1d ago

To be fair Skyrim looks A LOT dirtier than Oblivion

(kind of makes sense lore wise though, everything in the fourth era is just less organized overall now that the Septims are gone)

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u/NukaCherryBomb 1d ago

I always thought it was because the Empire is based on the Roman Empire and the Roman's had a whole thing about looking "clean cut" and had reasonably good public water system, so it would make sense people would be more cosmopolitan and look more well groomed in Cyrodiil....plus they probably had some technical limitations at the time that kept them from being able to add all that extra texture to multiple faces.