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[Toasted Llama]

You left out rotting garbage.

OH MY GOD IT'S THE HERO OF FERELDEN AND STEN! I'VE FINALLY FOUND YOU!

[KaiserShep]

One could interpret that line as Sera simply making fun of the Dalish. I doubt she sat around a Dalish campsite to smell halla arse.

[zestalyn]

Even though Thedas is inspired by Medieval Europe, it is fantasy, and not historical fiction. Just because it is visually similar to our past, doesn't mean everything about our universe has to parallel ours. Their technology and infrastructure doesn't have to match that of what Europe had in the 12th century. We don't know how we deal with their waste.

Thedas is already smarter than Medieval Europe in a few ways. For one thing they're not so homophobic. And Dorian clearly has proper hygiene and grooming.

[Steelcan]

Even though Thedas is inspired by Medieval Europe, it is fantasy, and not historical fiction. Just because it is visually similar to our past, doesn't mean everything about our universe has to parallel ours. Their technology and infrastructure doesn't have to match that of what Europe had in the 12th century. We don't know how we deal with their waste.

Thedas is already smarter than Medieval Europe in a few ways. For one thing they're not so homophobic. And Dorian clearly has proper hygiene and grooming.

also because Thedas is closer to the 15th century than the 12th

[Wulfram]

One could interpret that line as Sera simply making fun of the Dalish. I doubt she sat around a Dalish campsite to smell halla arse.

Though she seems very opinionated - and to at least some extent, informed - about the Dalish if she hasn't had much interaction with them

[Red Panda]

I think she was just representing the inherent superiority of Thedosian culture to Dalish culture. She also is pretty biased.

[Paragonslustre]

Skyhold has an enormous flushing toilet past the first set of jail cells, it's like the mother of all bidets.

[KaiserShep]

Skyhold has an enormous flushing toilet past the first set of jail cells, it's like the mother of all bidets.

 

Only a bidet for the thrill-seeking type.

[Paragonslustre]

Only a bidet for the thrill-seeking type.

Exactly - you could tie yourself to the cell bars and get a shower at the same time!  Wheee!  Stench solved!

[KaiserShep]

Exactly - you could tie yourself to the cell bars and get a shower at the same time!  Wheee!  Stench solved!

 

Frightened NPC: Inquisitor! I don't think these facilities are too my liking!

 

Inquisitor: What?

 

Frightened NPC: I don't think. That. The facilities. Are to. My. Liking!

 

Inquisitor: WHAT?

 

Frightened NPC: For the love of Andra...It's splendid!
 

Inquisitor: Good to know!

[Gervaise]

I was always disappointed I never got that bath I asked Josephine for when we got to Skyhold but the fact I could ask for one seemed to point to the fact that they were there somewhere in the Castle.   Ancient Rome had very sophisticated plumbing but somehow the technology got lost after the empire receded.    Tevinter is based on Rome but in their case may be the barbarians kept the buildings and the plumbing after they took over.

 

I'm pretty sure Dorian mentions something about Blackwall needing to get some soap.    We had the same comment from Wynne about Alistair and putting him with dog so the smell could be all in one place but she did want to bathe dog, so I think personal hygiene is an issue more than public sanitation.    Orlesians complain that Ferelden smells of wet dog but I think much of the time they are exaggerating in order to belittle their neighbours so I think a lot of Sera's comment could be seen in the same light.    Plus if you are not used to a certain smell it does seem very pungent, whilst someone living with it every day barely notices it.

[Serza]

Silence, lethallan. Halam'abelas. Banal harillen.

 

If you are not a Shem, you will understand. If you do not...

[Paragonslustre]

Frightened NPC: Inquisitor! I don't think these facilities are too my liking!

 

Inquisitor: What?

 

Frightened NPC: I don't think. That. The facilities. Are to. My. Liking!

 

Inquisitor: WHAT?

 

Frightened NPC: For the love of Andra...It's splendid!
 

Inquisitor: Good to know!

 

Well, sh*t (hey, it's on topic)!

[LOLandStuff]

Silence, lethallan. Halam'abelas. Banal harillen.

 

If you are not a Shem, you will understand. If you do not...

 

Need some leafs for that Dalish?

[Serza]

Need some leafs for that Dalish?

 

I know not what you speak of.

[Steelcan]

Silence, lethallan. Halam'abelas. Banal harillen.

 

If you are not a Shem, you will understand. If you do not...

Cobale, mea latrina necessitatibus purgatio

[TheDovah]

Ferelden may stink of wet dog but a campsite after Oghren had way too much to drink and eat is much, much worse.

[fhs33721]

Well at least Ferelden has the smell of wet dog to overwhelm all the other smells, so there's that.

But the smell of wet dog is just as bad as the smell of sh*t and you never ever get it out of your car.....Uh...I mean your carriage. Ugh Ferelden *shudders in orlaisian/french*

[Kierro Ren]

man you Dalish fans are almost as angry as the Dalish themselves

 

Hardly, even I found this moronic.

[Bad King]

The wiki suggests that Denerim's Poor Quarter lacks a proper sewage system (the reference is the Dragon Age table top rpg) which Sera likely didn't live in very long (due to her adoption by Lady Emmald) and I imagine that this is true in most major cities in Thedas perhaps with the exception of some of the Tevinter cities where they are more magically and technologically capable. What we saw of Val Royeaux was glitzy and sparkling, but according to the lore there are crowded slums there and I can't imagine that the authorities would bother maintaining a working sewage system in these areas. 

[thats1evildude]

It's OK, OP. As it turns out, the ancient elves think we're ALL s**t.

[Bad King]

It's OK, OP. As it turns out, the ancient elves think we're ALL s**t.

 

June probably crafted them some kick-ass sewerage systems.

[Malovane]

Heh. In some medieval cities the poor would actually live in the sewers. They would be wading knee deep in human waste - in their own homes.

 

That said, is the objection of OP accurate? Pretty much. Do I want to see this in a fantasy game? Please God no. I like gritty realism, but there are limits. Sera, making her introduction while being entirely covered in crap, would make her presence even less enjoyable.

[TK514]

June probably crafted them some kick-ass sewerage systems.

 

An eluvian in every toilet.