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[JD Buzz]

In Skyhold, there are probably bath houses around and the Inquisitor gets a big bath tub in his/her quarters. But when the Inquisitor travels places such as the Hinterlands and Emerald Graves, maybe bathe in a clean lake or under a waterfall near camp. Cold areas like Emprise would have hot springs. 

[The Oracle]

I do wonder about things like plumbing, sewage etc in DA. Do we know if Ferelden/Orlais/Free Marches have sewage pipes etc? Or do they still run by the old "chuck your privy out of the window and let it sludge down to the lowest parts. I think this may be the case in Kirkwall, given that there were supposedly parts of lowtown where noxious gases would build up and poison people. Then again, Orlais is exquisitely clean when you travel around it, so perhaps they have them there. They do, after all, have a mechanically controlled dam in Crestwood, arguably a very simple Ferelden village but such technology is advanced.

 

I don't know. It's hard pinpoint a comparable real world timeline to where DAI is. Magic, the clockwork engineering of the Dwarves and the disparity between games just muddles everything.

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

I refuse to believe that Cullen doesn't bathe often because then it ruins the image I have of him squeezed into a little tub with his legs bent over the edge while ladling water over his head......

[Shienis]

I refuse to believe that Cullen doesn't bathe often because then it ruins the image I have of him squeezed into a little tub with his legs bent over the edge while ladling water over his head......

Draw it, please!

[fhs33721]

I do wonder about things like plumbing, sewage etc in DA. Do we know if Ferelden/Orlais/Free Marches have sewage pipes etc? Or do they still run by the old "chuck your privy out of the window and let it sludge down to the lowest parts. I think this may be the case in Kirkwall, given that there were supposedly parts of lowtown where noxious gases would build up and poison people. Then again, Orlais is exquisitely clean when you travel around it, so perhaps they have them there. They do, after all, have a mechanically controlled dam in Crestwood, arguably a very simple Ferelden village but such technology is advanced.

 

I don't know. It's hard pinpoint a comparable real world timeline to where DAI is. Magic, the clockwork engineering of the Dwarves and the disparity between games just muddles everything.

Kirkwall does have a functioning sewers. Remember Darktown? Huge parts of it are the actual sewers. Poor people just decide to live there, probably because you are less likely to freeze to death there in winter.

[HallaGoddess]

Kirkwall does have a functioning sewers. Remember Darktown? Huge parts of it are the actual sewers. Poor people just decide to live there, probably because you are less likely to freeze to death there in winter.

 

That's so nasty D:

no wonder they're always ill! 

[HallaGoddess]

I also wonder if Thedas has STD/STI's cause I know for sure that my Warden and Hawke spent a lot of time at brothels (cause it entertained me)

Also, pirates sound unhygienic- I wonder if Isabella is clean... that was partly why I decided on Merrill in DA2 tbh, :/

 

oh! and yess Dental hygiene bothers me as well, cause I can just imagine Cullen leaning in to kiss my Quizzie and my quizzie passing out from the noxious fumes emitting from his mouth D:

[Forsythia77]

Dorian complains about IB never bathing.  Bull says human sweat smells like days old pork sitting out in the sun. Dorian also says Blackwall needs to acquaint himself with proper hygiene and grooming.  In DAO Wynne gives dog a bath and everyone complains about Alister smelling.  Honestly when you are out killing random strangers across the countryside, when do you have time to stop and get a nice hot bath?  You do see random tubs about though.  Like in Crestwood in the Flats area.  That cabin by the astrarium has a tub.  I suspend my disbelief in regard to this.  I personally would expect there to be nasty diseases like Cholera and Malaria floating about since there doesn't seem to be plumbing and there seems to be a fair amount of swampy land about (all the side eye to the Fallow Mire).  Same with TV shows like Game of Thrones.  All the lovely straight teeth there?  Not gonna happen.

 

So I guess if everyone smells, you probably get used to it.  You probably smell too!

[thats1evildude]

Peasant 1: But the good ser has such a regal manner ...

 

Peasant 2: What? How do you mean?

 

Peasant 1: For one thing, she doesn't got dung all over her!

 

Peasant 2: Ah. That's a fair point.

 

[rolson00]

well whilst we're over thinking it i doubt they bath ever, heck 100 years ago only the rich bathed and that was once or twice a year and that was considered too clean!  

[dragondreamer]

Cassandra has a banter with Bull where she says she's looking forward to getting back to Skyhold for a hot bath sprinkled with rose petals.  (I remember something about Skyhold having hot springs.)  I imagine there probably isn't much time for bathing while they're out in the field though.  But I still have my Inquisitors stand under waterfalls. 

[Korva]

Apparently, hygiene wasn't universally as bad as some say -- even in colder places, see The Oracle's comment on Vikings. Plus, saunas or sweat baths or ceremonial sweat lodges have been a thing in various cultures for a long time, both for religious and for secular use. As for the ... "output" issue, I'm glad games discreety stay away from that.

 

I don't recall mention of Skyhold having been built over a hot spring -- whether naturally-occuring or tapped by old elven magic -- but it is definitely part of my headcanon, too!

[Gilli]

Also, in the Gnawed Noble Tavern, Ignacio's room has a bathtube(?) made of stone.

[Fen'Eira]

oooh really?? could you tell me where so I can hover around it?? (the bathtubs)

and this sounds so nice, it makes me feel less dirty xD

There are bathtubs in the circle tower of Ferelden in Origins.

[The Oracle]

I also wonder about food and water. I get the feeling from in-game stuff, that they still very much live by the "alcohol is safer than water", which was the same for most civilisations until very recently. After all, if you're emptying your chamber pots, washing your clothes etc in the stream, it's hardly going to be safe for the other villages downriver. 

 

To show how much of a geek I am, when I first got to Skyhold and saw the camps further down by the river, my first thought was to the hygiene of the water (and also the fact that camping with tents on a frozen mountain without sight of a tree nearby for firewood would be a very bad solution both short and long term). The river seems to run directly underneath Skyhold, which I would presume as the dumping point for the entire keeps waste. Eugh, I can just imagine it flowing down to the camps where their cleaning in the streams or hauling the water for consumption,cooking etc. Way to sicken your army Quizzy. Now they don't just have to worry about bout freezing to death, but dysentery too.

[Fen'Eira]

I play a lot of MMO's and the first thing I check out is if they have some kind of bathroom (I know, weird).  It's like body functions is some dirty little secret the games don't want to address.  At least World of Warcraft had outhouses.  In games that allow you to have residences (like Everquest2) I'm a stickler for making a big fat garden tub and there IS a toilet dammit.  There should at least be a chamber pot.  And a washstand. I love building posh bathrooms for my MMO characters.

[thats1evildude]

Hawke had a chamberpot.

[Snowy-Ninja]

You can see those large tin/copper baths in rooms I am fairly certain Josephine has one in her office maybe? So bathing is a thing, we do bathe in Thedas. As for Dorian complaining about bull being smelly well thats what weeks / months in the wilderness will do to you. You may be able to clean your body but I doubt your Quiz and team has much time for cleaning their armour / clothing afterall the red templars wont wait for your pants to dry in the sun before attacking you! I mean you can clean most of the blood / gore and grime off but not all of it. 

 

As for cities and towns, we know they have plumbing because of Kirkwall which means toliets with water. We know there is soap and oils to make you smell better, we know there is perfume and other things to. So I am guessing people are very clean when they are are at home or in the city, its just outside in the wilderness that seems to be the issue. 

 

As for food and drink, I am guessing this is still an era where we take water from a well (we have a well from Skyhold) so the water can be clean, but I think its best you boil that water or just drink alcohol. And food would be stored in the good old fashioned way of smoking, drying, pickling, salting and freezing it in ways of keeping it for longer, i just hope they have clean hands while preparing food. 

I tend not to think about it to much honestly, because i remembered that people with vagina's would have to use cloth during their period instead of the wonderful products we have today. 

[HallaGoddess]

You can see those large tin/copper baths in rooms I am fairly certain Josephine has one in her office maybe? So bathing is a thing, we do bathe in Thedas. As for Dorian complaining about bull being smelly well thats what weeks / months in the wilderness will do to you. You may be able to clean your body but I doubt your Quiz and team has much time for cleaning their armour / clothing afterall the red templars wont wait for your pants to dry in the sun before attacking you! I mean you can clean most of the blood / gore and grime off but not all of it. 

 

As for cities and towns, we know they have plumbing because of Kirkwall which means toliets with water. We know there is soap and oils to make you smell better, we know there is perfume and other things to. So I am guessing people are very clean when they are are at home or in the city, its just outside in the wilderness that seems to be the issue. 

 

As for food and drink, I am guessing this is still an era where we take water from a well (we have a well from Skyhold) so the water can be clean, but I think its best you boil that water or just drink alcohol. And food would be stored in the good old fashioned way of smoking, drying, pickling, salting and freezing it in ways of keeping it for longer, i just hope they have clean hands while preparing food. 

I tend not to think about it to much honestly, because i remembered that people with vagina's would have to use cloth during their period instead of the wonderful products we have today. 

 

oh god all my characters are female: from the warden to my current quizzie, and I'm like partly curious and partly horrified by how they deal with periods while out in the wilderness or something. If it were up to me, I'd probably go back to Skyhold during my period and then go out questing again after. 

 

I'd like to think that mages can just simply 'disappear' the blood from their clothes- same with dirt and other distasteful things. So my mages would simply magic away anything gross on their companions or themselves. Too bad for my Warden lol, she was a rogue...

[The Oracle]

Seriously? You think they'd be icking out over a bit of period blood when they essentially spend most of their time stabbing, shooting, slashing, burning people to death. Hah, I imagine my character would hardly care about blood on her underwear while she's got bits of innards covering her clothes. My Quizzy = Badass Mofo.

[Snowy-Ninja]

Seriously? You think they'd be icking out over a bit of period blood when they essentially spend most of their time stabbing, shooting, slashing, burning people to death. Hah, I imagine my character would hardly care about blood on her underwear while she's got bits of innards covering her clothes. My Quizzy = Badass Mofo.

I do agree but also if you've ever been in that unfortunate situation of being caught unaware it's very uncomfortable, not because "ew icky blood" but because its just an unpleasant / uncomfortable feeling. Although it would be the perfect time to vent your anger! 

[thats1evildude]

Women just used old rags before the disposable maxipads were invented. Apparently, you can also use mud, though I wouldn't recommend it.

[Reznore57]

Women just used old rags before the disposable maxipads were invented. Apparently, you can also use mud, though I wouldn't recommend it.

 

I heard moss and of course sponge , still used today .

But anyway , I doubt smelling like a fresh rose is what you think about when you're out fighting into the wilds.

You're wearing armor , you're moving around , with fighting you get blood .

I assume you'd tried to find fresh water to freshen up  , clean wounds etc , besides well you'd need to drink too.

[midnight tea]

Seriously? You think they'd be icking out over a bit of period blood when they essentially spend most of their time stabbing, shooting, slashing, burning people to death. Hah, I imagine my character would hardly care about blood on her underwear while she's got bits of innards covering her clothes. My Quizzy = Badass Mofo.

 

Well, I can't help but to laugh at the thought that some may think that menstrual blood is the ickiest thing ever, but history proves that we're not always the most rational creatures After all, don't certain culture disallow even touching a woman while she has her period?

 

Therefore blood and gore on battlefield = bring it on!

 

Menstrual blood? = Aaaah, nooo, COOOOTIEEES!

 

.... We humans can be so weird sometimes

[The Oracle]

Well, I can't help but to laugh at the thought that some may think that menstrual blood is the ickiest thing ever, but history proves that we're not always the most rational creatures After all, don't certain culture disallow even touching a woman while she has her period?

 

Therefore blood and gore on battlefield = bring it on!

 

Menstrual blood? = Aaaah, nooo, COOOOTIEEES!

 

.... We humans can be so weird sometimes

 

Just this ^. We play a game where folk slit their wrists for power, where you find shards through the recently excavated skull of sacrificed Tranquil, where your "party" openly debates how many limbs they've managed to hack off in one go, but a bit of period blood that effects 50% of the populace. Ew, how horrible. Washing blood stains from your panties is just 100 times worse than scrapping globs of flesh from your face and hair.

 

Ach, maybe just because periods are a real life thing that people know and can relate their experiences to. Few alive today know what it's like to spend your days hacking through living people with sharp pieces of metal. My first job at 16 was as a cleaner in a hospital. I've seen (and cleaned up) some pretty horrific things. I even had the rare chance to experience the truly grotesque stench of gangrene first hand. When you've helped clean a gangrene infected leg wound and then went off to eat lunch, well, a bit of blood just doesn't phase ya.