Wtf are urns for in Tamriel

Square252

I'm not quite sure if Lore is a better sub forum, but anyway...

I was wondering why people of Tamriel are storing lockpicks in urns. Or Recipes
I mean, don't they think its a bit strange to use a bottle of Lorkhan's tears that just laid for years (or hundreds of years in some delves/duns) with the ashes of a dead

Zacuel

You're not supposed to over think these things.

It's a game. You loot stuff. Rng.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

When a purple blueprint/recipe drops from one I don't ask questions.

Grandma

or clothes. or weapons. or ingredients.

therift

The spirits of the vanished Dwemer abhor the vacuums of empty urns.

Being spirits, lifting a lockpick or scrap of recipe paper is all they can manage.

Stebarnz

Urns are for holding nan's

Thorvik_Tyrson

Hey, the cleaning crew has to empty their vacuum cleaner somewhere... Urns make a great hiding spot for that.

SirAndy

Square252 wrote: »

I'm not quite sure if Lore is a better sub forum, but anyway...
I was wondering why people of Tamriel are storing lockpicks in urns. Or Recipes
I mean, don't they think its a bit strange to use a bottle of Lorkhan's tears that just laid for years (or hundreds of years in some delves/duns) with the ashes of a dead

For the same reason you can make yourself invisible, shoot fireballs from a wooden stick, teleport at will and ride on the back of a lion.

The reason being that trying to apply real world logic to a fantasy computer game is always going to fail ...

Merlight

Square252 wrote: »

I was wondering why people of Tamriel are storing lockpicks in urns.

They're not storing lockpicks in urns, ashes and lockpicks are what's left of a thief.

Square252 wrote: »

Or Recipes

Now that is strange. Maybe they put fire-protection spell on precious family recipe they pass down for generations.

Square252 wrote: »

I mean, don't they think its a bit strange to use a bottle of Lorkhan's tears that just laid for years (or hundreds of years in some delves/duns) with the ashes of a dead

Also disturbing is that merchants will pay gold for the ashes.

oXI_Viper_IXo

Urns are clearly for storing your lock picks in.

Grandesdar

When I got furnishing diagrams from mudcrabs I stopped questioning.

xxthir13enxx

Urns are short for Urinals

Never question what can fall in there that people don’t immediately desire to fish back out....

if my iPhone wasn’t worth.....

kargen27

It's better than it used to be. A crate of tomatoes gives you tomatoes now.

I used to wonder why Skeevers had boots and particulary why only one pair when they have four feet. Then I decided maybe they were nesting in them.

Ankael07

most urns are used as ''chamber pots'' aka toilets and that recipe youve found is the toilet paper

max_only

Merlight wrote: »

Square252 wrote: »

I was wondering why people of Tamriel are storing lockpicks in urns.

They're not storing lockpicks in urns, ashes and lockpicks are what's left of a thief.

Square252 wrote: »

Or Recipes

Now that is strange. Maybe they put fire-protection spell on precious family recipe they pass down for generations.

Square252 wrote: »

I mean, don't they think its a bit strange to use a bottle of Lorkhan's tears that just laid for years (or hundreds of years in some delves/duns) with the ashes of a dead

Also disturbing is that merchants will pay gold for the ashes.

Agree!

Also

Ashes are actually used in a lot of old school medicinal stuff.

Also,

What if some of them are coffee urns?

Linaleah

its the tamriel things. I mean.. its been this way for every Elder scrolls games.... go into a tomb that hasn't been visited in centuries by anyone but undead..... find fresh produce

esotoon

You've unlocked a tomb that has been sealed for centuries. As you creep down the corridor you spot an urn. You pry open the lid, your imagination running wild as to what mysterious artifacts you will find.... "Ah cool, a 6 hundred year apple, I'll eat that!"

Moiskormoimi

I mean, people are hiding things they think have value in them because they're urns...and generally it's taboo to disturb them. I also blame Argonian kids. The pesky lizards like to play in them. I seen it with my own two eyes.

Ratzkifal

My great great grandfather used to always carry a bottle of lorkhan's tears as a lucky charm so we put a bottle into his urn as a burial object. I was recently praying for his well-being in Aetherius at his urn in the familly crypt when a man named xXxNoobslayer420xXx took his urn, opened it and turned it upside down, then grabbed the bottle right before my eyes and left after he put it into his craft bag.

Iluvrien

Laziness.

Which is easier to implement?

1) An integrated and immersive system of learning recipes and motifs from faction craftspeople spread across Tamriel providing knowledge of their craft based on in-character backstory and character skill level...

or

2) Generic containers labeled “urn” with an RNG function attached between them and a loot table.

burglar

Yeah! Like wtf... why does some super badass monster in any game even have gear on it? Like does he keep it in his pocket or something?

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be dck, but.

max_only

ProbablePaul wrote: »

Yeah! Like wtf... why does some super badass monster in any game even have gear on it? Like does he keep it in his pocket or something?

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be dck, but.

It’s from the corpse of the last failed hero. If that last knight had gone with anything but the Invigorating trait they might not have died to that giant monster.

WoodenHeart

I always wonder about NPCs who leave a potato or a corn in the nightstand next to their bed. Probably best not to think too much about that... and if it's accompanied by a belt, I just back away slowly.

thorwyn

Some grave robbers tried to rob that grave but were interrupted by the guards, so they quickly hid their lock pick set in one of those urns and walked past the suspicious guards, whistling a tune, pretending to be normal tourists.

jpo

It's a custom for people to put items in the urn of a loved one or friend as a token of remembrance and good luck in the afterlife.

Each item was put there for a purpose/reason by the gifter.

If you return to the same urn later, you may find something completely different that was left by another visitor.

TempPlayer

I once play a game in which you can pick your nose with a lock pick and then you will have an "open" nose. It was a valid way to train lock picking in that game.
Of course, if you skill is too low, you will die from a cerebral hemorrhage with the lock pick in your brain.
Guess you found the burial pot for that hero.

efster

They're for urning ur keep.

Ildun

I'm more disturbed by the fact that non-Dwemer book stored in Dwemer ruin bookshelf.

Androconium

I miss Morrowind's crate loot. Actual jewels. Grand soul gems that were grand. Daedric Dai-katanas. Limeware.

You had to buy lockpicks from yer man at the Cornerclub.

Gut alt tags.

Knootewoot

Have you seen toilets in Tamriel?

Now you know.

Ildun

Knootewoot wrote: »

Have you seen toilets in Tamriel?

You mean these?