Where does Whiterun get its water?

MorroWeiner · Post by **MorroWeiner** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:42 am

It all flows out of dragonsreach, which is on top of a giant rock.

So perplexing.

Rynkar · Post by **Rynkar** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:44 am

The tears of the sad ps3 owners.

Dark Spark · Post by **Dark Spark** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:47 am

Geothermal geyser from inside the mount.

MorroWeiner · Post by **MorroWeiner** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:49 am

The ps3 one is probably more likely.

fabittar · Post by **fabittar** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:55 am

Rynkar wrote:The tears of the sad ps3 owners.

I lol'd.

Post by **Musicman247** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:25 am

Somewhat off topic, but still having to do with water: anybody notice water flows uphill in Bleak Falls Barrow?

crc de fluffy nord · Post by **crc de fluffy nord** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:32 am

i have the answer to both questions. with magic anything is possible so theres only one possible answer... its an evil plot by alduin to make water defy gravity! its genuis i say!!!

Post by **Musicman247** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:38 am

crc de fluffy nord wrote:i have the answer to both questions. with magic anything is possible so theres only one possible answer... its an evil plot by alduin to make water defy gravity! its genuis i say!!!

HOLY MOLY!

So while we were off tracking him down to try and defeat him, the real threat was RIGHT IN FRONT OF US from the beginning!

Chaos the N'wah · Post by **Chaos the N'wah** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:10 am

Everybody has to use the bathroom sometime...

Frost Mage · Post by **Frost Mage** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:22 am

Chaos the N'wah wrote:Everybody has to use the bathroom sometime...

Ever wonder where Heimskr urinates?

ible · Post by **ible** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:53 am

MorroWeiner wrote:It all flows out of dragonsreach, which is on top of a giant rock.

So perplexing.

I was thinking the very same thing yesterday. While there are many things in game that you can easily question, that water really sticks out as a phenomenon only fame and money hungry Beth. can explain.

Honestly, the landscape around Whiterun is the worst I'v yet to see in TES. Once you get away from the outskirts of Whiterun it quickly gets better. Center of Skyrim, looks terrible. Ok it's a tundra, but even a tundra looks better than that. The view from top of White River Watch explain it all. There is a screenie in the screenie topic to, we all see the same. Even map of the area looks better and "greener". It looks like one gigantic template, you try to go closer, praying some grass and trees appear, but no. They don't. Best you get is some smeared paintwork so there are some colours on the ground.

Beth. is strange. Both Oblivion and Skyrim I deeply hated the first 30 minutes of game. It took me 4 years to get out of starter sewer in Oblivion, UI was primary reason though. It was cool to almost be executed, but the parts up to that, and after that up until you are free. Were just terrible. Let me walk through a cencus & exice office, give my details and send me off. Or, be a little more creative. Skyrim could have started inside Cidhna Mine. My most hated quest in Skyrim that is.

I personally don't mind snow, but I know other gamer's really hate snow in games. It's way beyond me what Beth. intentions with the game is. The best area in Skyrim except tiny surroundings of Darkreach, is Eastmarch. Looking like how Whiterun should have, but no. This belong to a huge city covered in snow that happens to house a potential High King, but ruined Winterhold stretches all the way to the borders of Windhelm.

I think an Orc designed the game. No trees where there should be a forest, but plenty of trees far above the upper tree line high in mountains.

I don't know where to begin, or where to finish my hatred for todays TES standard.

Console's are getting it, having internal battles to avoid cussing the users. I'm glad though, PC users seem to agree. In future, may we have two separate worlds, please?

beny15 · Post by **beny15** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:01 am

Perhaps it is a natural well?

BvBPL · Post by **BvBPL** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:05 am

I just assumed it was from a spring. I mean, there's a river running right from it, so a spring makes sense, no?

ible · Post by **ible** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:53 am

I think a few needs to learn where fresh water comes from. What a natural well is, among. You won't find a natural well on top of a mountain, if you do. It's called a lake.

I to had to assume it was from a spring, yet to encounter anything indicating the water being pumped up from 200 feet below or from the river down south, though. We know the dwemer had piping and hydraulics. It may be underground in Whiterun. Highly doubt. Looking at how much water flows out at such high height of Dragonreach. So high, there would not even be room below the castle floor for piping. The water flows out as high as above the prison.

Natural spring? Not at that height, with that volume of water.

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:01 pm

ible wrote: Honestly, the landscape around Whiterun is the worst I'v yet to see in TES.

Apparently you've never seen "any location in Morrowind, ever".

Dan-Ru · Post by **Dan-Ru** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:03 pm

DorostheConqueror wrote:
ible wrote: Honestly, the landscape around Whiterun is the worst I'v yet to see in TES.
Apparently you've never seen "any location in Morrowind, ever".

Lies.

jokedst · Post by **jokedst** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:50 pm

It could be an artesian well.

Basically the whole valley has the right rock composition to keep water under pressure, then the builders of Whiterun drilled through that rock and made the water pump itself up.

Sure, a bit far-fetched, but geologically possible.

metaphysician · Post by **metaphysician** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:55 pm

jokedst wrote:It could be an artesian well.

Basically the whole valley has the right rock composition to keep water under pressure, then the builders of Whiterun drilled through that rock and made the water pump itself up.

Sure, a bit far-fetched, but geologically possible.

And not that far fetched given the "tech"/magic level of the setting.

n810 · Post by **n810** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:59 pm

Posibly an artesian spring fed from the glacer melt off of the surrounding mountains.

- Dang Ninja'd.

cheap pocketman · Post by **cheap pocketman** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:03 pm

I have a point ... it's a game

everar · Post by **everar** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:04 pm

I have mixed feelings about the exteriors. There is some flawed plainness, but it's also kind of countered by the Ridley Scott-esque snow and particles blurring your vision everywhere you look. hm

enyamerT · Post by **enyamerT** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:41 pm

Can someone please explain the physics of how dragons are able to fly?

kthxbai [/sarcasm]

TomDD · Post by **TomDD** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:49 pm

It's MAGIC!

Iaius Amaius Heron · Post by **Iaius Amaius Heron** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:22 pm

By flapping their wings!

Now what's the physics behind dragon breath?

One show on Discovery postulates that hypothetical real-world dragons could do so by, instead of farting, they store that gas in a special pouch, which is shot out of their mouth and ignited by... eating platinum or something. I don't remember the details.

crc de fluffy nord · Post by **crc de fluffy nord** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:47 pm

Iaius Amaius Heron wrote:By flapping their wings!

Now what's the physics behind dragon breath?

One show on Discovery postulates that hypothetical real-world dragons could do so by, instead of farting, they store that gas in a special pouch, which is shot out of their mouth and ignited by... eating platinum or something. I don't remember the details.

platinum?! dang.. i knew it was a bad idea to wear platinum armor. lol

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