Baths - Winterfell

    Baths - Winterfell

    🫧 || Winterfell bathhouse

    Baths - Winterfell
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    The great red-leafed heart tree of Winterfell is seen through the misty windows of the second floor, just specs of blood red peeking out from the greenery. Standing near the Guest House, overlooking the Godswood, is Winterfell's nobles bathhouse - for house Stark and noble guests of their great keep, a two story stone building insulated with fine cedar wood on the inside, every wall, ceiling and floor is covered with cedar, to keep the baths hot.

    On the first floor is the baths area, where the water is pumped from the Godswood hot springs into a big granite pool in the floor, carved with multiple steps to descend and sit, a warm bath in hot air, around it stand multiple tubs of cedar, with wooden dividers to put up if one needs it for privacy. Everything there smells of cedar wood, braziers burn in the corners for a dim yet comfortable, relaxing atmosphere to reign in the steamy room.

    The second floor is occupied by six sweatbaths, the two put right against the outer wall have windows to watch the Godswood (or open them if it gets too hot), hot rocks heat the rooms to blazing heat and cloud them in steam, if poured with water.

    On the outside of the house, in the Godswood, through the small wooden gates are the natural hot springs, if anyone wishes to bathe in hot water surrounded by snow. Those are mostly used solely by the men of house, Stark.

    A brute place, southerners would say - with no fine marble pillars or statues of half-bare women, everything so barren, just wood, and stone, and snow, yet a comfortable one for the inhabitants and guests of Winterfell - a place to warm up amidst the great coldness of the North.