High Elven Bathhouse

High Elven Bathhouses are structures intended for communal hygiene and recreation.

As their name suggests, they feature bathing pools, and their intended purpose is to provide easy access to bathing water for one to use to clean themselves with a sponge and soap. Nevertheless, such buildings also serve as places of recreation and gossip. While bathhouses themselves have been around since before the Kingdom of Froturn was even founded - existing even in the Ancient Lizardman Empire - it was the High Elves of Froturn who perfected their design, and it was their design, their idea that ultimately spread to foreign countries like Etrand, Etrancoast, Artaburro, Gabyr and Charnek.

Typical layout
Bathing houses are typically built in a way, that immediately as someone enters, they are met with a hall dotted with doorways leading to private bathing rooms (small rooms with a small pool and a couple of chairs), as well as a doorless way to the main chamber that features the main bathing pool. Assuming that the entrance to the building is in the South, on the eastern and western wings of the main chamber lies doors leading to the two restrooms. Under the aforementioned assumption, most bathhouses also contain a northern wing, which is just a hall with doors leading to private bathing rooms. The empty area in this hall is usually filled up by either a small bar that sells beverages (unless the bathhouse is in opposition to a tavern, pub or inn, which is customary in most cities) or by vendors who sell soap and sponges. Alternatively, the northern wing could be instead filled with sauna rooms, or just completely absent.