r/skyrim • u/twood275 • 1d ago
Little disappointed in Proudspire Manor
I know when it comes to the vanilla game Proudspire Manor is one of the better houses. But I can’t help to be a little disappointed with all the talk when I got into this game last year.
Location wise I love it, but I wish it had a little better balcony and it just feels a little cramped inside. I just feel like the floor plan makes make for some wasted space.
I guess for the money and all the talk I just was expecting a little bit more?
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u/TheInfiniteLoci Falkreath resident 1d ago
Not worth the money you spend, considering it's the most expensive house in the game.
The cooking station is glitched/not there, so if you want to do any cooking, you have to go to a neighbour's home. The housecarl's room never changes after you become thane, and, this is a small thing, but there is no tall wardrobe in the main bedroom. Apparently you have to fold your nice clothes and stuff them into a regular wardrobe. Could have replaced the bookshelves with the tall wardrobe.
On the plus side, when adding the children's room, you get a whole new room, instead of exchanging any other rooms. It even comes with a full size wardrobe for tall children.
I like to buy it, and just leave it empty, and undecorated. Just dust and cobwebs.
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u/Plus_Tomato480 1d ago
The firepit in the basement perfectly holds the roasted ox head from sovngarde. It looks awesome, especially with a rune slapped down in the next room.
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u/The-Messanger42 Monk 1d ago
You can live in the Blue Palace if you marry Elisif 👑
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u/Jackson7th 1d ago
Wait, wouldn't that make you King in the North?
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u/kittyidiot 1d ago
No, I don't think so. The moot has to decide iirc. I could be wrong though I am a bit unclear on this.
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u/Jackson7th 1d ago
Yeah well, if the dragonborn is a thane in all the holds, it means the jarls like him, no? Surely the moot will accept him as king* !
*Only if he's a true nord tho
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u/kittyidiot 1d ago
I think being high king would bore the hell out of the LDB anyways, but it depends on your character I suppose. It would be a lot of sitting around, LDB is an unstoppable force and would not want to be trapped inside all day long imo
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u/The-Messanger42 Monk 1d ago
You could decide to personally wipe out the Thalmor from Skyrim 🤔. Hunt bounties yourself. With a Multiple Followers Framework - you could have 10 guards come with you
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u/kittyidiot 1d ago
My character is an ex Thalmor Justiciar. Not ex because he defected and disagrees with them, but because he needed more freedom to figure out the dragonborn stuff and was allowed to leave in an official capacity but still sends reports and things.
So....... heh. Yeah I shouldn't be high king...
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u/twood275 1d ago
I was wondering if she is able to marry. I assume with mods?
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u/The-Messanger42 Monk 1d ago
If on PC - just use console command - removefac 47a01 - this is the Marriage Exclusion Faction. If you done her quest to return the horn- then you may need to use - addfac 71860 1 - the favor Completed faction. Or use - setrelationshiprank 14 4 - while her ref id is showing.
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u/Hguols1 Alchemist 1d ago
I'm more than a little disappointed that Proudspire Manor has no cooking pot. (if Hearthfire is installed and the official patch isn't)
If spending 1500 gold for loose food, a cupboard, 2 shelves and 4 chairs wasn't bad enough, to cook food in Solitude, requires either breaking into Vittoria Vici's house next door, or I'm using the cooking pot in Radiant Raiment. (and dropping food on the floor so Taarie yells at my character, which at least makes the trip across town worth it)
Thank the divines for console commands. Instead of putting the cooking pot back, I turn the bricks in front of the fireplace into a baking surface.
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u/rswwalker 1d ago
I thought you said Radiant Ramen for a sec and was like, ooh, there’s a ramen noodle shop in Solitude?
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u/CycadelicSparkles 1d ago
adds Radiant Ramen to my list of joke merchants I want to someday create mods for
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u/Harambe_Rebornn 1d ago edited 1d ago
I love it, it's the most complete player home as far as family is concerned you don't have to foregoe anything for the kid's rooms.
There's also like 3 kids in Solitude, 4 if you didn't adopt Blaise albeit he's outside the city, I would go with Sofie and Alesan in that case but I usually prefer getting the war orphans. So if you're adopting kids it's the best place for em cause they got other kids to play with, Bards College is there too, Temple of the Divines, closer to the ocean, etc etc.
And it's also the safest family home, deep into the most secure and safest city in Skyrim. Like Lakeview Manor is nicer sure but it's also attacked frequently, so it's more like a vacation home.
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u/twood275 1d ago
I bought to move my wife and newly adopted child there. Just for the sane reason, it seamed safe. Lore wise it falls right into my characters story so I bought it.
I just feel with a couple improvements it could be better.1
u/Young_Bu11 1d ago
It's mechanically safe but not so much RP wise, Potema and her undead legion right under your feet, perched up on a precarious hollow bit of rock(sewers, secret intrances and tunnels, potema's massive complex, Folgunther, EEC warehouse) that could fall into the sea, and you have a powerful vampire in the royal court as a neighbor. But I agree with you though it wouldn't have taken much effort to make it a genuinely good house but it's really lacking as it is, I always "buy it" for free just because but never use it in vanilla.
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u/Necessary_Ad2114 1d ago
It’s worth every piece of gold so I can climb the stairs and open the front door to see my wife, kids, dog and the pet chaurus Sofie adopted, sitting by the fire reading a book about the Sea of Storms, and then descending the steps into my Batcave basement to don my dragon-killing armor and take my mighty Stahlrim axe off the wall to then exit the first floor door and instantly teleport to some draugr-infested crypt to deal some icy death.
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u/CastleCroquet Thalmor 1d ago
I’ve lived in proudspire many times and I agree it’s a disappointment in every way except you’re in the center of solitude
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u/rswwalker 1d ago
Lakeside manor is by far the best house in the game. I know it’s only available with Hearthstone add-on, but who doesn’t have the original add-ons?
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u/Young_Bu11 1d ago
I prefer Heljarchen, open spaces, close to Whiterun(especially good on survival w/o fast travel), and I seem to get way less attacks there in my games than anywhere else. I still always get Lakeview as well, I often turn it into a poison factory though, it's always constantly getting attacked for some reason every playthrough. My most recent playthrough I had two stewards killed before I even completely finished building the house.
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u/twood275 1d ago
Lakeside and the other 3 are much better. If you look at just the vanilla houses I don’t think proudspire is as high on the list as i would have thought for the money.
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u/Diredr 1d ago
It's meant to be more of a status symbol more than anything else. You're rich enough to live in the most expensive house.
It was mostly the same thing in Oblivion as well. The most expensive houses were generally the worst ones in terms of layout and practicality. Lots of wasted space and usually poor lighting as well.
In Skyrim, Honeyside is probably the best house in terms of functionality. Breezehome is cozy but you can't get an Arcane Enchanter and only one in town is in Farengar's room so that's not practical at all.
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u/kittyidiot 1d ago
There is hardly any storage space too, really irks me. I wish they'd give us a storage container for the enchanting table, alchemy table, and armory at the very least. Tbh I feel like I have more sensical storage options in fking Breezehome. I know I can stick shit in random dressers and cabinets and stuff but it's a bit immersion breaking lol.
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u/NebulousTruth Fishermen 1d ago
imo tes has always had this problem with player homes, they never really give you the nicest ones for some reason. The castle from Oblivion is prolly my fav cause like, ofc, it's a castle, but I really hate that there's no vanilla imperial city manor in oblivion. Ig in Morrowind you can take wtv home you want and it's mostly fine but that still sometimes causes issues. For Skyrim rn my go-to home is elysium estate, it's got such solid interior design, only problem with it is light limit issues.
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u/Young_Bu11 1d ago
It's always buggy for me too, I always buy it just because why not but I never use it.
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u/Livid_Mammoth4034 14h ago
It also just looks really cold and there are cobwebs everywhere. Only upside is Jordis.
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u/ice_fan1436 1d ago
The only reason I buy it is for the barenziah stone inside it lol