Fort Northreach shitter!

Open-world RPGs where you invent your own backstory always either start out in a prison or at the site of a shipwreck. And Avowed doubles that down into the ground by making you do both. When you first crack open a cold Avowed run you’ll find yourself at Fort Northreach, a shitty, crumbling, dusty-ass kennel where undisciplined soldiers go crazy from the spore plague. The first quest (basically, Escape the Fuck Away from Fort Northreach) introduces you to Ilora, a character who was notably resistant to Mold Madness but is otherwise of very little consequence. You might think she’s going to be important later, but she’s not. She just peaces out after you get to the next landing spot and you kind of run into her later on where she vouches for you to her boss (a human trafficker!).

This is her dormitory at Fort Northreach, which she is locked into. Also in her cell is a former employee of Fort Northreach, who Ilora trundled off to the afterlife in an act of self-defense during the Mushroom Prison Riot. It’s worth a side-eye that the crumbled wall is not an egress and the only door is bolted shut, but this ain’t Skyrim so we’re expected to look past that. Also in Ilora’s jail cell is this Wilson, basking in the glow of the evening sun and the inner peace of knowing they had nothing to do with this utter shambles.

Emerald Stair Gatehouse shitter!

At the edge of a cliff, overlooking a scenic view of the Godless Altar, there’s a fancy privy just for the guards at the Emerald Stair Gatehouse. This is one of the best shitters I’ve found so far in Avowed, which is saying something, since I haven’t found very many. We would like more shitters, please!

This sturdy, well-crafted dual shitter has all the trimmings: A sailcloth awning to keep out the rain and sun, a privacy screen that almost excuses the lack of a door; a shovel or hoe intended to keep the ground neat where possible; a lantern outside to help the guards find it in the dark. There’s even a primitive handwashing station set on a nearby bench. By frontier standards, this shitter passes inspection, but receives an OSHA compliance rating of Acceptable. A small deduction was made due to unprotected cliffside exposure posing a foreseeable assassin hazard.

Stable Relationship shitter!

When you make landfall (read: Get shipwrecked) on the island of The Living Lands, you’ll find a town called Claviger’s Landing (awkward, since the eponymous claviger croaks the day you get there). Within this town is a fairytale romance between a straw damsel and her groom, specifically the guy who works here at this horse barn. Nothing is too good for his princess. This a pastoral bungalow has all the luxury anyone could hope for in Claviger’s Landing. And it has its own shitter!