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Updated: 2023/12
I originally posted this on my old blog. Since posting that, I've found other foods, drinks and ingredients. As of now this list is updated with everything found in media released as of Oct 2023.
Like the original, this is still a very long post that contains all canonical desserts, dishes, drinks, ingredients, and sauces. Unlike the original, I could not list canonically suggested food and ingredients, nor every codex, item, letter, ect in the sources. Because it was too long. I did add them to the individual post.
Like in the individual posts, the list has the country of origins next to each item and any relevant information. Such as ingredients, use, notes, or trivia. For the canonically suggested foods and drinks I list what their real world uses are for your reference as to what they might be used for in Thedas.
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Dishes, Sauces, and Sides
Drinks
Raw Ingredients
Prepared Ingredients
Canonically Possible Foods and Drinks
Disclaimer
Though real life plants may be listed here as edible it is for fictional use only. This is not intended to be used as a reference nor guide for what plants are edible or safe to eat. Please do not use it as such.
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Dishes
Breads
Bark Bread
Biscuit
Whole Grain Biscuit - Commonly made in Chantry cloisters. A staple in their simple diets.
Black Bread
Braided Honey and Date Bread (Anderfels)
Brown Bread
Buns
Butter Puff - Bread made by folding butter into the dough allowing it to become puffy and softer than usual bread. (Orlais)
Crumpet
Dark Bread
Dried Bread
Flat Bread - A no-rise bread. Served with dip, brushed in oil, and/or as a side. (Nevarra)
Honey Loaf
Lichen Bread - Bread that is made using lichen. (Orzammar)
Black Lichen Bread
Peasant Bread - Comprised of wheat, grease, and salt in equal measure, made by Dalish and city elves in Orlais. They top it with butter, jam, and sometimes sugar. (Elves - Orlais)
Pumpkin bread - A favorite of Dorian Pavus (Tevinter)
Raider Queen’s Bread of Many Tongues - Created by the Raider Queen, this bread calls for flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, bananas. The creator calls for Par Vollen bananas but another version of the recipe says Rivaini bananas are an acceptable replacement. (Rivain)
Rolls
Bread Roll
Sweet Rolls
Ryott Bread - Made of a protein rich grain called ryott. (Ferelden, Chasind)
Sweet Bread
Thin Bread - A thin bread used to make wraps in Seheron.
Whole Grain Bread - Another staple made in Chantry cloisters.
Wraps - Described as "soft" bread.
Appetizers, Starters, and Refreshments
Blood Orange Salad - a salad of bitter greens with blood orange slices served on top. (Nevarra)
Canapé - a type of hors d'œuvre.
Couscous Salad - A salad comprised of couscous with many varieties, one such variety includes red bell peppers and mint. (Rivain)
Crab Cakes - a classic dish in Kirkwall. (Kirkwall)
Dried Bread and Fruit
Eggs à la Val Foret - An egg dish served with a cream sauce. (Orlais)
Fluffy Mackerel Pudding - Celery, pepper, mackerel, diced onion, mustard, salt, Antivan pepper, ground mace, cardamom seed, eggs. Also known as Feast Day Fish (Ferelden)
Fried Crab Legs - A subsitute for the Orzammar dish of fried young giant spiders.
Fried young giant spiders - A common food in Orzammar, usually served with an alcohol-based sauce that varies with every establishment. (Orzammar)
Roasted Cave Beetles - Roasted whole and eaten out of the shell. (Orzammar)
Roasted Prawns - A substitute to cave beetles, said to have the same taste and texture.
Shredded Dried Meat and Cheese - A dish that is commonly used as a spread by the dwarves and used for lunches. (Orzammar)
Snails Dressed in Butter and Oil (Avvar)
Snails and Watercress Salad - A non-traditional dish inspired by Avvar cuisine featuring snails and watercress to appeal to lowlander pallets.
Stuffed Deep Mushrooms - A dish derived from various Orzammar deep mushroom delicacy. This Fereldan creation is stuffed with cheese and spinach. (Ferelden)
Rations, Tavern Fare, and Travel Food
Beer Nuts (Kirkwall)
Bread and Cheese
Chicken Wings - Sold in The Rusted Horn as ‘Wyvern Wings.’ (Ferelden)
Crow Feed (Antiva)
Dried Foods
Dried Fruit
Dried Meats
Fereldan Hearty Scones - a scone filled with bacon and cheese, careful, a mabari might snag it. (Ferelden)
Fish Pockets - A meal of fish, crisp vegetables, spices, and a soft wrap.(Seheron)
Fish Wrap - Fish wrapped in thin bread (Seheron)
Grey Warden Pastry Pockets - A hand pie filled with meat and other foods. Olesian Grey Wardens put their own twist using Olesian puff pastry.
The Hanged Man's Stew - The tavern’s featured dish, made with a different mystery meat every morning. (Kirkwall)
Jerky
Jerky Ball
Spiced Jerky
Meat Skewers - A portable snack. A known Orlesian version of this snack is primarily eaten by nobles while out on hunts and are not interested in the hunt, made of meat, cheese, and wine-soaked fruit.
Pickled Eggs - Eggs, sugar, salt, vinegar, and various spices and seasoning of the cooks preference. Favored in Ferelden and seen as a cure all. Served in nearly every Fereldan tavern. (Ferelden)
Pig Oat Mash - A constant dish on The Hanged Man menu, a popular hangover cure if washed down with brandy spiked cider. This warming porridge contains apples, dried salt pork or smoked bacon, dried rolled oats, berries, ale or water (Kirkwall)
Poison Stings - "Poison stings" is the colloquial name. Orange peels coated in chocolate, a crunchy yet chew texture that is both sweet and sour. A favored snack of Dorian Pavus when traveling from Tevinter to Ferelden. (Tevinter)
Provisions and Rations - Typically consist of dried meat, nuts, and a variety of other simple foodstuffs.
Dry Ration
Hardtack
Qunari Ration
Stuffed Vine Leaves - Common tavern food in Tevinter, stuffed with rice, herbs, and sometimes minced meat. Can be topped with lemon juice or tzatziki sauce.
Treviso Energy Balls - Made of peanut butter, oats, and dried fruit, it is a famine food invented during the occupation of Treviso in the Qunari Wars/The New Exalted Marches.
Unidentified Meat - Despite it's ominous name, it's simply chicken legs. Sometimes served with Nevarran flat bread. (Tevinter)
Dips, Glazes, Gravy, and Sauces
Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce
Applesauce
Cherry Sauce
Cheese Sauce
Cream Sauce
Deep Mushroom Flavored Cream Sauce - Commonly served with seared nug. (Orzammar)
Dragon’s Blood Sauce (Nevarran)
Gravy
Honey-glaze - A sauce used to glaze various foods, particularly meats.
Hot Sauce
Llomerryn Red Sauce - A sauce that goes on almost everything, contains pulped tomatoes, onions, red pepper, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, mustard powder, hot pepper powder, salt, cinnamon stick, allspice, cloves, fennel seeds, dill seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, bay, garlic. (Rivain)
Mushrooms cooked in ale - One recommendation for this sauce is to be served over roasted nug.
Mushroom Sauce
Nesting Roast Gravy - Gravy made from the pan juices of a nesting roast. Meant to be served with the roast. (Orlais)
Plum Sauce
Red Wine Marinade
River-herring Gravy - a gravy as white as apple blossoms. (Orlais)
Special Sauce - A sauce infused with the essence of fifty-two herbs, prized for the ability to help with “inadequacy”. (Kirkwall)
Spider Leg Sauce - a variety of alcohol-based sauces unique to each Orzammar establishment, meant to be paired with fried young giant spider legs.
Tzatziki Sauce - Served with stuffed vine leaves. (Tevinter)
Wild Flower Glaze - A honeyed glaze made of wild flowers, it is recommended to use flowers plucked at dawn and the lowest blossoms. (Anderfels)
Yogurt Dip - Often served with flat bread (Nevarra)
Soups and Stews
Barley Soup
Blood Soup - Merrill is credited with the creation of this creamy beetroot soup, it is topped with roasted chickpeas. (Dalish)
Butter Soup - A simple, inexpensive, and easy soup. Made as midmorning meals or midday refresher for field workers. It is commonly fed to children and convalescents due to its nutritious nature. Ingredients include water, potatoes, cinnamon, star anise, clove, bay, peppercorns, salt, noodles, cream, butter (Orlais)
Cabbage Stew (Ferelden)
Deepstalker Stew - A stew of deepstalker is made when rations run low. (Legion of the Dead)
Denerim-rabbit Stew - Made with rat (City Elf)
Enchantment Soup - Made by Sandal, edibility unknown.
Fereldan Potato and Leek Soup
Fereldan Turnip and Barley Stew - White beans, oil, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, stock, turnips, turnip greens, sausage, barley, cumin, dried basil, oregano, salt, pepper, herbed wine vinegar
First Day Festival Stew (Orzammar)
Fish Chowder (Antiva)
Fish Stew
Lamb and Pea Stew - Alistair has his own version of this soup. (Ferelden)
Lentil Soup - A universal soup, with lentils being common in every Thedosian pantry.
Nettle Soup
Norbotten Fruit Stew - This dish is used to rehydrate dried fruits: dried apricots, pitted prunes, raisins, mixed dried fruits (cherries, apples, cranberries, etc), lemon or orange, cinnamon, cloves, water, sugar or honey, brandy. (Anderfels)
Pea Soup
Ram Stew (Ferelden)
Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup (Ferelden)
Turnip Stew (Ferelden)
Turnip-Goat Stew (Ferelden)
Wild Rabbit Stew
Main Course
Alamarri Pickled Krone - Krone, Brine, (optional) pine pitch and druffalo dung.
Baked Fish - An Avvar cooking method where they wrap fish in pungent leaves and clay before cooking it in banked coals. (Avvar)
Baked Krone with Honey - The honey is typically used as a side sauce for dipping. (Fereldan)
Beans and Bread
Boiled Roots
Braised Nug with Elfroot (Dwarven)
Braised Ram with all the Trimmings (Ferelden)
Broiled Boar Head (Fereldan)
Cacio e pepe - A dish of three ingredients; spaghetti, pepper, and pecorino romano. (Antiva)
Dalish Deep Forest Comfort - String squashes, halla butter, garlic, mushrooms, elfroot or spinach, diced tomatoes or beetles, hot red pepper, rock salt, halla cheese or goat cheese, edible wildflowers (borage, chicory, etc), pine nuts. (Dalish, Southern Orlais)
First Day Chicken - a dish served during First Day in some parts of Orlais. (Orlais)
Fish in Salt Crust - Cooked much liked the baked fish, instead of using clay, the fish is covered in salt and wrapped in pungent leaves before being cooked in banked coals. (Avvar)
Fresh Oyster - Noted to go well with Llomerryn red sauce.
Fried Fish
Fried Mush (Orzammar)
Glazed Krone (Ferelden)
Gilded Swan with River-herring Gravy - An eastern spice, flour, gold leaf, river herring, swan, yolk. (Orlais)
Gnocchi (Antiva)
Goat Custard - A broiled goat head, not to be confused with the dessert. (Ferelden)
Grilled Poussin - Grilled chicken, typically a younger chicken. (Chasind)
Ham
Anderfels Smoked Ham - It tastes of despair
Avvar Ham
Ham Stuck with Cloves
The Jade Ham - Honeyed with wild flowers (especially those picked at dawn), masterfully seasoned, and spiral-cut. Not considered edible but better used as a weapon. (Anderfels)
Orlesian Ham
Smoked Ham
Herbed Chicken and Biscuits (Ferelden)
Jellied Meats
Jellied Pigs Feet - A delicacy in the Free Marches and originally a popular commoner food that has risen to the tables of nobility. Pigs feet and/or pork hocks, salt, onions, garlic, allspice, peppercorns, bay. (Free Marches)
Veal Galentine (Orlais)
Liver
Lutefisk
Nesting Roast - This dish is classically made with a quail stuffed in a pheasant stuffed in a swan. Served with gravy made from the pan juices. (Orlais)
Mad Burnard’s Gift of Flesh - A nesting roast unlike any other, involving a whole wyvern, stuffed with a whole gurn, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a large halla (horns and all), stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a bunting that choked on a gold piece. (Orlais)
Nug Steak (Orzammar)
Nug-gets (Orzammar)
Nug-loaf (Orzammar)
Nug-Nug - A dish meant to resemble a nug peeking from its burrow; made of ground meat (beef preferred), parsley, egg, salt, crushed cumin or mustard seeds, black pepper, cooked rice, tomatoes, onions, chives (Orlais)
Paella - Made with rice, saffron, and a variety of seafood; such as shrimp, cuttlefish, and mussels. (Antiva)
Pancake - The breakfast food and savory dishes.
Crepes - A very thin pancake that can be filled with sweet or savory ingredients. (Orlais)
Hearth Cakes - Described as a common fare where they are baked on an iron griddle. They are made with halla butter (can be subbed for goat or cow butter), flour, hardwood ash (can be replaced with baking powder), cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, sugar, mixed dried fruit (like cranberries, raisins, and currants), an egg, and milk. Described as baeing crispy and flaky on the outside, but remains moist on the inside. They are grilled on one side and then are flipped over, ensuring they are all crisp and bown. (Dalish)
Nug Pancakes - A savory pancake made with nug. A favorite among dwarven children. (Orzammar)
Porridge
Bland Porridge
Deer Porridge - A savory porridge served with deer.
Porridge with Raisins
Savory Porridge - Served with meat, vegatables, or spices.
Pudding - A sweet or savory, steamed dish that can be topped with gravy or chocolate.
Rack of Ribs (Ferelden)
Ram Chops (Ferelden)
Ram Cutlet (Ferelden)
Rice and Boiled Vegetables (Tevinter)
Roast
Gurgut Roast with Lowlander Spices and Mushroom Sauce (Avvar)
Roast Boar - One cooking method involves the boar being stuffed with apples (Ferelden and Orlais). Another has it served with a side of candied yams.
Roast Chicken
Roast Duck
Roast Hog
Roast Lamb
Roast Turkey - Common in the Free Marches, especially among Starkhaven nobility, as well as the Chasind.
Roast Wyvern - Common with the Avvar and Orlais.
Roasted Cave Beetle (Dwarven)
Roasted Giant Spider (Dwarven)
Roasted Nug (Orzammar)
Roasted Phoenix - One of the most infamous meals in Thedas, it is served with sweet red wine.
Roasted Rabbit
Roasted Venison with Wild Greens - The venison is seasoned with mint and pepper, served with wild greens and sweet pastries. Paired with wine to drink. (Ferelden)
Slow-roasted Nug-let (Orzammar)
Spit-roasted Deepstalker (Dwarven)
Spit-roasted Nug with Hot Sauce (Orzammar)
Sandwich
Ham Sandwich
Sausage - There are about twelve different kinds of sausage unnamed mentioned in Last Court.
Black Pudding - A type of blood sausage made from pork or beef blood, pork fat or beef sue, and a type of cereal. (Orlais)
Smoked Sausage
Spiced Sausage
Savory Pies
Dove Pie - A pie made with live doves, for the theater of the meal. (Orlais)
Nug Bacon and Egg Pie (Ferelden)
Pigeon Pie
Pork Pie
Starkhaven Fish and Egg Pie - Fish from the Minanter River (carp, trout, or others), wine, onion, carrot, thyme, bay, sea salt, dried currants, sliced almonds, boiled sliced eggs, butter, flour, fish broth, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cream, fried whitebait or other small fish. (Starkhaven)
Turnip and Mutton Pie (Ferelden)
Unmentionable Pie - It is a meat pie that uses the typically undesirable parts of an animal. (Ferelden)
Venison Pasty - A hand pie filled with venison. In Serault, it is served with curls of goat cheese. (Orlais)
Seared Nug - Usually served with a deep mushroom cream sauce. (Orzammar)
Simmering Partridge - Cooked with sweet onions and pale beans (Orlais)
Smoked Meat
Smoked Boar
Smoked Fish
Smoked Rabbit
Smoked Venison
Spiced Nug
Stuffed Cabbage - A seasoned cabbage head stuffed with meat.
Venison with Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce
Wandering Hills - A delicacy made from large creatures of the same name. (Anderfels)
Wyvern Steak
Sides
Antivan Olives - Soaked in vinegar and stuffed with capers.
Boiled Turnip (Ferelden)
Brandy Soaked Cherries (Orzammar)
Candied Yams
Croutons
Fried Potatoes - Recommended to be served with Llomerryn red sauce.
Hard-boiled Egg
Honey Carrots - Most common in Orlais where it is traditionally sweeter compared to other places due to the use of honey.
Jarred Olives (Tevinter)
Jellied Eels (Ferelden)
Mashed Turnip (Ferelden)
Peeled Grapes (Tevinter)
Picked Foods
Pickled Apples
The Pickled Apples of Arlathan - Apples said to be from the time of Arlathan. The taste is described to be one of fresh apples, with the same crispness.
Pickled Fish
Pickled Lamprey
Pickled Nug
Pickled Ox Tongue
Pickled Vegetables
Pickles
Roasted Chestnuts (Nevarra)
Roasted Figs (Rivain)
Roasted Potatoes - Recommended to be served with Llomerryn red sauce.
Roasted Turnip (Ferelden)
Sera’s Yummy Corn
Smoked Bacon
Steamed Beans
Steamed Turnips (Ferelden)
Stir-fried Turnips (Ferelden)
Toast
Toasted Bread - Used for dipping in stews.
Toasted Chickpeas - Used as a topping for soups and salads, sometimes as a replacement for croutons.
Wine Soaked Fruit
Baked Goods, Desserts, and Sweets
Bread Pudding - Made with stale bread, eggs, milk or cream, and other ingredients varied by if it is savory or sweet (Ferelden)
Cake
Cake with Apples
Cake with Nutmeg
Chocolate Cake
Cupcakes
Cherry Cupcakes - Historically a common method used to poison people, often served in the theater. (Tevinter)
The Exquisite Misery - A little cake topped with a dusting of anise, deep mushrooms, and gold dust. (Orlais)
Found Cake - A chocolate cream cake topped with white frosting and strawberries (Ferelden)
Hearth Cake - A pan-made cake; made of flour, hardwood ash or baking powder, halla butter, sugar, mixed dried fruit (currants, cranberries, etc), egg, milk. (Dalish)
Honey Cake (Orlais)
Lamprey Cake - contains no actual lampreys, it is modeled after the appearance of lamprey.
Lemon Cake
Petit Fours (Orlais)
Pound Cake
Round Cake - Often topped with poppyseed and honey. In Serault, they will sometimes have the antlers baked into the crust. (Orlais)
Sponge Cake (Orlais)
Sugar Cake - One version is made with strawberries and sugar-cream icing dressed on a pound cake. (Ferelden) Another version is made with a "humble cake" and is dressed with butter, sugar, and almonds. Both are seen as great gifts and good pick-me-ups after long days of traveling, and are often served by merchants.
Sugar-drizzled Lemon Cake - A type of lemon cake that was used in Antivan Crow history to assassinate templars.
Sugarcake - A dense cake usually topped with powdered sugar.
Sweet Cake
Wedding Cake
Candy
Black Licorice Candy - Can be salted. (Tevinter)
Bon-bons
Candied Almonds
Candied Fruit
Candy Apple (Ferelden)
Candied Dates (Tevinter)
Candy Cane
Carastian Candy - A candied chocolate. (Tevinter)
Peppermints
Spun Sugar (Ferelden)
Sweetmeat - A confectionery treat, sometimes candy coated fruit.
Toffee
Unnamed Candied Nuts with Spice - A candy that is sweet until swallowed, then they leave a spicy aftertaste. (Orlais)
Cobbler
Dalish Forest Fruit Cobbler
Strawberry and Rhubarb Cobbler (Ferelden)
Cookies
Biscuit - A hard, flat, and unleavened baked treat that can be sweet or savory.
Butter and Sugar Cookie - This cookie isn’t specified as it is only described by these ingredients.
Raisin Cookies
Shortbread
Tea Biscuits
Wafers
Custard
Goat Custard - Differing from the Fereldan savory counterpart. This custard is made throughout Thedas with goat milk and has numerous varieties. On pairs it with roast fig. A Rivain variation uses milk of the Ayesleigh gulabi goats specifically for its sweeter milk.
Donuts
Ice Cream
Orlesian Guimauves - Another name for marshmallows.
Pastries
Antivan Apple Grenade
Cinnamon Rolls - one of Varric's favorite pastries.
Croissant - Vivienne starts every morning with one. (Orlais)
Honey and Nut Pastry (Tevinter)
Macaroon
Marie du Lac Erre’s Sweet Ruin - One version of this pastry with a dramatic history, the recipe contains; butter, powdered sugar, chocolate, vanilla extract, flour, orange or mint extract, baking powder, and milk. (Orlais)
Tarts
Unnamed Blueberry Pastry - A light, sticky pastry with blueberries. (Possibly Nevarra)
Varric's Favorite Pastry - A pastry spread created by Devon, a Fereldan cook, after consulting with Varric Tethras on his favorite pastry.
Pie
Apple Pie
The Blessed Apple - A pie made by a small cloister of Chantry sisters tending to the orchard, they use the windfall apples and share the pies freely; as well as the apples. The ingredients are flour, salt, butter, water, apples (golden apples from Lady’s Orchard preferred but others are acceptable substitutions), brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. (Orlesian)
Minced Pie - filled with finely chopped fruit and sweet things.
Pudding
Blancmange - A white pudding made of milk or heavy cream, its name is Orlesian for "white eating". Because of the mild, sweet taste it can have a variety of toppings such as toasted almonds, ribbons of fresh mangos, red grape compote, cherry saus, or Vivienne's preferred plating of white chocolate curls with whole jasmine flowers. (Orlais)
Caramel Pudding
Dessert Pudding
Rice Pudding
Scones
Sour Cherries in Cream (Orlais)
Sticky Figs Rolled in Nuts (Tevinter)
Sticky Jellies (Orlais)
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Drinks
Absinthe
Absence - One of the bottles of Thedas you find in Inquisition.
Absinthe - also referred to la fée verte - “little green fairy”
Petite Absinthe - Made from a certain type of wormwood.
Ale, Beer, Drafts, Lagers, Malts, and Stouts
The Tapster’s Tavern in Orzammar serves 52 types of ale, some are listed.
Ale
Ander Stout - This stout is stored in oak casts. (Anderfels)
Barley Wine - Despite its name, this is an ale.
Beer
Brakien Brew (Orzammar)
Brown Ale
Coconut Draft (Orzammar)
Fereldan Beer
Fereldan Lager - A pale ale.
Lichen Ale (Orzammar)
Lichen-malt (Orzammar)
Oghren’s Homebrew - An amber coloured ale with a slightly sweet, nutty flavor and described to have a hint of toastiness, and is spiced with cloves. (Dwarven)
Qunari Ale
Ryott Ale (Ferelden)
Ryott Beer (Ferelden)
Valenta’s Red (Orzammar)
Watered Beer - While watered beer is served to reduce the price of beer and stretch it along, it is also served as a provision. In Serault, the peasantry drink watered beer to stave off the summer heat.
Watered-down Ale
Wildwine - An ale made from ryott. (Chasind)
Wilhelm’s Special Brew - This dark-colored ale gives off a thick, oaky smell. When swirled in its tankard, it takes on an unexpected glow. (Ferelden)
Brandy
Ammazzacaffe - A drink taken after coffee to dull the taste or effects. Though it can be a small glass of any liqueur, it is usually brandy. (Antiva)
Aged Antivan Brandy
Antivan Brandy
Antivan Plum Brandy
Apple Brandy (Orlais)
Orlesian Brandy
Plum Brandy
West Hill Brandy (Ferelden)
Cider
Brandy-spiked-cider
Cider
Serault Cider (Orlais)
Winter Cider (Wycome)
Cocktails
Benediction - Made of Prophet's Larel gin, served with a wedge of lime, and a thimble of Golden Scythe.
Elfroot mixed with Dandelion Wine - A restorative draft. (City Elves of Orlais)
The Emerald Valley - A spirit distilled of over seventy different herbs and flowers by the Chantry sister in Lydes, it is topped with egg-white foam and dusted with nutmeg. Described as having a varied and complex flavour, fresh like a lush green valley. (Orlais)
Dragon’s Piss - The name is probably figurative, but no one knows for sure. BioWare gives the “recipe” for Dragon Piss as “1 oz light rum, 1 oz dark rum, filled with iced tea”. "Dragon's Breath" is offered as an alternative name for this drink as it is served while lit on fire in the glass and burns on the way down.
The Golden Nug - Made with a base of effervescent white Seleney wine, sweetened with a dash of West Hill brandy and a splash of pomegranate juice. Muddled with raspberries and garnished with a sprig of Royal Elfroot. The goal is to imitate the soft pink colour of a nug.
The Heart of Spring - A “restorative” drink from Verchiel made with violets. (Orlais)
The Hissing Drake - Mix of cinnamon-infused whiskey, darl Llomerryn rum, and Hirol's Lava Burst.
Ice Cream and Beer
A Night of Shame - Antivan port with a dash of chocolate bitters and a twist of orange, served in a flute of chilled Serault glass. (Orlais)
Orichalcum mixed with wine - Considered to have aphrodisiac properties.
Posset - A drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor and typically flavored with spices. Can be drunk as a delicacy or as a cold remedy.
The Randy Dowager - Rumored to be created by the editor of the periodical, it is a tall glass of Abyssal Peach liquor and fresh cream, garnished with sugared rose petals and served on a silk handkerchief with a scandalous rhyming couplet inked by the bartender. (Orlais)
To Cure a Cold - a folk remedy that requires boiling whiskey and adding lemon juice and crushed garlic.
Gin
Gin
Prophet’s Laurel Gin (Orlais)
Grey Warden Liquor
These are bottles unique to members of the order, as each warden will combine half-full bottles in order to save space. No bottle is ever fully emptied or cleaned. In order to preserve the base flavor. They are called Grey Whiskey, Ritewine, or Conscription Ale, each vintage is named after a warden with a small note.
Vintage: Warden Anras - Bottled whimsy.
Vintage: Warden Bethany Hawke - Princess piss.
Vintage: Warden Carver Hawke - Toast them all.
Vintage: Warden Daedalam - Extra red.
Vintage: Warden Eval’lal - Griffon Wing Ale
Vintage: Warden Gibbins - Don’t frigging touch! I spit in this! I mean it!
Vintage: Warden Jairn - Smash when dead.
Vintage: Warden Korenic - Notes of fruit and anger.
Vintage: Warden Riordan - Serve yourself.
Vintage: Warden Steed - Joining juice.
Vintage: Warden Tontiv - Home.
Mead
The Tapster’s Tavern in Orzammar serves 17 types of mead, some are listed. Honeywine is another name for mead.
Avvar Mead
Chasind Sack Mead
Lady Odette Guillory’s Family Honey Wine (Orlais)
Mead
Orlesian Honeywine
Port A sweet, fortified red wine, typically served with dessert.
Antivan Port
Tevinter Port
Rum Boot Screech is another name for rum.
Alvarado’s Bathtub Boot Screech
Blackwater Rum (Wycome)
Dark Llomerryn Rum
Tea and Other Drinks
Coffee (Antiva)
Cocoa/Hot Chocolate
Juice
Fermented Fruit Juice
Pickle Juice
Pomegranate Juice
Prune Juice
Punch
Spicy Punch
Tea
Almond Tea (Orlais)
Bitter Tea - An unspecified tea so bitter it is astringent. Served during the Fourth Blight.
Black Tea
Black Tea with Juniper
Fires of Change Tea (Orlais)
Herbal Tea
Iced Tea
Lattenfluss Tea (Anderfels)
Mint Tea
Anderfels Mint Tea
Nameless Tevinter Tea
Rivaini Spice Tea Blend - Blend of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. One of the teas from Rivain known for its healing properties. Empress Celene commonly uses this tea to stave off headaches.
Rivaini Tea
Rivaini Tea Blend - A blend of licorice root, oregano, lemon verbena, and peppermint. One of the teas from Rivain known for its healing properties. Rumored to be favored by Empress Celene to stave off headaches.
Rosehips Tea (Orlais)
Spiced Tea (Nevarra)
Stripweed Tea (Tevinter)
Unsweetened Tea
Verimensis Tea (Tevinter)
Whiskey
Cinnamon-infused Whiskey
Ferelden Whisky
Legacy White Shear
Mackay’s Epic Single Malt
Wine
The Tapster’s Tavern in Orzammar serves 12 types of imported wines, some are listed.
Agreggio Pavali (Tevinter)
Alyons Black (Orlais)
Amaranthine Red (Ferelden)
Anderfels Red
Antivan Red
Bitter Black Wine (Orlais)
Bottled Scar 5:34 Exalted - A rare collaboration between human and elf vintners.
Celestine Black Wine (Orlais)
Dalish Wine
Dandelion Wine (City Elves of Orlais)
Elderberry Wine (Ferelden)
Finale by Massaad (Orlais)
Flames of Our Lady (Orlais)
Flat Wine
Ghislain Red (Orlais)
Iced Wine - Mentioned in both Tevinter and Orlais.
Montsimmard White (Orlais)
Mosswine (Orzammar)
Mulsum (Tevinter)
Orlesian Red
Plum Wine
Red Wine
Serault Yellow Wine (Orlais)
Serault White (Orlais)
Silent Plains Piquette (Tevinter)
Southern Black Wine
Spiced Wine
Sweetened and Spiced Yellow Wine
Val Chevin Red Wine (Orlais)
Vint-9 Rowan’s Rose (Tevinter)
Watered Wine
White Seleny Wine (Antiva)
White Wine
Yellow Wine
Additional Spirits
Abyssal Peach
Antivan Sip-Sip
Aqua Magus
Aquae Lucidius - A potent liquor made of wyvern venom; a rare drink known for its hallucinogenic properties.
Bottle of Rotgut - Rotgut is slang for cheap whiskey.
Butterbile :84
Carnal 8:69 Blessed (Orlais)
Dwarven Ale - Not actually an ale, but a black liquid reputedly made from fungus with a reputation as being almost undrinkable for anyone not a dwarf.
Garblog’s Backcountry Reserve
Golden Scythe 9:40 Black
Hirol’s Lava Burst (Kal'Hirol)
Maraas-Lok (Qunari)
Moonshine
Potent Moonshine
Sun Blonde Vint-1 (Tevinter)
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Raw Ingredients of Thedas
Fruits, Mushrooms, Nuts, and Vegetables
Edible Plants
Bark
Fern Fiddlehead (Avvar)
Hops
Lichen (Dwarves)
Black Lichen - Toxic unless properly cooked.
Moss (Dwarves)
Nettle
Pungent Leaves - Unspecified leaves. (Avvar)
Rose (Orlais)
Rose Petals
Rosehips
Stripweed (Tevinter)
Sugar Cane (Orlais, Tevinter, Rivain)
Vine Leaves (Tevinter)
Watercress (Avvar)
Wildflowers
Borage
Chicory
Dandelion
Honeysuckle
Jasmine
Violet
Fruits and Nuts
Apple
Applewood Apples (Orlais)
Golden Apples (Orlais)
Green Apples
Le Pomme Vie et Morte - Apples that grow by the gallows in Val Royeaux. (Orlais)
Red Apples
Windfall Apples
Apricot
Banana
Par Vollen Banana
Rivain Banana
Berry
Blackberry (Ferelden)
Blueberry
Cranberry
Currant
Black Currant
Elderberry (Ferelden)
Raspberry
Strawberry (Ferelden)
Caper (Antiva)
Cherry
Black Cherry
Sour Cherry - unspecified variety(ies)
Sweet Cherry - unspecified variety(ies)
Cocoa/Chocolate (Donarks)
Coconut
Coffee (Antiva)
Date - A purple and red fruit with a pit, it has a sweetness and tangy taste. (Tevinter)
Fig (Tevinter)
Grape
Red Grape (Orlais)
Lemon
Lime
Mango
Nuts
Almond
Chestnut
Pine Nut
Olive
Antivan Olive
Orange (Antiva, Orlais, Tevinter)
Blood Orange (Nevarra)
Passion Fruit (Antiva)
Peach
Pear
Plum
Pomegranate (Tevinter)
Pomegranate Seeds
Grain
Barley
Fereldan Barley
Pot Barley
Oats
Rolled Oats
Rice (Antiva, Rivain)
Ryott (Ferelden)
Wheat
Durum Wheat (Rivain)
Whole Grains
Mushrooms
Deep Mushroom
Field Mushroom
Unspecified Fungus - Used to brew Dwarven ale.
Truffle
Unnamed Glowing Fungus
Wild Mushroom
Vegetables and Legumes
Beans
Bush Beans (Free Marches)
Green Beans (Orlais)
Pale Beans (Orlais)
White Beans (Orlais)
Beet
Cabbage
Carrot
Purple Carrot (Orlais)
White Carrot (Orlais)
Celery
Chickpea (Rivain)
Chive
Corn
Checkered Corn
Golden Corn (Orlais)
Yellow Corn
Cucumber
Eggplant (Antiva, Ferelden)
Fennel (Orlais)
Leek
Lentils
Lettuce
Mustard
Onion
Red Onion (Orlais)
Sweet Onion (Orlais)
White Onion
Pea
Peanut (Antiva, Seheron)
Pepper
Antivan Pepper
Green Pepper
Hot Pepper
Hot Red Pepper
Red Bell Pepper (Rivain)
Sweet Pepper (Orlais)
Potato
Radish
Daikon Radish (Ferelden)
Rhubarb (Ferelden)
Spinach
Squash
Marrow Squash
Pumpkin
String Squash
Tomato
Turnip - aka navet
Turnip Greens
Wild Greens
Yams (Ferelden)
Animal Products
Dairy
Cream
Heavy Cream
Milk
Cow Milk
Goat Milk
Halla Milk
Ram Milk
Soured Milk
Eggs
Caviar
Chicken Egg
Fish and Seafood
Carp
Cod
Crab
Cuttlefish
Eel
Krone
Lamprey
Mackerel
Mussel
Oyster
Prawn
River Herring
Shrimp
Sunfish
Trout
Whitebait
Insects
Cave Beetle (Dwarven)
Giant Spider (Dwarven)
Scorpion
Snail (Avvar)
Wood-burrowing beetle larvae (Dalish)
Meats
Beef
Ox
Ox-tongue
Veal
Boar
Bronto (Orzammar)
Cat - mentioned to be eaten in Orlesian alienages by those most desperate (City Elves of Orlais).
Dog - mentioned to be eaten in Orlesian alienages by those most desperate (City Elves of Orlais).
Druffalo
Giant (Tevinter)
Goat
Gurn
Halla
Hare
Hart
Horse
Liver - General name given, animal isn’t specified.
Nug
Pork
Pig’s Feet
Pork Hocks
Pork Saddle
Rabbit
Ram
Rat - mentioned to be eaten in alienages by those most desperate (City Elves of Anderfels, Ferelden)
Sheep
Lamb
Mutton
Venison
Wandering Hills (Anderfels)
Poultry and Reptiles
Bunting
Chicken
Poussin (Chasind)
Deepstalker (Dwarven)
Dove
Dracolisk (Tevinter)
Dragon (Nevarra, Orlais)
Duck
Gurgut (Avvar)
Lurker (Avvar)
Partridge
Pheasant
Phoenix
Pigeon
Quail
Quillback
Swan
Turkey
Varghest
Wyvern (Avvar and Orlais)
Misc.
Dragon Blood (Nevarra)
Druffalo Dung
Honey
Honeycomb
Miscellaneous Ingredients
Baking Ingredients
Ash
Elfroot Ash
Hardwood Ash (Dalish)
Baking Powder
Yeast Cake
Salts
Fine-ground Salt
Rock Salt
Salt
Sea Salt
Others
Brine
Clay (Avvar)
Pine Pitch (Alamarri)
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Herbs and Spices
Herbs
Basil - Mentioned to be grown in Serault, Orlais.
Dried Basil
Bay Leaf
Catsbane
Elfroot
Elfroot Leaves
Royal Elfroot
Lavender (Orlais)
Mint
Anderfels’s Mint
Foxmint
Peppermint
Oregano
Dried Oregano
Parsley
Prophet’s Laurel
Rosemary
Spindleweed
Verdant Spindleweed
Thyme
Spices
Allspice
Anise
Antivan Cord-seed
Cardamom
Cinnamon (Rivain, Seheron)
Clove
Cumin
Cumin Seed
Deep Mushroom Powder (Orlais and Orzammar)
Dill
Dill Seeds
Eastern Spice - Unnamed
Fennel
Fennel Seeds
Garlic
Ginger
Dried Ginger
Hot Pepper Powder
Hot Red Pepper, Crushed
Juniper
Licorice
Mace
Mustard
Mustard Powder
Mustard Seeds
Nutmeg (Seheron)
Grated Nutmeg
Ground Nutmeg
Pepper
Black Pepper
Peppercorn
Black Peppercorn
Poppyseed
Saffron
Spice Ball - A variety of mixed spices wrapped in a cheesecloth
Star Anise
Vanilla (Rivain)
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Prepared Ingredients
Basic Ingredients
Alcohol
Brandy
Cinnamon-infused whiskey
Dark Llomerryn Rum
Hirol’s Lava Burst
Prophet’s Laurel Gin
Red Wine
Watered Down Ale
Whiskey
White Seleney Wine
Broth
Deepstalker Broth
Fish Broth
Butters - Non-dairy butters
Peanut Butter
Caramel
Cocoa Products
Chocolate (Orlais, Tevint)
Chocolate Bitters
Cocoa Butter - used to make white chocolate (Orlais)
Cocoa Powder - difficult to procure
White Chocolate (Orlais)
Compote - Fresh or dried fruit that is cut into chunks and stewed in a syrup of sugar and other flavours.
Red Grape Compote (Orlais)
Croutons
Custard
Dough
Pie Dough
Puff Pastry Dough (Orlais)
Extract
Mint Extract
Orange Extract
Vanilla Extract
Flour
Ryott Flour (Chasind, Ferelden)
Semolina Flour (Rivain)
Wheat Flour
Whole Grain Flour
Frosting
Buttercream
Chocolate Cream
White Frosting
Gold
Edible Gold Leaf
Gold Dust
Jam
Plum Jam
Raspberry Jam
Mulled Fruit
Mulled Raspberry
Oil
Cod Liver Oil
Orange Essence
Pasta
Antivan Pasta
Couscous (Rivain)
Gnocchi (Antiva)
Grain-based Noodle
Noodle
Pound Cake
Stock
Brown Stock
Sugar
Brown Sugar
Molasses
Powdered Sugar
Sugar-cream Icing
Sugar Flowers
Sugared Rose Petals
Syrup
Sugar Syrup
Tea Biscuit
Toffee
Wafer
Vinegar
Apple Cider Vinegar
Herbed Wine Vinegar
Dairy and Eggs
Butter
Cow Butter
Goat Butter
Halla Butter
Herbed Butter
Nug Butter
Cheese
Antivan Smoked Cheese
Blue-veined Cheese (Orlais)
Brie Cheese
Brined Goat Cheese
“Dalish” Cheese - An ill described item as it is unclear if it is actually cheese. One thing is for sure it isn’t Dalish.
Dry Cheese - Unspecified cheese used in cacio e pepe(Antiva)
Feisty Cheese (Orlais)
Goat Cheese
Halla Cheese (Dalish)
Ram Cheese (Ferelden)
Cream
Spiced Cream
Thickened Cream
Whipped Cream
Egg
Hard Boiled Egg
Yogurt
Dried and Cured Foods
Dried Fruits, Vegetables, and Fungi
Dried Apple
Dried Apricot
Dried Beans
Dried Cherry
Dried Cranberry
Dried Currant
Dried Mushroom
Dried Peas
Prunes
Pitted Prunes
Raisin
Cured Meats
Bacon
Nug Bacon
Smoked Bacon
Cold Cuts
Dried Meats
Dried Mackerel
Lutefisk
Jerky
Spiced jerky
Salted Meat
Dried Salt Pork
Salt Pork
Salted Beef
Salted Dragon Meat
Salted Fish
Salted Goat Meat
Sausage
Blood Sausage
Smoked Sausage
Spiced and Salted Sausage
Smoked
Smoked Beef
Smoked Fish
Smoked Goat Meat
Pickled Foods
Pickled Apples
The Pickled Apples of Arlathan - Apples said to be from the time of Arlathan. The taste is described to be one of fresh apples, with the same crispness.
Pickled Fish
Pickled Lamprey
Pickled Nug
Pickled Ox Tongue
Pickled Vegetables
Pickles
Prepared Animal Products
Gelatine
Grease
Ground Meat
Ground Beef
Ground Nug
Lard
Spiced Meat
Miscellaneous
Lyrium
Soup Bone
Wyvern Venom - There are 47 ways to distill wyvern venom to be safe for consumption.
Sources:
(If you want to find the direct links or page numbers, check out the Wiki's Food and Ingredients page.)
Primary Sources: Dragon Age: Origins (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age: Awakening Dragon Age 2 (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age: The Last Court Dragon Age: Inquisition (DLCs + Multiplayer)
Books: Dragon Age Tabletop RPG Core Rulebook Dragon Age Tabletop RPG: Blood in Ferelden Dragon Age Tabletop RPG: Game Master’s Kit: Buried Past World of Thedas Vol. 1 World of Thedas Vol. 2 Dragon Age Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne Dragon Age: The Calling Dragon Age: The Masked Empire Dragon Age: Asunder Dragon Age: Last Flight Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Short Story: Paper and Steel Short Story: Paying the Ferryman Short Story: Riddle in Truth Short Story: As We Fly
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old-archivist · 2 years ago
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Some canon bestiary lore I’m working through as I collect it for my bestiary project:
Giant Spiders are 12ft (365.76cm) in size. Height is not noted but, for reference they’re the same size as a tiger when you include the tail. They are also the same size as griffons who are 12ft (365.76cm) in length.
Dragonlings, who are recently hatched are the size of a deer. Despite the game models they are not terribly big considering a giant spider as comparison.
Giant Spiders use to primarily feed on large bats according to World of Thedas vol. 1. Which considering the size of a giant spider makes me wonder how large the bags were.
Brontos have multiple varieties much like cattle. They have an oxen equivalent (beast of burden essentially) and a cattle equivalent (food source). They also, apparently have a mount variety, which is faster, surefooted, and has more stamina than the other two.
Druffalo have a variety that is blue-grey with black horns. Which is an interesting contrast to the brown with white horns we get in game.
Giants are more common up north. In world theories range from Tevinter breeding grounds, warmer climates, and the Silent Plains corruption. The last one is not elaborated on.
Giants also favor traveling in or by waterways. They have been seen floating their bulk up/down rivers when traveling.
There are two varieties of Great Bears. The Fereldan ones in the Bercilian Forest and the Orlesian ones. The Orlesian variety is reportedly so fierce that Orlesian nobles won’t hunt them and are reportedly the only thing Orlesians are truly afraid of.
I mentioned in this deadly food post I made before, but um I don’t think I elaborated enough haha. Gurguts can unhinge their jaw and their stomachs will expand to allow for whatever massive thing they just swallowed. However, their primary diet is marsh weeds and fish. So why they evolved to be like that makes me wonder what fish they regularly snack on.
Phoenix. I also mentioned this in that previous post, but their organs are poisonous. Liquify lungs type poison. Which makes me wonder if Thedas has a honey badger like creature to clean up a carcass or if phoenix are cannibals and eat their own.
Pheonix also travel in flocks despite what we see in game. Flocks that carry the scent of death due to the sulfurous gas they spew that smells of rotten eggs and ancient peat bogs.
This is mainly about Phoenix but also for lurkers, varghest, and gurns. But I don’t understand why the predators in the Western Approach and Hissing Wastes have such exaggerated underbites. The phoenix is the worst case and you can actually see it’s jaw become a normal bite in additional media from wot 2 and Heroes of Dragon Age. Less of a fact and more of a confused question here. Like look at this:
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Like they be ridiculous and endearing in a way but how is it surviving? My friend here wouldn’t be able to hold onto any living prey, and lore points out they don’t feed exclusively on carrion. My poor land pufferfish is just robbed.
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transandersrights · 2 years ago
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Making a transmasc nonbinary Trevelyan and I am so so so so so tempted to pick an entry from the Thedas flora and fauna list for his name. That or I'm gonna hunt down fictional characters in Thedosian literature
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mutantenfisch · 5 years ago
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Here he is again, because i am so proud!!
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A very special ram ♥
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dragonageloree · 5 years ago
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Medicine
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Mother Giselle attending to refugees in The Hinterlands
Medicine in Thedas plays a key role in the quality of life of its inhabitants, and is vital in a land so torn by conflict. The magical and the mundane both play a role in the healing and management of diseases and injuries. While independent herbalists, apostates and midwives[1] may practice the healing arts, the only access to any sort of proper care that common people would have is through the Chantry, or one of the Circles of Magi. The visitation of a Circle-approved mage practitioner must be arranged through a Templar.[2] The local chantry provides care for the sick, and members of the clergy may travel to troubled areas in order to provide free relief in the name of charity.
With such limited means of care, people of Thedas therefore learn to make do with the healing flora and fauna that they can find around them. Examples are foxmint for a troublesome gut and spindleweed for afflictions of the lungs. Superstition also plays a large part in Thedosian's attitudes towards healing, such as how the removal of a wart requires rubbing the half of a potato on it and feeding potato to a snoufleur, which should take the wart upon itself. Another example of this is in a treatment meant for improving virility, after drinking a tonic from tusket horn the patient is supposed to place the remnants under their pillow.[3]
Treatment
Mundane
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The interior of Skyhold's hospital, should the Inquisitor choose to build it
Thedosian medical practitioners of the day believe in Humorism. [4] Essentially, this theory holds that the mortal body is filled with four basic substances, called humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities supposedly resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors. These deficits were thought to be caused by vapors inhaled or absorbed by the body. The four humors are black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. Treatments from the school of thought are bloodletting and the application of leeches. The bile of Gurgutis thought to balance the humors. Those practicing medicine are also aware of and perform the amputation of limbs.[5]
Magical
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Anders using magic to heal a refugee
Mages within the Circle of Magi may choose to specialize in the Creation school of magic. When using Creation magic, a healer is manipulating natural forces to imbue the recipient with restorative energy that is capable of knitting flesh and mending bone. The caster of a Creation spell can also infuse their recipient with beneficial energy that greatly accelerates healing.[6] Some mages even heighten their healing powers by becoming a Spirit Healer, who casts restoration spells and using the life energy acquired from the benevolent Fade spirits.
Combinations of herbs made into potions, especially elfroot, are also used. Mages within the Circle of Magi study alchemy to invent new potions and improve upon ones that already exist. It is unclear whether one needs to be a mage to brew potions or not.
A holy artifact to Andrastians is The Urn of Sacred Ashes. The Urn is believed to contain Andraste's ashes which have healing properties strong enough to bring someone back from the brink of death.
Diseases and illnesses
Plague - The first symptom of the plague is coughing and paleness, fever following the next day.[7] Doors of the afflicted marked with a yellow symbol.[8] Blight-touched rats are known to spread the plague.[9]
Blight sickness - contracted through contact with darkspawn, and progresses to the person becoming a Ghoul, though this time varies for everyone. Some people die immediately upon contact with the Taint and some, such as Leliana, are naturally resistant [10] The disease is sometimes referred to as "a plague"[11][12] or "a wasting illness"[13]
Frost-cough[14]
Dysentery[15]
Hunger shivers[16]
Cholera[17]
Ague (malaria)[18]
Common Cold
Wasting Illness - turns the victim gray before they perish[19]
Trivia
Pickled eggs are thought of as a sort of cure-all by the people of Ferelden[20]
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thevikingwoman · 7 years ago
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OC thoughts on: friendships, elfroot and thedosian fauna :D
I love this ask, @roguelioness. Thank you so much! I will do these for Branwen and Iwyn both :)
Friendship:
Iwyn loves her friends. She never had any really true close ones in her clan, she was too curious and non-Dalish for that, and she also didn’t have many peers close to her age group. 
However, she befriends everyone in the Inquisition. At this time in her life, she makes friends easily and she likes it. She also thinks that once you are fiends, you are friends. You don’t have to agree on all things, but you stick up for your friends. 
For Branwen, many friendships were formed in childhood. Friendships are the things you don’t have to work much for, they are there, or they aren’t
Elfroot:
Iwyn appreciates the healing properties of elfroot, but she does not indulge in smoking. She tried once, I guess, but it is not her vice. 
Branwen likes elfroot. It makes him less angry and upset and some days he needs that. 
Fauna:
So, Iwyn loves, LOVES! to watch animals. As part of her hunter training she is good at it, and she sometimes just loves finding some foxes or fennec or bears and just watch and stalk them and look at them. 
Branwen is mostly indifferent. 
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justanartsysideblog · 8 years ago
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The Tezpadam
*flings more space lesbian au into the void* Lela belongs to @feynites.
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The ship her grandmother gives them for the project is…big. 
The Tezpadam—Deepstalker in common—is a fully functional colonization cruiser, with a pure lyrium drive core fresh out of Orzammar. How her grandmother managed to get that much pure lyrium when the Thedosian dwarves have a trade ban on all lyrium exports she’ll never know, but she isn’t going to question it.
It’s always safest not to question the illegal things her grandmother does.
The point of the matter is that the Tezpadam is gorgeous, and Maibrit’s more than a little in love with her. The only thing bigger than the cruisers are the old transport freighters that cart lyrium and supplies between the Carta controlled planets, and those have to be fully manned and constantly fine-tuned to keep the lyrium supply from interfering with the ship’s drive core.
But the Tezpadam…the Tezpadam is fully functional even with a skeleton crew. And while Maibrit’s crew isn’t going to be skimping around that line, it isn’t going to be fully manned either.
There are, unfortunately, not as many qualified lesbians in this line of work as Maibrit would have liked, and even less that aren’t in her grandmother’s pocket.
She knows fully well that at least two of the crew members she hired have been tasked with reporting back any pertinent information to her grandmother that Maibrit might leave out of her update logs. But if Maibrit refused to hire anyone on her grandmother’s payroll, the Old Nug would have forced her way in somehow.
But if Maibrit knows who’s working for her, she can filter out what information gets leaked to them. There’s also the chance that she can convince them to just embrace the lesbian utopia that will be L-7 and stop giving in to her grandmother’s demands.
It’s a long shot, but Maibrit likes lengthy projects.
“…wow..” Lela whispers, staring through the window at where the Tezpadam is docked. Her eyes trail over the dark blue dwarven runes painted along its surface, and shakes her head. “It’s gigantic.”
Maibrit agrees with a nod. “She’s got a dual lyrium drive core, the most efficient system we have. And the drive chamber’s made of a vanadium steel and tungsten alloy. No worries about lyrium leakage, no having to get up in the middle of the night to check the thermoregulators and run diagnostic tests on faulty equipment. I bet the gravity conduction system purrs like a kitten.” She sighs. “…you know, I might miss living in constant fear of being jettisoned out into space…”
“I won’t,” Lela replies swiftly.
Maibrit snickers, before she turns to look up at Lela, and takes a moment to just appreciate the slant of her nose. It’s a nice nose. Attached to an equally nice face. Goodness, her girlfriend is really, really beautiful. “Hey, we’ll be stuck on this station for about three more weeks before all of the crew arrives, and my grandmother has given me a really nice chunk of credit to use for ‘miscellaneous needs’. I’m pretty sure that means ‘buy all the things you think you’ll need on a barren wasteland including those cherry danishes you love so much and some new lingerie for your super hot girlfriend’.”
Lela lets out a small laugh, “I don’t think that’s what it was meant for.”
“All expenses pertaining to the actual colonization project are covered by Carta Corps. But this?” She holds up her wrist band. “This is for fun. Come on, we’re going to be on a hostile planet with no reliable supply drops for at least a year. We need to stock up on all the things we’ll miss.”
Lela doesn’t take too much convincing, after that.
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They take a lunch break halfway through their shopping spree to recharge.
Lela gets something that the restaurant claims is authentic Seheron fair, but Maibrit’s pretty sure that whoever made the dish has never been to Seheron, or even Thedas in general. The spices on the surface smell alright, but the face Lela makes tells all.
“That bad?” Maibrit pushes over her own plate. The dwarven food is usually a safe bet on all Carta run stations, so Maibrit tends to go with it.
“It takes like someone looked at a Fog Warrior and thought this was what they tasted like.”
“That’s practically cannibalism,” Maibrit quips, “Better share mine. We’ll grab some more snacks before we head back to the ship, in case we get hungry later.”
She glances over her datapad, and the new message that leaps up with a ‘ping’ as Lela begins digging in, looking much happier with the taste. Maibrit grins as she scans the message, “Oh good, the final crew member’s been confirmed. She’ll be here on the day before we head out. She’s got a bit of a way to travel, but we won’t have to change our scheduled departure.”
“Do you know everyone you hired?” Lela asks curiously.
“Not personally.” Maibrit shakes her head. “Most of them just be reputation, but I went to school with a few. When we get back to the Tezpadam, I’m going to meet with the assembled crew members and get some introductions out of the way.”
Lela nods, taking another bite.
“Do you want to see what the colony is going to look like?” Maibrit asks, pulling up a few files and holding the datapad out. “This is the basic design of the main base and outlying buildings. The area we’ll be settled in is a valley between these two mountains here. There’s a pretty elaborate cave system all throughout the mountainside, which is where we’ll be introducing the artificial titan.”
The initial scans had shown the air has the potential to be breathable, which Maibrit is thankful for. They’ll need to do some terraforming to be able to go out without proper equipment, but there’s a base amount of oxygen in the air that their rebreathers can pull out naturally.
“Are we going to have room for everything we need?” Lela asks, leaning over to look at the blueprints. “The buildings look bigger than the ship.”
“Only a little bigger, with the outlying attachments,” Maibrit agrees. “We’re not carrying the building materials on the Tezpadam. There were two major equipment drops already, so when we arrive at the drop site we’ll just have to crack them open and get building.”
She hopes that the containers are still at the drop site when they get there. Sometimes there are complications, and while the planet had been observed there hasn’t been any indepth exploration, and no cataloging of the indigenous flora and fauna.
...At least the planet isn’t known for acid rainfall, like L3. The filtration systems for that base were a mess.
“Alright, let’s finish up here, throw out that sad attempt at biological warfare,” Maibrit jabs her fork in the direction of the supposed Seheron special, “And then after we meet the crew I think you and I should break in that giant bed in the captain’s quarters.”
Lela hums, “What if I short circuit something?”
Maibrit laughs, “Oh Sparkplug, what do you think half those tools I bought at the last store are for?”
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Maibrit sends Lela back ahead of her, once they’re all finished, only because as she looks out the windows of the docking bay terminal, she sees a flurry of movement near the storage loading dock attached to the Tezpadam.
She figures it’s probably just someone being a little rough with some of the cargo containers—most of the supplies can handle a few bumps—but the last thing she needs is someone upsetting some delicate equipment that leads to an electrical fire halfway through transit.
“What are you idiots doing? That container holds delicate equipment! You aren’t qualified to go shoving my child into the cargo hold like a crate of spare parts!”
Uh-oh.
Maibrit looks to the storage bunker, where the loading dock crew have been moving items into the cargo hold: spare pieces of equipment, extra food stock, and their secondary water supply, among other things.
And also…also their artificial titan, which is the current point of contention, it seems.
The artificial titan’s handler stands in front of a monstrous black container covered in warning labels, glowering at the three dock managers.
Vehul Av’ahn, one of the leading members of the Artificial Titan Project, was in charge of crafting this specific artificial titan with Dagna, an old friend of Maibrit’s. The process of crafting the things was a well-kept secret, but it’s known that it takes both dwarves and highly skilled mages working in tandem to do it. Dagna herself was staying on L-1 to continue working on new prototypes, but Vehul had volunteered to come personally help with introducing the titan to the foreign material and monitoring how well it takes.
Maibrit’s heard the rumor of course, that Vehul had snuck into an abandoned thaig back on Thedas and came out half-mad and saying she could hear the stones sing. Maibrit isn’t entirely certain she believes it, but she does believe Vehul’s probably a little crazy.
The elf woman in question looks like she’s ready to start a firefight in the middle of the loading bay, so Maibrit picks up her pace, “What seems to be the problem?”
Vehul turns, mismatched eyes narrowed behind her eye vizor, before she recognizes Maibrit and throws her arms up, “Finally! Someone competent! Serah Cadash, I’d like to say everything is wrong, but that in and of itself is a gross understatement.”
Maibrit had almost forgotten how much of a hyperbolic drama queen Vehul was.
She waits for Vehul to continue, and continue she does, holding up her fingers and ticking off points, occasionally swiveling her head to glare at the dock managers. “First of all, my child needs to be placed very specifically inside of the hold, so as not to be disturbed while he rests. He is very delicate, and the equilibrium needed to maintain an artificial titan between the final stages of crafting and introduction to a foreign material is precarious! These fools not only wanted to throw it in an unsecured corner but they wanted to first scan it to check for dangerous chemical compounds!”
“It’s company policy, serah, we can’t—”
“Do you know what would happen if some errant electrical wavelength triggered him? Do you want to know what happens when an artificial titan activates?”
Maibrit pauses, hand going up to her eyepatch. She’d nearly tried to look through the container walls with her ruby, just out of curiosity, but stops herself, activating the warding enchantments on the eyepatch to make certain the ruby doesn’t activate itself. It has a habit, sometimes, of doing that.
Vehul doesn’t seem to notice, as she continues her lecture, “He’s going to latch onto the first foreign material he comes in contact with…and he’s going to fuse with it and integrate it into his system. And that foreign material will be this entire damn station. And do you know what happens when he hits foreign lyrium? Or gods forbid he rejects this new foreign material he’s latched onto and we get our own dramatic reenactment of the meltdown on L-2. I’m sure you’ve heard the stories.”
The dock managers look hurriedly from Vehul to Maibrit.
Maibrit sighs. “I’m in charge of this project. You can contact my grandmother, the CEO and owner of Carta Corps if you’d like, but I’m certain she’ll give us clearance. Please handle that package with care, and follow Serah Av’ahn’s instructions.”
“O-of course, Serah Cadash.” The dock managers nod, and Vehul snorts, before turning on them again, “Well then, the first thing you’ll need to do is remove all of the material on the left side of the cargo bay so I can secure him in first—”
Maibrit leaves before she can get drawn into the argument even more with a shake of her head.
She really hopes that the rest of the crew isn’t going to make things quite so complicated.
She can already feel a headache forming.
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daughter-of-the-prophet · 7 years ago
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Medicine
Medicine in Thedas plays a key role in the quality of life of its inhabitants and is vital in a land so torn by conflict. The magical and the mundane both play a role in the healing and management of diseases and injuries. While independent herbalists, apostates, and midwives may practice the healing arts, the only access to any sort of proper care that common people would have is through the Chantry or one of the Circles of Magi. The visitation of a Circle-approved mage practitioner must be arranged through a Templar. The local chantry provides care for the sick, and members of the clergy may travel to troubled areas in order to provide free relief in the name of charity.
With such limited means of care, people of Thedas, therefore, learn to make do with the healing flora and fauna that they can find around them. Examples are foxmint for a troublesome gut and spindleweed for afflictions of the lungs. Superstition also plays a large part in Thedosian’s attitudes towards healing, such as how the removal of a wart requires rubbing the half of a potato on it and feeding potato to a snoufleur, which should take the wart upon itself. Another example of this is in a treatment meant for improving virility, after drinking a tonic from tusket horn the patient is supposed to place the remnants under their pillow.
Treatment
Mundane
Thedosian medical practitioners of the day believe in Humorism. Essentially, this theory holds that the mortal body is filled with four basic substances, called humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities supposedly resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors. These deficits were thought to be caused by vapors inhaled or absorbed by the body. The four humors are black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. Treatments from the school of thought are bloodletting and the application of leeches. The bile of Gurgut is thought to balance the humors. Those practicing medicine are also aware of and perform the amputation of limbs.
Magical
Mages within the Circle of Magi may choose to specialize in the Creation school of magic. When using Creation magic, a healer is manipulating natural forces to imbue the recipient with restorative energy that is capable of knitting flesh and mending bone. The caster of a Creation spell can also infuse their recipient with beneficial energy that greatly accelerates healing. Some mages even heighten their healing powers by becoming a Spirit Healer, who casts restoration spells and using the life energy acquired from the benevolent Fade spirits.
Combinations of herbs made into potions, especially elfroot, are also used. Mages within the Circle of Magi study alchemy to invent new potions and improve upon ones that already exist. It is unclear whether one needs to be a mage to brew potions or not.
A holy artifact to Andrastians is The Urn of Sacred Ashes. The Urn is believed to contain Andraste’s ashes which have healing properties strong enough to bring someone back from the brink of death.
Diseases and Illnesses
Plague - The first symptom of the plague is coughing and paleness, fever following the next day. Doors of the afflicted marked with a yellow symbol. Blight-touched rats are known to spread the plague.
Blight sickness - contracted through contact with darkspawn, and progresses to the person becoming a Ghoul, though this time varies for everyone. Some people die immediately upon contact with the Taint and some, such as Leliana, are naturally resistant The disease is sometimes referred to as “a plague" or "a wasting illness”
Frost-cough
Dysentery
Hunger shivers
Cholera
Ague (malaria)
Common Cold
Wasting Illness - turns the victim gray before they perish
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old-archivist · 2 years ago
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So, what if I just drop some Thedosian recipe blurbs I’ve been working on. Like just a few blurbs for wip Wednesday cause I definitely have not been digging through historical cookbooks nor am I motivated to get as many done before the official cookbook is done to contrast what I expect what is going to be mostly mundane recipes. (I love that we’re even getting one but considering their is a LoTR prop in the current cover draft…)
But, first three blurbs are canon foods in Dragon Age. The last two, one is me deciding Tevinter would be like Orlais but instead of wyverns they ate griffons and the other is bringing the fact that raccoons are indeed edible — historically in a lot of rural, wooded areas of North America.
Deep Mushroom Cream Sauce
A cream sauce popular in Orzammar as it is served with seared nug. However, it should be noted that one must always be careful with the amount of deep mushrooms used in a recipe. The repercussions of using too much are more than a passing upset stomach or overwhelming flavor. So when we say flavored, we do mean flavored.
This recipe uses deep mushroom powder to flavor the sauce and add other mushrooms for texture. However, should you choose to use only deep mushrooms in the sauce, one should forgo either the powder or the chopped mushrooms; as using both will cause mental ailments. After all, a dinner party is truly a success so long as one does not inflict their guest with ailments of the mind. Particularly if one is trying to remain in good social standing.
Exquisite Misery
The Orlesians are nothing if not extravagant. From wyverns to phoenixes, Orlesians have a tendency to play chance with their lives for whatever element of decadence is in the trends. While deep mushrooms are perhaps the least lethal thing one can consume, I do advise avoiding eating too many of these little cakes.
That said, should one partake and find that they are able to get past the musky, earthy flavor; these can be quite a treat. Fluffy, soft, and a touch sweet, it is a dessert I find best to consume after a rather savory or spicy meal.
Herbed Chicken and Biscuits
A simple, savory meal commonly found in many homes across Ferelden. Though the herbs will differ depending on your region, this warm and hearty meal is perfect for a crisp autumn evening or a rainy spring night. Fending off the chill with a warm meal and a mouth watering scent that fills the home. Pairs well with a warm cup of cider or a glass of wine.
Griffon Leg with Pomegranate Glaze
This old recipe was recovered from the library of a Tevinter town on the edge of the border to the Anderfels. The age of this recipe dates back to a time before the First Blight, before the founding of the Grey Wardens, when Tevinter would hunt these creatures for sport; much like Orlesians hunt their prized wyverns.
When looking through such records there are a variety of accounts that describe griffon meat to be an odd union of chicken and beef. However, there are contrasting accounts declaring it to be of pork and goat. Much like goat meat, griffon meat can be tougher the older the creature is. Another quality to be aware of is that griffon meat will become dry if you cook it too fast or if you do not keep an eye on it. Thus a slow cook to allow the meat to become tender while also periodically turning it and adding another coat of glaze.
Raccoon Meat Pie
Many have seen these curious creatures either in the woods or rummaging amongst the alley ways. They are not an uncommon site to see around, and that should include one's dinner table as well.
The meat of a raccoon is described akin to the dark meat of a waterfowl such as duck, or an oilier cousin of chicken. The taste of this meat isn't overwhelming, but it is certainly gamey and can be tough if not properly prepared.
Given the need to prep the raccoon meat to avoid any chance of toughness in the meat, much like a stew, this allows for long cooking as well as a more complete meal. A quality that may make the meal more appetizing if it is not a frequent feature on the dinner table.
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exhausted-archivist · 9 months ago
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As I plan the garden for the year I not only stare at the fact that grocery stores carry such little variety (for many reasons) and that we only, on average have access to 200-400 times fewer varieties of vegetables than 50 years ago. We don’t grow them any more.
Thinking about that and the dozens of varieties I’m growing this year I can’t help but wonder about the floral varieties in Thedas. How many types of lettuce do they have? Does Markham, the city state dedicated to agriculture research also develop new varieties? Are they trying to create hybrids that are resilient to the Blight like Deep Mushrooms but also don’t pass it on?
Do they experiment with corn as much as we have in the past? Since a majority of the crops domesticated in Thedas come from the Americas, where did the originate? Tevinter, Rivain, northern Antiva, the Anderfels prior to the Blights?
The food that the Anderfels grows, we know are hardy and often bitter and full of tannins and the like, but are they resistant to the intense heat of the short summers or do they favor frost resistant crops and rely on things like cold frames and the like during the icy, snowy winters?
What about Nevarra? We know their portion of the Minanter river freezes in the winter and they eat roasted chestnuts. But they are also home to Mediterranean crops like the blood orange. Was that an imported hybrid? Was it cultivated with a more cold hearty variety in Thedas compared to irl?
The official cookbook has Devon comment that children hate vegetables. But that is rather strange to me considering the food pathways, food preservation technology, and the restrictions on hunting/poaching in noble lands. Based on the rough estimate of era, logically all of the children would be used to a primarily vegetable and fruit diet with some aspects of meat, dairy, and eggs. Which means they also likely had the same massive variety of vegetables that we had in history and there for had plenty of options to avoid the largely bitter ones. So is this just a Devon thing? Or do Thedosians have less access to fruits and veggies than we do in the modern era?
Like from a meta standpoint I know that BioWare cannot possibly explore all the massive varieties possible. Nor do I expect them to. It is also easy to see when they fall back on common misconceptions of the various periods they’re referencing or just operating on less actual facts and more on personal experience or misconceptions and biases.
That said I’m even more curious to how they’re going to explore the subterranean flora (and fauna) given they’ve made it so the deep roads don’t have any geothermal properties. In the sense if there is no lava flow or if you don’t have a torch you’ll freeze to death.
So how do deep mushrooms thrive? And all the native fauna. What about the flora and fauna in the titans? I always love looking at fictional flora because you can really see the Frankenstein cobbling of plants. Sometimes the designs are really well informed and other times it’s just informed by aesthetics. Which is fine, BioWare isn’t really focusing on the biology of Thedas in that way.
I’m just really glad they are exploring the natural world building in the game because it’s often overlooked or left out. Which just begs to question, how are Thedosians genetically modifying their crops? What are their goals? Form over flavour? Flavour over form?
Are they doing it the tried and true way of just selective breeding and choosing desirable traits from the crops each year? Are they using magic? If they do how wide spread I the use of magic acceleration for such things? Is it accessible to the common people or just nobles and upper class? I have questions about Thedosian horticulture.
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exhausted-archivist · 1 year ago
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Thedas Scaling vs Real World Scaling
I am once again bothering everyone and their mutuals about how small Thedas is scaled and how it is roughly 200k miles (321,869 km) bigger than Greenland, and 65, 998 miles (106.2k km) larger than Algeria.
A continent that is supporting at least 10.01 million people who range from 4'9 - 8' (1.44 - 2.43 m) in addition to all the mega fauna (dragons, giants, great bears, wyverns, wandering hills, ect.)
To be clear, I'm not saying that a land mass this size couldn't support 10.01 million people. It likely could if you reference the pre-plague numbers of England of which Ferelden is the approximate size of, and Thedas is roughly 12 Fereldens. The population estimate for England was around 1.5 million or more in 1086 and grew to between 3.7 million and 5–7 million. If we go low ball and go with the 1.5 million with the high ball of 7 million, Thedas could potentially support 18-84 million people.
There are many issues with this though, the first one being that when you consider the fact that a large swath is uninhabitable or are unsustainable for large populations; Western Approach, Silent Plains, the Anderfels, and a portion of blighted lands between Antiva and Rivain. Which knocks out roughly 1 Ferelden worth of land. So, subtracting the respective amount leaves us with 16.5-77 million of potentially supported population.
The second issue, is again the mega fauna. Dragons need large amounts of food. Their drakes go out and hunt for food for them, their brood, and the drakes themselves while the high dragon is in her nest. She then goes and eats in vastly larger amounts before she lays a clutch. Considering the size of dragons and that we know there are/were at least 12 at one point. That's a lot of land they'd need to support themselves and their brood.
Then you have giants, wyverns, regular bears, great bears, pheonix, quillback, hyenas, and more. If we focus on bears, such as the great bear which preys on wyverns and dragons and their size, along with the much larger than the average Thedosian bear - which are larger than the largest bear irl who's shoulders average at 5' (153cm) which would be as tall as Varric whose game model is 5' (153cm). The bears themselves would need massive amounts of space to forage and/or hunt. Especially in preparation for winter.
This makes it so Thedas couldn't support the minimum population size it would have of 10.01 million people with the amount of mega fauna it has without extreme clashes near daily without them being hunted to extinction. Which we know they almost did with dragons.
But these are a lot of numbers right? And really how big are those countries I mentioned? Well, here is Algeria (Blue), Greenland (Green), and America (Orange) overlayed over Europe for perspective using The True Size site.
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For clearer idea of what this looks like on an individual level:
Greenland vs America
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Algeria vs America
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exhausted-archivist · 1 year ago
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I'm currently stuck in an unending cycle of Thedosian climate/biomes -> flora -> fauna -> food and back again. Every time I think of working on food I consider the environment of each nation, the different regions, what plants they have, then what animals eat those plants, what animals eat the herbivores, and what led people to look at a wyvern and say: "Hm... I want to eat that but also lets figure out 40+ ways to safely consume its venom that we also regularly use to poison our rivals."
Its a never ending cycle and why I'm simoltaneously working on flora, fauna, and food projects. This all started because I wanted to map out plants in Thedas but to do that I needed to map out environments and it all spiraled from there. Definitely.... do not have a problem.
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exhausted-archivist · 2 years ago
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Foods of Thedas: Master Post
Here is the very, very long and complete list of all dishes, ingredients, and drinks in Thedas as of Tevinter Nights.
This compiles all the canon posts. My headcanons are separate from this list to avoid any confusion but you can find it linked along with the other individual posts below.
Like in the individual posts, the list has the country of origins next to each item and any relevant information. Such as ingredients, use, notes, or trivia. For the canonically suggested foods and drinks I list what their real world uses are for your reference as to what they might be used for in Thedas.
For "Shorter" Food Posts
Dishes, Sauces, and Sides
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Disclaimer Though real life plants may be listed here as edible it is for fictional use only. This is not intended to be used as a reference nor guide for what plants are edible or safe to eat. Please do not use it as such.
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Dishes
Breads and Desserts
Breads
Biscuit
Whole Grain Biscuit - Commonly made in Chantry cloisters. A staple in their simple diets.
Black Bread
Braided Honey and Date Bread
Brown Bread
Buns
Butter Puff - This is bread where butter is folded into the dough allowing it to become puffy and softer than usual bread. (Orlesian)
Crumpet
Dark Bread
Dried Bread
Honey Loaf
Lichen Bread - Bread that is made using lichen. (Orzammar)
Peasant Bread - A hearty type of bread that is made with a variety of grains.
Raider Queen's Bread of Many Tongues - Created by the Raider Queen, this bread calls for flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, bananas. The creator calls for Par Vollen bananas but another version of the recipe says Rivaini bananas are an acceptable replacement. (Rivain)
Ryott Bread - Made of a protein rich grain that is valued throughout Ferelden.
Sweet Bread
Sweet Rolls
Thin Bread - A thin bread used to make wraps in Seheron.
Whole Grain Bread - Another staple made in Chantry cloisters.
Desserts
Cake
Cake with Apples
Chocolate Cake
Cupcakes
The Exquisite Misery - A little cake topped with a dusting of anise, deep mushrooms, and gold dust. (Orlesian)
Hearth Cake - A pan-made Dalish cake; made of flour, hardwood ash or baking powder, halla butter, sugar, mixed dried fruit (currants, cranberries, etc), egg, milk.
Honey Cake
Lemon Cake
Petit Fours (Orlesian)
Pound Cake
Round Cake - Often topped with poppyseed and honey. In Serault, they will sometimes have the antlers baked into the crust.
Sugar Cake - Made with strawberries and sugar-cream icing on a pound cake.
Sugar-drizzled Lemon Cake - A type of lemon cake that was used in Antivan Crow history to assassinate templars.
Sugarcake - A dense cake usually topped with powdered sugar.
Sweet Cake
Candy
Black Licorice Candy - Can be salted.
Bon-bons
Candied Almonds
Candied Dates
Candied Fruit
Candy Cane
Candy Apple
Carastian Candy - A candied chocolate. (Tevinter)
Peppermints
Spun Sugar (Fereldan)
Sweetmeat - A confectionery treat, sometimes candy coated fruit.
Toffee
Unnamed Candied Nuts with Spice - A candy that is sweet until swallowed, then they leave a spicy aftertaste. (Orlesian)
Cookies
Biscuit - A hard, flat, and unleavened baked treat that can be sweet or savory.
Butter and Sugar Cookie - This cookie isn’t specified as it is only described by these ingredients.
Raisin Cookies
Shortbread
Tea Biscuits
Wafers
Donuts
Ice Cream
Orlesian Guimauves - Another name for marshmallows.
Pastries
Apple Pie
The Blessed Apple - A pie made by a small cloister of Chantry sisters tending to the orchard, they use the windfall apples and share the pies freely; as well as the apples. The ingredients are flour, salt, butter, water, apples (golden apples from Lady's Orchard preferred but others are acceptable substitutions), brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. (Orlesian)
Cinnamon Rolls
Croissant
Honey and Nut Pastry (Tevinter)
Macaroon
Marie du Lac Erre's Sweet Ruin - One version of this pastry with a dramatic history, the recipe contains; butter, powdered sugar, chocolate, vanilla extract, flour, orange or mint extract, baking powder, and milk. (Orlesian)
Minced Pie - filled with finely chopped fruit and sweet things.
Tarts
Unnamed Blueberry Pastry - A light, sticky pastry with blueberries. (Possibly Nevarran)
Pudding
Caramel Pudding
Dessert Pudding
Sticky Jellies (Orlesian)
Gravy and Sauces
Ale Cooked Mushroom (Dwarven)
Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce
Applesauce
Cream Sauce
Deep Mushroom Flavored Cream Sauce (Orzammar)
Dragon’s Blood Sauce (Nevarran)
Gravy
Honey-glaze - A sauce used to glaze various foods, particularly meats.
Hot Sauce
Llomerryn Red Sauce - A sauce that goes on almost everything, contains pulped tomatoes, onions, red pepper, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, mustard powder, hot pepper powder, salt, cinnamon stick, allspice, cloves, fennel seeds, dill seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, bay, garlic. (Rivain)
Nesting Roast Gravy - Gravy made from the pan juices of a nesting roast. Meant to be served with the roast. (Orlesian)
Plum Sauce
Red Wine Marinade
River-herring Gravy - a gravy as white as apple blossoms. (Orlesian)
Special Sauce - A sauce infused with the essence of fifty-two herbs, prized for the ability to help with “inadequacy”. (Kirkwall)
Wild Flower Glaze - A honeyed glaze made of wild flowers, it is recommended to use flowers plucked at dawn and the lowest blossoms.
Main Dishes
Beans and Bread
Boiled Roots
Braised Nug with Elfroot (Dwarven)
Braised Ram with all the Trimmings
Bread and Cheese
Broiled Boar Head (Fereldan)
Cacio e pepe - A dish of three ingredients; spaghetti, pepper, and pecorino romano. (Antivan)
Canapé - a type of hors d'œuvre.
Chicken Wings - Sold in The Rusted Horn as 'Wyvern Wings.'
Dalish Deep Forest Comfort - String squashes, halla butter, garlic, mushrooms, elfroot or spinach, diced tomatoes or beetles, hot red pepper, rock salt, halla cheese or goat cheese, edible wildflowers (borage, chicory, etc), pine nuts. (Dalish of Southern Orlais)
Dried Bread and Fruit
Eggs à la Val Foret - An egg dish served with a cream sauce. (Orlesian)
First Day Chicken - a dish served during First Day in some parts of Orlais.
Fried Mush (Orzammar)
Gilded Swan with River-herring Gravy - An eastern spice, flour, gold leaf, river herring, swan, yolk. (Orlaisian)
Gnocchi (Antivan)
Goat Custard - A broiled goat head (Fereldan)
Ham
Anderfels Smoked Ham - It tastes of despair
Avvar Ham
Ham Stuck with Cloves
The Jade Ham - Honeyed with wild flowers (especially those picked at dawn), masterfully seasoned, and spiral-cut.
Orlesian Ham
Smoked Ham
Herbed Chicken and Biscuits
Jellied Meats
Jellied Eels
Jellied Pigs Feet - A delicacy in the Free Marches and originally a popular commoner food that has risen to the tables of nobility. Pigs feet and/or pork hocks, salt, onions, garlic, allspice, peppercorns, bay. (Free Marcher)
Veal Galentine (Orlesian)
Liver
Mad Burnard's Gift of Flesh - A nesting roast unlike any other, involving a whole wyvern, stuffed with a whole gurn, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a large halla (horns and all), stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a bunting that choked on a gold piece. (Orlesian)
Meat Pies
Dove Pie - A pie made with live doves, for the theater of the meal. (Orlesian)
Pigeon Pie
Pork Pie
Turnip and Mutton Pie (Fereldan)
Unmentionable Pie - It is a meat pie that uses the typically undesirable parts of an animal. (Fereldan)
Venison Pasty - A hand pie filled with venison. In Serault, it is served with curls of goat cheese. (Orlesian)
Nesting Roast - This dish is classically made with a quail stuffed in a pheasant stuffed in a swan. Served with gravy made from the pan juices. (Orlesian)
Nug Steak (Orzammar)
Nug-gets (Orzammar)
Nug-loaf (Orzammar)
Nug-Nug - A dish meant to resemble a nug peeking from its burrow; made of ground meat (beef preferred), parsley, egg, salt, crushed cumin or mustard seeds, black pepper, cooked rice, tomatoes, onions, chives (Orlesian)
Pancake - The breakfast food and savory dishes.
Crepes - A very thin pancake that can be filled with sweet or savory ingredients.
Nug Pancakes - A savory pancake made with nug. A favorite among dwarven children. (Orzammar)
Porridge
Bland Porridge
Deer Porridge - A savory porridge.
Pig Oat Mash - A constant dish on The Hanged Man menu, a popular hangover cure if washed down with brandy spiked cider. This warming porridge contains apples, dried salt pork or smoked bacon, dried rolled oats, berries, ale or water (Kirkwall)
Porridge with Raisins
Savory Porridge
Pudding - A sweet or savory, steamed dish that can be topped with gravy or chocolate.
Rack of Ribs (Fereldan)
Ram Chops
Ram Cutlet
Rice and Boiled Vegetables
Roast
Roast Boar - On cooking method involves the boar being stuffed with apples
Roast Chicken
Roast Duck
Roast Hog
Roast Lamb
Roast Turkey
Roast Wyvern
Roasted Cave Beetle (Dwarven)
Roasted Giant Spider (Dwarven)
Roasted Nug (Orzammar)
Roasted Phoenix - One of the most infamous meals in Thedas, it is served with sweet red wine.
Roasted Rabbit
Roasted Venison with Wild Greens
Spit-roasted Deepstalker (Dwarven)
Spit-roasted Nug with Hot Sauce (Orzammar)
Sandwich
Ham Sandwich
Sausage - There are about twelve different kinds of sausage unnamed mentioned in Last Court.
Black Pudding - A type of blood sausage made from pork or beef blood, pork fat or beef sue, and a type of cereal. (Orlesian)
Smoked Sausage
Spiced Sausage
Seared Nug - Usually served with a deep mushroom cream sauce. (Orzammar)
Sera's Yummy Corn
Shredded Dried Meat and Cheese - A dish that is commonly used as a spread by the dwarves. (Orzammar)
Simmering Partridge - Cooked with sweet onions and pale beans (Orlesian)
Smoked Meat
Smoked Boar
Smoked Rabbit
Smoked Venison
Spiced Nug
Sticky Figs Rolled in Nuts
Venison with Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce
Wandering Hills - A delicacy made from large creatures of the same name. (Anderfels)
Wyvern Steak
Seafood
Alamarri Pickled Krone - Krone, Brine, (Optional) pine pitch and druffalo dung.
Baked Fish - An Avvar cooking method where they wrap fish in pungent leaves and clay before cooking it in banked coals.
Baked Krone with Honey - The honey is typically used as a side sauce for dipping. (Fereldan)
Fish Wrap - Fish wrapped in thin bread (Seheron)
Fluffy Mackerel Pudding - Celery, pepper, mackerel, diced onion, mustard, salt, Antivan pepper, ground mace, cardamom seed, eggs (Fereldan)
Fresh Oyster
Fried Fish
Glazed Krone (Fereldan)
Lutefisk
Smoked Fish
Starkhaven Fish and Egg Pie - Fish from the Minanter River (carp, trout, or others), wine, onion, carrot, thyme, bay, sea salt, dried currants, sliced almonds, boiled sliced eggs, butter, flour, fish broth, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cream, fried whitebait or other small fish. (Starkhaven)
Soups and Stews
Barley Soup
Butter Soup - A simple, inexpensive, and easy soup. Made as midmorning meals or midday refresher for field workers. It is commonly fed to children and convalescents due to its nutritious nature. Ingredients include water, potatoes, cinnamon, star anise, clove, bay, peppercorns, salt, noodles, cream, butter (Orlesian)
Cabbage Stew
Deepstalker Stew - A stew of deepstalker is made when rations run low. (Legion of the Dead)
Enchantment Soup - Made by Sandal, edibility unknown.
Fereldan Turnip and Barley Stew - White beans, oil, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, stock, turnips, turnip greens, sausage, barley, cumin, dried basil, oregano, salt, pepper, herbed wine vinegar
First Day Festival Stew (Orzammar)
Fish Chowder (Antivan)
Fish Stew
The Hanged Man Stew - The tavern’s featured dish, made with a different mystery meat every morning. (Kirkwall)
Lamb and Pea Stew (Fereldan)
Norbotten Fruit Stew - This dish is used to rehydrate dried fruits: dried apricots, pitted prunes, raisins, mixed dried fruits (cherries, apples, cranberries, etc), lemon or orange, cinnamon, cloves, water, sugar or honey, brandy. (Anderfels)
Pea Soup
Ram Stew
Turnip Stew
Turnip-Goat Stew (Fereldan)
Wild Rabbit Stew
Sides
Antivan Olives - Soaked in vinegar and stuffed with capers.
Brandy Soaked Cherries
Beer Nuts
Dried Fruit
Dried Meats
Jerky
Jerky Ball
Fried Potatoes
Hard-boiled Egg
Jarred Olives (Tevinter)
Meat Skewers (Orlais)
Peeled Grapes (Tevinter)
Picked Foods
Pickled Apples
The Pickled Apples of Arlathan - Apples said to be from the time of Arlathan. The taste is described to be one of fresh apples, with the same crispness.
Pickled Eggs - Eggs, sugar, salt, vinegar. Favored in Ferelden.
Pickled Fish
Pickled Lamprey
Pickled Nug
Pickled Ox Tongue
Pickled Vegetables
Pickles
Roasted Chestnuts (Nevarran)
Roasted Potatoes
Smoked Bacon
Steamed Beans
Toast
Wine Soaked Fruit
Miscellaneous
Hardtack
Provisions
Rations -Typically consist of dried meat, nuts, and a variety of other simple foodstuffs.
Dry Ration
Qunari Ration
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Drinks
Absinthe
Absence - One of the bottles of Thedas you find in Inquisition.
Absinthe - also referred to la fée verte - “little green fairy”
Petite Absinthe - Made from a certain type of wormwood.
Ale, Beer, Drafts, Lagers, and Stouts The Tapster's Tavern in Orzammar serves 52 types of ale, some are listed.
Ale
Ander Stout - This stout is stored in oak casts.
Barley Wine - Despite its name, this is an ale.
Beer
Brakien Brew (Orzammar)
Brown Ale
Coconut Draft
Fereldan Beer
Fereldan Lager - A pale ale.
Lichen Ale (Orzammar)
Oghren's Homebrew - An amber coloured ale with a slightly sweet, nutty flavor and described to have a hint of toastiness, and is spiced with cloves. (Dwarven)
Qunari Ale
Ryott Ale (Fereldan)
Ryotte Beer (Fereldan)
Valenta’s Red (Orzammar)
Watered Beer - While watered beer is served to reduce the price of beer and stretch it along, it is also served as a provision. In Serault, the peasantry drink watered beer to stave off the summer heat.
Watered-down Ale
Wildwine - An ale made from ryott. (Chasind)
Wilhelm’s Special Brew - This dark-colored ale gives off a thick, oaky smell. When swirled in its tankard, it takes on an unexpected glow.
Brandy
Aged Antivan Brandy
Antivan Brandy
Antivan Plum Brandy
Apple Brandy (Orlesian)
Orlesian Brandy
Plum Brandy
West Hill Brandy (Ferelden)
Cider
Brandy-spiked-cider
Cider
Serault Cider
Winter Cider (Wycome)
Cocktails
Benediction (Orlesian)
The Emerald Valley (Orlesian)
Dragon’s Piss - The name is probably figurative, but no one knows for sure. BioWare gives the "recipe" for Dragon Piss as "1 oz light rum, 1 oz dark rum, filled with iced tea". (Orlesian)
The Golden Nug (Orlesian)
The Heart of Spring - A "restorative" drink from Verchiel made with violets. (Orlesian)
The Hissing Drake (Orlesian)
Ice Cream and Beer
A Night of Shame (Orlesian)
Posset - A drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor and typically flavored with spices. Can be drunk as a delicacy or as a cold remedy.
The Randy Dowager (Orlesian)
To Cure a Cold - a folk remedy that requires boiling whiskey and adding lemon juice and crushed garlic.
Gin
Gin
Prophet’s Laurel Gin
Grey Warden Liquor These are bottles unique to members of the order, as each warden will combine half-full bottles in order to save space. No bottle is ever fully emptied or cleaned. In order to preserve the base flavor. They are called Grey Whiskey, Ritewine, or Conscription Ale, each vintage is named after a warden with a small note.
Vintage: Warden Anras - Bottled whimsy.
Vintage: Warden Bethany Hawke - Princess piss.
Vintage: Warden Carver Hawke - Toast them all.
Vintage: Warden Daedalam - Extra red.
Vintage: Warden Eval’lal - Griffon Wing Ale
Vintage: Warden Gibbins - Don’t frigging touch! I spit in this! I mean it!
Vintage: Warden Jairn - Smash when dead.
Vintage: Warden Korenic - Notes of fruit and anger.
Vintage: Warden Riordan - Serve yourself.
Vintage: Warden Steed - Joining juice.
Vintage: Warden Tontiv - Home.
Mead The Tapster's Tavern in Orzammar serves 17 types of mead, some are listed. Honeywine is another name for mead.
Avvar Mead
Chasind Sack Mead
Lady Odette Guillory's Family Honey Wine
Mead
Orlesian Honeywine
Port A sweet, fortified red wine, typically served with dessert.
Antivan Port
Tevinter Port
Rum Boot Screech is another name for rum.
Alvarado’s Bathtub Boot Screech
Blackwater Rum
Dark Llomerryn Rum
Tea and Other Drinks
Coffee (Antivan)
Cocoa/Hot Chocolate
Juice
Fermented Fruit Juice
Pickle Juice
Pomegranate Juice
Prune Juice
Punch
Spicy Punch
Tea
Almond Tea
Anderfels Mint Tea
Bitter Tea - An unspecified tea so bitter it is astringent. Served during the Fourth Blight.
Black Tea
Black Tea with Juniper
Fires of Change Tea
Herbal Tea
Iced Tea
Lattenfluss Tea (Anderfels)
Mint Tea
Nameless Tevinter Tea
Rivaini Spice Tea Blend
Rivaini Tea
Rosehips Tea
Spiced Tea
Stripweed Tea
Unsweetened Tea
Verimensis Tea (Tevinter)
Whiskey
Cinnamon-infused Whiskey
Ferelden Whisky
Legacy White Shear
Mackay’s Epic Single Malt
Wine The Tapster's Tavern in Orzammar serves 12 types of imported wines, some are listed.
Agreggio Pavali (Tevinter)
Alyons Black
Amaranthine Red
Anderfels Red
Antivan Red
Bitter Black Wine
Celestine Black Wine
Dandelion Wine (City Elves of Orlais)
Elderberry Wine
Elfroot Mixed with Wine
Finale by Massaad
Flames of Our Lady
Flat Wine
Ghislain Red
Iced Wine
Montsimmard White
Mosswine (Orzammar)
Mulsum (Tevinter)
Orichalcum mixed with Wine - Considered to have aphrodisiac properties.
Orlesian Red
Plum Wine
Red Wine
Serault Yellow Wine
Serault White
Silent Plains Piquette (Tevinter)
Southern Black Wine
Spiced Wine
Sweetened and Spiced Yellow Wine
Val Chevin Red Wine
Vint-9 Rowan’s Rose
Watered Wine
White Seleny Wine (Antivan)
White Wine
Yellow Wine
Additional Spirits
Abyssal Peach
Antivan Sip-Sip
Aqua Magus
Aquae Lucidius - A potent liquor made of wyvern venom; a rare drink known for its hallucinogenic properties.
Bottle of Rotgut - Rotgut is slang for cheap whiskey.
Butterbile :84
Carnal 8:69 Blessed (Orlesian)
Dwarven Ale - Not actually an ale, but a black liquid reputedly made from fungus with a reputation as being almost undrinkable for anyone not a dwarf.
Garblog’s Backcountry Reserve
Golden Scythe 9:40 Black
Hirol’s Lava Burst (Kal'Hirol)
Maraas-Lok (Qunari)
Moonshine
Potent Moonshine
Sun Blonde Vint-1
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**Fruits, Mushrooms, Nuts, and Vegetables*
Edible Plants
Fern Fiddlehead
Lichen
Moss
Pungent Leaves - Unspecified leaves used in Avvar cooking of baked fish.
Rose
Rose Petals
Rosehips
Stripweed
Sugar Cane (Tevinter, Rivain)
Wildflowers
Borage
Chicory
Dandelion
Honeysuckle
Violet
Fruits and Nuts
Apple
Applewood Apples (Orlais)
Golden Apples (Orlais)
Green Apples
Le Pomme Vie et Morte - Apples that grow by the gallows in Val Royeaux.
Red Apples
Windfall Apples
Apricot
Banana
Par Vollen Banana
Rivain Banana
Berry
Blueberry
Cranberry
Elderberry
Raspberry
Strawberry
Caper (Antiva)
Cherry
Cocoa/Chocolate (Donarks)
Coconut
Coffee (Antiva)
Currant
Black Currant
Date - A purple and red fruit with a pit, it has a sweetness and tangy taste. (Tevinter)
Fig
Grape
Lemon
Lime
Nuts
Almond
Chestnut
Pine Nut
Olive
Antivan Olive
Orange (Orlais, Antiva)
Passion Fruit
Peach
Pear
Plum
Pomegranate
Pomegranate Seeds
Grain
Barley
Pot Barley
Oats
Rolled Oats
Rice
Ryott
Ryott Flour
Wheat
Wheat Flour
Whole Grains
Whole Grain Flour
Mushrooms
Deep Mushroom
Field Mushroom
Unspecified Fungus - Used to brew Dwarven ale.
Truffle
Unnamed Glowing Fungus
Wild Mushroom
Vegetables
Beans
Bush Beans
Green Beans
Pale Beans
White Beans
Cabbage
Carrot
Purple Carrot
White Carrot
Celery
Chive
Corn
Checkered Corn
Golden Corn
Yellow Corn
Cucumber
Eggplant
Fennel
Lettuce
Mustard
Onion
Red Onion
Sweet Onion
White Onion
Pea
Pepper
Antivan Pepper
Green Pepper
Hot Pepper
Hot Red Pepper
Red Bell Pepper
Sweet Pepper
Potato
Radish
Spinach
Squash
Marrow Squash
Pumpkin
String Squash
Tomato
Turnip - aka navet
Turnip Greens
Wild Greens
Animal Products
Dairy
Butter
Cow Butter
Goat Butter
Halla Butter
Herbed Butter
Nug Butter
Cheese
Ativan Smoked Cheese
Blue-veined Cheese (Orlesian)
Brie Cheese
Brined Goat Cheese
“Dalish” Cheese - An ill described item as it is unclear if it is actually cheese. One thing is for sure it isn’t Dalish.
Feisty Cheese
Goat Cheese
Halla Cheese
Pecorino Romano (Antivan)
Ram Cheese
Cream
Spiced Cream
Thickened Cream
Whipped Cream
Milk
Cow Milk
Goat Milk
Halla Milk
Ram Milk
Soured Milk
Eggs
Caviar
Chicken Egg
Egg Whites
Egg Yolk
Fish
Carp
Cod
Eel
Krone
Lamprey
Mackerel
Mussel
Oyster
River Herring
Sunfish
Trout
Whitebait
Insects
Cave Beetle (Dwarven)
Giant Spider (Dwarven)
Scorpion
Snail (Avvar)
Wood-burrowing beetle larvae (Dalish)
Meats
Beef
Ox
Ox-tongue
Rump Roast - A cut of meat from the hindquarters
Veal
Boar
Bronto
Cat
Deepstalker (Dwarven)
Dog
Dragon
Druffalo
Goat
Gurgut
Gurn
Halla
Hare
Hart
Horse
Liver - General name given, animal isn’t specified.
Lurker (Avvar)
Nug
Phoenix
Pork
Pig's Feet
Pork Hocks
Pork Saddle
Quillback
Rabbit
Ram
Rat
Sheep
Lamb
Mutton
Varghest
Venison
Wandering Hills (Anderfels)
Wyvern
Poultry
Bunting
Chicken
Dove
Duck
Partridge
Pheasant
Pigeon
Quail
Swan
Turkey
Misc.
Dragon Blood (Nevarran)
Druffalo Dung
Honey
Honeycomb
Miscellaneous Ingredients
Baking Ingredients
Ash
Elfroot Ash
Hardwood Ash (Dalish)
Baking Powder
Yeast Cake
Salts
Fine-ground Salt
Rock Salt
Salt
Sea Salt
Others
Brine
Clay (Avvar)
Pine Pitch (Alamarri)
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Herbs and Spices
Herbs
Basil
Dried Basil
Bay Leaf
Catsbane
Elfroot
Elfroot Leaves
Royal Elfroot
Lavender (Orlesian)
Mint
Anderfels’s Mint
Foxmint
Peppermint
Oregano
Dried Oregano
Parsley
Prophet's Laurel
Rosemary
Spindleweed
Verdant Spindleweed
Thyme
Spices
Allspice
Anise
Antivan Cord-seed
Cardamom
Cinnamon (Seheron)
Clove
Cumin
Cumin Seed
Deep Mushroom Powder (Orlesian and Dwarven)
Dill
Dill Seeds
Dragon Blood Powder (Nevarran)
Eastern Spice - Unnamed
Fennel Seeds
Garlic
Ginger
Dried Ginger
Hot Pepper Powder
Hot Red Pepper, Crushed
Juniper
Licorice
Mace
Mustard
Mustard Powder
Mustard Seeds
Nutmeg (Seheron)
Grated Nutmeg
Pepper
Black Pepper
Peppercorn
Black Peppercorn
Poppyseed
Saffron
Spice Ball - A variety of mixed spices wrapped in a cheesecloth
Star Anise
Vanilla (Rivain)
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Prepared Ingredients
Basic Ingredients
Alcohol
Brandy
Cinnamon-infused whiskey
Dark Llomerryn Rum
Hirol's Lava Burst
Prophet's Laurel Gin
Red Wine
Watered Down Ale
Whiskey
White Seleney Wine
Broth and Stock
Broth
Deepstalker Broth
Fish Broth
Stock
Brown Stock
Eggs
Hard Boiled Egg
Essences and Extracts
Essence
Orange Essence
Extract
Mint Extract
Orange Extract
Vanilla Extract
Golds
Edible Gold Leaf
Gold Dust
Grains
Noodles
Grain-based Noodles
Pasta
Spaghetti
Pie Dough
Oils
Cod Liver Oil
Oil
Sugars
Brown Sugar
Molasses
Powdered Sugar
Sugar
Sugar Syrup
Vinegars
Apple Cider Vinegar
Herbed Wine Vinegar
Vinegar
Desserts and Sweets
Desserts
Buttercream
Caramel
Chocolate
Chocolate Bitters
Custard
Pound Cake
Tea Biscuit
Toffee
Wafer
Jam
Plum Jam
Raspberry Jam
Misc
Sugar Cream Icing
Sugar Flowers
Sugared Rose Petals
Syrup
Dried and Cured Foods
Dried Fruits, Vegetables, and Fungi
Dried Apple
Dried Apricot
Dried Beans
Dried Cherry
Dried Cranberry
Dried Currant
Dried Mushroom
Dried Peas
Prunes
Pitted Prunes
Raisin
Cured Meats
Bacon
Smoked Bacon
Cold Cuts
Dried Meats
Dried Mackerel
Jerky
Lutefisk
Salted
Dried Salt Pork
Salt Pork
Salted Beef
Salted Dragon Meat
Salted Fish
Salted Goat Meat
Salted Meat
Sausage
Blood Sausage
Smoked Sausage
Spiced and Salted Sausage
Smoked
Smoked Beef
Smoked Fish
Smoked Goat Meat
Pickled Foods
Pickled Ox Tongue
Pickles
Prepared Animal Products
Gelatine
Grease
Ground Meat
Ground Beef
Ground Nug
Lard
Spiced Meat
Miscellaneous
Lyrium
Wyvern Venom - There are 47 ways to distill wyvern venom to be safe for consumption.
Canonically Suggested Food and Ingredients
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Raw Ingredients
Edible Plants, Fruit, and Vegetables
Edible Plants
Aspen - The inner bark is sweet and starchy. It is edible both raw and cooked, it can also be dried and ground into flour. Some aspens have edible catkins as well.
Beech - The young green spring leaves can be cooked as greens. The inner bark, once dried, can be turned into bread flour.
Birch - The inner bark can be dried and used to make bread flour. Strips of the inner bark could be eaten raw or boiled like noodles. The sap was edible directly from the tree or boiled down into a slightly sweet syrup.
Cactus
Cattail
Clover
Flowers
Cosmos
Daisy
Dog-rose - The rose hips and flower’s petals are used to make teas, preserves, jellies, and pickled relishes.
Elderflower
Gorse
Hollyhock
Jasmin
Lilac
Marguerite
Orchid - The dried corms (tubers) are used to make hot drinks.
Pansy
Peony
Poppy
Snapdragon
Sunflower
Tulip
Wysteria
Lotus - Both the roots and the large seeds are edible when cooked. However the seeds can be eaten raw.
Maple - Along with the sap, the inner bark of maple can be eaten cooked or raw. The seeds and leaves are edible as well once boiled.
Northern Prickleweed - Young prickleweed shoots can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled.
Palm - Heart of palms are eaten as well as palm oil.
Pine - Aside from pine nuts, the pine pollen, pine cones - only the females, may be eaten once shelled and roasted. Pine needles are used for tea or chewed on for the juices, and the inner pine bark can be dried and ground as flour, used to thicken soups and stews, cooked like spaghetti, or eaten raw. The sap is high in vitamins a and c and has been used to fend off scurvy in the past. The sap can be drunk as a tea in the spring.
Fir Pine
Stone Pine - Produce large pine nuts that make them easier to eat and forage for.
Red Cedar - The inner bark can be dried and ground into a powder, treating scurvy and acting as a nutritious ration added to foods.
Seaweed
Spruce - Spruce tips, spruce needles, spruce tree cones, and the inner bark of a spruce tree.
Thistle
Water Lily
Willow - The inner bark can be scraped off, cooked in strips like spaghetti, dried and ground into flour, or eaten raw.
Wormwood
Fruits and Nuts
Berries
Blackberry (Ferelden)
Blackthorn Berry - also known as sloe berries or sloes.
Rowan Berries - Bitter berries that can be cooked to make jelly or used as flavoring.
Bradford Pear - This small variety of pear comes from a rather foul smelling tree. The pears can be used for jellies, ciders, and hand pie. (Ferelden)
Citron
Melon
Nuts
Acorn
Black Walnut - Used to make syrups and liquors.
Hognut
Peanut (Seheron)
Walnut
Seeds
Sunflower Seeds
Sour Cherry
Sour Grape
Fungi and Mushrooms
Morel mushrooms - There is a blighted morel, so it stands to reason there is a non-blighted morel.
Grain
Flax
Flax Seed
Herbs
Elfroot
Bitter Elfroot
Gossamer Elfroot
Sage
Winterberry
Vegetables
Artichoke (Orlais)
Beet
Daikon Radish (Ferelden)
Animal Byproducts
Dairy
Butter
Goat Butter
Horse Butter
Sheep Butter
Cheese
Donkey Cheese
Horse/Mare cheese - Cheese made from milk of a horse.
Sheep Cheese
Curds
Milk
Buttermilk
Donkey Milk - High in nutrients but low in fat, it can be used as a milk replacement for infants when mixed with a bit of cow/goat cheese to add fat to the milk.
Mares Milk - Milk from a horse, it can be used as a milk replacement for infants.
Sheep Milk
Whey
Eggs
Crocodile Eggs
Duck Eggs
Goose Eggs
Gull Eggs
Partridge Eggs
Peafowl Eggs
Pigeon Eggs
Quail Eggs
Turkey Eggs
Turtle Eggs
Fish/Seafood
Clam
Crab
Crayfish
Jellyfish
Octopus
Shark
Squid
Sturgeon - The source of caviar.
Insects
Cricket
Locust
Meat
Badger
Bear
Crocodile
Donkey
Elk
Fox
Frog
Gazelle
Lynx
Marmot
Moose
Mountain Goat
Otter
Raccoon
Squirrel
Turtle
Wolf
Poultry
Albatross
Eagle
Goose
Grouse
Gull
Lark
Owl
Parrot
Peafowl
Ptarmigan
Quail
Turkey
Miscellanious
Fat
Goose Fat
Maple Syrup
Marrow Bones
Lamb
Ox
Prepared Ingredients
Plant-Based
Almond Milk
Olive Oil
Rice Flour
Rose Water
Sources:
(If you want to find direct links or page numbers check out the wiki’s food and ingredients page.
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DA:A Item: Aqua Magus Item: "Dragon Piss" Item: Hirol's Lava Burst Item: Mackay's Epic Single Malt Item: Moonshine Item: Pie Item: West Hill Brandy
DA II Codex Entry: Elfroot Codex Entry: Orichalcum Codex entry: The Qunari - Asit tal-eb Codex entry: Viscount Marlowe Dumar Codex Entry: The Wine of Chateau Haine Codex Entry: Wyvern Letter: Feeling Inadequate? Item: Dragon’s Blood Junk List: Bottle of Aged Antivan Brandy Junk List: Bottle of Potent Moonshine Junk List: Bottle of Rotgut Junk List: Dwarven Ale Junk List: Orlesian Honeywine Junk List: Qunari Rations Junk List: Stale Biscuit Junk List: Stuffed Parrot
DA:I Codex entry: Andruil's Messenger Codex Entry: The Ben-Hassrath Codex Entry: Blackwall the Last Few Years Codex Entry: Bottles of Thedas Codex Entry: Charred Notebook Codex Entry: The City of Starkhaven Codex Entry: A Compendium of Orlesian Theater Codex entry: Correspondence Interruptus Codex Entry: The Diary of Triolus Hertubise Codex Entry: Grey Whiskey/Ritewine/Conscription Ale Codex entry: Hard in Hightown: Chapter Ten Codex Entry: Hard in Hightown: Chapter Eleven Codex Entry: Hard in Hightown: Chapter ??? Codex Entry: In the Mist: The Windline Marcher Codex Entry: La Pomme Vie et More Codex Entry: A Letter to Harding Codex Entry: Mad Emperor Reville Codex Entry: A Magister’s Needs Codex Entry: A Nutty Affair Codex Entry: On Avvar Cuisine Codex entry: The Perendale War Codex Entry: The Pickled Apples of Arlathan Codex Entry: Plant vs. Corpses Codex Entry: Ram Codex Entry: Redcliffe (Inquisition) Codex Entry: A Scholar’s Journal Codex Entry: Spindleweed Codex Entry: A Supply List Codex Entry: Surviving the Western Approach Codex Entry: Three Little Empresses Codex Entry: Waterlogged Diary Note: Betta’s Travel Journal Note: Cook’s Note Note: The Gilded Horn Drink List Note: Instructions for the Maid Note: Knight-Captain's Orders Note: A Note from the Skyhold Kitchen Note: The Rusted Horn’s Menu Note: Scribbled Note Note: Short Note Item: Carved Cricket Charm Item: Eagle Feather Charm Item: Fox's Pendant Item: Grouse Feather Charm War Table Mission: Abernache over Under War Table Mission: Dance with the Dowager: The Allemande War Table Mission: Disaster in the Deep Roads War Table Mission: Gain Access to Ghilan’nain’s Grove Wartable Mission: Inspire Wartable Mission: Plant Crystal in Venatori Headquarters War Table Mission: Smash Wartable Mission: The Tevinter Resistance Weapon: The Jade Ham Weapon: Wedge of Destiny
The Last Court Cards: The Acerbic Dowager The Anchoress (Card) The Antidote The Arrival of the Divine Atop the Tower of Lights The Boastful Neighbor The Chantry Unsealed Decide the Archoress’s Fate The Elegant Abbess The Fields Flames of Freedom Glass The Glassblowers' Anger Go Hunting Good Neighbors Graffiti Grant a Petition The Heartwood Feast The Hounds The Next Course Outlaw Councils A Plea for Sanctuary The Purveyor of Teas A Swift Stream Thieves A Tumbledown Shack An Unofficial Meeting The Wayward Bard The Whispering Woods The Wyvern is Cornered Your Bailiff is Attacked Your Bard is Restored to You
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Foods of Thedas: Prepared Ingredients
I separated these from raw ingredients because they either are foods/drinks on their own but are included in recipes, or involve a certain amount of cooking/processing to make them that separates them from those listed in raw ingredients. However, like with raw ingredients, I’ve only included items that are mentioned or shown in game for easy reference. Should you want to find additional and “speculative” ingredients you can visit this post or the master post.
For Additional Food Posts
Dishes, Sauces, and Sides
Drinks
Raw Ingredients
Cannonically Possible Foods and Drinks
Master Post
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Basic Ingredients
Alcohol
Brandy
Cinnamon-infused whiskey
Dark Llomerryn Rum
Hirol's Lava Burst
Prophet's Laurel Gin
Red Wine
Watered Down Ale
Whiskey
White Seleney Wine
Broth and Stock
Broth
Deepstalker Broth (Dwarven)
Fish Broth
Stock
Brown Stock
Eggs
Hard Boiled Egg
Essences and Extracts
Essence
Orange Essence
Extract
Mint Extract
Orange Extract
Vanilla Extract
Golds
Edible Gold Leaf (Orlaisian)
Gold Dust (Orlesian)
Grains
Noodles
Grain-based Noodles
Pasta
Spaghetti (Antivan)
Pie Dough
Oils
Cod Liver Oil
Oil
Sugars
Brown Sugar
Molasses
Powdered Sugar
Sugar
Sugar Syrup
Vinegars
Apple Cider Vinegar
Herbed Wine Vinegar
Vinegar
Desserts and Sweets
Desserts
Buttercream
Caramel
Chocolate
Chocolate Bitters
Custard
Pound Cake
Tea Biscuit
Toffee
Wafer
Jam
Plum Jam
Raspberry Jam
Misc
Sugar Cream Icing
Sugar Flowers
Sugared Rose Petals
Syrup
Dried and Cured Foods
Dried Fruits, Vegetables, and Fungi
Dried Apple
Dried Apricot
Dried Beans
Dried Cherry
Dried Cranberry
Dried Currant
Dried Mushroom
Dried Peas
Prunes
Pitted Prunes
Raisin
Cured Meats
Bacon
Smoked Bacon
Cold Cuts
Dried Meats
Dried Mackerel
Jerky
Lutefisk
Salted
Dried Salt Pork
Salt Pork
Salted Beef
Salted Dragon Meat
Salted Fish
Salted Goat Meat
Salted Meat
Sausage
Blood Sausage
Smoked Sausage
Spiced and Salted Sausage
Smoked
Smoked Beef
Smoked Fish
Smoked Goat Meat
Pickled Foods
Pickled Ox Tongue
Pickles
Prepared Animal Products
Gelatine
Grease
Ground Meat
Ground Beef
Ground Nug (Dwarven)
Lard
Spiced Meat
Miscellaneous
Lyrium
Wyvern Venom - There are 47 ways to distill wyvern venom to be safe for consumption.
Sources: ( If you want to find direct links or page numbers check out the wiki’s Food and Ingredients page.) Dragon Age: Origins (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age: Awakening Dragon Age 2 (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age: The Last Court Dragon Age: Inquisition (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age Tabletop RPG Core Rulebook
World of Thedas Vol. 1 World of Thedas Vol. 2 Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne Dragon Age: The Calling Dragon Age: The Masked Empire Dragon Age: Last Flight Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Short Story: Paying the Ferryman Short Story: Paper and Steel
DA:O Codex Entry: The History of Soldier's Peak: Chapter 3 Codex Entry: A Tattered Shopping List Item: Sugar Cake
DA II Codex Entry: Wyvern
DA:I Codex Entry: Plant vs. Corpses Codex Entry: Waterlogged Diary Note: The Gilded Horn's Drink List Note: Knight-Captain's Orders
The Last Court Flames of Freedom The Next Course Thieves The Wyvern is Cornered
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Sorry, not here to drop more half baked recipes. Instead I’m going to drop random dragon age trivia - and general animal trivia - I found while working in the cookbook.
Some preface though, humans love categorizing things. So much so that we usually have a name to denote sex, age, and reproductive maturity in most of our livestock. I knew this before, but in the old cookbooks I’m looking at it was much more common for people to know this sort of thing and use it in regular conversation. In comparison to today, its not common knowledge unless you work with animals.
The rest is going under a cut cause this became a whole thing...
A castrated rooster is called a capon.
Pullet is a young hen less than 1 year old.
Poults are young fowl, especially turkeys.
Green goose is when you kill a gosling that is under 4 months old and eat it without stuffing.
Young wild ducks that can’t fly are called flappers.
Raccoon meat is oily and comparable to the dark meat of poultry though the meat is tough so you need to cook it for longer and/or use methods to tenderize it.
There are eels in Thedas, which seem particularly popular as a food in Ferelden. You will find them in game through out Redcliffe and other food spreads.
Baby eels are called elver.
Dragon age’s pheonix are technically edible in the same way a puffer fish is. I love this for them.
Fennec is most likely edible. Though prized for their fur, they would be a decent enough meal. However given their similarity to foxes, their meat is likely as tough and has musk glands so would need special prep much like a raccoon’s.
In Dragon age, ram their own species. Personally, I think they’re separate from sheep (think boar vs pig or rabbit vs hare) as WOT v2 calls them a species and not a breed. Which they do call the August Ram a “breed” which makes me think it’s a breed of ram not sheep. There is also the fact that sheep are sexually dimorphic but these rams are not. That said, ram is also used as a term for male sheep in Thedas.
Speaking of, rabbits and hares are two different animals. People just mix them up for…reasons? I was never quite sure why.
Leverets are hares less than 1 year old.
Wild boars and pigs are also not the same animal. While a male pig is called a boar, they still differ from their wild counterpart. Even though both species share the same terminology; ie. boar, sow, hog, swine, runt, barrow, stag, gilt, even their group name - a small group of pigs and wild boars are called a sounder. The only exception is for their babies, which baby boars are boarlets. Though it is still valid to call them piglets, but come on, boarlets is cuter.
On the topic of animal misconceptions, ox and cows are the same animal. The technical term is cattle as “cow” means a female cattle who has had at least one calf and are used primarily for dairy and beef. Ox are typically male, they can be castrated and are used solely for work due to their larger muscles. They’re like the draft horse of cattle. They’re also typically smarter than other cattle as they’re trained to take direction.
Cattle, sheep, bison, buffalo, antelope, gazelle, and goat are all in the same family, Bovidae. Which, with that knowledge I suggest that draffalo, ram, august ram, and halla are also in that family.
If you’re in the bovidae family, your horns don’t regrow. Knock them off, damage them, ect. They aren’t coming back. Which is why the Dalish can carve halla horns and they’ll stay that way.
I am pleasantly surprised that there is no mention of opossums in Thedas. I hope it stays that way.
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