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Foods of Thedas: Dishes, Sauces, and Sides

There are multiple food lists for Dragon Age out there, some current, some not. I put this together mostly for my own personal reference and keep updated because I need to clear out my google sheets.

From gravy, desserts, main courses, sides, soups, and stews. The foods are both mundane or share some medicinal uses. But they had to be things that would reasonably be eaten as a food item. So something like powdered tusket horn which is purely supplemental isn’t included. But something like a sauce that also helps with impotence is included since it is implied to be used as a food item and medicinal. So every dish here is canonically mentioned and shown through the games and additional media tie-ins.

This list doesn't include individual ingredients. Those are all in separate posts. Given the size of these lists, I had to split everything up. They were far too long for my tastes, so all links for the additional posts are below and above the cut, so you don’t have to endlessly scroll if you just want to see all the items in one post (the master post) or the wiki page. (Which got put up first because Tumblr really doesn’t seem to like the lengths of my posts.)

For Additional Food Posts

Drinks

Raw Ingredients

Prepared Ingredients

Cannonically Possible Foods and Drinks

Master Post

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)

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

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 (DLCs + Multiplayer) 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 Dragon Age Tabletop RPG Core Rulebook Dragon Age Tabletop RPG: Blood in Ferelden Dragon Age Tabletop RPG: Game Master’s Kit: Buried Pasts World of Thedas Vol. 1 World of Thedas Vol. 2 Dragon Age Comic: Magekiller Dragon Age Comic: Deception Short Story: Paying the Ferryman

Codex Entry: The Ben-Hassrath Codex Entry: Blackwall the Last Few Years Codex Entry: A Compendium of Orlesian Theater Codex Entry: Feast Day Fish Codex Entry: The Diary of Triolus Hertubise Codex Entry: The History of Soldier’s Peak: Chapter 3 Codex Entry: A Letter to Harding Codex Entry: A Magister’s Needs Codex Entry: The Noladar Anthology of Dwarven Poetry Codex Entry: On Avvar Cuisine Codex Entry: The Pickled Apples of Arlathan Codex Entry: In Praise of the Humble Nug Codex Entry: Ram Codex Entry: Redcliffe (Inquisition) Codex Entry: A Scholar’s Journal Codex Entry: A Supply List Codex Entry: A Tattered Shopping List Codex Entry: Waterlogged Diary

Letter: Feeling Inadequate?

Note: Cook’s Note Note: Instructions for the Maid Note: The Rusted Horn’s Menu Note: Short Note

Item: Found Cake Item: Sugar Cake Item: Lamb Bone Junk: Stale Biscuit Junk: Qunari Rations

Armor: Wade’s Superior Dragonbone Plate Boots Weapon: The Jade Ham

War Table Mission: Abernache over Under War Table Mission: Disaster in the Deep Roads War Table Mission: Inspire War Table Mission: The Tevinter Resistance

The Last Court Cards: A Tumbledown Shack An Unofficial Meeting Decide the Archoress’s Fate Flames of Freedom The Fields Go Hunting Good Neighbors Graffiti The Next Course Outlaw Councils The Whispering Woods Your Bailiff is Attacked

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felassan · 6 months

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In today's blog post, BioWare said

“The cookbook features recipes suited to all skill levels, but we know that jumping in may be a daunting task for some. To help you out, we’ve partnered with MisoHungrie, a wonderful YouTuber who specializes in cooking, with a particular knack for video game and entertainment-related dishes. If you’re looking for a place to start on your culinary journey, check out his video and follow along. And be sure to let us know what you think of these Thedosian delights!" [source]

here's the link to this video, "Is the DRAGON AGE Cookbook any good?"

description:

"To celebrate Dragon Age Day, I’ve partnered with BioWare and reviewed the Dragon Age: The Official Cookbook: Taste of Thedas!" [source]

#dragon age #bioware #video games

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exhausted-archivist · 1 year

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A quick reference for mobile users. Some of these links do go to my old blog so don’t be surprised. If there are no links but its listed, that's cause it's a wip and will be linked later.

About Me

Reposting Guidelines | Why Dragon Age TTRPG | Why Not the Cookbook

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Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas Masterlist

Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas - Newly Introduced Lore

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Dishes, Sauces, and Sides

Drinks

Raw Ingredients

Prepared Ingredients

Canonically Possible Foods and Drinks

Google Spreadsheet of all Drinks, Food, and Ingredients

Culture

Calendar and Holidays of Thedas

Profanity in Thedas

Thedosian Greetings and Expressions

Blessings and Prayers of Thedas

Magic

Absolution Magic Glyphs Part 1

Absolution Magic Glyphs Part 2

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Fauna of Thedas

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Thedas: Not a Middle Ages Fantasy But an Ahistorical, Pre-Industrial, Mega Fauna Fantasy Part 1

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These are topics of canon lore that I have expanded on further for writing, tabletop, and other creative needs. From plant uses, animals, culture, and NPCs of the Thedosian world.

Thedosian Recipes

My Headcanons

#pinned post #mobile navigation #masterlist #blog navigation

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moodybidoof · 6 years

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📩Clan Sabrae’s food-related traditions from a character of your choice? 👀

Oh I like this a lot, ty! Here’s some insight from Bran Mahariel.

Oh the food - now that’s what I missed most when I was stuck up in the Circle. My Harrowing, killer blood mages - none of that compared to eating the unspiced gruel they tried to pass off as edible for all those years. Eating was a chore. That’s true evil, isn’t it? Taking the joy out of eating?

Nah, with my clan, food was always a whole wonderful production. Like, uh, for instance, we used to have this big celebration at the start of autumn - starting a new year, thanking the Creators for our harvest, blah, blah - and that’s when we’d make - we called them arlame - but they were these little rolls of meat wrapped in cabbage leaves.

So all day us kids would sit together and ball up minced meat, swaddle it like a baby, and then we’d pile it up into a clay pot to cook. (There’s more to it than that but I can’t exactly go and give away the family recipe, you understand.) And all the while we’d be gossiping, singing to our little meat babies, comparing who could make the neatest wrap; I started a meatball fight once which was great in my humble opinion, but the Keeper didn’t see to agree.

The point being, we’d all get into it and have a good time, and when everything was done and turned out delicious we could enjoy it that much more - knowing we’d helped out. And it was always like that - not just on holidays. No one ever cooked or ate alone.

#Bran Mahariel #I know it doesn't actually make sense to have a Ferelden clan cook Romanian dishes #bc a lot of our food came from the Ottoman Empire #so smth like that in Thedas #would probably be a dish from like the Northern Free Marches #maybe Nevarra #but also #I don't care #thedosian-cabbage

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transfenris-truther · 2 years

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for the domesticity meme: fenris/hawke, and if someone already asked that, then fenris/isabela

Ah thank you! I love Fenris and Bela! I tagged you in my Fenhawke one too!

big spoon/little spoon: They almost never spoon. The way they sleep together is better described as a tangle.

favorite non-sexual activity: Cards! Games in general, Fenris loves when Bela picks up a new game in a bar to and brings it back to him. He doesn't like learning in front of people, but loves showing up the first time he's ever played ready to take the pot.

who uses all the hot water: both are big fans of hot baths and are constantly leaving the other high and dry. The solution to this is to bathe together.

most trivial thing they fight over: Fenris disputes that the wine at the Hanged Man is actually wine. Bela thinks if you order anything but the ale there, you get what's coming to you.

who does most of the cleaning: Fenris. Bela isn't really interested in non-ship chores.

what has a season pass on their dvr/who controls the netflix queue: They steal other people's Netflix logins, plus cable and internet and whatever else. They don't really queue anything, just watch a LOT of what's trending and complain about how awful it is.

who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working: Fenris. He's got a great disappointed voice

who steals the blankets: Fenris. He hates being cold. Isabela will not hesitate to wake him up to get them back.

who leaves their stuff around: Both of them. They share a very cluttered space.

who remembers to buy the milk: Nobody. Milk is bought only in a milk emergency.

who remembers anniversaries: Isabela, but neither of them makes a big deal of it.

Who cooks normally? Isabela. She can make five dishes excellently and about three more passable ones, but that's way better than what Fenris can do. Plus she's always willing to go heavy on the spices.

How often do they fight? Really infrequently. They're both unsure about this "relationship" thing and walk on eggshells for longer than might be healthy.

What do they do when they’re away from each other? Isabela enjoys other partners. Fenris enjoys the letters she writes to him about her encounters, though he doesn't really trust strangers with his own body. They both respect that about the other.

Nicknames for each other? Isabela goes through the litany, though Fenris hates nicknames. She calls him, broody, sweet thing, smoulder, sexy, lover, etc etc. He calls her "Bela."

Who is more likely to pay for dinner? Dinner is on the house, five finger discount.

Who steals the covers at night? Fenris nine times out of ten.

What would they get each other for gifts? Fenris for Isabela, perfumes and hair oils, spices or foods that are foreign or hard to find, the stupidest limericks he can write, small sharp knives. Isabela for Fenris, high quality oil for his weapons, sex toys, old maps of places far away, Tevinter fruits.

Who kissed who first? Isabela kissed Fenris. Although they'd discussed it beforehand.

Who made the first move? Isabela. She flirted out of force of habit, really.

Who remembers things? Fenris. Isabela will forget things that are convenient to forget.

Who started the relationship? What relationship? This is just a fuck buddies situation that got wildly out of hand and ended up lasting decades.

Who cusses more? Tie. They make each other worse in this respect. Between the two of them, they can cuss in most Thedosian languages.

What would they do if the other was hurt? Avenge.

#fenibela #fenris/isabela #dragon age #asks

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foodofthedas · 4 years

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Rice Pudding

You may be forgiven a moment of disbelief on learning such a simple recipe originates in such an influential city. This unpretentious dish—eaten to break your fast or as a sweet following dinner—has spread across Thedas since its invention. Thedosians across the world are known to eat it with a variety of additional ingredients, from commonly found raisins (and cinnamon for those who can afford it), to the exotic northern fruits of Seheron.

- Lady de Manger

Ingredients

Four-and-a-half cups of milk

One-half to three-quarters of a cup of sugar, to taste

Half a cup of cooked rice

Two egg yolks

One tablespoon of corn flour

A dash each of vanilla and orange extract

Ground cinnamon, to serve

Directions

Combine four cups of milk and the sugar in a medium saucepan over a medium-low heat. Cook for a few minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved. Add the rice and cook for approximately twenty minutes, until soft. Stir occasionally to ensure the rice does not burn and stick to the saucepan.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining half-cup of milk, egg yolks, corn flour, vanilla and orange extract. While whisking, pour a little of the hot milk from the saucepan into the bowl to temper the eggs.

Pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan and cook for another few minutes, whisking or stirring to fully combine. The mixture should thicken considerably during this time.

Pour the mixture into a serving dish, or individual serving bowls. Serve warm, at room temperature, or chill. Alternatively, you may place the dish into an oven preheated to a medium-high temperature, until the top of the dish is browned. Dust with cinnamon before serving.

(From Turkish Rice Pudding at Inn at the Crossroads. Contributed by Asher. Image source here.)

#dragon age #free marches #tantervale #desserts #breakfast

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dalishious · 6 years

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Canonical Foods of Thedas

EDIT 05-APR-2024: This post received a huge update after I got my hands on the official Dragon Age Cookbook, released Oct-2023! Enjoy!

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I’ve seen one or two (really good) posts about Thedosian cuisine, but I haven’t seen a compilation of canonical foods/drinks to date. So I’ve made one. This is based on what is mentioned in game, written in codex entries/item descriptions, novels and lore books.

Obviously this isn’t only what’s available to eat in Thedas. This is just a list of things that have been mentioned in canon.

This could also helpful for breaking down the ingredients for other foods!

Sources included at the end of the post! I will try to update it as I stumble upon more, but I’m calling it extensive enough to post now. :P

Dishes:

Alamarri Pickled Krone - Krone, brine (Ferelden)

Apple Grenade (Antiva)

Biscuits

Black Lichen Bread (Orzammar)

Blood Orange Salad - blood oranges, raspberry vinegar, agave syrup, walnut oil, salt, pepper, mixed salad, radicchio, onion, pine nuts (Nevarra)

Blood Soup - Chickpeas, vegetable oil, red onion, ginger root, garlic clove, potato, red beet, vegetable broth, salt, pepper, agave syrup, coconut milk, horseradish, cilantro

Breads

Butter soup - Water, potatoes, cinnamon, star anise, clove, bay, peppercorns, salt, noodles, cream, butter (Orlesian)

Cacio e Pepe - Pasta, cheese, pepper (Antivan)

Cakes / cupcakes

Caviar

Cheeses (beloved in Ferelden) (smoked in Antiva)

Chicken Wings

Couscous Salad - Couscous, honey, vegetable broth, lemon juice, ground cumin, olive oil, parsley, salt, pepper, garlic clove, spring onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, chickpeas, lemon juice, mint (Rivain)

Crab Cakes - Flour, bread crumbs, cornstarch, salt, pepper, eggs, soft-shell crab, onion, garlic cloves, ginger root, red chili, chili paste, lemon juice (Kirkwall)

Crow Feed - Butter, red onions, bacon, rice (Antiva)

Croissants (Orlais)

Dandelion Wine - Dandelion blooms, water, sugar, ginger, lemon, orange rind, cake of yeast, elfroot (City elves of Orlais)

Eggs à la Val Foret - Vinegar, eggs, lemon sauce, ham or bacon, salt, paprika, parsley (Orlais)

Fish Chowder - Olive oil, shallots, garloc clove, celery rib, leek, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, corn, red chili, potato, salt, pepper, white wine, fish broth, vegetable broth, saffron, prawn, cod fillet, cream, egg, lemon, parsley (Antiva)

Fish and Egg Pie (Starkhaven)

Fish Pockets - Dough, salmon fillet, parsley, shallot, salt, pepper, egg (Seheron)

Fish in Salt Crust (Avvar)

Flat Bread and Yogurt Dip - Cucumber, salt, carrot, garlic clove, yogurt, olive oil, lemon juice, pepper, mint leaf, bread with black cumin seed (Nevarra)

Fluffy Mackerel Pudding - Celery, pepper, mackerel, diced onion, mustard, salt, Antivan pepper, ground mace, cardamom seed, eggs (Fereldan)

Forest Fruit Cobbler - Strawberries, blueberries, cherries, sugar, butter, salt, buttermilk, sugar, ice cream (Dalish)

Fried Young Giant Spiders - spider legs, olive oil, garlic cloves, shallots, chili pepper, salt, lemon juice (Orzammar)

Gnocchi (Antiva)

Goat Custard (Rivain)

Grey Warden Pastry Pockets - Flour, salt, butter, beef, potato, onion, salt

Hearth Cakes - Flour, hardwood ash or baking powder, halla butter, sugar, mixed dried fruit (currants, cranberries, etc), egg, milk (Dalish)

Hearty Scones (Ferelden)

Honey Carrots (Orlais)

Jams

Jellied Eels

Jellied Pigs Feet - Pigs feet and/or pork howks, salt, onions, garlic, allspice, peppercorns, bay (Free Marches delicacy)

Goat Custard

Gurgut Roast with Lowlander Spices and Mushroom Sauce (Avvar)

Lamb and Pea Stew - Salt, potato, oil, onion, lamb, tomato paste, beef stock, peas, carrot, black pepper, paprika, butter, cream, nutmeg, shredded cheese, thyme (Ferelden)

Lamprey Cake (Free Marches)

Lentil Soup - carrot, celery, leek, parsley, olive oil, onion, pancette, potato, lentil, cumon, sugar, white wine viegar, salt, pepper, watercress

Llomerryn Red Sauce - 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, served with almost everything)

Mad Burnard’s Gift of Flesh - whole wyvern, stuffed with a whole gurn, stuffed with a whole horse, stuffed with a whole halla, stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a bunting (Orlesian, of course it’s Orlesian did you honestly question otherwise)

Marie du Lac Erre’s Sweet Rain - Butter, sugar, chocolate, vanilla extract, flour, orange or mint extract, baking powder, milk (Orlais)

Marshmallow (Orlais)

Nettle Soup - vegetable oil, shallot, garlic clove, nettle, leek, potato, vegetable broth, white wine, salt, nutmeg, coconut milk, peppercorns

Nordbotten Fruit Stew - Dried apricots, pitted prunes, raisins, mixed dried fruits (cherries, apples, cranberries, etc), lemon or orange, cinnamon, cloves, water, sugar or honey, brandy (Anderfels)

Nug-Nug - Ground meat (beef preferred), parsley, egg, salt, crushed cumin or mustard seeds, black pepper, cooked rice, tomatoes, onions, chives (Orlesian)

Nug Bacon and Egg Pie

Nug Pancakes (Orzammar)

Nug-gets (Orzammar)

Paella (Antivan)

Pancakes

Picked Eggs - Eggs, sugar, salt, vinegar, (beloved in Ferelden)

Pig Oat Mash - Apples, dried salt pork or smoked bacon, dried rolled oats, berries, ale or water (Free Marches, specifically Kirkwall)

Peasant Bread (Elves of Orlais)

Plum Jam (Orzammar)

Poison Stings - chocolate-coated orange peels (Tevinter)

Porridge

Potato and Leek Soup - vegetable oil, onion, bacon, leek, potato, white wine, mixed vegetables, salt, pepper, oregano, nutmet, chickpeas, parsley (Ferelden)

Pumpkin Bread (Tevinter)

Raider Queen’s Bread of Many Tongues - Flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, bananas (Rivain)

Rice Pudding

Roasted Cave Beetles (Orzammar)

Roasted Wyvern

Seared nug - Cream sauce, deep mushrooms (Orzammar)

Smoked Ham - “tastes of despair” (Anderfels)

Snail and Watercress Salad - radishes, canola oil, mustard, herb vinegar, salt, pepper, snails, butter, garlic cloves (Avvar)

Spiced Jerky - Beef, sauces, tabasco, garlic powder, peppercorns, chiki flakes (Dalish)

Stuffed Cabbage - cabbage, bread crumbs, ground meat, onion, egg, salt, pepper, nutmeg (Avvar)

Stuffed Deep Mushrooms - deep mushrooms, cream cheese, shallot, spinach,salt, pepper, shredded cheese, chives (Orzammar)

Stuffed Vine Leaves - rice, herbs, minced meat, lemon juice, tzatziki sauce, olive oil, onion, salt,raisin, mint, dill, fennel, grape leaf, lemon (Tevinter)

Sugar Cake - Strawberries, sugar-cream icing

Sugar-Drizzled Lemon Cake

Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup - cabbage, carrot, celery rib, tomato, red chili pepper, olive oil, onion,i red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, green bell pepper, pickle, vegetale broth, picke juice, water, bouillon powder, salt, pepper, parsley (Ferelden)

The Blessed Apple - Flour, salt, butter, water, apples, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves (Orlais)

The Hanged Man’s Mystery Meat Stew (Kirkwall)

Treviso Energy Balls - dried dates, raisins, peanut butter, oats (Antiva)

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 (Fereldan)

Turnip and Mutton Pie (Fereldan)

Unnamed pastries with honey and nuts baked in (Tevinter)

Wyvern Steak

Drinks:

A Night of Shame - Antivan wine with a dash of chocolate bitters and a twist of orange

Agregio Pavali - Tevinter wine

Ale - Water, melted barley (or ryott, a protein-rich crop in Ferelden) (or fungus in Orzammar), bitter flowers/herbs such as hops, yeast

Alley King's Flagon

Amaranthine Red

Antivan Brandy - Passion fruit; alcohol content considered low by locals

Antivan Plum Brandy - (Leliana drinks once a year in memory of Tug)

Antivan Sip-Sip - Popular for nobles wanting to look dangerous

Aqua Magus - Lyrium (fatal if ingested in quantity)

Aquae Lucidius - “You’ll be seeing purple dragons on the sky for days”

Benediction - Prophet’s Laurel gin served with a wedge of lime and a thimble of Golden Scythe

Barley Wine

Brakien Brew (Orzammar)

Butterbile 7:84

Carnal, 8:69 Blessed - Peach pit carved at the bottom (Orlesian)

Chasind Sack Mead - Honey (Chasind)

Coconut Draft

Coffee (Antiva)

Dark Llomerryn Rum (Rivaini)

Dwarven Ale - Fungus

Elderberry wine

Flames of Our Lady

Garbolg's Backcountry Reserve

Golden Scythe 4:90 Black

Hirol's Lava Burst - Brewed exclusively in Kal'Hirol

Hot Chocolate

Legacy White Shear - Lyrium (fatal if ingested in quantity)

Lichen Ale (Orzammar)

Mackay's Epic Single Malt

Mosswine (Orzammar)

Orlesian Rouge

Prophet’s Laurel Gin

Rivaini Tea Blend - Cinnamon, ginger, cloves, honey (Rivain)

Rivaini Tea Blend (ALT) - Peppermint, lemon verbena, oregano, licorice root (Rivain)

Silent Plains Piquette - An artisanal treatment of a Tevinter slave wine

Spiced Wine - Orange or pear, lemon, apple, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, dried ginger, honey, brown sugar, rosemary, red wine, brandy (Fereldan)

Round Cakes - peppered with poppy seed and laced with honey, with antlers in the crust

Spindleweed Brew

Sun Blonde Vint-1 (Tevinter)

Tea (Tevinter, Rivain)

The Emerald Valley - A spirit distilled by Chantry sisters in Lydes from over seventy herbs and flowers, topped by egg white foam dusted with nutmeg

The Golden Nug - White seleny wine with a dash of West Hill brandy and a splash of pomegranate juice. Muddled with raspberries and a sprig of Royal Elfroot

The Hissing Drake - A mix of cinnamon-infused whiskey, dark Llomerryn rum, and Hirol's Lava Burst

The Randy Dowager - Abyssal peach liquor and fresh cream, garnished with sugared rose petals and served on a silk handkerchief with a scandalous rhyming couplet inked on it by the bartender

Valenta's Red (Orzammar)

Vint-9 Rowan's Rose

West Hill Brandy - Honeysuckle, blackcurrant (Fereldan)

White Seleny Wine (Antiva)

Wildwine - Not actually wine but grain-based ale from ryott (Chasind)

Misc Ingredients:

Ingredients mentioned but not part of a given dish, and a breakdown of ingredients from dishes.

Some things have specific origins noted, which are in brackets. Otherwise it’s widespread or not canonically confirmed... but it’s pretty easy to guess what comes from where based on geography and the things that are specified. (I.e. it seems most if not all spices come from Antiva, Rivain, Seheron and Par Vollen. Seheron is specifically noted in Hard in Hightown: Ch 12.)

Fruits / Vegetables

Apricot

Apple

Barley

Banana (Rivain, Par Vollen)

Beans

Beet (Rivain)

Blackberry (Ferelden)

Carrot

Celery

Cherry

Chestnut

Cocoa > chocolate (Donarks)

Coconut

Coffee beans (Antiva)

Corn (Antiva)

Cucumber / pickle

Cranberry

Dandelion bloom

Date palm (Tevinter)

Deep mushroom

Elderberry

Elfroot

Fern fiddlehead

Grape / raisin (Orlais, Antiva)

Hardwood ash

Lemon

Lichen

Lime

Moss

Oats

Olives (Antiva)

Onion

Orange (Orlais, Antiva)

Passion fruit (Antiva)

Pine nuts

Peach

Pear

Pea

Peanuts (Par Vollen, Seheron)

Pepper (Antiva)

Plum

Pomegranate

Potato

Prophet’s Laurel

Prune

Pumpkin

Raspberry

Rice (Antiva, Rivain)

Ryott (Ferelden)

Spindleweed

Squash

Stock

Strawberries

Tomato

Turnip (Ferelden)

Wheat / flour

Zante currant

Wildflowers (borage, chicory, etc)

Yeast and baking powder

Spices / Herbs / Etc Flavourings

Allspice

Bay

Basil

Blackcurrant

Cardamom seed

Chive

Cinnamon (Seheron)

Cloves

Corn seed (Antiva)

Cumin seed

Dill seed

Black peppercorn

Garlic

Ginger

Honey

Honeysuckle

Hops

Lavender (Orlais)

Mace

Mint

Mustard seed

Nutmeg (Seheron)

Oregano

Parsley

Pepper seed

Poppy seed

Rosemary

Salt

Star anise

Sugar > molasses (Tevinter, Rivain)

Sweet onion

Thyme

Vanilla (Rivain)

Vinegar

Seafood

Eels

Oyster

Carp

Cod

Krone

Lobster

Mackerel

Trout

Whitebait

Meats / Dairy

Beef

Beetle

Bronto

Bunting

Chicken

Cream

Duck

Eggs

Halla

Hart

Horse

Gurgut

Gurn

Lamb

Lurker

Milk / butter

Nug

Partridge

Pheasant

Pork

Quail

Rabbit

Ram

Snail

Swan

Tusket and horns

Wyvern

SOURCES:

Dragon Age: Origins + DLCs

Dragon Age: II + DLCs

Dragon Age: Inquisition + DLCs

Dragon Age: The Last Court

Codex entry: A Tattered Shopping List (DA:O)

Codex entry: Feast Day Fish (DA:O)

Codex entry: The Casteless (DA:O)

Codex entry: In Praise of the Humble Nug (DA:O)

Codex entry: A Nutty Affair (DA:I)

Codex entry: Hard in Hightown: Chapter 11 (DA:I)

Codex entry: The Ben-Hassrath (DA:I)

Note: The Rusted Horn's Menu (DA:I)

Codex entry: On Avvar Cuisine (DA:I)

Codex entry: Bottles of Thedas (DA:I)

Note: Cook’s Note (DA:I)

Note: The Gilded Horn’s Drinks Menu ( DA:I)

Mosswine (DA:O item)

Rare Antivan Brandy (DA:O item)

Hirol's Lava Burst (DA:O item)

Chasind Sack Mead (DA:O item)

Alley King's Flagon (DA:O item)

Garbolg's Backcountry Reserve (DA:O item)

Golden Scythe 4:90 Black (DA:O item)

Legacy White Shear (DA:O item)

Sun Blonde Vint-1 (DA:O item)

West Hill Brandy (DA:O item)

Sugar Cake (DA:O item)

The Masked Empire

Tevinter Nights

Paying the Ferryman

World of Thedas Vol 1

World of Thedas Vol 2

Dragon Age RPG Book

Dragon Age: The Official Cookbook: Taste of Thedas

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ageofdragon · 7 years

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This is a vastly important question for which the future of my fic hangs in the balance (okay, not really) but I have no idea how to go about answering it and have thus come to you for counsel. Thedas definitely has wheat. But does it have Potatoes? Corn? Rice? Please help!

Okay, so according to the Official The Whole Nug, Culinary Treasures of Thedas all these exist in Thedas.

Wheat is a given and they have different kinds (for instance Sothmere is known for their ryott wheat).

Potatoes are used at least in Butter Soup, made by Orlesian peasantry. Also used in a natural remedy to remove warts.

Corn is actually a favorite of Sera’s, she loves oven-baked corn apparently.

and Rice is used in Orlesian Nug Nug (a rice dish shaped into a Nug), inspired by Sister Leliana and her pet Schmooples.

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Foods of Thedas: Canonically Possible Food and Ingredients

For this post, these are a collection of foods, drinks, and ingredients that could be assumed in Thedas. They are based on the fact that they exist but are not stated that Thedosians eat them or their sources exist in Thedas. What makes them possible or suggested are that they are things we eat in real life or historically have been eaten.

So, this includes things like bear and gazelle to lotus and cattails food sources that are mentioned or shown but are not suggested to be eaten. All of these are things we know people can and do eat and therefore aren't outside the realm of edibility in Thedas.

Some ingredients are also included on this list based on their use in making the same foods in real life. ex) wormwood being used to make absinthe. While others are byproducts of a plant - ex) sunflower or flax seeds. These aren’t directly mentioned but are byproducts of their respectiver plants, and were historically available in the medieval period and seems likely to exist in the odd medieval/pre-industrial revolution era that is Dragon Age.

For Additional Food Posts

Dishes, Sauces, and Sides

Drinks

Raw Ingredients

Prepared Ingredients

Master Post

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

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

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.) 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 Blood in Ferelden

World of Thedas Vol. 1 World of Thedas Vol. 2 Silent Grove Comic 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: The Riddle of the Truth

DAO Codex entry: The Frostback Mountains Codex entry: Ghilan'nain: Mother of the Halla Armor: Clamshell Plate Armor Item: Figurine Item: Grand Oak Acorn Item: Love Letter

DAII Codex Entry: Elfroot Codex entry: The Qunari - Asit tal-eb Codex entry: Viscount Marlowe Dumar Junk List: Stuffed Parrot

DAI Codex entry: Andruil's Messenger Codex entry: Correspondence Interruptus Codex entry: Hard in Hightown: Chapter Ten Codex entry: A Nutty Affair Codex entry: The Perendale War Codex entry: Vir Dirthara: A Flowering Image Item: Carved Cricket Charm Item: Eagle Feather Charm Item: Fox's Pendant Item: Grouse Feather Charm War Table Mission: Dance with the Dowager: The Allemande War Table Mission: Smash

The Last Court The Arrival of the Divine Glass The Heartwood Feast The Hounds A Plea for Sanctuary A Swift Stream

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Dragon Age development insights and highlights from Bioware: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development

Some really tasty factoids here.

Cut for length.

Dragon Age: Origins

The continent of Thedas was at one point going to be named Pelledia, a name initially floated by James Ohlen

“Qunari” was a temporary name that ended up unintentionally sticking, much like “Thedas”

Mary Kirby wrote the Landsmeet. To this day, nobody understands how it works, except possibly her. If she’s “really really drunk” she can explain how it works. There’s as many words in it as Sten’s entire conversations put together

Concept art for Thedosian art - as in in-world art - draws heavily on Renaissance-era portraiture, the Art Nouveau movement, religious styles and media like stained glass, and favorite pieces from the golden age of illustrations in the early 20th century

Andrastianism in-world (art-wise) is depicted in wildly different methods depending on who in-world made the art in question. “One religion, 3 different lenses”. There’s the Chantry take, the Orlesian take and the Fereldan take; each with its own different interpretations, different mediums and different stories

The stained glass images were drawn by Nick Thornborrow for DAI, to decorate religious spaces in that game “and beyond”

irl Viking art influenced Ferelden

Greek and Italian art influenced Orlais

The book also had other insights into and anecdotes from the development of DAO, but I’ve transcribed them recently as they’re essentially the stories DG has recently been relating on the awesome Summerfall Studios DAO playthrough Twitch streams. (On those streams he provides dev commentary while Liam Esler plays through DA. The ones with DG are currently once every two weeks. Check them out! Here’s a calendar where you can check when the next one is) Instead of repeating myself I’ll just provide the link to the first transcript. From there you can navigate to the subsequent parts. Note these streams are ongoing. At this point I will also point you to a related post which is cliff notes of the Dragon Age chapter in Jason Schreier’s book Blood Sweat and Pixels.

Dragon Age II

DAO had the longest development period in BioWare history. In contrast DA2 had the shortest

Initially DA2 was going to be an expansion to DAO. A few months in EA said “Yeah, expansions like these don’t sell very well, so let’s make it a sequel.” So it suddenly became DA2 and they had to make it even bigger, although they still only had 1.5 years of time in which to do this

Production of DA2 officially lasted only 9 months, and at the time the team was still supporting live content for DAO! They finished development that January after the design team crunched all the way through the holiday period that year. Then it went to cert 9 times

The limited time they had is why the story takes place mostly in and around 1 city, and over 7 years (so it was temporal, rather than over physical distance, because a more expansive world would have taken more irl time to make)

They had no time to review even the main plot. Mike Laidlaw pitched the idea of 3 stories taking place at different points in the PC’s life, tied together by Varric’s recollections of events. DG rolled with this and made 1 presentation on the idea. This presentation was then approved and off they went

As they were writing DG realized that there was going to be no oversight and that everything was going to be a ‘first draft’. “Because nobody had time.” He sat down with the writers and said “Look, here’s the conditions we’re working under. A lot of what we’re putting out is gonna be raw. We’re not going to get the editing we need. We’re not going to get the kind of iteration we need. So I’m going to trust you all to do your best work.”

Looking back, DG has mixed feelings on DA2. “A lot of corners were cut. The public perception was that it was smaller than DAO. That’s a sin on its own.”

Despite this he thinks DA2 has some of the best writing in the series, especially character-wise. The DA2 chars are his favorite

The pace with which production progressed may in some ways have helped. “When we do a lot of revision, we often file away [as in buff off] some of the good writing as well. Somehow DA2′s whirlwind process resulted in some really good writing”

The pace meant chars landed on the writers in various stages of completion. For example Isabela was fairly defined due to appearing in DAO. In contrast Varric at the start was just that single piece of widely-shown concept art

Varric was conceived as a storyteller not a fighter. His skills are talking and bullshitting. Hence the question became, so what does this guy do in combat? The direction was to make him as different as possible to Oghren, so not a warrior. He couldn’t be a dual-wielding rogue in order to differentiate him from Bela. But you can’t really picture this guy with a bow. “For a dwarf, it would probably be a crossbow. We didn’t have crossbows, or we only had crossbows for the darkspawn. And they were part of the models. We didn’t have a separate crossbow that was equip-able by the chars. They had to like, crop one off a darkspawn and remodel it. And that became Bianca” (quote: Mary Kirby)

“Dwarven mages are exceedingly rare.” [???]

If DAO was a classic fantasy painting, DA2 was a screenshot from a Kurosawa film or a northern Renaissance painting. (Here Matt Rhodes was commenting on art style)

John Epler: “In any one of our games, there’s a 95% chance that if you turn the camera away from what it’s looking at, you’ll see all kinds of janky stuff. The moment we know the camera is no longer facing someone, we no longer care what happens to them. We will teleport people around. We will jump people around. We will literally have someone walk off screen and then we will shift them 1000 meters down, because we’re fixing some bug.” John also talked about this camera stuff in a recent charity Twitch stream for Gamers For Groceries. There’s a writeup of that stream here

Designing Kirkwall pushed concept artists to the limits of visual storytelling, because it has a long history that they wanted to be present. It was once the hub of Tevinter’s slave empire, so it needed to look brutal and harsh, but it also then needed to feel reclaimed, evolved, and with elements of contemporary Free Marches culture

The initial plan was for DA titles to be distinguished by subtitles not numbers, so that each experience could stand on its own rather than feel like a sequel or continuation. (My note: New PCs in each entry make sense then when you consider this and other factoids we know like how DA is the story of the world not of any one PC). Later, DA2′s name was made DA2 in a bid to more clearly connect the game to its predecessor. For DAI they returned to the original naming convention. (My note: so I’d reckon they’d be continuing the subtitle naming convention for DA4)

DA2 was initially code-named “Nug Storm”, strictly internally

The Cancelled DA2 Expansion - Exalted March

This was a precursor to DAI

It was meant to bridge the gap between DA2 and DAI

It focused on the fallout from Kirkwall’s explosion, with Cory serving as the villain

Meredith’s red lyrium statue was basically going to infest Kirkwall and it would end up [with what would end up] the red templars taking over Kirkwall and essentially being Cory’s army

To stop him Hawke would have recruited various factions, including Bela’s Felicisima Armada and the Qunari at Estwatch, forcing Hawke to split loyalties and risk relationships in the process

It was meant to bring DA2′s story to an end and end in Varric’s death. DG was very happy with this because all of DA2 is Varric’s tale. The expansion was supposed to start at the moment Cassandra’s interrogation of him ended in the present. “And we finished off the story with Varric having this heroic death.” It tied things up and would have broken many fan hearts, something BioWare writers notoriously enjoy. But between a transition to the new Frostbite engine and the scope of DAI, the decision was made to cancel EM, work any hard-to-lose concepts into DAI, and in the process save Varric’s life. DG has talked about the Varric dying thing before

Concept art for EM explored new areas previously not depicted in the DA universe, with costumes that reflected next steps for familiar chars. Varric was going to war, what would he have worn? With Anders, if he survived DA2, the plan was to present a redeemed Warden

A char that vaguely resembled Sera in DAI was first concepted for EM. This fact was mentioned near this concept art (see the female elf) and this concept art of Bethany with the blond bob

The writers sketched out plans to end it with Hawke having the option to marry their LI. This included alternate ceremonies for party members like Bethany and Sebastian if the player opted not to wed. There was even a wedding dress made for Hawke. This asset made it into DAI (Sera and Cullen’s weddings in Trespasser). The dress can also be seen in DAI during an ambient NPC wedding after completing a chain of war table missions

The destruction of a Chantry was explored in concept art as it might have happened in EM. This idea ended up carrying over to the beginning of DAI. (My note: Lol, the idea that DA2 could have had 2 Chantries being destroyed in it 😆)

World of Thedas

Sheryl Chee and Mary Kirby started with “a disgusting little dish called fluffy mackerel pudding”. In the middle of DAO’s busy dev period one of them (they can’t remember who) found a recipe online for this, scanned in from a 70s cookbook. “I don’t understand why it was fluffy. Why would you want fluffy mackerel pudding?” MK says. “We loved it so much we included it in a DAO codex.”

This led them to create more food for Thedas, full recipes included, like a Fereldan turnip and barley stew from MK and SC’s Starkhaven fish and egg pie. The fish pie became Sebastian’s favorite. “To me it made sense for it to be fish pie because a lot of the Free Marches are on the coast”, SC says, “It was something that was popular in medieval times, so I thought, let’s make a fish pie! I looked at medieval recipes and I concocted a fish pie which I fed to my partner, and he was like ‘This is not terrible’”

For WoT the whole studio was asked to contribute family recipes which might have a place in Thedas. SC adapted these to fit in one Thedosian culture or another, including a beloved banana bread that localization producer Melanie Fleming would regularly bake to keep the DA team motivated. “Melanie’s banana bread got us through Inquisition”

DAI

It says part of DAI takes place in or near the border with Nevarra [???]

This game was aimed to be bigger than DA2 and even DAO in every conceivable way

The first hour had to do a lot of heavy lifting, tying together the events of DAO and DA2 while introducing a new PC, new followers etc in the aftermath of the big attack. DG rewrote it 7 times then Lukas Kristjanson did 2 more passes

DG: “Our problem is always that our endings are so important, but we leave them to last, when we have no time. I kept pushing on DAI: ‘Can we work on the ending now? Can we work on the ending now? Can we do it early on?’ Because I knew exactly what it was going to be. But despite the fact that it kept getting scheduled, whenever the schedule started falling behind, it kept getting pushed back... so, of course, it got left til last again.”

“The reveal of the story’s real antagonist, Solas, a follower until the end, when he betrayed the player”. “Solas’ story remains a main thread in Inquisition’s long-awaited follow-up” [these aren’t DG quotes, just bits of general text]

Over the course of development they had 8 full-time writers and 4 editors working on it. Other writers joined later to help wrangle what ended up being close to 1 million words of dialogue and unspoken text. While many teams moved to a more open concept style of work for DAI, the writers remained tucked away in their own room, a choice DG says was necessary, given how much they talked. All the talking had a purpose ofc as if someone hit a bump or wall in their writing they would open the problem up to the room

As writing on a project like DAI progresses, the writers grow punchier and weirder things make it into the game. This is especially the case towards the end of a project (they get tired, burned out)

Banter and codexes require less ‘buy-in’ (DG has talked about this concept a few times on the Twitch streams) from other designers. DG liked to leave banter for last as a reward because it was fun. Banter begins as lists of topics for 2 followers to discuss. These may progress over time or be one off exchanges. One banter script can balloon to well over 10k words. “The banter was always huge because we were always like, laughing, and really at that point, our fields of fucks were rather barren, so we would just do whatever”

The bog unicorn happened pretty much by accident. It was designed by Matt Rhodes and was one of his fav things to design. They needed horse variations and he had already designed an undead variant which was a bog mummy [bog body]. irl these are preserved in a much different way to traditional mummies. When someone dies in a bog their skin turns black and raisin-like. The examples we know of tend to have bright red hair for whatever reason. It’s a very striking look and MR wanted to do a horse version of this as he thought it’d be neat. 5 mins before the review meeting for it he had a big ‘Aha!’ moment, quickly looked up a rusty old Viking sword, and photoshopped it through its skull like that was how it died. “And I was like, ‘I just made a unicorn. Alright, in it goes!’” It got approved. “So we built the thing. It fit. It told a little story”

With the irl Inquisition longsword, one of the objects they tested its cleaving ability on was a plush version of Leliana’s nug Schmooples

The concept art team explored a wide variety of visuals for the Inquisitor’s signature mark. It needed to look powerful and raw but couldn’t look like a horrific wound. In some cases, as cool as the idea looked on paper, they just weren’t technically feasible, especially as they had to be able to fit on any number of different bodies

Bug report: “Endlessly spawning mounts! At one point during development, Inquisitors could summon a new horse every time they whistled, allowing them to amass a near infinite number of eager steeds that faithfully followed them across Thedas. “You could go charging across levels and they’d all gallop behind you,” Jen Cheverie says, “It was beautiful.” Trotting into town became an epic horse siege as a tidal wave of mounts enveloped the streets. Jen called it her Army of Ponies”

The giants came from DA Week, an internal period when devs can pursue different individual creative projects that in some way benefit DA. They also had a board game from one of these that they were going to put in but they didn’t have time. It’s referenced though. It was dwarven chess

Josie’s outfit is made of gold silk and patterned velvet, with leather at her waist. She carries “an ornate ledger” and she has “an ornamented collar sitting around her neck, finished by a brilliant red ruby, like a drop of Antivan wine in a sunbeam”

Iron Bull’s armor is leather. His loose pantaloons and leather boots give him agility to charge

On DAI in particular, concept artists took special care to make sure costumes would be realistic, at least in a practical ‘this obeys the laws of physics and textiles’ sense. “While on Inquisition, we thought about cosplay from a concept art perspective. Given how incredible a lot of [cosplays] are, I now am not worried about them. In fact in some cases in the future I want to throw them curveballs like, ‘All right, you clever bastards. Let’s see if you can do this!’”

2 geese that nested on the office building and had chicks were named Ganders and Arishonk (it wasn’t known who was the mom or the dad). Other possible names were Carver Honke, Bethany Honke, Urdnot Pecks, Quackwall, Cassandra Pentagoose, the Iron Bill, Shepbird, Garroose, Admiral Quackett, Scout Honking, HChick-47 and Darth Malgoose

Bug report: “The surprising adventures of Ser Noodles!” DAI was the first time the series had a mount feature, meaning this had a lot of bugs. A lot of the teams’ favorite bugs were to do with the mounts. There was a period of time where the Inquisitor’s horse seemed to lose all bone and muscle in its legs. They had a week or so where all quadruped legs were broken. It was a bit noticeable in things like nugs and other small beasties but the horse was insanely obvious. “The first time we summoned the horse [for this] and started running around, the entire QA exploration room just exploded with laughter.” Its legs flapped around like cooked fettucine, leading testers to lovingly nickname it Ser Noodles. At galloping speeds the legs almost looked like helicopter blades, especially when footage was set to classic pieces such as Wagner’s Flight of the Valkyries

For DAI the artists were asked questions like “What would Morrigan wear to a formal ball? Can Cassandra pull off a jaunty hat?”

On DAI storyboarding became the norm. John Epler: “Cinematic design for the longest time was the Wild West. It was ‘here’s a bunch of content, now do it however you want’, which resulted in some successes and some failures.” Storyboarding gave designers a consistent visual blueprint based on ideas from designers, writers and concept artists

Quote from a storyboard by Nick Thornborrow (the Inquisitor going into the party at the end of basegame sequence): “Until Corypheus revealed himself they could not see the single hand behind the chaos. A magister and a darkspawn combined. The ultimate evil. So evil. Eviler than puppy-killers and egg farts combined.”

A general note on concept art:

In the early stages of any project, before the concept artists are aware of any writing, they like to just draw what they think cool story moments could be. It’s not unusual for the team to then be inspired by these and fold them into the game as the project progresses

– From Bioware: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development

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the-dalish-dish · 7 years

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This recipe was sent to us by @fauxxpaws who sent me the link I will post at the end of all this!

Dalish Deep Forest Comfort

The Dalish elf clans in southern Orlais have enjoyed this dish for hundreds of years, but the flavors are also pleasing to a civilized palate, with reasonable substitutions, of course. The original recipe calls for the use of the larvae of a wood-burrowing beetle, prized for the distinctive “pop and squish” of their “tangy innards.” No, thank you. I have used tomatoes in their place. You may also substitute for the squash a grain-based noodle of some kind, but for the purist who wants to experience a truly cultural dish, the squash is a must!

Ingredients

Three string squashes

Two good tablespoons of butter (halla butter traditionally used, but regular butter will do perfectly)

Four cloves of garlic, chopped

Two cups of wild, fresh-picked mushrooms, chopped

Two cups of the leaves of the elfroot plant, chopped (spinach will suffice)

Two cups of diced tomatoes

One pinch of crushed hot red pepper, for spice

Three pinches of parsley

Rock salt, ground fine

Three-quarters of a cup of halla cheese, freshly crumbled (or a brined goat cheese, which lacks richness but also the distinctive stench of halla, for which some may be thankful)

Edible wildflowers and pine nuts, for garnish

Directions

Cook the squash in any manner you desire. The Dalish roast it whole in a fire pit filled with hot coals, but you may prefer to use an oven. When fully cooked, the flesh of the squash will come apart in strings that resemble noodles. Remove this flesh by scraping it out with a fork and set the result aside.

Heat the halla butter and fry the garlic in it. After about a minute, add the mushrooms and cook until they are just tender. Add the elfroot or spinach and allow it to wilt. Elfroot leaves take much longer than spinach to cook, and if you are using spinach, watch it carefully. Mushy spinach is a sign of a poor and inattentive cook!

Finally, add the tomatoes, crushed pepper, and parsley. Season with salt to taste. Cook the mixture to your desired consistency.

http://blog.bioware.com/2015/11/23/a-very-thedosian-thanksgiving/

- Keeper Solaslath

#elvhen #elvhenan #elvhenkin #elvhen kin #elfkin #elf kin #dalishkin #dalish kin #dragonagekin #dragon age kin #dalish recipes #keepersolaslath #keeper solaslath

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aniastrevelyan · 7 years

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Oh hi @thedosian-cockatrice ! So nice of you to introduce yourself, haha, I am terrible at making the introductions I just find lovely people to follow and then low-key stalk them. Thanks for tagging me. :)

Rules: Answer the questions, then send to 9 other people you would like to know better.

How old are you? I am an even riper 27. Hello all you tumblr chillun's.

Current Job? Finishing up a post-degree diploma in Public Relations. I’m a professional writer and content strategist by trade, but I found myself unemployed last spring and went back to school to sweeten the resume.

What are you talented at? I also am a fan of achieving mediocrity aplenty, haha, I do photography, and digital art, I edit and produce video, weave, and am working on way too many novels that will never get done.

What is a big goal you are working towards (or have already achieved)? I am totally feeling your answer here, I go back and forth with working on my art, whilst I was employed it was a much-needed hobby that I poured myself into, after losing my job I focused all of my attention back on writing and employability skills, but now I’m trying to balance everything again. My biggest goal is to get published, I have a short story I’ve been shopping around for a little over a year now and I am hoping to get it published soon.

What’s your aesthetic? oooh, I dunno. I like a lot of things. Minimalism is a big one for me although you would hardly be able to tell what with my low-key emotional hoarding. How about homemade doughnuts, cosy quilt, puppy cuddles and a Star Trek marathon on Netflix?

Do you collect anything? Oh I agree, my tumblr is my Dragon Age art collection. Haha. I do collect Bioware paraphernalia, I have way too many hoodies, and books on writing.

A topic you always talk about? Yep, same. Dragon Age. A lot. I talk about Bioware games in general, but I’m also big on equality and especially on popular culture's role in creating tolerant societies. I’m the friend who everyone cringes at when we leave the movie theatre. I am a notorious buzzkill.

Pet peeve? Haha, you and I would make bad roommates. I am a shoe-leaving-in-the-hall person. Oops. Pet peeve for me... prob when people put the toilet paper on the roll with the paper coming off the bottom instead of the top. Savage.

Good advice? Oh my, I do not share your taste for soy sauce although now I will have to try it on potatoes. Good advice from me is to leave the dishes in the sink while you’re entertaining, get out there and enjoy your friends, worry about dishes tomorrow. sage advice from a frequent D’n’Der.

IDK who to tag! as I mentioned, I’m more of a lurker than a talker. Feel free to ignore me! :D (looks at recent notifications) @latefortevinter @elvenbeard @shadowtheif117 @sevenkindsofpotato @aathenns and anyone else that wants ta!

#ask meme #my own musings

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justanartsysideblog · 7 years

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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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#space lesbian au #space lesbians #maibrit cadash #lela #vehul av'ahn #oh look it's vehul!#I've been super excited to write her #she'll be appearing in janiculum soon #she's a follower of ghilan'nain that helps with creating new creatures and bodies for spirits #anyway fey I really don't have any concrete plot points except maybe running into some hostile wildlife #so no worries about messing with anything if you write more #also the only other crew members guaranteed are sylmae and thief's dwarf carina #others I'm sure will find their way in

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grandenchanterfiona · 7 years

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Same with shellfish.

I think they might still serve milk with meat, but make sure it wasn’t like, the Thedosian equivalent of cheeseburgers, it’d be more like ‘dairy dish, meat dish’.

And if they did serve pork, or the Thedosian equivalent of cheeseburgers, they’d make sure to serve fish so she can eat that instead?

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solariic · 5 years

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grabbing ari’s verses from past blogs. they’re on his page now on my blog, but here they are also. we’ve got the inquisitor verse, companion verse, and modern thedas verse.

trigger warning, mentions of rape, child trafficking, sex trafficking, slavery, all the other things that usually come into play with ari. because of that (and it’s long), it’s under a read more.

VERSES

INQUISITOR VERSE

If Aristide is not interacting with an Inquisitor, he is the Inquisitor.

The brother of the Duke insisted Aristide accompany him to the Conclave itself in the effort to appear grand enough to require a butler at all times. On their way to attend the meeting, Aristide heard the sound of malicious intent and rushed to burst in on Corypheus’ dealings with the Divine, resulting in becoming the Inquisitor.

HAVEN

Upon freshly becoming the Herald of Andraste, Aristide is still uncertain of his position. He is paranoid of the Templars in the camp, and hesitates to speak his mind or upset anyone in fear of being rejected as the Herald and later paying for his potentially smart mouth. He still very much occupies the mentality of the slave, occupying servant roles around the village, from putting away laundry to keeping the Chantry clean. Gradually, he becomes accustomed to his position and begins to push people to test how far his leash extends. He will make it more obvious that he is a mage, pushing Templars and reassuring himself that they will not kill him.

SKYHOLD

The destruction of Haven is a turning point for him. Now the Inquisitor of a powerful organization, Aristide is definitely the leader until the death of Corypheus or the death of himself. He flourishes in his new power, relishing in the concept of influence. He judges and leads with grace, mercy, and a firm fist, presenting himself as the patriarch of Thedas. The people of Thedas are his children. He wishes to care for them and keep them safe and peaceful; but like children, if they misbehave, they require firm punishment. Still, he is freshly released from slavery: above all, he rules first how an Orlesian rules, rather than the entirety of his own independent judgment. He knows little of using independent judgment.

DECISIONS

leads for thedosian unity

conscripted templars

Alexius researching magic

If Stroud/Loghain: Leaves Hawke in the Fade and redeems the Wardens under Stroud/Loghain's idealism.

If Alistair: Leaves Alistair in the Fade and exiles the Wardens.

forces orlesian public truce under inquisition control

allied with the sentinels

drank from the well

Promotes Leliana as Divine.

COMPANIONS

helped solas' friend, allowed him to kill the mages

elevated du paraquettes

encouraged cullen not to take lyrium

gave vivienne the wyvern heart

cole made more human

gave dorian the letter

the chargers survived

enlisted blackwall with the wardens

Default party: Dorian, Blackwall, Cole

COMPANION VERSE

If Aristide is interacting with an Inquisitor, he is a mage companion, romanceable for anyone. This is also available on request.

The brother of Duke le Tellier requested an entourage to assist him on his journey to attend the meeting at the Conclave as a lesser noble, in the hopes of appearing grand enough to warrant political importance. Humoring his little brother, the Duke loaned him Aristide’s company in the hopes that he might teach his brother a few manners and tips about how to play The Game. The brother died in attendance at the Conclave, leaving Aristide with a choice. He could return to Orlais with the rest of the entourage to report the news, or he could run, letting his serving family assume his death. He chose the latter. In the attempt to find his first choice of belonging, he joined the Inquisition’s efforts first as a minor assistant to Josephine, then as a companion to the Inquisitor upon invitation.

As a companion, he can bring a slight discount to goods purchased in Val Royeaux, as well as a beginning bonus in court approval at the Winter Palace. He approves of clever strategies, direct positions, and fair dealings, as well as firm punishments for those who deserve it. He disapproves of rash, thoughtless actions and cruel or loose punishments. He can occasionally be used in conversation to persuade someone through charm.

For his companion quest, Josephine will inform the Inquisitor of a letter received from the Orlesian noble House le Tellier, an influential trade family in northern Orlais. They request a meeting with the Inquisitor to discuss negotiations of financial support for the Inquisition. If the Inquisitor agrees, the Duke and Duchess le Tellier will come to Skyhold. They quickly see Aristide and immediately become enraged. They will demand the Inquisitor return Aristide to their possession if they wish to do further business, hinting as a sizeable monetary donation if they agree. Aristide will plead with the Inquisitor to refuse the offer.

If the Inquisitor accepts the offer, they gain a down payment of five thousand sovereigns and Aristide will return to with the Duke and Duchess. The Inquisitor will later receive a war table mission: Leliana's spies inform her that Aristide made it as far as the Exalted Plains before killing the Duke and the Duchess himself and disappearing. She explains that he may plan to assassinate the Inquisitor in revenge. The Inquisitor may use Josephine to placate Aristide through the offer of a small amount of land and money; Leliana to silently track him down and kill him before he can perform the assassination; Cullen to send troops to storm through the Exalted Plains in search for him to kill him (this option may bring strains for the Dalish clan in the Plains).

If the Inquisitor refuses the offer, the Duke and Duchess le Tellier will exclaim their insult and leave, warning the Inquisitor of the vicious rumors they will spread back in Orlais. Aristide is extremely grateful and begins a dialogue in which he expresses his perplexity at freedom. The Inquisitor can make two choices: They can tell Aristide that he is now in their service and that he will work to repay the debt the Duke and Duchess would have given them in reward. If this option is chosen, the Inquisitor can use Aristide in occasional dialogues to sleep with an individual for the sake of persuasion. He will also relocate into the Inquisitor's chambers, living in the small room behind the bed as a live-in servant. The Inquisitor will experience various forms of unexplanable misfortune, and Aristide's dialogues will all be backhanded insults masked as compliments, and he will claim his innocence in favor of the compliments if confronted. Alternatively, the Inquisitor can encourage Aristide's freedom, and he will act much stronger, witty, and verbose in future dialogues. He will have greater success in persuasion tactics and the Inquisition will gain regional influence within the Orlesian border at a larger rate. This response opens the possibility for a romantic relationship with him. Regardless of the Inquisitor's response, there will be a war table mission explaining the sprout of rumors against the Inquisition coming from northern Orlais. Cullen will not participate, but Josephine can discount the Duke and Duchess le Tellier into discredibility, or Leliana can silence the rumors -- and the Duke and Duchess, informally.

MODERN THEDAS VERSE

The House of le Tellier is an acclaimed society for orphaned or abandoned children; the unwanted urchins of society. Through entirely private donations, le Tellier takes in the rabble and tarnishes them into gems. Few have truly seen beyond its iron wrought gates, save for those who live within its walls. Inside, children live, learn, and love. They stay until adulthood and are schooled by private tutors. However, the actual events within the society are kept a secret. Children are taught to serve the elite population, whether as staff or - other occupation. In secret, a few select children are taught the trade of seduction -- known as Petite Beautés. In their youth, Beautés are sold to a silent clientele with unique and high-paying tastes, dishing out coin for discretion.

Aristide, the sole survivor of the murder of his clan, came to the House of le Tellier as a boy and was raised as a diamond within its walls, quickly gaining the position as one of the Petite Beautés. This job seemed to be one of his greatest skills that he nurtured -- or was forced to nurture -- during his time at le Tellier. Upon graduation from the House, Beautés are intended to teach at the House or to become private escorts of the individuals they serviced as children. Weeks before his intended graduation, Aristide and several other Beautés came under the harsh fire of a rejected client, enraged that he had been refused by the House's services. While the majority of the others were killed and a few others taken by the client, Aristide managed to escape. Presumed dead or kidnapped (for the House could hardly pursue the client in fear of the crime of children trafficking tracing back to their academy), Aristide was free. He called upon the blackmailed favors of his past clients to gain protection and funding. Through this support, he established himself in a major city in a posh flat. He continues to sell his services in a variety of sex work, ranging from sex work to escort services to pornographic entertainment. He gains prestige among the alternative art community for his erotica, and he pursues erotic modeling and photography.

#* ｡✧ ━ ⦅ out of character. ⦆

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