#Qunari Cuisine

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Foods of Thedas: Master Post

Here is the very, very long and complete list of all dishes, ingredients, and drinks in Thedas as of Tevinter Nights.

This compiles all the canon posts. My headcanons are separate from this list to avoid any confusion but you can find it linked along with the other individual posts below.

Like in the individual posts, the list has the country of origins next to each item and any relevant information. Such as ingredients, use, notes, or trivia. For the canonically suggested foods and drinks I list what their real world uses are for your reference as to what they might be used for in Thedas.

For "Shorter" Food Posts

Dishes, Sauces, and Sides

Drinks

Raw Ingredients

Prepared Ingredients

Cannonically Possible Foods and Drinks

Disclaimer Though real life plants may be listed here as edible it is for fictional use only. This is not intended to be used as a reference nor guide for what plants are edible or safe to eat. Please do not use it as such.

Dishes

Breads and Desserts

Breads

Biscuit

Whole Grain Biscuit - Commonly made in Chantry cloisters. A staple in their simple diets.

Black Bread

Braided Honey and Date Bread

Brown Bread

Buns

Butter Puff - This is bread where butter is folded into the dough allowing it to become puffy and softer than usual bread. (Orlesian)

Crumpet

Dark Bread

Dried Bread

Honey Loaf

Lichen Bread - Bread that is made using lichen. (Orzammar)

Peasant Bread - A hearty type of bread that is made with a variety of grains.

Raider Queen's Bread of Many Tongues - Created by the Raider Queen, this bread calls for flour, baking powder, salt, butter, brown sugar, molasses, eggs, bananas. The creator calls for Par Vollen bananas but another version of the recipe says Rivaini bananas are an acceptable replacement. (Rivain)

Ryott Bread - Made of a protein rich grain that is valued throughout Ferelden.

Sweet Bread

Sweet Rolls

Thin Bread - A thin bread used to make wraps in Seheron.

Whole Grain Bread - Another staple made in Chantry cloisters.

Desserts

Cake

Cake with Apples

Chocolate Cake

Cupcakes

The Exquisite Misery - A little cake topped with a dusting of anise, deep mushrooms, and gold dust. (Orlesian)

Hearth Cake - A pan-made Dalish cake; made of flour, hardwood ash or baking powder, halla butter, sugar, mixed dried fruit (currants, cranberries, etc), egg, milk.

Honey Cake

Lemon Cake

Petit Fours (Orlesian)

Pound Cake

Round Cake - Often topped with poppyseed and honey. In Serault, they will sometimes have the antlers baked into the crust.

Sugar Cake - Made with strawberries and sugar-cream icing on a pound cake.

Sugar-drizzled Lemon Cake - A type of lemon cake that was used in Antivan Crow history to assassinate templars.

Sugarcake - A dense cake usually topped with powdered sugar.

Sweet Cake

Candy

Black Licorice Candy - Can be salted.

Bon-bons

Candied Almonds

Candied Dates

Candied Fruit

Candy Cane

Candy Apple

Carastian Candy - A candied chocolate. (Tevinter)

Peppermints

Spun Sugar (Fereldan)

Sweetmeat - A confectionery treat, sometimes candy coated fruit.

Toffee

Unnamed Candied Nuts with Spice - A candy that is sweet until swallowed, then they leave a spicy aftertaste. (Orlesian)

Cookies

Biscuit - A hard, flat, and unleavened baked treat that can be sweet or savory.

Butter and Sugar Cookie - This cookie isn’t specified as it is only described by these ingredients.

Raisin Cookies

Shortbread

Tea Biscuits

Wafers

Donuts

Ice Cream

Orlesian Guimauves - Another name for marshmallows.

Pastries

Apple Pie

The Blessed Apple - A pie made by a small cloister of Chantry sisters tending to the orchard, they use the windfall apples and share the pies freely; as well as the apples. The ingredients are flour, salt, butter, water, apples (golden apples from Lady's Orchard preferred but others are acceptable substitutions), brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. (Orlesian)

Cinnamon Rolls

Croissant

Honey and Nut Pastry (Tevinter)

Macaroon

Marie du Lac Erre's Sweet Ruin - One version of this pastry with a dramatic history, the recipe contains; butter, powdered sugar, chocolate, vanilla extract, flour, orange or mint extract, baking powder, and milk. (Orlesian)

Minced Pie - filled with finely chopped fruit and sweet things.

Tarts

Unnamed Blueberry Pastry - A light, sticky pastry with blueberries. (Possibly Nevarran)

Pudding

Caramel Pudding

Dessert Pudding

Sticky Jellies (Orlesian)

Gravy and Sauces

Ale Cooked Mushroom (Dwarven)

Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce

Applesauce

Cream Sauce

Deep Mushroom Flavored Cream Sauce (Orzammar)

Dragon’s Blood Sauce (Nevarran)

Gravy

Honey-glaze - A sauce used to glaze various foods, particularly meats.

Hot Sauce

Llomerryn Red Sauce - A sauce that goes on almost everything, contains pulped tomatoes, onions, red pepper, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, mustard powder, hot pepper powder, salt, cinnamon stick, allspice, cloves, fennel seeds, dill seeds, mustard seeds, black peppercorns, bay, garlic. (Rivain)

Nesting Roast Gravy - Gravy made from the pan juices of a nesting roast. Meant to be served with the roast. (Orlesian)

Plum Sauce

Red Wine Marinade

River-herring Gravy - a gravy as white as apple blossoms. (Orlesian)

Special Sauce - A sauce infused with the essence of fifty-two herbs, prized for the ability to help with “inadequacy”. (Kirkwall)

Wild Flower Glaze - A honeyed glaze made of wild flowers, it is recommended to use flowers plucked at dawn and the lowest blossoms.

Main Dishes

Beans and Bread

Boiled Roots

Braised Nug with Elfroot (Dwarven)

Braised Ram with all the Trimmings

Bread and Cheese

Broiled Boar Head (Fereldan)

Cacio e pepe - A dish of three ingredients; spaghetti, pepper, and pecorino romano. (Antivan)

Canapé - a type of hors d'œuvre.

Chicken Wings - Sold in The Rusted Horn as 'Wyvern Wings.'

Dalish Deep Forest Comfort - String squashes, halla butter, garlic, mushrooms, elfroot or spinach, diced tomatoes or beetles, hot red pepper, rock salt, halla cheese or goat cheese, edible wildflowers (borage, chicory, etc), pine nuts. (Dalish of Southern Orlais)

Dried Bread and Fruit

Eggs à la Val Foret - An egg dish served with a cream sauce. (Orlesian)

First Day Chicken - a dish served during First Day in some parts of Orlais.

Fried Mush (Orzammar)

Gilded Swan with River-herring Gravy - An eastern spice, flour, gold leaf, river herring, swan, yolk. (Orlaisian)

Gnocchi (Antivan)

Goat Custard - A broiled goat head (Fereldan)

Ham

Anderfels Smoked Ham - It tastes of despair

Avvar Ham

Ham Stuck with Cloves

The Jade Ham - Honeyed with wild flowers (especially those picked at dawn), masterfully seasoned, and spiral-cut.

Orlesian Ham

Smoked Ham

Herbed Chicken and Biscuits

Jellied Meats

Jellied Eels

Jellied Pigs Feet - A delicacy in the Free Marches and originally a popular commoner food that has risen to the tables of nobility. Pigs feet and/or pork hocks, salt, onions, garlic, allspice, peppercorns, bay. (Free Marcher)

Veal Galentine (Orlesian)

Liver

Mad Burnard's Gift of Flesh - A nesting roast unlike any other, involving a whole wyvern, stuffed with a whole gurn, stuffed with a horse, stuffed with a large halla (horns and all), stuffed with a swan, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a quail, stuffed with a bunting that choked on a gold piece. (Orlesian)

Meat Pies

Dove Pie - A pie made with live doves, for the theater of the meal. (Orlesian)

Pigeon Pie

Pork Pie

Turnip and Mutton Pie (Fereldan)

Unmentionable Pie - It is a meat pie that uses the typically undesirable parts of an animal. (Fereldan)

Venison Pasty - A hand pie filled with venison. In Serault, it is served with curls of goat cheese. (Orlesian)

Nesting Roast - This dish is classically made with a quail stuffed in a pheasant stuffed in a swan. Served with gravy made from the pan juices. (Orlesian)

Nug Steak (Orzammar)

Nug-gets (Orzammar)

Nug-loaf (Orzammar)

Nug-Nug - A dish meant to resemble a nug peeking from its burrow; made of ground meat (beef preferred), parsley, egg, salt, crushed cumin or mustard seeds, black pepper, cooked rice, tomatoes, onions, chives (Orlesian)

Pancake - The breakfast food and savory dishes.

Crepes - A very thin pancake that can be filled with sweet or savory ingredients.

Nug Pancakes - A savory pancake made with nug. A favorite among dwarven children. (Orzammar)

Porridge

Bland Porridge

Deer Porridge - A savory porridge.

Pig Oat Mash - A constant dish on The Hanged Man menu, a popular hangover cure if washed down with brandy spiked cider. This warming porridge contains apples, dried salt pork or smoked bacon, dried rolled oats, berries, ale or water (Kirkwall)

Porridge with Raisins

Savory Porridge

Pudding - A sweet or savory, steamed dish that can be topped with gravy or chocolate.

Rack of Ribs (Fereldan)

Ram Chops

Ram Cutlet

Rice and Boiled Vegetables

Roast

Roast Boar - On cooking method involves the boar being stuffed with apples

Roast Chicken

Roast Duck

Roast Hog

Roast Lamb

Roast Turkey

Roast Wyvern

Roasted Cave Beetle (Dwarven)

Roasted Giant Spider (Dwarven)

Roasted Nug (Orzammar)

Roasted Phoenix - One of the most infamous meals in Thedas, it is served with sweet red wine.

Roasted Rabbit

Roasted Venison with Wild Greens

Spit-roasted Deepstalker (Dwarven)

Spit-roasted Nug with Hot Sauce (Orzammar)

Sandwich

Ham Sandwich

Sausage - There are about twelve different kinds of sausage unnamed mentioned in Last Court.

Black Pudding - A type of blood sausage made from pork or beef blood, pork fat or beef sue, and a type of cereal. (Orlesian)

Smoked Sausage

Spiced Sausage

Seared Nug - Usually served with a deep mushroom cream sauce. (Orzammar)

Sera's Yummy Corn

Shredded Dried Meat and Cheese - A dish that is commonly used as a spread by the dwarves. (Orzammar)

Simmering Partridge - Cooked with sweet onions and pale beans (Orlesian)

Smoked Meat

Smoked Boar

Smoked Rabbit

Smoked Venison

Spiced Nug

Sticky Figs Rolled in Nuts

Venison with Apples Stewed in Brandy Sauce

Wandering Hills - A delicacy made from large creatures of the same name. (Anderfels)

Wyvern Steak

Seafood

Alamarri Pickled Krone - Krone, Brine, (Optional) pine pitch and druffalo dung.

Baked Fish - An Avvar cooking method where they wrap fish in pungent leaves and clay before cooking it in banked coals.

Baked Krone with Honey - The honey is typically used as a side sauce for dipping. (Fereldan)

Fish Wrap - Fish wrapped in thin bread (Seheron)

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

Fresh Oyster

Fried Fish

Glazed Krone (Fereldan)

Lutefisk

Smoked Fish

Starkhaven Fish and Egg Pie - Fish from the Minanter River (carp, trout, or others), wine, onion, carrot, thyme, bay, sea salt, dried currants, sliced almonds, boiled sliced eggs, butter, flour, fish broth, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg, cream, fried whitebait or other small fish. (Starkhaven)

Soups and Stews

Barley Soup

Butter Soup - A simple, inexpensive, and easy soup. Made as midmorning meals or midday refresher for field workers. It is commonly fed to children and convalescents due to its nutritious nature. Ingredients include water, potatoes, cinnamon, star anise, clove, bay, peppercorns, salt, noodles, cream, butter (Orlesian)

Cabbage Stew

Deepstalker Stew - A stew of deepstalker is made when rations run low. (Legion of the Dead)

Enchantment Soup - Made by Sandal, edibility unknown.

Fereldan Turnip and Barley Stew - White beans, oil, onion, carrots, celery, garlic, stock, turnips, turnip greens, sausage, barley, cumin, dried basil, oregano, salt, pepper, herbed wine vinegar

First Day Festival Stew (Orzammar)

Fish Chowder (Antivan)

Fish Stew

The Hanged Man Stew - The tavern’s featured dish, made with a different mystery meat every morning. (Kirkwall)

Lamb and Pea Stew (Fereldan)

Norbotten Fruit Stew - This dish is used to rehydrate dried fruits: dried apricots, pitted prunes, raisins, mixed dried fruits (cherries, apples, cranberries, etc), lemon or orange, cinnamon, cloves, water, sugar or honey, brandy. (Anderfels)

Pea Soup

Ram Stew

Turnip Stew

Turnip-Goat Stew (Fereldan)

Wild Rabbit Stew

Sides

Antivan Olives - Soaked in vinegar and stuffed with capers.

Brandy Soaked Cherries

Beer Nuts

Dried Fruit

Dried Meats

Jerky

Jerky Ball

Fried Potatoes

Hard-boiled Egg

Jarred Olives (Tevinter)

Meat Skewers (Orlais)

Peeled Grapes (Tevinter)

Picked Foods

Pickled Apples

The Pickled Apples of Arlathan - Apples said to be from the time of Arlathan. The taste is described to be one of fresh apples, with the same crispness.

Pickled Eggs - Eggs, sugar, salt, vinegar. Favored in Ferelden.

Pickled Fish

Pickled Lamprey

Pickled Nug

Pickled Ox Tongue

Pickled Vegetables

Pickles

Roasted Chestnuts (Nevarran)

Roasted Potatoes

Smoked Bacon

Steamed Beans

Toast

Wine Soaked Fruit

Miscellaneous

Hardtack

Provisions

Rations -Typically consist of dried meat, nuts, and a variety of other simple foodstuffs.

Dry Ration

Qunari Ration

Drinks

Absinthe

Absence - One of the bottles of Thedas you find in Inquisition.

Absinthe - also referred to la fée verte - “little green fairy”

Petite Absinthe - Made from a certain type of wormwood.

Ale, Beer, Drafts, Lagers, and Stouts The Tapster's Tavern in Orzammar serves 52 types of ale, some are listed.

Ale

Ander Stout - This stout is stored in oak casts.

Barley Wine - Despite its name, this is an ale.

Beer

Brakien Brew (Orzammar)

Brown Ale

Coconut Draft

Fereldan Beer

Fereldan Lager - A pale ale.

Lichen Ale (Orzammar)

Oghren's Homebrew - An amber coloured ale with a slightly sweet, nutty flavor and described to have a hint of toastiness, and is spiced with cloves. (Dwarven)

Qunari Ale

Ryott Ale (Fereldan)

Ryotte Beer (Fereldan)

Valenta’s Red (Orzammar)

Watered Beer - While watered beer is served to reduce the price of beer and stretch it along, it is also served as a provision. In Serault, the peasantry drink watered beer to stave off the summer heat.

Watered-down Ale

Wildwine - An ale made from ryott. (Chasind)

Wilhelm’s Special Brew - This dark-colored ale gives off a thick, oaky smell. When swirled in its tankard, it takes on an unexpected glow.

Brandy

Aged Antivan Brandy

Antivan Brandy

Antivan Plum Brandy

Apple Brandy (Orlesian)

Orlesian Brandy

Plum Brandy

West Hill Brandy (Ferelden)

Cider

Brandy-spiked-cider

Cider

Serault Cider

Winter Cider (Wycome)

Cocktails

Benediction (Orlesian)

The Emerald Valley (Orlesian)

Dragon’s Piss - The name is probably figurative, but no one knows for sure. BioWare gives the "recipe" for Dragon Piss as "1 oz light rum, 1 oz dark rum, filled with iced tea". (Orlesian)

The Golden Nug (Orlesian)

The Heart of Spring - A "restorative" drink from Verchiel made with violets. (Orlesian)

The Hissing Drake (Orlesian)

Ice Cream and Beer

A Night of Shame (Orlesian)

Posset - A drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor and typically flavored with spices. Can be drunk as a delicacy or as a cold remedy.

The Randy Dowager (Orlesian)

To Cure a Cold - a folk remedy that requires boiling whiskey and adding lemon juice and crushed garlic.

Gin

Gin

Prophet’s Laurel Gin

Grey Warden Liquor These are bottles unique to members of the order, as each warden will combine half-full bottles in order to save space. No bottle is ever fully emptied or cleaned. In order to preserve the base flavor. They are called Grey Whiskey, Ritewine, or Conscription Ale, each vintage is named after a warden with a small note.

Vintage: Warden Anras - Bottled whimsy.

Vintage: Warden Bethany Hawke - Princess piss.

Vintage: Warden Carver Hawke - Toast them all.

Vintage: Warden Daedalam - Extra red.

Vintage: Warden Eval’lal - Griffon Wing Ale

Vintage: Warden Gibbins - Don’t frigging touch! I spit in this! I mean it!

Vintage: Warden Jairn - Smash when dead.

Vintage: Warden Korenic - Notes of fruit and anger.

Vintage: Warden Riordan - Serve yourself.

Vintage: Warden Steed - Joining juice.

Vintage: Warden Tontiv - Home.

Mead The Tapster's Tavern in Orzammar serves 17 types of mead, some are listed. Honeywine is another name for mead.

Avvar Mead

Chasind Sack Mead

Lady Odette Guillory's Family Honey Wine

Mead

Orlesian Honeywine

Port A sweet, fortified red wine, typically served with dessert.

Antivan Port

Tevinter Port

Rum Boot Screech is another name for rum.

Alvarado’s Bathtub Boot Screech

Blackwater Rum

Dark Llomerryn Rum

Tea and Other Drinks

Coffee (Antivan)

Cocoa/Hot Chocolate

Juice

Fermented Fruit Juice

Pickle Juice

Pomegranate Juice

Prune Juice

Punch

Spicy Punch

Tea

Almond Tea

Anderfels Mint Tea

Bitter Tea - An unspecified tea so bitter it is astringent. Served during the Fourth Blight.

Black Tea

Black Tea with Juniper

Fires of Change Tea

Herbal Tea

Iced Tea

Lattenfluss Tea (Anderfels)

Mint Tea

Nameless Tevinter Tea

Rivaini Spice Tea Blend

Rivaini Tea

Rosehips Tea

Spiced Tea

Stripweed Tea

Unsweetened Tea

Verimensis Tea (Tevinter)

Whiskey

Cinnamon-infused Whiskey

Ferelden Whisky

Legacy White Shear

Mackay’s Epic Single Malt

Wine The Tapster's Tavern in Orzammar serves 12 types of imported wines, some are listed.

Agreggio Pavali (Tevinter)

Alyons Black

Amaranthine Red

Anderfels Red

Antivan Red

Bitter Black Wine

Celestine Black Wine

Dandelion Wine (City Elves of Orlais)

Elderberry Wine

Elfroot Mixed with Wine

Finale by Massaad

Flames of Our Lady

Flat Wine

Ghislain Red

Iced Wine

Montsimmard White

Mosswine (Orzammar)

Mulsum (Tevinter)

Orichalcum mixed with Wine - Considered to have aphrodisiac properties.

Orlesian Red

Plum Wine

Red Wine

Serault Yellow Wine

Serault White

Silent Plains Piquette (Tevinter)

Southern Black Wine

Spiced Wine

Sweetened and Spiced Yellow Wine

Val Chevin Red Wine

Vint-9 Rowan’s Rose

Watered Wine

White Seleny Wine (Antivan)

White Wine

Yellow Wine

Additional Spirits

Abyssal Peach

Antivan Sip-Sip

Aqua Magus

Aquae Lucidius - A potent liquor made of wyvern venom; a rare drink known for its hallucinogenic properties.

Bottle of Rotgut - Rotgut is slang for cheap whiskey.

Butterbile :84

Carnal 8:69 Blessed (Orlesian)

Dwarven Ale - Not actually an ale, but a black liquid reputedly made from fungus with a reputation as being almost undrinkable for anyone not a dwarf.

Garblog’s Backcountry Reserve

Golden Scythe 9:40 Black

Hirol’s Lava Burst (Kal'Hirol)

Maraas-Lok (Qunari)

Moonshine

Potent Moonshine

Sun Blonde Vint-1

**Fruits, Mushrooms, Nuts, and Vegetables*

Edible Plants

Fern Fiddlehead

Lichen

Moss

Pungent Leaves - Unspecified leaves used in Avvar cooking of baked fish.

Rose

Rose Petals

Rosehips

Stripweed

Sugar Cane (Tevinter, Rivain)

Wildflowers

Borage

Chicory

Dandelion

Honeysuckle

Violet

Fruits and Nuts

Apple

Applewood Apples (Orlais)

Golden Apples (Orlais)

Green Apples

Le Pomme Vie et Morte - Apples that grow by the gallows in Val Royeaux.

Red Apples

Windfall Apples

Apricot

Banana

Par Vollen Banana

Rivain Banana

Berry

Blueberry

Cranberry

Elderberry

Raspberry

Strawberry

Caper (Antiva)

Cherry

Cocoa/Chocolate (Donarks)

Coconut

Coffee (Antiva)

Currant

Black Currant

Date - A purple and red fruit with a pit, it has a sweetness and tangy taste. (Tevinter)

Fig

Grape

Lemon

Lime

Nuts

Almond

Chestnut

Pine Nut

Olive

Antivan Olive

Orange (Orlais, Antiva)

Passion Fruit

Peach

Pear

Plum

Pomegranate

Pomegranate Seeds

Grain

Barley

Pot Barley

Oats

Rolled Oats

Rice

Ryott

Ryott Flour

Wheat

Wheat Flour

Whole Grains

Whole Grain Flour

Mushrooms

Deep Mushroom

Field Mushroom

Unspecified Fungus - Used to brew Dwarven ale.

Truffle

Unnamed Glowing Fungus

Wild Mushroom

Vegetables

Beans

Bush Beans

Green Beans

Pale Beans

White Beans

Cabbage

Carrot

Purple Carrot

White Carrot

Celery

Chive

Corn

Checkered Corn

Golden Corn

Yellow Corn

Cucumber

Eggplant

Fennel

Lettuce

Mustard

Onion

Red Onion

Sweet Onion

White Onion

Pea

Pepper

Antivan Pepper

Green Pepper

Hot Pepper

Hot Red Pepper

Red Bell Pepper

Sweet Pepper

Potato

Radish

Spinach

Squash

Marrow Squash

Pumpkin

String Squash

Tomato

Turnip - aka navet

Turnip Greens

Wild Greens

Animal Products

Dairy

Butter

Cow Butter

Goat Butter

Halla Butter

Herbed Butter

Nug Butter

Cheese

Ativan Smoked Cheese

Blue-veined Cheese (Orlesian)

Brie Cheese

Brined Goat Cheese

“Dalish” Cheese - An ill described item as it is unclear if it is actually cheese. One thing is for sure it isn’t Dalish.

Feisty Cheese

Goat Cheese

Halla Cheese

Pecorino Romano (Antivan)

Ram Cheese

Cream

Spiced Cream

Thickened Cream

Whipped Cream

Milk

Cow Milk

Goat Milk

Halla Milk

Ram Milk

Soured Milk

Eggs

Caviar

Chicken Egg

Egg Whites

Egg Yolk

Fish

Carp

Cod

Eel

Krone

Lamprey

Mackerel

Mussel

Oyster

River Herring

Sunfish

Trout

Whitebait

Insects

Cave Beetle (Dwarven)

Giant Spider (Dwarven)

Scorpion

Snail (Avvar)

Wood-burrowing beetle larvae (Dalish)

Meats

Beef

Ox

Ox-tongue

Rump Roast - A cut of meat from the hindquarters

Veal

Boar

Bronto

Cat

Deepstalker (Dwarven)

Dog

Dragon

Druffalo

Goat

Gurgut

Gurn

Halla

Hare

Hart

Horse

Liver - General name given, animal isn’t specified.

Lurker (Avvar)

Nug

Phoenix

Pork

Pig's Feet

Pork Hocks

Pork Saddle

Quillback

Rabbit

Ram

Rat

Sheep

Lamb

Mutton

Varghest

Venison

Wandering Hills (Anderfels)

Wyvern

Poultry

Bunting

Chicken

Dove

Duck

Partridge

Pheasant

Pigeon

Quail

Swan

Turkey

Misc.

Dragon Blood (Nevarran)

Druffalo Dung

Honey

Honeycomb

Miscellaneous Ingredients

Baking Ingredients

Ash

Elfroot Ash

Hardwood Ash (Dalish)

Baking Powder

Yeast Cake

Salts

Fine-ground Salt

Rock Salt

Salt

Sea Salt

Others

Brine

Clay (Avvar)

Pine Pitch (Alamarri)

Herbs and Spices

Herbs

Basil

Dried Basil

Bay Leaf

Catsbane

Elfroot

Elfroot Leaves

Royal Elfroot

Lavender (Orlesian)

Mint

Anderfels’s Mint

Foxmint

Peppermint

Oregano

Dried Oregano

Parsley

Prophet's Laurel

Rosemary

Spindleweed

Verdant Spindleweed

Thyme

Spices

Allspice

Anise

Antivan Cord-seed

Cardamom

Cinnamon (Seheron)

Clove

Cumin

Cumin Seed

Deep Mushroom Powder (Orlesian and Dwarven)

Dill

Dill Seeds

Dragon Blood Powder (Nevarran)

Eastern Spice - Unnamed

Fennel Seeds

Garlic

Ginger

Dried Ginger

Hot Pepper Powder

Hot Red Pepper, Crushed

Juniper

Licorice

Mace

Mustard

Mustard Powder

Mustard Seeds

Nutmeg (Seheron)

Grated Nutmeg

Pepper

Black Pepper

Peppercorn

Black Peppercorn

Poppyseed

Saffron

Spice Ball - A variety of mixed spices wrapped in a cheesecloth

Star Anise

Vanilla (Rivain)

Prepared Ingredients

Basic Ingredients

Alcohol

Brandy

Cinnamon-infused whiskey

Dark Llomerryn Rum

Hirol's Lava Burst

Prophet's Laurel Gin

Red Wine

Watered Down Ale

Whiskey

White Seleney Wine

Broth and Stock

Broth

Deepstalker Broth

Fish Broth

Stock

Brown Stock

Eggs

Hard Boiled Egg

Essences and Extracts

Essence

Orange Essence

Extract

Mint Extract

Orange Extract

Vanilla Extract

Golds

Edible Gold Leaf

Gold Dust

Grains

Noodles

Grain-based Noodles

Pasta

Spaghetti

Pie Dough

Oils

Cod Liver Oil

Oil

Sugars

Brown Sugar

Molasses

Powdered Sugar

Sugar

Sugar Syrup

Vinegars

Apple Cider Vinegar

Herbed Wine Vinegar

Vinegar

Desserts and Sweets

Desserts

Buttercream

Caramel

Chocolate

Chocolate Bitters

Custard

Pound Cake

Tea Biscuit

Toffee

Wafer

Jam

Plum Jam

Raspberry Jam

Misc

Sugar Cream Icing

Sugar Flowers

Sugared Rose Petals

Syrup

Dried and Cured Foods

Dried Fruits, Vegetables, and Fungi

Dried Apple

Dried Apricot

Dried Beans

Dried Cherry

Dried Cranberry

Dried Currant

Dried Mushroom

Dried Peas

Prunes

Pitted Prunes

Raisin

Cured Meats

Bacon

Smoked Bacon

Cold Cuts

Dried Meats

Dried Mackerel

Jerky

Lutefisk

Salted

Dried Salt Pork

Salt Pork

Salted Beef

Salted Dragon Meat

Salted Fish

Salted Goat Meat

Salted Meat

Sausage

Blood Sausage

Smoked Sausage

Spiced and Salted Sausage

Smoked

Smoked Beef

Smoked Fish

Smoked Goat Meat

Pickled Foods

Pickled Ox Tongue

Pickles

Prepared Animal Products

Gelatine

Grease

Ground Meat

Ground Beef

Ground Nug

Lard

Spiced Meat

Miscellaneous

Lyrium

Wyvern Venom - There are 47 ways to distill wyvern venom to be safe for consumption.

Canonically Suggested Food and Ingredients

Raw Ingredients

Edible Plants, Fruit, and Vegetables

Edible Plants

Aspen - The inner bark is sweet and starchy. It is edible both raw and cooked, it can also be dried and ground into flour. Some aspens have edible catkins as well.

Beech - The young green spring leaves can be cooked as greens. The inner bark, once dried, can be turned into bread flour.

Birch - The inner bark can be dried and used to make bread flour. Strips of the inner bark could be eaten raw or boiled like noodles. The sap was edible directly from the tree or boiled down into a slightly sweet syrup.

Cactus

Cattail

Clover

Flowers

Cosmos

Daisy

Dog-rose - The rose hips and flower’s petals are used to make teas, preserves, jellies, and pickled relishes.

Elderflower

Gorse

Hollyhock

Jasmin

Lilac

Marguerite

Orchid - The dried corms (tubers) are used to make hot drinks.

Pansy

Peony

Poppy

Snapdragon

Sunflower

Tulip

Wysteria

Lotus - Both the roots and the large seeds are edible when cooked. However the seeds can be eaten raw.

Maple - Along with the sap, the inner bark of maple can be eaten cooked or raw. The seeds and leaves are edible as well once boiled.

Northern Prickleweed - Young prickleweed shoots can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled.

Palm - Heart of palms are eaten as well as palm oil.

Pine - Aside from pine nuts, the pine pollen, pine cones - only the females, may be eaten once shelled and roasted. Pine needles are used for tea or chewed on for the juices, and the inner pine bark can be dried and ground as flour, used to thicken soups and stews, cooked like spaghetti, or eaten raw. The sap is high in vitamins a and c and has been used to fend off scurvy in the past. The sap can be drunk as a tea in the spring.

Fir Pine

Stone Pine - Produce large pine nuts that make them easier to eat and forage for.

Red Cedar - The inner bark can be dried and ground into a powder, treating scurvy and acting as a nutritious ration added to foods.

Seaweed

Spruce - Spruce tips, spruce needles, spruce tree cones, and the inner bark of a spruce tree.

Thistle

Water Lily

Willow - The inner bark can be scraped off, cooked in strips like spaghetti, dried and ground into flour, or eaten raw.

Wormwood

Fruits and Nuts

Berries

Blackberry (Ferelden)

Blackthorn Berry - also known as sloe berries or sloes.

Rowan Berries - Bitter berries that can be cooked to make jelly or used as flavoring.

Bradford Pear - This small variety of pear comes from a rather foul smelling tree. The pears can be used for jellies, ciders, and hand pie. (Ferelden)

Citron

Melon

Nuts

Acorn

Black Walnut - Used to make syrups and liquors.

Hognut

Peanut (Seheron)

Walnut

Seeds

Sunflower Seeds

Sour Cherry

Sour Grape

Fungi and Mushrooms

Morel mushrooms - There is a blighted morel, so it stands to reason there is a non-blighted morel.

Grain

Flax

Flax Seed

Herbs

Elfroot

Bitter Elfroot

Gossamer Elfroot

Sage

Winterberry

Vegetables

Artichoke (Orlais)

Beet

Daikon Radish (Ferelden)

Animal Byproducts

Dairy

Butter

Goat Butter

Horse Butter

Sheep Butter

Cheese

Donkey Cheese

Horse/Mare cheese - Cheese made from milk of a horse.

Sheep Cheese

Curds

Milk

Buttermilk

Donkey Milk - High in nutrients but low in fat, it can be used as a milk replacement for infants when mixed with a bit of cow/goat cheese to add fat to the milk.

Mares Milk - Milk from a horse, it can be used as a milk replacement for infants.

Sheep Milk

Whey

Eggs

Crocodile Eggs

Duck Eggs

Goose Eggs

Gull Eggs

Partridge Eggs

Peafowl Eggs

Pigeon Eggs

Quail Eggs

Turkey Eggs

Turtle Eggs

Fish/Seafood

Clam

Crab

Crayfish

Jellyfish

Octopus

Shark

Squid

Sturgeon - The source of caviar.

Insects

Cricket

Locust

Meat

Badger

Bear

Crocodile

Donkey

Elk

Fox

Frog

Gazelle

Lynx

Marmot

Moose

Mountain Goat

Otter

Raccoon

Squirrel

Turtle

Wolf

Poultry

Albatross

Eagle

Goose

Grouse

Gull

Lark

Owl

Parrot

Peafowl

Ptarmigan

Quail

Turkey

Miscellanious

Fat

Goose Fat

Maple Syrup

Marrow Bones

Lamb

Ox

Prepared Ingredients

Plant-Based

Almond Milk

Olive Oil

Rice Flour

Rose Water

Sources:

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[moss-flesh]

thinking about qunari cuisine resembling korean food again!!! kimchi n fermented radish, lots of spice, lots of tofu n meats, SO MUCH RICE !!! simple buns to eat on the go, just very filling very healthy meals, hardly any waste or extra things. OH MY GOD COLD NOODLES OR KIMBAP

like omg imagine iron bull and the chargers sitting down n having a bbq night,

iron bull MUST cook the meat because “no u dont want to cook it that much krem its gonna be dry n stringy,

dalish its fine if its kind of pink just EAT IT DALISH… see i told you, put some of that cabbage on it.

i know it smells strong that means it TASTES GOOD!”

[contreparry]

Happy friday! The Pyramids of Par Vollen prompt from the dragon age lore list

Absolutely! Here's some Adoribull for @dadrunkwriting!

"Good book?" The Iron Bull's rumbling baritone filled the alcove Dorian had shoved himself into to hide away from the rest of the world. He wanted a day of peaceful solitude, but his chosen volume of entertainment was... Dorian placed a bookmark between the pages and shut the slim book closed with a snap.

"Adequate. Reading a travelogue written by a man who despises traveling is somewhat amusing. Frustrating, though. The author's so busy complaining about how the local cuisine isn't to his liking that he fails to describe anything else about his location," Dorian replied. He carefully maneuvered himself out of the alcove, swinging one leg out and then the other until his feet dangled over the wood floor. Bull crossed his arms and leaned against a bookshelf.

"If it's only adequate I wonder why you bothered," Bull remarked, his singular eye critically examining Dorian's face. "You're not the sort who wastes his time." He was smiling at him, as if he knew something Dorian did not, and Dorian glanced down at the title of the book he carried: Travels Through the Isles of Northern Thedas. Dorian sighed and shoved the book back on the shelf. He'd reorganize later.

"So I was curious about Par Vollen. The literature on your homeland is inadequate," Dorian said, keeping his voice light and airy like whipped egg whites. Don't put any emphasis on this. It means nothing.

"We do our best to keep it that way," Bull replied. "Though some information does get out. And some people do get in. Sorry he wasn't a better writer, though." He leaned in over Dorian and reached out to pluck the book off of the shelf.

"Perhaps you can write something. You have a way with words," Dorian suggested as Bull flipped through the travelogue.

"Nah. Better at speaking than writing," Bull said, and he stopped flipping through the book and held the page up for Dorian's inspection.

"Good sketch of the pyramids, though," he added. "They're something else. How they've survived for so long is a mystery, even to us Qunari."

"You've seen them in person? Really?" Dorian really shouldn't have been surprised. Par Vollen was his home, after all. He just supposed that Bull wouldn't much care for ancient ruins. A foolish supposition. Bull was interested in everything, after all. He was a curious person by nature, and his work as a spy honed that curiosity until it was as sharp as a knife.

"When this is all over, I'll take you to see 'em," Bull remarked. "Sneak you onto the island in a crate."

"Like cargo," Dorian snorted.

"It'll be a nice crate," Bull insisted, and he flopped down onto a nearby chair before holding the book up with a mischievous grin on his face.

"C'mon, Dorian. Read some more about-" Bull cleared his throat and put on an affected voice. "'The green wilderness of Par Vollen, with its miserable climate and detestable cuisine."

"Ugh, I told you he was dreadful!" Dorian complained, and he perched up on the arm of the chair Bull sat in. "He doesn't even offer interesting complaints! It wouldn't be such a slog if he had a little more wit!"

"Between the two of us we can take care of that," Bull said, and he wrapped his arm around Dorian's waist and tugged him a little closer. Dorian sighed and leaned over to press his lips on Bull's cheek, just below the leather of his eyepatch. It hurt his neck to twist into such a position, so he quickly returned to sitting upright.

"Very well," Dorian sighed. "The things I do for your amusement."

[dumbhero]

thinking about how padan is being exposed to things that caused countless qunari before him to doubt and he is simply ignoring them because he has a headache. obsessed with him. he's hearing music for the first time and seeing art and fashion and eating cuisine unheard of back home and seeing people. and all he can think about is how he feels scared and alone. it really doesnt help that immediately upon setting foot in the city he got blood cursed

[nyaivequnari]

Qunari culture steadily changes with the adoption of other cuisines. Dishes are to be efficiently produced, energy dense and highly nutritious.

[suck-on-a-fire-ball]

Hello Commander Amell! Would you please be so kind and forward this letter to King Theirin? Thanks!

> Your Highness. Tales have been heard from your travels as a Warden. Could you please tell us one of your best experience among those journeys?

I've heard some rumors from our common friend that you sometimes cooked during the travels, however your taste in food seems to be.. quite Fereldan. Please tell me, what exactly in Fereldan cuisine is pleasing you the most and which spices do you use?

Best Regards,

A.<

An envelope of the finest quality with the Ferelden royal crest both stamped onto the paper and marked into the wax seal, is handed to you. It’s so pretty it’s almost a shame to break the seal. The letter is of finest parchment. The handwriting is remarkable and easy to read, a sign someone spends a lot of time exchanging words in penmanship, or a sign of a strict Chantry education.

To dearest A,

I wish to extend my gratitude for the lovely questions and for giving me a reason to meet with my dear beloved friend the Warden Commander again.

And for giving me a reason to not reply to letters concerning boring regal matters!

I thought very long and hard about the first part of your question concerning a favourite moment as a warden. The cliché answer would be “oh when I met new friends and such that I could have never found anywhere else and the bonds that grew between us were strengthened by the oncoming horde of Darkspawn; fighting, bleeding, sweating side by side and for each other only strengthening our bonds” – but bleh. You know all that is true, of course, so let me tell you something that I think back on fondly outside of the obvious.

The best experience was that one time Sten, one of our friends, tripped and fell into what was a literal lake of mud. It had accumulated there after a deluge that lasted days (my least favourite experience as a warden was most certainly not having lodgings during bad weather)… Now, this sounds rather morbid but hear me out: The reason this experience is valued so highly was that on his way down, the big burly Qunari had flailed his arms around (a funny image on its own) and accidentally nudged Morrigan, who then proceeded to also fall. Personally it was Morrigna misfortune that made this incident the best.

After those long days of trudging through the rain, laughing together about their (Morrigan’s) misery was quite a welcomed thing. Although, Sten did get rather annoyed and for a moment we all feared for our lives…

Unfortunately, Morrigan could use her magic to clean herself off without a hitch.

As I’ve written this, I realize that this still relates to the cliché I was attempting to avoid… I suppose that speaks more to what trulywas my best experience.

(As an aside, some might try and claim that I was in fact the one to trip originally resulting in Sten losing his footing when I used his very body to regain my own footing – this is not true. I swear. No matter what everyone else from our little group of misfits dare say. I am a very accomplished King who would never lose his footing just because a road is a little muddy.)

In regard to your second question, I indeed find Fereldan cuisine to be the most tasty out of all of Thedas. Good thing too; as King of Ferelden you rarely get anything else served. I am aware Fereldan food looks quite… unappetizing (Maker I am glad my cook does not read this – who knows what he might end up doing to my food otherwise). But you have to look past the shell and simply taste it.

My favourite dish is a cheese and ham pie, and since I have quite the appetite for cheese, my cook always adds some extra melted cheese on the top. It fills you up, that I can assure you (my seamstress complained the other day that she needed to make new holes in my belt…)! I can also assure you that it tastes mainly of garlic and salt – which, to answer the rest of your question, are the two flavours I will always adore.

Garlic might not be an official spice if it is fresh, but when dried and in those little tiny granules… it counts, right? Oh, let’s pretend it does (if you can’t tell yet, I was not in charge of food during my travels with the Warden Commander).

Before I make a food of myself, as our shared friend enjoys saying, I shall end the letter here. I hope this gives an insight into the man behind the crown as I surely do miss being anything but royal.

I hope this letter reaches you well, Stay safe out there, Yours sincerely,

King Alistair Theirin.

The only mistake in the letter is that you can see he forgot to sign his name as ‘King’ Alistair Theirin, the word ‘king’ smudged in small letters to make it fit.

[ringneckedpheasant]

37-50 👁👁

a few of these I already answered so those ones will be below the cut but thank you!

38. have they ever thought they were about to die? yes. the most obvious time would be the explosion at the conclave, but i think he also thought that 1) when his magic first came in as a child, 2) every time he’s ever fought a dragon and 3) during trespasser when the anchor seemed like it might kill him

39. how do they react to getting sick? i think qunari have tough immune systems so they don’t get sick often, but when they do it’s usually pretty bad. he tries not to be melodramatic about getting sick but that often turns into working too hard when his body is in rough shape and running himself ragged. also i think ehsaan gets the blight so.... that sucks,

40. are they afraid of blood? no, i don’t think so

41. how do they earn money? pre-inquisition he worked for the valo-kas, post-inquisition he’s relatively well off due to. you know. being inquisitor. but he still takes mercenary jobs with bull sometimes, and trades/sells stuff from his little farm. i think he’d like tutoring magic also

42. are they satisfied with their occupation or do they want to do something else? ehsaan hates being inquisitor. he likes helping people, but it’s exhausting, he hates hurting people, and he hates the attention it brings him. he doesn’t really care for being a merc either for the “hurting people” reason. once he gets his farm he’s relatively happy, though.

43. how creative are they? a little creative? he doesn’t really write and isn’t musically inclined, but he likes carving things from wood and has some skill with pottery/clay sculpting.

44. do they know how to draw? how skilled are they? a bit, but mostly just the amount he needs to be able to draw to sketch up plans for chicken coops and garden layouts, or a wood carving project that seems complex enough to require planning in advance.

the rest of the answers are after the read-more!

37. are they scared of anything in nature? this is dragon age so dragons have to count for this answer

45. what do they carry around with them during the day? pocket knife, journal/sketchbook and a pencil or two, staff, lots and lots of healing potions, hair ties, little packets to store plant clippings in, bits of wood to whittle when he’s anxious

46. do they have a sweet tooth? no he has whatever the reverse of that is

47. haute cuisine or cheap eats? cheap but homey

48. do they know how to swim? yes and he’s decent at it

49. do they have any scars? yes, a lot. his most notable ones are around his lips from having them sewn shut when he was young, but he has a few nicks on his face and body. post-trespasser he is also an amputee, missing most of his left arm and wearing a prosthetic most of the time

50. what kind of handwriting do they have? I read a fic once that described iron bull’s handwriting as “used to writing in careful qunari cyphers, but never quite up to scratch in common”, and i think ehsaan had a similar sort of problem when he was first learning common. he definitely tried hard to compensate for it though, and ended up with handwriting that is relatively neat but very blocky. i also think he writes pretty slowly.

[mahalzevran]

Thank you for the lovely ask! It was so much fun to write. But now I'm dying to know: how did you incorporate your Filipino culture into Rhian (or any of your OCs)? I know you've said here and there, but I would love to hear more about any and all of your Bioware OCs!

I have a lot hcs about this that I always forget on the spot so I’m sure I’ll forget something lol.  So, like you most of my OCs before were white because u know how that internalized racism is. I think Rhian might actually be the first brown OC I’ve ever had tbh (which is uhhh kinda sucky since I only started playing DA like 2 years ago).

I’m putting this under a read more lol.

For Rhian, she wasn’t really filipino at first. Just ambiguously brown until I realized I can just make her filipino. Her parents were Seheron elves (not directly from Seheron just ethnically Seheron if that makes sense) who ended up working as servants in Castle Cousland. While she was growing up, her parents would try to speak and teach her Seheron as much as they could. Sometimes if her mom or dad had some free time and enough money, they’d go to the market and get ingredients (or stuff close enough) for making Seheron food and cook for her. She kinda lost most of the Seheron they taught to her because she got separated from them at a young age and grew up in the Circle. I highly doubt that they teach apprentices how to speak seheron. After Awakening, she travels all over Thedas to learn more about the dalish and elf history as well as seheron culture in order to get more in touch with her roots. I kind of modeled that after me trying to make up for all the years I internalized that hate haha. I almost forgot. In Rhian’s Queen!AU, she wears a maria clara gown at her wedding to Alistair. On causal days, she wears a baro’t saya and for more formal events she opts for a filpiniana. She also eventually gets her first tattoo from a seheron tattoo’er. Haven’t decided what it says yet though.

For Alden and Kaia, one big thing I included was that every satinalia, their family puts up a parol. Instead of the image at the center being something religous, it’s the Amell crest. (I didn’t think having Andraste on it would make a lot of sense because Satinalia isn’t about her). Funny thing though, I hc that Leandra tried to make Seheron food for them (bc the Amells are seheron obvs), but she can’t cook and also I doubt that Lothering has the necessary ingredients so Kaia, Alden, Bethany, and Carver all grew up thinking they hated Seheron food. They found out that it was just their mom’s bad cooking when Fenris made them Seheron food that was actually cooked properly. Another thing I hc is that when Leandra ran away with Malcolm, she stole the family tabo. That added to the animosity her family already felt towards her. And when Alden gets married to Fenris, they both wear barongs.

In Lu’s case, the Lavellan Clan is Seheron Dalish. They mostly used to stay in Seheron but had to leave because the fight between the Qunari and Tevinter made it too dangerous. A lot of the food I hc them to have is inspired by Filipino cuisine. For example, one of their desserts is bibingka. They also try to make use of all the parts of animal they hunt so a snack they’d have is isaw and many other filipino street foods. One of Lu’s favorites is turon and lumpia. I have a hc where she brings lumpia and banana ketchup (it might sound gross but trust me its not) with her to one of the war table meetings. Cullen tries one and thinks that the banana ketchup is too spicy lol. Lu is trilingual and can speak common, Elvhen, and Seheron. She also has a Seheron accent when she speaks common or elvhen. Another thing they do is that in addition to calling the keeper “Keeper”, they also call them “Lacan”. Lu also has her name tattoo’d in baybayin.

Bolin is half Antivan and half Seheron. His mom taught him some seheron but he’s not really fluent though he knows some words and can pretty much follow conversations. His parents also fight over what food they’re gonna have for dinner: antivan or seheron. They usually have a competition over who has better food. Bolin doesn’t mind because it means he gets to eat more.

I’m just going to talk about Neneng because I barely played ME:A to develop Bahaghari enough.

Everything about Neneng is Filipino because Mass Effect takes place in our universe. She was born and raised in the Philippines. Her nickname is very filipino. She has a long name that has nothing to do with her nickname. The first time Neneng met Kaidan’s mom, she did the “mano po”. When Neneng was growing up, she sold sampaguita garlands on the street. The whole of the Philippines stans her because she’s a successful filipino. She’s the whole package.

And in general, everyone’s names are filipino inspired (except Kaia and Bolin but all you filipinos out there know that filipino parents would def use these names for their kids).

[dragonsandsnark]

“You should try everything once--except incest and Qunari cuisine.” Sara (and me, especially): OMG.

So, in all 7 playthroughs, that was the first time I'd heard that line. I swear I'm still learning things as things go along.

[kaaras-adaar-a]

30 Day Challenge:

Day 3: Race

Talk about your OC’s race. How do they define their race? What influence does it have on their identity? What is their experience of their history & community?

Kaaras is in a bit of an interesting position. He’s a bit stuck between worlds when it comes to his parent’s upbringing under the Qun and his very human upbringing in Ferelden.

Qunari are rare down south (and that’s canon). Kaaras’ parents continued moving south from Starkhaven pretty much the day after Kaaras was born (his mother is honestly a champion lol). This meant that Kaaras was extremely isolated as a child when it came to growing up around qunari. His parents tried their best to start a new and human life for Kaaras, but they didn’t even know how money worked in the south. There are just some things that are never going to change even if moving away. It was impossible for them to drop every bit of culture. But he also never quite knew it was Qunari culture until he was much older, because his parents hid so much of their past from him.

Kaaras, essentially, grew up a very human life. He interacted with humans, he grew up around humans, (and of course some city elves and dwarves, but it was mostly humans). This meant he was subject to a lot of racism over the years, and this also means that Kaaras HIMSELF internalised a lot of that racism towards himself (and other qunari even). 

Kaaras sees himself as a savage because of his differences, all of that hate and racism took a toll on him as a growing boy and man, and he honestly believes that he’s hideous. Worse, he started to think those things about qunari in general, until he grew up and met more of them when he started working as a mercenary in the Free Marches. He had a massive culture shock experience, because people were more open minded (before the invasion of Kirkwall at least). This meant Kaaras was BAFFLED when he saw other qunari as attractive, kind and not the savages everyone thought them to be. 

Kaaras actually finds it very easy to talk to other qunari than he does humans about his life. Even if they are Tal-Vashoth, he still feels like they can understand him better than humans. It’s taken a lot of years for Kaaras to undo some of that racism as well, because it was all he knew, and being so sheltered meant that he had SO much to learn outside of his own home. 

Kaaras actually ADORES learning about other cultures. He is a very open minded individual, and despite being sheltered, both his parents are actually very caring and loving individuals. They just didn’t have anything else to work off themselves, and his mother still struggles with Southern traditions despite having lived in Ferelden for 29 years :’D. 

In this, Kaaras also learned VERY little Qunlat. He only started to learn the language when he was out of the house and mingling with other qunari. Kaaras’ first language IS the common tongue, and his Qunlat is very formal because of it. Honestly, the only things he really knew were swear words and some small words because his father couldn’t speak common that well. His mother being a Tamassran under the Qun who actually taught converts the language of the Qun, means she’s excellent at a few other languages and was able to teach Kaaras perfect common tongue. They tried to hide as much as they could from Kaaras because they wanted him to never have to suffer a life under the Qun, especially when they found out he was a mage. 

He’s taken to some parts of his culture, but Kaaras has always felt too human to be Qunari and too qunari to be human. It’s a very strange thing for him to feel, but it’s also all he’s ever known. He does like learning about the Qun, and he particularly enjoys cuisine his mother took with her from Par Vollen, however, he does not agree with many things the Qun does, such as the lack of freedoms, but he also has a skewed vision of the Qun because of his ignorance. Until he’s able to learn more about it from someone willing to teach him, his views will continue to stay skewed. 

[old-archivist]

Foods of Thedas: Prepared Ingredients

I separated these from raw ingredients because they either are foods/drinks on their own but are included in recipes, or involve a certain amount of cooking/processing to make them that separates them from those listed in raw ingredients. However, like with raw ingredients, I’ve only included items that are mentioned or shown in game for easy reference. Should you want to find additional and “speculative” ingredients you can visit this post or the master post.

For Additional Food Posts

Dishes, Sauces, and Sides

Drinks

Raw Ingredients

Cannonically Possible Foods and Drinks

Master Post

Basic Ingredients

Alcohol

Brandy

Cinnamon-infused whiskey

Dark Llomerryn Rum

Hirol's Lava Burst

Prophet's Laurel Gin

Red Wine

Watered Down Ale

Whiskey

White Seleney Wine

Broth and Stock

Broth

Deepstalker Broth (Dwarven)

Fish Broth

Stock

Brown Stock

Eggs

Hard Boiled Egg

Essences and Extracts

Essence

Orange Essence

Extract

Mint Extract

Orange Extract

Vanilla Extract

Golds

Edible Gold Leaf (Orlaisian)

Gold Dust (Orlesian)

Grains

Noodles

Grain-based Noodles

Pasta

Spaghetti (Antivan)

Pie Dough

Oils

Cod Liver Oil

Oil

Sugars

Brown Sugar

Molasses

Powdered Sugar

Sugar

Sugar Syrup

Vinegars

Apple Cider Vinegar

Herbed Wine Vinegar

Vinegar

Desserts and Sweets

Desserts

Buttercream

Caramel

Chocolate

Chocolate Bitters

Custard

Pound Cake

Tea Biscuit

Toffee

Wafer

Jam

Plum Jam

Raspberry Jam

Misc

Sugar Cream Icing

Sugar Flowers

Sugared Rose Petals

Syrup

Dried and Cured Foods

Dried Fruits, Vegetables, and Fungi

Dried Apple

Dried Apricot

Dried Beans

Dried Cherry

Dried Cranberry

Dried Currant

Dried Mushroom

Dried Peas

Prunes

Pitted Prunes

Raisin

Cured Meats

Bacon

Smoked Bacon

Cold Cuts

Dried Meats

Dried Mackerel

Jerky

Lutefisk

Salted

Dried Salt Pork

Salt Pork

Salted Beef

Salted Dragon Meat

Salted Fish

Salted Goat Meat

Salted Meat

Sausage

Blood Sausage

Smoked Sausage

Spiced and Salted Sausage

Smoked

Smoked Beef

Smoked Fish

Smoked Goat Meat

Pickled Foods

Pickled Ox Tongue

Pickles

Prepared Animal Products

Gelatine

Grease

Ground Meat

Ground Beef

Ground Nug (Dwarven)

Lard

Spiced Meat

Miscellaneous

Lyrium

Wyvern Venom - There are 47 ways to distill wyvern venom to be safe for consumption.

Sources: ( If you want to find direct links or page numbers check out the wiki’s Food and Ingredients page.) Dragon Age: Origins (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age: Awakening Dragon Age 2 (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age: The Last Court Dragon Age: Inquisition (Base and DLCs) Dragon Age Tabletop RPG Core Rulebook

World of Thedas Vol. 1 World of Thedas Vol. 2 Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne Dragon Age: The Calling Dragon Age: The Masked Empire Dragon Age: Last Flight Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Short Story: Paying the Ferryman Short Story: Paper and Steel

DA:O Codex Entry: The History of Soldier's Peak: Chapter 3 Codex Entry: A Tattered Shopping List Item: Sugar Cake

DA II Codex Entry: Wyvern

DA:I Codex Entry: Plant vs. Corpses Codex Entry: Waterlogged Diary Note: The Gilded Horn's Drink List Note: Knight-Captain's Orders

The Last Court Flames of Freedom The Next Course Thieves The Wyvern is Cornered

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[moss-flesh]

i NEEED to know more about dragon age food!!!!

i wanna know about dalish dishes of hunted meats n gathered herbs and roots!!

i wanna know about the simple harty stews of ferelden! whats a typical breakfast like!!!

besides bread and cheese what do people snack on!!

have city elves cultivated their own cuisine due to lack of money and resources? do they have occasional nights where they pull together their resources and feast joyfullly?

we know orlesian food has weird quirks like “tasting of despair” ! first of all why? second of all how? third of all what other emotions are conveyed through their meals??

ANTIVAN CUISINE!!!! QUNARI CUISINE!!!! DWARVEN CUISINE!!!! (nug preparations????)

WHAT ARE THEYRE BAKED GOODS LIKE????

MEADS, ALES, WINES!!!!

I HAVE TO KNOW !!

[volpestarks]

10/07/18

Some old #dragonage #tevinter things aka Ideas Re-Creation times 👀 I was always BIG on the whole tevinter imperium concept. Visually one of the best aspects of DA. Inspired by Myanmar… No Wonder 🌝 if their local cuisine has something resembling the famous Burmese Tea Leaf Salad i would not be surprised (NEVER FORGET how My Inquisition protagonist was a half human qunari with Serious Superiority issues/raised among magister rockstars in Tevinter/thinks that she is Jesus incarnated…/just Happens to have made a deal with a demon who crawled into her body and remained in it for the rest of her life)

#characterdesign #inksketch #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #gesturedrawing #warmupsketch #instaart #illustration #artistsoninstagram #formstudy #dailysketch #dailydrawing #noref #imaginationarts #illustratorsoninstagram #travelsketchbook

[cloudgazercadash]

🖋 flavor

Send 🖋 and a word and I’ll tell you some headcanons relating to it!

thora has rivaini heritage on her mother’s side, and was raised on spicy food.

being from the free marches, however, she does like the local cuisine and has something of a blend. fish and egg pie with spices to drum up the flavour.

her first time in ferelden was a bit of a nightmare until she managed to find a spice merchant in amaranthine. she couldn’t be bothered to even hide her eagerness, and overpaid for the spices, but fuck it they were important.

her favourite flavour is from a spice blend similar to something like garam masala. she keeps blended spices on her throughout inquisition, though whether she uses them or not depends upon who’s cooking. i imagine that she’d be alright with most of the companions’ cooking. the only one who’s up in the air might be bull, what we know of qunari cooking is that the recipes are so strict they never have leftover cough for cookies and a pinch of sugar is an act of rebellion. so she might find bull’s recipes a little too strict, but i could also see the recipes getting looser the further he strayed from the qun, and could also see them already being that way by the time he joins the inquisition.also cole, who i’m not sure can cook. sera also has some weird recipes, i’ll bet, but they’e fun experiments.

harding, however, is a menace who thora believes would just eat a raw potato if nobody was watching.

and so we’re not just dragging ferelden: she has similar problems with orlesian food, but it’s even worse there b/c as josephine informed her, orlesian chefs get offended if she adds any pepper to the food.

she’s not all too fond of sweet flavours without a spice/salt to off-set it. when her and solas have tea and cakes together usually it’s her drinking the tea and him eating the cakes. she calls it “tea or cakes.”

[andrastes-herald]

🍰

Food was her weakness, especially if it came to qunari cuisine or sweets. And now there was a piece of pie slid in front of her as she sat at the tavern bar, ivory eyes lighting up as a rare, excited grin peeled across soft lips. It wasn’t long before fork was in hand, and the dessert was tasted upon an eager tongue. She realized quickly how fast she had forgotten her manners, hand cupped over her mouth as she tried to swallow before she spoke.“Thank you so much -swallow-, dear. I needed this after today.”

[rcyalflvsh-a]

malachite, raspberry. only two instead of my usual half dozen, but I want answers for E V E R Y B O D Y

*takes a deep breath* i love you

ROUND I: MALACHITE

has your muse ever done anything that they winded up feeling incredibly guilty for in the end

Staris

So Staris, being one of my 2 dnd characters on this account, she has done some SHADY fucking shit. I think so far in “““Game Canon””” the biggest whoops i fucked up moment was she actually killed an NPC she was in a relationship with in game.

I can’t blame the DM for this one, this was my own paranoia after completeing a quest, I chose to burn down the Inn the party was staying at and the place blew up. Later I learned that the reason the NPC was acting so shady was because they had been hired by my character’s family to keep an eye on her, and the npic didn’t know if it was a breach of contract to fall in love or not :’)

Sappho

Big, strong, barbarian girl Sappho. She accidentally broke an Orc King’s arm in an arm wrestling match.

No repercussions she just feels bad for doing it

Visus

He regrets agreeing to go spy on the conclave at all. Especially after the whole of Clan Lavellan is slaughtered (made worse by the fact i chose to romance Josie with Visus). He feels personally wronged after that by his advisors.

It leads to his choice to also drink from the Well in game actually, which he also immediately regrets.

But Visus would have rather died knowing that his son didn’t die alone, than wonder what happened to his son in the slaughter.

Iron Bull

Iron Bull is a little more difficult (given he’s not an oc and I have no hcs written down for him), but I think depending on the time in game, Iron Bull regrets turning himself in once he began to think about straying from his duties.

Later on (and depending on the choices of the Inquisitor) he regrets bringing the Chargers into danger.

Gladiolus

Gladiolus regrets some of the things he said to Ignis after he lost his vision. He was trying desperately to stop himself from falling apart, he didn’t think about how Ignis felt. It still makes his gut lurch if he thinks too long on it, but he doesn’t apologise because it would hurt worse to do so after so long.

Prompto

Prompto doesn’t regret a lot tbh. He’s very live fast, die young, oh shit we fucked up in a lot of his endevors. If I had to give him anything, he probably regrets not befriending Noctis sooner, because now he knows his weight wasn’t going to be an issue and they could have been friends for a lot longer. 

Edited 9/29/2017, read here

Prompto doesn’t have regrets. He works every day to make himself better, he learns from mistakes he’s made so it doesn’t happen again. He lives every day to its fullest. His mind set is more in the “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”. He’s tried dozens of weird hobbies, and while some of them have gone better than others, he’s proud of himself for even trying them in the first place.

ROUND II: RASPBERRY

what food and/or drink can your muse not get enough of? do they indulge in it often, or is it something reserved for special occasions?

Staris

This girl, cannot get enough goddamn strawberries. She loves this so much. She’s canonically purchased a whole fruit stall’s stock for double the price in my dnd game. She will eat them literally when ever she can get her hands on them.

Sappho

Sappho is a northerner in game, so a lot of the food is smoked meats, some hearty cheeses. These choices are actually heavily influenced by Traditional Nomadic Mongolian cuisine.

So fantasy Aaruul is her food that she loves! A type of cheese made from drained yogurt/sour milk products. It’s readily available so she eats it often.

Visus

Sticking with Dalish Game Canon, Visus loves hearth cakes! As a young boy (despite his now dour demeanor) he would often plot how to get his hands on as many as he could when his mother or father would make them.

For me, hearth cakes resemble a favorite dish of mine Dorayaki save for the ingredients are mixed in and/or enclosed inside the castella pancakes.

He doesn’t eat them often after becoming Inquisitor. Sera will mention that she saw him in the kitchen early before the staff one morning making something with fruits and nuts.

Iron Bull

Since the Qunari are based on Feudal Japanese Culture

A lot of Qunari food is plain. Rice, broths, A LOT of fish, and in general easy to digest items.

One such item is pottage. It’s a thick stew (think chowder) that is mostly vegetables and sometimes meat. It’s not much, but it made him feel warm, and he misses that feel sometimes. It’s hard to fit in and feel that way when you stick out of a crowd like Bull does.

Gladiolus

Get. This. Man. Coffee. Jelly.

That’s right: Coffee flavored Jello basically, it’s served either with milk, whipped cream, cold coffee, or ice cream!

Gladiolus likes it with his morning coffee if he can swing it, but will usually eat it as his first choice in dessert.

Prompto

Prompto isn’t picky with food. He eats pretty much anything set in front of him (including Noctis’s veggies), but he really enjoys street food more so than most ““traditional”” cooking.

Don’t get him wrong! Ignis’s fine cuisine is great and all,but it’s not the same as getting food fresh at 1 am at a night market.