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Official Cookbook: Tastes of Thedas Masterlist

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Absolution Magic Glyphs Part 1

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

Thedas Expanded

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

In The Masked Empire, Celene has a tea pot that keeps her tea at the right temp constantly. It is a dwarven enchantment that while common in Orzammar's nobility and higher socioeconomic castes, it is so expensive Celene notes that if she were not empress she likely would not be able to enjoy such a thing.

Enchantments in general are expensive and are a display of wealth and power. Which is why Tevinter and Orlais use it for a lot of public spaces to show off the wealth and power of their countries. But it isn't just the specialized labor that makes these expensive, but also the rare/dangerous materials.

So what about the glyph I mentioned? Well, the creation school of magic is one of the hardest schools of magic to learn and master. So already it becomes another specialized skill that has a limit on who can perform it. In the ttrpg, the glyph has this description:

You draw a faint glyph on the surface of the subject, which can be any piece of dead organic material. The spell arrests the process of decay for the material, keeping it as fresh as it was when the glyph was inscribed for a month. A glyph of preservation can be renewed during its duration, which extends its affects for another month. When the glyph expires the process of decay begins again from where it left off. The spell is used to preserve foodstuffs, to preserve corpses (for lying in state or dissection), or to protect valuable items made of wood, paper, or leather.

So, the ttrpg does specify that foodstuffs counts as "dead" but on a technical level unless it is meat or other animal byproducts we know this isn't true. (See the potato you put in the dark and forget about and you come back to it having arms and legs.) But lets just say for the sake of this that plant based foods are also "dead". This means that you can preserve a crate of tomatoes or a cluster of mushrooms, etc. Unless of course it only applies to dried/preserved food stuff and animal byproducts (meat, dairy, eggs, ect.). But this is my quibbling.

All that said, the fact only a mage skilled in creation magic can do so decreases the availability of its use. It means that while yes, Tevinter or Rivain could easily use this to ship to other nations. Dalish, Avvar, and Chasind could also use this glyph - or even have a modified version of it since they do not practice circle magic and all magic we are exposed to is either circle magic or enchantment/lyrium based. (Except for the Dragon Age Multiplayer (DAMP) where we get to see a skill tree of non-circle magic aka "hedge magic".)

So non-circle mages may have access to a different methodology or be barred from that vein of magic due to the inherent differences of circle magic and non-circle magic. (This brings up a whole other conversation on the magic lore of Thedas that the game doesn't quite go into outside of codex and I think it is some of the best lore. But I'm weird.)

So TLDR:

Non Canon Material: The IDW comics and Dragon Age Journeys are non-canon and added for posterity.

Short Stories:

Sebastian: Derived from the timeline outlined for his age. He is 28 as Act 3 of DA2. He was given to the Chantry shortly after receiving his grandfathers bow at the age of 13. Additionally, he states not having returned to Starkhaven for 15 years.

Aveline: Derived from the fact story takes place when she first enters Cailen's army and meets Wesley. Cailen's only been king for 5 years as of DAO, thus giving her the window of 9:25-9:30.

Fenris: Derived from the fact when we recruit him, he's been on the run for 3 years, putting the earliest this story can happen at 9:28. Given that the story doesn't specify where it takes place other than outside Tevinter, it give us the time frame of 9:28-9:30.

Merrill and Varric: Stated to happen before the events of Act 1.

Anders: He has a dedicated window of becoming an abomination post Awakening which means he specifically has a window of Month 7-12 of 9:31 for this to happen.

Isabela: Is stated to arrive in Kirkwall after the Tome of Koslun is stolen. It is noted to be stolen in 9:31.

The Next One: Evka isn't with Antoine at this time. But we know that Antoine joins the Wardens at the earliest in 9:45 due to the short story Hunger, which has the time frame of 9:45 when the Wardens were summoned back to Weisshaupt.

Ruins of Reality: Occurs after the Tevinter Night Anthology of Three Trees Till Midnight.

The Wake: Lucanis states in Veilguard that he's been missing from Treviso for a year and was declared dead. Meaning this has to occur in 9:51.

As We Fly: Lucanis states that the Antaam started occupying Treviso in his absence/"death".

Comics:

The Missing: Is supposed to lead directly into Veilguard. We also know Rook is recruited after these events and Rook has been with Varric and Harding about 6 months prior to the events of Veilguard.

Games:

A Tale of Orzammar: Events happen before DAO. DAO is stated to begin in the first month of 9:30, leaving this to take place in 9:29.

The Last Court: States it is early summer/late spring. Inquisition takes place 1 year after the Mage Templar War is declared, meaning that Inquisition presumable starts in late autumn/early winter when referencing the start of the war in Asunder.