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Roast Nug

A roasted nug, considered a delicacy.

The diet of the dwarven race is unique to all other races in Thedas, owing to the majority of dwarves living their entire lives underground.

After the fall of the dwarven empire, many thaigs which were responsible for producing food were lost to the darkspawn.[1] Subsequently, the diet of the dwarves of Orzammar relies on the trade with the surface however they are still heavily involved in breeding animals and growing food, or finding it in the Deep Roads and other underground locations around the thaig.

Harvested food

Dwarves make use of all edible items that can be scavenged, some of which are hazardous due to their proximity to lyrium, and the darkspawn taint which is quite common.

  • Lichen[2]: Can be made into a bread.
  • Deep Mushroom[3]: While it grows in close proximity to the darkspawn taint, these mushrooms are considered by dwarves to have a "unique flavor and intoxicating scent."
  • Moss: Used in the production of dubious liquor.
  • Fungus: Possibly used to brew liquor.

Food animals

Dwarves both catch and breed animals as food sources.

  • Nug: A small animal that appears as a cross between a pig and a rabbit. Its flavor has been described as an "unholy union of pork and hare."[3] It is favored as a food source by poor[4] and wealthy alike.
  • Bronto: Selectively bred by the Shaperate as beasts of burden and food sources.[4]
  • Cave beetle[5]: Dwarves are known to roast and eat these beetles in the shell.

Known dwarven liquor

Tapster's Tavern sign

A sign in Tapster's Tavern

Dwarves have a long-standing love for, and uncanny ability to tolerate, liquor. They both import liquor and produce much on their own.

Surface foods

Trade with the surface is essential to the wealth of the city of Orzammar, and food products are a part of that. Indeed, without the lifeline of trade, including food, into the city, survival in Orzammar would be very difficult.[11] Surface food products are necessarily in high demand in Orzammar due to the few choices of food produced by the city itself and the exotic novelty of surface foods. Due to their great expense typically only nobles or the very influential are able to purchase these goods.[12] One notable surface delicacy is plum jam.[13] Surface goods in Orzammar include liquor too, such as honey mead, served in Tapster's Tavern, traded from a surface family who ships it every month.[7]

Known cuisine

  • Old cheese and shredded dried meat[14]: Used as a spread.
  • Nug pancakes[3]: Favored food of children.
  • Nug-gets[3]: Favored food of children.
  • Seared nug[15]: Seared on a hot metal plate and finished in the oven-and dressed in a cream sauce flavored with deep mushrooms.
  • Fried mush[16]

Trivia

  • Varen discovered the edibility of nug while lost in the Deep Roads. For his discovery, he became a Paragon.[3]
  • Tapster's Tavern serves 52 types of ale, 17 meads and 12 imported wines, a testament to the dwarves' long-standing love of hard drink.
  • As noted by Oghren, Orzammar ale tastes like dirt in comparison to Fereldan ale, as dwarves put dirt in it.[17]
  • Nug-wranglers catch nugs to sell[18], and may also practice some form of nug farming to breed the animals.
  • Dwarves farm mushrooms for food.[19]
  • Oghren's gift, the Beard Flask from Feastday Gifts and Pranks, is fashioned from a nug stomach to facilitate hands-free drinking.
  • Alistair and Leliana will comment upon drinking dwarven ale in location-specific dialog in Dragon Age: Origins. Wynne also professes interest in it in party banter with Oghren, and even develops a taste for it by the time period of Dragon Age: Asunder. King Maric Theirin also drinks it in Dragon Age: The Calling, having developed a taste for the brew himself.

See also

Codex entry: Bronto Codex entry: Bronto

Codex entry: Nug may refer to:

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Codex entry: Traditional Dwarven Folk Songs Codex entry: Traditional Dwarven Folk Songs

Codex entry: Deep Mushroom Codex entry: Deep Mushroom

References

  1. Dragon Age logo - new Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 35
  2. As implied by Garin.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Codex entry: In Praise of the Humble Nug
  4. 4.0 4.1 Dragon Age logo - new Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 162
  5. Dragon Age (tabletop RPG), Game Masters Guide, set 2, p. 24
  6. Dragon Age: Asunder, pp. 132-133
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 As mentioned by Corra, proprietor of Tapster's Tavern.
  8. A drink proposed by a waitress in Tapster's Tavern in A Tale of Orzammar DLC.
  9. Dragon Age logo - new Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 37
  10. As mentioned by Rica Brosca in the Dwarf Commoner Origin.
  11. Commented upon by the traders at the city gates in Dragon Age: Origins.
  12. Beraht during the Dwarf Commoner Origin is able to purchase figs from the surface in order to bribe guards in Orzammar.
  13. Mentioned by a noble in the Diamond Quarter in Dragon Age: Origins.
  14. As mentioned by Garin.
  15. A favorite dish of King Ansgar Aeducan as noted in Codex entry: In Praise of the Humble Nug.
  16. Codex entry: The Noladar Anthology of Dwarven Poetry
  17. As mentioned by Ohgren after the coronation in Dragon Age: Origins.
  18. As explained by Nug Wrangler Boermor.
  19. As mentioned by Varric in party banter with Anders in Dragon Age II.
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