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[dragonflight288]

By cornering the majority of the market on Elfroot....

 

Certainly felt that way in origins. They had a monopoly on crafting reagents that were plants.

[berelinde]

I imagine that most clans have established amicable relationships with at least one or two villages. Some might even send trading parties to larger settlements. There are always going to be a few merchants willing to trade, and while it's possible the city guard might follow them around (if they're really that bored), they aren't going to arrest them solely because they have vallaslin.

 

The Avvar are generally regarded as hostile by most lowlanders, but they send a trader to Val Royeaux periodically.

[myahele]

We have to keep in mind that for a majority of people (especially city elves) Dalish elves are more or less rarely seen and some even think them stuff of legends.

 

To most villagers, they're pretty much viewed as "just elves" traveling around, if at that.

 

I don't think a majority of Dalish elves trade with humans. And if they do, they probably have to observe the human settlement very carefully

[Ashagar]

Each clan likely keeps track of which human settlements are safe to trade with and which are to be avoided and in the case of a certain clans which ones are suitable to sacrifice to their mysterious gods or are easy targets for raiding.

[TheJediSaint]

The invisible hand of the market cares not if you're an unwashed shem or a thieving knife-ear.

[Jukaga]

For less welcoming towns, I bet they get the word out that they'll be setting up shop outside of the town walls and anyone who wants to trade comes and meets them, like the traveling Khajit merchants in Skyrim.

[Gervaise]

I just realised today that the Dalish must trade with villagers on a pretty regular basis because according to the recipe book in World of Thedas 2 a common fare among the Dalish is hearth cakes, which are made with flour, something you don't commonly find out in the wild.   There is also a side note that asks where they get the sugar for their cakes and suggests that it supports the stories of Dalish attacking freeholds and stealing sugar, livestock, gold and spices (and flour too it would seem).     However, the cook book is written by a Lady Ledoure so it sound me like another example of maligning the Dalish by someone who has no direct experience of them.    If the Dalish were robbing Freeholds on a regular enough basis to make hearth cakes a staple of their diet, they would soon fall foul of the authorities one would think.

 

Masked Empire also has the Dalish making peasant bread, that again needs wheat flour as an ingredient.   Yet the Keeper is an ultra conservative who thinks humans pollute them and any contact with Shems is taking a big risk, so again one wonders where the flour comes from.   Clearly the writer needed to think that one through before making such descriptions.      So conservative clans aside, the logical assumption is that Dalish trade with outlying villages on a reasonably regular basis.

[Iakus]

For less welcoming towns, I bet they get the word out that they'll be setting up shop outside of the town walls and anyone who wants to trade comes and meets them, like the traveling Khajit merchants in Skyrim.

Eh, somehow I doubt it.  Camping too close to a "less welcoming town" would likely be asking fro an angry mob to show up

[Elhanan]

The Elves are terrific for messenger services; *Thwak* "Message for you sire...."

[Master Warder Z_]

By cornering the majority of the market on Elfroot....

 

*Remembers going on a rant pre DAI release about how the Dalish were actually a drug cartel*

 

Good times.

[berelinde]

I just realised today that the Dalish must trade with villagers on a pretty regular basis because according to the recipe book in World of Thedas 2 a common fare among the Dalish is hearth cakes, which are made with flour, something you don't commonly find out in the wild.   There is also a side note that asks where they get the sugar for their cakes and suggests that it supports the stories of Dalish attacking freeholds and stealing sugar, livestock, gold and spices (and flour too it would seem).     However, the cook book is written by a Lady Ledoure so it sound me like another example of maligning the Dalish by someone who has no direct experience of them.    If the Dalish were robbing Freeholds on a regular enough basis to make hearth cakes a staple of their diet, they would soon fall foul of the authorities one would think.

 

Masked Empire also has the Dalish making peasant bread, that again needs wheat flour as an ingredient.   Yet the Keeper is an ultra conservative who thinks humans pollute them and any contact with Shems is taking a big risk, so again one wonders where the flour comes from.   Clearly the writer needed to think that one through before making such descriptions.      So conservative clans aside, the logical assumption is that Dalish trade with outlying villages on a reasonably regular basis.

You don't need wheat flour to make bread. You need wheat flour to make the kind of bread we know, but you can make a coarse, heavy bread-like food out of any kind of edible grain or grass seed, blends of any of the above with nut flour. You can even make it out of pure acorn flour, as long as you soak the acorns to get rid of the tannins. We tend to think of grains as cultivated crops, but they all started out as wild plants, and some such as wild rice still are. For all we know, Thedas is carpeted with fields of wild barley.

 

In the Maked Empire, Michel depicts the bread's main attribute as its gritty greasiness, implying that it was made with lard, tallow, or other rendered fat and intended as a stand-in for meat. If the peasant bread was largely made of nut meal with only enough wheat flour to keep it from crumbling to nothing the moment anybody touched it, yeah, it would be pretty greasy. FWIW, alienage residents would probably have made their bread from the same basic things, since wheat flour would have been more expensive than the dried peas, beans, nuts, or whatever they could harvest themselves when no one was looking. Fats have always been used as a stand-in for meat when food became scarce. An 18th century British quartermaster's regulation book calls for eight to ten ounces of meat or cheese per day, or if that couldn't be found, an equal weight of butter. That's a lot of butter.

[Master Warder Z_]

That's a lot of butter.