Doin' The Research

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Because candy is older than most people think.

Because more candies have been forgotten than exist today to the modern western boring palate.

This is just a small sampling. It's a much smaller sampling than any proper Turkish candy shop of today. Yet it's, in my opinion, a larger sampling than the candy aisle at the American drugstore.

I've already brought candied citrus peels and candied aria hips, rose hips, into Thedas. The games themselves have brought in terrible mushroom and anise petit-fours, hot chocolate drinks, and compotes.

Barley sugar looks like a Fereldan thing. Burn sugar with barley syrup until it hits the hard crack stage. It's basically hard candy. Can definitely be pulled and shaped and there's a candymaker in Florida who makes mushroom candies using a method very similar to this. Lofty Pursuits was going to make a mention at some point.

I can't quite consider those dragon gum puffs. Probably something Tevinter.

But those fruit gels? Seem totally Orlesian.

Also, an idea I had while brainstorming with a friend about Tevinter is hot chocolate speakeasies. Hot chocolate is a Qunari drink. I doubt it's too heavily regulated but any regulation at all is enough to start a speakeasy. I know, I used to live by one.