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A lore-friendly mod introducing new food and drink items tailored towards an immersive Bosmer playthrough.
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This mod is based on the mods Bosmeri Cuisine by The Mod Gourmet and Bosmer Drinks by NorthHare (SE port by CorvustheFallen). Both mods have open permissions. Please, go endorse them if you like them.
If you too are a Bosmers fan, join the Discord Server The Green Pact to talk about lore, mods and projects :^)
"They are exclusively and religiously carnivorous. They cannot, or will not,
eat anything that is plant-based."
Eric of Guis on the Bosmer
(Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition)
The Bosmer follow a strict mandate known as The Green Pact. It was an oath sworn to the forest god Y'ffre in times long past but holds still for the Wood Elves today. The Green Pact forbids any Bosmer from harming or eating vegetation of any kind. This means that the Bosmer cannot use timber for construction or, more relevantly to this mod, consume any food made with vegetables or fruit.(Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition)
For anyone wishing to do an immersive and lore-friendly playthrough with a Bosmer, this raises an issue: many of the foods and potions in Skyrim require vegetation as an ingredient. This mod aims to provide a solution, or part of a solution to this dilemma, but it is not exclusive to Bosmer players. It is also a part of a wider project to add a wider selection of culturally unique foods to Skyrim, and is perfect for anyone seeking to include more lore-friendly detail in their games.
For those who do not want such restrictions in their Bosmer playthrough, there is justification for a non-carnivorous Wood Elf in Skyrim. Pocket Guide of the Empire, Third Edition says "they swore never to kill, injure, or eat any of the vegetation of the new home" which suggests that the terms of the Green Pact applies strictly to Valenwood. It is not clarified if this is the case, but as Bosmer in many games have been seen with vegetables/plant-based food, this detail does make sense. However, if your Wood Elf is a very traditional character, or just came from Valenwood, they'll likely follow the Green Pact because they are just so used to eating only meat.
Bosmeri Cuisine includes cannibalism, which is a part of the Green Pact; it is a game mechanic in vanilla Skyrim as well, so if you are playing the game you likely won't have an issue with it being included, though the warning is here anyways just in case.
Version 3.0 of the mod now includes the Bosmeri Drinks mod ! There is no need to install the two mods together.
The New Additions
Bosmeri Cuisine adds six foods and four alcoholic drinks. They are all made from Green Pact friendly ingredients for tradition-honouring Bosmer characters. They are as follows:
Fried Egg
Ever wonder why you can't make such a common food from the various eggs in the game? Well now you can! Using either Chicken's Eggs, Pine Thrush Eggs, Hawk' s Egg or Rock Warbler Eggs, you can cook yourself a delicious pan fried egg! It's there mostly for immersive purposes and those using a Real Needs mod; although light it will only heal 5 health and lose its use in the later game.
Omelettes new !
With eggs, salt and a little butter you can make different versions of this simple and delicious dish. Add cheese, mushrooms and/or bee larvae according to your taste.
Pemmican
In the real world, pemmican is a survival food used by the First Nations of North America, and later adopted by the European colonists. It is known to many as the ultimate survival food, being an extremely condensed and nutritious mix of animal meat and fats. In a land as harsh and unforgiving as the northern province of Skyrim, there should definitely be a food that fills this role. Pemmican is traditionally made from bison or deer, so in Skyrim it is craftable using either beef or venison. The only fat you can get in vanilla is a bit more rare though, but if you can gather enough, you will soon have some very light pemmican that can heal as much as a minor potion while weighing only a fraction of one!
Cooked Human Meat
The Green Pact dictates that a fallen enemy must be eaten completely before three days pass, as to not waste the meat from the kill. While this can easily be achieved with Namira's Ring in vanilla, it is not very realistic to just consume a foe's entire body just after killing them.
Heart Blood Stew
Another food item designed to work with the aforementioned harvesting mods, but is just as good on its own. This variant makes use of a human heart, but there is a real-life basis for soups which use blood as a base, seen in some Asian cultures as well as the Czech Republic (they use pig's blood, not human of course!).
Blood Froth new !
Blood Froth is a beneficial drink described in a TESO book. It is a fermented drink made from blood, eggs and fat. Add a fresh heart for extra creaminess.
Bone Broth
Can't just eat the meaty bits. Got to get the bony bits too. This food lets you cook bone meal with another common ingredient into something that doesn't harm you, so you waste absolutely nothing. Bone meal can be used to make a variety of potions and poisons as well, but with the amount of draugr and skeletons that drop them in Skyrim, you very easily end up with more than you know what to do with. But the Green Pact dictates that your Bosmer has to eat your kills, so you end up hurting your own stamina a lot!
Glowing Delight
Because the Bosmer are not allowed to harm vegetation, they have come up with increasingly creative dishes over the years. Part potion and part delicacy, the Glowing Delight is a rare dish made from torchbugs and honey, which can be found in Valenwood as well as Skyrim. It takes advantage of the torchbug's stamina enhancing attributes to give one who consumes this exotic dish a significant boost in their stamina regeneration. Like some of our other foods, it is geared towards providing benefits for a survival or archery playthrough. Consuming the Glowing Delight will give you enough stamina regeneration to completely counter the stamina drain from bow zoom for a short time.
Mushroom Tisanes new !
Everyone likes to relax with a good hot drink. But since tea and coffee are forbidden for the Bosmers, they prepare tisanes with the different types of mushrooms that exist. The consumption of mushrooms is not forbidden by the Green Pact, however, only the most zealous followers refuse to touch them.
Stock and Broth new !
It is now possible to prepare broths from all the vanilla meats in the game, as well as humans and giant insects. These are very simple recipes, but also very good.
Bosmeri Kumis
The terms of the Green Pact has forced the Bosmer to develop alcohol with products not usually used for this purpose by the other peoples of Tamriel. Kumis is a real world light alcoholic beverage made from fermenting horse milk. In the early 20th century, it was believed that kumis had medicinal properties and could treat certain diseases. Skyrim's variant, created by the Bosmer, actually will cure you of any disease you contract on your travels. While this isn't the most useful benefit, it's sure more useful than most vanilla alcohol you'll find.
Homemade Bosmeri Arkhi
Arkhi is another alcoholic drink made from horse milk. It is much stronger than kumis and was actually the strongest alcohol available to the Mongolian clans who distilled it. In the real world, arkhi is not usually sold commercially, so in Skyrim it is not found at any merchants. Instead, the player must craft it themselves by adding a rare local ingredient to Bosmeri Kumis to make a very intoxicating but also powerful drink. Homemade Bosmeri Arkhi gives you a massive boost to stamina and one-handed for those times when your enemy gets too close during an archery playthrough, so you can show those Nords just how tough a milk drinker can be. However, the strong arkhi will not only slow stamina regeneration like other drinks but stop it entirely for a short time, so use it only for that emergency boost!
Jagga
Jagga is an alcoholic beverage, popular amongst the Bosmer It is a solution of pig-milk mixed with honey that has been fermented, causing the sugars of the milk and honey to become alcoholic. It is a relatively common drink and easy to find with some innkeepers.
Rothmeth
Rotmeth is a spiced lore alcohol made from rancid, fermented meat juices. This steaming brown liquid is drunk from a mug and could be mistaken for tea. It's tastes gamy, bitter and sugared, and very salty. The effects of Rotmeth include a tingling sensation throughout the body, sounds becoming oddly disjointed, surges of rage which quickly subside, and bursts of laughter.
Rotmeth may seem disagreeable to the palate at first, although the drinker will soon find themself pouring many more mugs. It is a rare and expensive drink, which cannot be found easily.
Bosmeri Breads new !
The Bosmers have learned to make bread without having to use cereals, thanks to the bee flour. Add milk, eggs and a little salt, and you'll get a delicious, airy, crusty bread. And because it's not just Khajiits who love sweet treats, they've also created a recipe for delicious honey sweet rolls. And of course, it's all gluten-free!
Meals with Bees new !
Bosmers love bees...and their larvae! You can eat them once roasted, or use them to make bee flour. You can find bees and bee larvae in the hives.
Compatibility
The mod is compatible with iNeed and most mods modifying food and alchemy (it doesn't modify any vanilla element, it just adds new ones).
Different compatibility patchs are available, thanks to those who created them!
- For many mods, patchs made by CorvustheFallen available on this page.
- For Eating Animations and Sounds, created by Mefariah on this page : Eating Animations - Patch Collection.
- Synergy patch for Song of the Green (Auri Follower), made by Invader TAK available on this page.
- The mod is compatible without patch with Frostfall - Hypothermia Camping Survival, iNeed - Food Water and Sleep and SunHelm Survival and needs.
Credits
The Mod Gourmet, author of Bosmeri Cuisine (Oldrim version).
NorthHare, author of Bosmer Drinks (Oldrim version).
CorvustheFallen, author of the SE version of Bosmeri Drinks and for his help in improving the mod.
The meshes and textures of the mod come from different free assets uses. Thanks to all their authors for their work.
- anano, for Osare Food (Fried egg).
- Halk Hogan, for permission to use the assets of Realistic HD Food Remastered (Pemmican).
- InsanitySorrow, for Insanity's Morrowind Potions (Kumis, Jagga and Rotmeth).
- volvaga0, for permission to use his waterskin meshe.
- Bersark93, for the permission to use its nice waterskin retexture Reb's Average iNeed Waterskin, for some great textures and for helping me with a meshe and to have created a new version without cork for this mod. <3
- uni_SL, for Cooking Ingredients (Human meat).
- LucidAPs, for permission to use his meshes of full bread, half bread and braided bread from High Poly Project.
- Kadraeus, for permission to use his Sweet Roll meshe from High Poly Sweet Rolls.
- ps46183 and Galadreal, for Goblets Cups With Wine And Orange Juice Resources (cups).
- Stroti and Tamira, for Strotis Kitchen Tools (Tea pot).
- lesi123, for Alchemical Cooking Recipes (Bee floor bag).
- Brumbek, for Static Mesh Improvement Mod - SMIM (Ingredient bowls).
Special Thanks
"Special thanks to LegacyCloud for teaching me how to work with the Creation Kit, Cheez99, whose Cannibals Cuisine mod served as the primary inspiration for Bosmeri Cuisine and Ray Lederer, whose concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is used in the mod image." - TheModGourmet.
"Thanks to Daichi for kindly helping me, for starting to link meshes, textures and how to use Nifskope. Thanks to TheModGourmet for his mod that I love and I'm very happy to have been able to improve it. Thanks to Corvus, for help in improving the mod." -Chiinami.