ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

16BitForestCat wrote: »

Re: veg*n foods (that's a long-used abbreviation for "vegetarian and/or vegan" in one, in case anyone mistakenly thinks it's a weird form of self-censorship):

I'm not and don't have any characters that are veg*n, but I still use in-game terms like "meat," "cheese," and "milk" pretty fluidly for crafting and RP purposes. Veg*n meat substitutes, milks, and cheeses have been around for centuries in the real world—who's to say that's not also the case for Elder Scrolls? If you want to say that your Apple-Eidar Cheese Salad contains a soy-based Eidar cheese, or you're using almond milk instead of dairy, or young jackfruit pork instead of piggy pork in Sticky Pork and Radish Noodles, no one can tell you otherwise. We had a New Life festival in one of my guilds where we traded foods in a roleplay event, and we all mutually RP'ed that if someone requested veg*n meals, we were crafting them veg*n versions of the recipes.

In other words...loot those cheese slices by that one Hollow City guild vendor with a free conscience—it's non-dairy veg*n cheese if you say so.

That said, I wouldn't complain if more of the existing recipes were tweaked to be specifically veg*an from the start. We already have a lot of recipes in game that many players never use, so it'd be really cool if more obsolete ones were repurposed for diversity and usefulness rather than have even more new ones added to clutter up the database.

P.S. Those soy-based Impossible Chicken nuggets are amazing. Pretty much as unhealthy as animal-based processed nuggs, but you don't eat 'em for your health.

Agreed, 100% . This, right here, is the best resolution for those who want to roleplay a vegan or vegetarian character while allowing themselves to use helpful food buffs. The imagination is an amazing thing if you allow yourself to be flexible with it. Since everything we are interacting with in ESO is imaginary in any case, what you say goes when you are creating your characters story in your mind as you play.

This is how I have personally used the game (and every other game, for that matter) it inspires me and serves as a platform for me to act out the stories in my imagination through a character- the quests, and every object in the game is a place for the story to jump start from, but the backstory I'm creating in my head is whats important.

It's your character, in your story OP- if I can allow myself to imagine that one of my characters has nicked the red diamond at some point in his thieving career, then you are allowed to imagine that the cheese in your port hunding cheese fries is vegan.

Since I doubt anything will immediately change, I feel this is the best way one can allow themselves to progress in the game without holding themselves back until new recipes are added.