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Who doesn't love a good meal for their birthday? Regardless of where you are in Tamriel, there are a whole array of celebratory customs for birthdays, and more importantly, food!
Birthdays can get a little tiresome by the time you're over 100 years old, but Summerset customs place an emphasis on age as a distinct social marker that distinguishes one's rank from others. Birthdays are generally celebrated with a party of varying degrees of elaborate festivities and food, and one's nearest and dearest are invited (not being invited to a close one's birthday party is an enormous insult). The most important part of any Altmeri birthday celebration is the champagne and canapés, which have to be perfectly balanced, original, and scrumptious. Needless to say, this drives chefs completely insane.
Birthdays are beloved celebrations by Argonians young and old! Break out the fruit wine, your best party clothes, and the decorations, because things are about to get fun! Whether it's party games, dancing, or the buffet (there is always a buffet), there's a little something for everyone to celebrate a birthday in Murkmire. The Bright Throat tribe, for example, have a tradition of making a sort of croquembouche from popped rice balls filled with palm sugar syrup, held together with palm sugar caramel and stacked together in a tower for everyone to help themselves to. Quite clever!
Wood Elves love to party, and birthdays are the perfect excuse to celebrate. Breaking out the special rotmeth is the highlight of any good birthday party, whether it's flavoured with honey, aged for ten years or more, or served with whipped cream for a tasty treat! It's used to wash down big platters of roast meat and meatballs, and you can bet there'll be enough of it to make you wake up in Marbruk despite starting the party in Grahtwood. Oops?
Cake, cake, cake! It's said that the tradition of the birthday cake was invented in High Rock, and it's there that the tradition is taken very seriously. Any kind of sweet cake is acceptable, as long as it's been lavishly decorated and topped with candles or sparklers. Popular favourites include the Daenian Forest cake (chocolate and cherry with whipped cream), vanilla sponge with fresh fruits, and strawberry shortcake.
Like the High Elves, the Dunmer have an extraordinarily long lifespan compared to most other races, and birthdays are equal parts solemn and celebration. Each year alive is represented with a small hot or cold dish which eventually turns into a spread over the years, making older Dunmeri birthday parties a community affair as there are only so many variations of candied ash yams that one can eat on their own! Some traditional birthday dishes include cold noodles with sweet and spicy sauce, sautéed hackle-lo with gold kanet, nix-hound koftas, and marshmerrow tartlets.
Birthdays are often celebrated with lavish parties by Imperials who can afford it, and a feast is an absolutely integral part of any birthday celebration. The centre of every Imperial feast, however, is the whole roast pig. Basted in spiced honey, stuffed with nuts, fruits, and rice before being roasted to perfection on a spit, any traditional Cyrodiilic celebration requires both pork and wine in copious amounts!
The Khajiit celebrate birthdays by waking up to a big, tasty bowl of "longevity noodles". Thin wheat noodles are served with a savoury broth, pulled chicken, fishballs, steamed greens, and a boiled egg dyed red for good luck! The noodles are said to represent good health and longevity, and they are enjoyed by the whole family as a toast. And of course, the birthday Khajiit gets an extra serving of moon sugar to start their special day off right!
Birthdays are important at every age in Skyrim, but they are celebrated relatively simply compared to many other races across Tamriel. Aside from gifts, both small and grand, food is a vital part of making any birthday a special one. Every birthday festivity requires at least two types of bread or pastries, a meat dish, fish dish, hasselback potatoes with herbs, and some sort of dessert like fermented Nord Honey Cake. And mead, all the mead!
Orcish birthdays are rowdy affairs that place an emphasis on fun and indulgence. Unlike the other races, the poor birthday Orc is subject to all manner of pranks, jokes, and sometimes worse...but the food and presents usually make up for it. A special mammoth roast is the favoured birthday dish for most strongholds, where large cuts of mammoth are reverse seared on hot cast iron before being roasted until the meat melts in your mouth. It's complemented with other smaller dishes, like smoked spicy sausages, meat pies, and baked potatoes with frost mirriam cream cheese.
Birthdays are a joyous occasion in Hammerfell, and they're celebrated with family and friends with lots of good food and drink. Customarily, each party guest brings a dish or a bottle of something to share, sometimes leading to whole banquets depending on how popular the host is. There are of course some foods that are particularly popular for birthday parties, generally sweets! For example, flavoured pashmak, a soft and delicate type of candy floss, is a common gift that's either eaten on its own or atop cakes and pastries or even cocktails.
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