magefeathernerd:

daggerpen:

autisticanathema:

daggerpen:

grandenchanterfiona:

Your DA love interest probably never brushed their teeth in their life.

Let that sink in.

Oh my god

I can’t believe it

All that obsessive research into medieval dental hygiene actually paid off

I was spending all this time thinking “Literally no one cares about Thedosian dental hygiene, Amy, why are you wasting your time on this” but HERE IT IS

So yeah, this isn’t actually true! While the toothbrush itself is a fairly modern invention, there’s a well recorded history of people in medieval Europe using a combination of various sweet-smelling mouth rinses and scrubbing their teeth clean with a cloth and a mild abrasive herb paste of some sort. Some common rinses included mint and wine or mint and vinegar, and pastes included things like marjoram and mint, rosemary and charcoal, and vinegar, pickling alum, white salt and honey.

Someone even tested a bunch of historical remedies out and found out that they were mostly pretty effective.

So rest assured, your DA makeouts are probably reasonably minty fresh!

Also in N. Africa we use swak.(dried tree bark its actually proven to be more effective than toothpaste) I feel like some cultures in dragon age considered how they’re coded culturally

(Ripped from the wiki page other places tht use it ’ It is commonly used in the Arabian peninsula, the Horn of Africa, North Africa, parts of the Sahel, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, miswak is known as Kayu Sugi (Malay for ‘chewing stick’).)

#im just focusing on europe is so 😪😪😪╮(─▽─)╭#dental health#im the qunari totally use swak and mb tevinter does? yah#*imo#da meta#da

Excellent addition! I had never heard of this - thank you! I mostly focused on Europe because we spend most of our time in the Europe-coded areas but we definitely have LI’s from scattered areas of Thedas, and there’s definitely gotta be some swak usage in there. There definitely seems to be a good chunk of northern Tevinter that corresponds to the Indian subcontinent, if not also large areas of Southeast Asia, so I’d say Tevinter using swak is a pretty safe bet.

Probably also Rivain. Just saying.