Lore:Gratia Arquitius

Chef Gratia Arquitius
Slice of a Colovian War Torte
Race	Imperial	Gender	Female

Gratia Arquitius was a legendary chef that lived during the time of the Interregnum known for her Colovian War Torte recipe, a robust yet lavish dessert designed to facilitate camaraderie among Imperials during their war marches. Known ingredients include nutmeg, citrus, but flour, carrots, frost mirriam, and honey have also been known to be used. She elevated the dessert into the Molten War Torte by adding Rubyblossom Extract, a rare and robust sweetener once cultivated by Nibenese alchemists. The final evolution to her confectionary creation was the White-Gold War Torte, achieved by adding rare Mourning Dew on a Molten War Torte.

Her torte recipe was misplaced by her in the wilds of Cyrodiil, and subsequently utilized by the alliances participating in the Three Banners War. The legacy of Gratia Arquitiu lasts much longer than the Interregnum of the Second Era. Urzhag-gro Larak, apprentice to the famous Gourmet, Balagog gro-Nolob, recounts in his book Tastes and Tales from Tamriel how sharing a Colovian War Torte helped connect him with two total strangers. Stuck in a cave in Skyrim duiring a blizzard, Urzhag sharing his torte with the strangers led to them joking and conversing like they had known each other for years, when earlier they had been suspicious of each other.

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  Molten War Torte

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  White-Gold War Torte