[Eyes squeezed shut, sigh.] Because I've been in war enough to see various types of people cooked, and I can recognize the basic vegetable matter.
Still no sign of whether or not this god-forsaken place has tobacco. And before you suggest it, no, the magic isn't capable of disguising the food that thoroughly. I checked on that too. Not trusting the cultists, just their own carefully cultivated literature. Lots of books on how great it is, and how everyone should use it for everything, which leaves a lot out in what they don't use it for. Oh, and the other countries wouldn't have split off if the magic was that easily able to disguise food, they'd just actually eat each other.
[He hates you for making him explain this out loud. >:( ]
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Still no sign of whether or not this god-forsaken place has tobacco. And before you suggest it, no, the magic isn't capable of disguising the food that thoroughly. I checked on that too. Not trusting the cultists, just their own carefully cultivated literature. Lots of books on how great it is, and how everyone should use it for everything, which leaves a lot out in what they don't use it for. Oh, and the other countries wouldn't have split off if the magic was that easily able to disguise food, they'd just actually eat each other.
[He hates you for making him explain this out loud. >:( ]