Hello! I'm new to these forums, and generally new to the Elder Scrolls Lore, even though I have been playing for quite a while. With the Upcoming release of Skyrim, it caused me to go back to Oblivion and Morrowind and replay it. Before recently, I didn't read the ingame books, however, at one point I was role-playing a scholar character, and it seemed fitting to read the ingame books. Eventually, I came across A Dance In Fire. Something piqued my curiosity. The Meat Mandate and the Green Pact. I really enjoyed this series, and found these two properties of the Bosmer really interesting, so I have researched more.

Today, I started roleplaying a new character, Bragor, a Wood-Elf Eco-Terrorist, who destroys people who have anything to do with the destruction of forrests. All was going fine until it occured to me; What IS bloodgrass. Can Bragor eat it? It seems to be a plant, but the title 'Blood' threw me off. Then it occured to me, could a Vegetarian eat it? I've roleplayed a Vegetarian before, and he ate it fine. But before now, I had never really thought about it from this other angle. Can a Carnivore eat Bloodgrass? It seems logical that he can't, but within the realm of Oblivion, anything is possible.

Awaiting your thoughts, Jetroid.

Technically Bosmer don't really care about the meat-mandate outside of Valenwood. Thus your character /could/ eat plant-life from outside of Valenwood and not be breaking the pact. I could be wrong of course.

To directly answer your question though, nothing really seems to imply that Blood-Grass are more animal than plant. It might just be easier to avoid eating them, since they are from the deadlands and can't be very appetizing.

No, I think you're right. It was in the PGE. It's just the Valenwood plantlife that can't be harvested, by Bosmer.

And I don't know what Bloodgrass actually is. I doubt that it is meat.

@Murandus: I have heard of this, indeed, but I believe that Bragor should follow the Meat Mandate, as it makes this roleplay more interesting. Thanks for your opinion though!

@PeteAtoms: If it isn't meat, I'll avoid it. Thanks.