User blog comment:DarkSaiyanMitsubi/Empire or Stormcloaks?/@comment-4976111-20121012013056/@comment-3492791-20121013195014

Greybeards and Ulfric are still doing it. 'Long lost art' implys that people don't do it anymore. It could just be the greybeard amulet.

As for the shire, that's a different story. Somebodys' got to e handing out those blessings.