Coffee

Coffee in general originated in Lost Izagone, where it was traded to the Twelve Princedoms and later Karthack many hundreds of years ago, and eventually grown locally.
The Orredin had long craved stimulants and other novel ways of keeping themselves awake and increasing their energy, since they had no shortage of drugs that put them to sleep. Karthacki Marching Powder once fulfilled this role, but it has very negative long-term physical effects and causes paranoia, which is something that the Orredin already tend to have a problem with. Once coffee entered the scene, the Orredin fell in love with it immediately, and spent a great deal of time and money arranging for trade routes to be established to provide them with a steady stream of it.
Problems arose immediately. The Karthacks are not a friendly nation to the Orredin at the best of times, and things became very complicated after the discovery of Cross Way, which permits trade between Dace and Karthack at a much shorter (albeit more dangerous) rate than any other path yet found. The Dacians hate the Orredin with the sort of white hot incandescent fury you'd expect from elf-hate threads on /tg/, and have gone through great lengths to try and corner the market by volume so that they can squeeze the Helians for every dime they can.
The Helians, in response, has been funding Dace's enemies out of pocket for several years now.
Similarly, they probably (allegedly! There's no proof) bribed the Marju to invade Karthack during the Third Marju Invasion because Karthack was attempting to flex on their coffee supply. Similarly the Jenoesan Conquest has largely held on because trade between Helion and the Twelve Princedoms has to pass through the Straits of Jenoesa.
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