Hey zemeess, don't worry, no spoilers here

Just wanted to ask what do you think would be Essek and Calebs favorite tea? Or do you think one of them is more a coffee person?

Hope you have a nice day :D

thank you for the sweet non-spoilery ask \o/

i think i’ve had this discussion with some friends before! i can see many different headcanons with different reasoning behind them fitting them in many different ways, but if i had to pick one now, i’d say… 🤔 Essek is definitely a tea person but not as much of a tea snob and/or connoisseur as Yussa is. he has one or two VERY fancy teas that he loves and he inhales like a bathtub of it a day (moderation? don’t know her). strikes me more as a non-fermented kind of tea person, i can see him being a fan of the exandrian equivalent of bai hao yinzhen.

as for Caleb… here’s a question: how readily available would tea and coffee be in the Empire? from what i’ve seen canon treats them as something everyone knows and can buy at the local market, but i feel like it might be more fun to picture them as a more or less expensive import, and that would probably mean that Caleb didn’t have them as a child. tisanes made of local plants though? that could be interesting, and i can see Caleb having a soft spot for elderberry tea that his mother used to make or something like that 🥺