What luxury product (or extremely small number of different ones, no more than 3) could a small nation in a fantasy setting be so famous for exporting that it alone would make them rich, famous and influential?
Hardmode: why wouldn’t any stronger and bigger nation conquer it for that?
>This shit again
Kys already
Something skill based, like the finest armor made of the finest metal or high quality enchanting; that way even if the territory was conquered the raw materials would be useless; prolly also make the culture really proud or stubborn so that they would rather die than work as slaves
Some kind of drug. See: spice.
>Something skill based, like the finest armor made of the finest metal or high quality enchanting
How are any of those a "luxury product"?
Wine. High quality wine will always be expensive.
>Hardmode: why wouldn’t any stronger and bigger nation conquer it for that?
Because the wine nation is still wealthy enough to give at least some casualties on the stronger nation.
Plus, since only rich people buy their wine, it makes them a less attractive target to stronger nations as a war could stop the production of it for a long time.
>What luxury product (or extremely small number of different ones, no more than 3) could a small nation in a fantasy setting be so famous for exporting that it alone would make them rich, famous and influential?
Some really rare dye like Tyrian purple or something
>Hardmode: why wouldn’t any stronger and bigger nation conquer it for that?
Because the small country that produces it is surrounded by like three big empires directly and another three beyond that and the small nation maintains a strict free trade policy so ain't nobody gonna accept anyone tryna monopolize this shit nibba.
Some arechological evidence shows ancient Judea achieved a fair amount of renown in the ancient near east on selling wine and olives. No shit. The guys who ended up writing the Bible were the ancient world’s olive magnates.
France managed to bribe and blackmail enough venetian mirror makers than they broke Venice's monopoly on the stuff, I'm not sure that'd work out too well either.
Highly trained slave-servants. Think Mentats in Dune.