Stronger
Simply, a piece of pottery is enchanted to be much harder, to prevent breaking which mostly means irreversible destruction.

In many villages this is a standard service of the travelling Hedge Wizard, often with a fixed price that is known, and doesn't change much. As the little enchantment can last for months, housewives carefully choose which piece they use most, and which has to be protected.

If the wizard in question is little known, or not very trusted, tradition commands after enchanting the pot to stand up, raise it and let fall on earth. If it lasts, it is good. If it breaks, then he must of course pay for a new one, not to speak of being called a charlatan and ridiculed by all the people on a lively market - a guaranteed fun for the kids.

Protector
On its surface, the jug will visibly (and noisily) crack, if there is a poisonous substance put into it; it will not break or leak. The usefulness should be obvious.

The Breaking Point
The enchantment is bound to the condition of the piece being broken.

Diffuse: will spread around the contents around - so if the contents is liquid, it will make a great splash. If it is gas, or evaporates quickly, it will spread around even more. Bombs are the primary use.

Fire: a simple Spark cantrip is cast upon breaking - which with oil or a similar substance makes a dangerous burning bomb.

Fairy: makes a harmless little firework, with effects of all the colours of the rainbow. Used as a little suprise on marriages when newlyweds ceremonially break a jug together. The custom started to be more popular after the cantrip was made.

Alarm: produces a loud high-pitched or creaking noise (or another) to alert anyone around to what happened. Uses and abuses should be clear.

Spirit Clay
This cantrip activates the very spirit of the clay, making it inpenatrible to spirit forms. This would include most astreal things, spectres, ghosts, angels, demons, and other being of spirit.

Most commonly cast on vessels. Any spirit caught in such an cantripped clay vessel would be held. The trick is of course, to trick or move the spirit into the spirit clay vessel.

However, certain talismans made of clay could utilize this charm. These talismans are normally clay disks with stringing holes and some symbols. The symbols have only nominal purposes, as the real power is in the spirit clay charm. As for uses; by blocking certain chakra points on the body - spirits of illness could not enter the body, charms to keep things from being spoiled by supernatural means (such as sour spirits) use this charm, and a belly charm can keep the baby of the womb safe from spirits who would visit upon it (usually for ill).

A necklace made of seven or more so enchanted clay pieces will bind any possessing spirits to the form it is in, for the durration of wearing the necklace. Thus possessing demons can be contained in the target bodies, awaiting someone to banish it.

The Most Foul use of this cantrip is to bind spirits to their corpses. By covering the corpse's eyes with two enchanted clay disks soon after death, the soul is trapped in the body... unable to escape and go to its reward (or punishment).

Guardian of the Afterlife
(Major pottery related magic)

Forms either an infantryman, cavalryman or mount of terra cotta bound to the spirit of a named individual.

In life, these figures are useless - their utility comes in the afterlife where they will provide the bound spirit members of a host it can use in battles there.

More mundanely, for religions where this is not an issue, the figure will function as a weak golem used to defend crypts and gravesites. Although not able to sustain much damage, it can strike as well as a seasoned warrior, and there is nothing stopping improvements such as armour or magical spells from being applied. In this application, the figure will not leave the area of the grave.

crediting comments by manfred to my Death Mask scroll, and Chinese History

(the Terra-cotta army buried in Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum)

The Scorpion Plate
A most devious addition to the poisoners arsenal, the Scorpion Plate is a plain looking fired clay dish. The only difference is that several scorpions were crushed and added to the wet clay, and a scorpion spirit was bound into the dish. Any liquid consumed from the dish will have the same effect as normal scorpion venom, though dry foods are not affected.

Safeholder

This is a variant of the Preserver. The enchantment attempts to preserve the physical (or rather, thermodynamical) properties of the stored thing. Typical uses:
- Preserve Liquid - attempts to keep something in a liquid state - useful for bringing along something warm during winter, like a soup, or coffee. Molten lead and the like could be kept for a short while; if the pot can handle it of course.
- Preserve Solid - for instance, allows keeping snow and ice from melting even in warm enviroments.

The effect is only temporary, the larger the difference between the contents and outside, the shorter it gets. All turns to normal eventually.

Chameleon Mark

The piece of pottery changes its colour depending on a chosen factor. Typically, it is the temperature of the contents (or in some rare cases, of outside - for storing explosives and the like). And thus can the nobles, and guests of expensive taverns know when the drink has just the right temperature to drink ("Time for a toast, my friends - there is the bluish shade that makes men fall under tables and women into beds. On us!")

Alternatively, a piece (often just a fragment, smoothed into a ball) can serve as a mood stone.


The enchantment lasts much longer if a part of a colour-changing creature is used in the process.

Refresher

Whoever drinks from this piece, after rubbing it on the side (there is often a pattern shaped to indicate this use), will be refreshed a little more from the contents.

Simple water becomes truly tasty for the drinker, and the better inns like to serve their beer and wine to great merriment of their customers. Wizards like to enchant their mugs for the coffee, to get a _real_ kickstart into the day.


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