Ceramics (sage field)

Ceramics is a sage field available to bards, centered around the ancient crafts of pottery, ceramics, glassblowing, clay masonry, glazing and related skills. These allow characters to excel in the delicate and practical arts of shaping clay and harnessing the power of creation. These elemental manipulations and artistic expressions give characters a profound and unusual set of skills, adding a new dimension to character creation.

In light of this, a character's adventuring is nuanced by a desire to gather rare and exotic materials for their crafts or to seek inspiration from the natural world. Uncovering lost techniques, the establishment of personal spaces for the purpose of making unusual objects and ultimately artifacts, becomes an intrinsic part of the individual's motivations and personal achievements.

Sage Studies

The field includes the following sage studies:

• Clay Masonry: the making and design of structural construction, including bricks, pipes, floor and roof tiles, as well as the making of kilns and metal or glass-making crucibles.

• Clay Materials: a thorough study of silicas, ferrites, kaolin and other earths, enabling the character to search for and composite rare mediums for handicrafts and artistic expression.

• Glaze: decoration and artistic expression produced before and after the firing process, to create objects of fine distinction.

• Modelling: the making of base objects from raw materials, such as ceramics and glass, with associated forms being earthenware, stoneware, porcelain and the like.

See Bard Sage Abilities