Clay Materials (sage study)

The untrammeled gifts of the earth

Clay materials is a sage study in the field of Ceramics, providing the character with a complex understanding of plastic materials, allowing knowledge of clay deposits and their location and the preparation and addition of minerals. Lack of this knowledge requires the character to purchase prepared materials for making earthenware, stoneware or porcelain. The study also includes the modification of clay to produce unusually hard materials or to imbue magical properties.

Sage Abilities

The sage abilities below are those acquired by a character through the study, according to status.

Amateur Status

• Find Clay: enables location of serviceable clay deposits and useful clay minerals.
• Prepare Glues & Acids: readies these compounds for use in fusing and etching ceramics and glass.
• Ready Clay: prepares earthenware clay for use in modelling, glaze or sculpture, ensuring the practicality of flux and shaping.

Authority Status

• Etch Glass: allows use of acids and other materials to effect the surface of blown glass; requires amateur glaze ability to produce artistic work.
• Hardened Materials: increases the density of clay materials, with knowledge of how to shape and prepare ceramics as weapons and sling missiles.
• Ready Stoneware or Porcelain: prepares kaolin and mineral compounds as materials for the making of high quality translucent ware.

Expert Status

• Potion Bottle: required knowledge to create ceramic vessels that will sustain the useful effects of magical potions indefinitely.

See Bard Sage Abilities