Culturally Inspired Charms By Rufus Clayworker
I woke up last night and it just came to me. The Kiln can be used to create a smoke that will infuse pottery made with magical clay. This infusion will make the item respond to being near other items made from the same material.
| With that in mind, I came up with a pattern for a charm that will respond to its wearer also wearing other culturally inspired armor. I convinced the various people that share the pattern books to add this pattern to their books. There are four different ones, just as
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there are four different ranks of cultural armor.
To make the unfired charm, simply work a small block of magic clay with some water, shaped with the appropriate pattern. This can be done in batches of two or three by simply doubling and tripling the amount of clay, water, and
| patterns that you use.
You will next want to collect swatches and bars of metal appropriate for your culture. These will be the swatches used to make the armor that the charm will respond to. You will need one of each of the swatches your culture can make. If your culture
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has silk and leather, you will need a silk and a leather swatch. Dwarves will not need any swatch as their culture only works with metal. You will also need a bar of the appropriate metal. This will mean that you have collected one to three different items.
| You will also need a symbol of unity. There are four different symbols, chosen for which profession you want the charm to be most useful. The symbol of physical unity is for those that have no magical talents and depend on their strength of arms, the symbol of spiritual unity is for those who derive
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their powers from the gods or the spiritual world, the symbol of mental unity is for those who derive their magical powers from study and the symbol of derived unity is for those who mix a mastery of arms with the use of magic.
Now, place the items in the kiln carefully. In the
| center, place the symbol of unity. Evenly space the swatches and bars around the symbol, then place and equal amount of unfired charms between the swatches and bars. Then carefully fire up the kiln. You will find this more difficult that most things you do in the kiln, and it will take some practice, but once you
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have mastered the process, the charms should only break as often as any other pottery you work with.
Additionally, the grandmaster charms will require a large piece of corathus fungus. Place it on the symbol of unity in the kiln.
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