Joan's Consumer's Vase
"It'll eat everything right up." Sully sighed, looking at the vase almost as tall as he was. "An' yer positive there'll be no negative repercussions?" "Only if the magic needs to be there. Otherwise, it's neutrality in a pot." "I'll take it." If only because he had to return to Joan. This would have to work.
Description
A simple porcelain vase. Bulbous at the bottom, narrowing as a stem to the top. Its colour is a pale pink and blue, almost watercolouresque cloud of both colours over the top of each other. It also slowly eats away at all surrounding magical energy. The Consumer's Vase is a non-circumspect device with a creeping consumption of the surrounding magic. Unless looked for, the spell isn't easy to spot with human senses (though demons have a much easier time of it). Its very nature means one aware of magic might know some item or person in the vicinity is suppressing energy, but they would be hard pressed as time went on and their magical energy was consumed to find the source. Where the energy goes when eaten is unknown, though those who sell other such items say it completely disappears. Magical researchers are skeptical, because whether energy is magical or not, it never just disappears.
History
Because of a prior "necessity" for magic-consuming measures, items with such a curse on it sky-rocketed in price. However, more often then not the items in question were flashy, or obvious in some way that would draw attention to them, and then become known for what they were truly there for. The ten Consumer's Vases were first a set of regular vases, made to be beautiful in their own right. Yet none of them were painted with the intricate designs that drew the eye of most people to porcelain. Therefore they were all determined as a pleasant addition to a household without garnering too much attention. The weakness of the Consumer's Curse is the difficulty it has draining certain demonic energy. The rush people went through to buy such items to protect themselves against demons was laughable (to the demons). Three instances are known of a demon waltzing in and breaking one of the vases, just to show they knew what was going on. However, the curse wasn't broken with the porcelain, each piece contained a weakened part of the spell. People worried about other magics flocked to buying the broken pieces, often mislead about the truth of the curse's "protection from demons". The vase in Joan's Bouquets was given to Joan by Sully. Considering her current condition, she has no idea of the vase's true nature.
Mechanics & Inner Workings
The curse laid upon the vase is "Magical Consumption", meant to eat all magical energy in a certain radius around the item in question. Outside of that, it is a fully functional vase.
Manufacturing process
Molded by wheel throwing and bisque-fired, the pastel pinks and blues were painted on with an increased usage of alumina and lessened amount of silica for its matte glaze.
One of the other Consumer's vases by Benjamin Altman, 1913
Item type
Magical
Current Location
Current Holder
Rarity
of this particular curse and this particular type of vase, only ten of the vases were made, and only five of them are unbroken
Weight
17.6 lbs
Dimensions
36in high and 12in at its widest
Raw materials & Components
the vase is made of hard porcelain, while the curse is made of hunger (as many curses tend to be)
Tools
- pottery wheel
- kiln
- magic user willing to use curses
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