Potions exist, but they are rare, intimate, and risky. Ingesting a potion is an act of devotion and contamination — you take the god’s influence directly into your body. They are never casual conveniences, and every dose has the potential to change you.

• Body-bound effects only: Potions alter, enhance, or damage the drinker’s body. They do not directly affect the outside world.
• Seed of the Divine: Brewing requires a divine seed tied to the god’s domain. Without it, the mixture is powerless.
• Personal cost: Brewing demands sacrifice — blood, hair, memory, or something the god values.
• Specificity: Effects are distinctive and narrative, not broad mechanical bonuses.
• Consequences: All potions carry side effects that may be immediate, delayed, or permanent.

Potions can:

• Heighten senses or reflexes for a short time.
• Adapt the body to an environment (gills, heat tolerance, night vision).
• Reshape or transform the body in dramatic ways.
• Heal wounds or restore vitality.

Potions cannot:

• Affect large areas or multiple people at once.
• Directly summon, banish, or control entities.
• Permanently change reality without ongoing cost.

Treat brewing as a ritual with the following component requirements:

• Divine Seed *(mandatory)*
• Symbolic Resonance — an ingredient linked to the desired bodily change.
• Personal Cost — sacrifice offered during brewing.
• Catalyst — the final act that locks the magic into the liquid (boiling under a storm, stirring with bone, chanting a prayer).

Whenever a potion is brewed or drunk, the GM may introduce:

• Physical mutation or visible divine mark.
• Lingering vulnerability (light sensitivity, unnatural cravings).
• Escalating divine attention or debt.
• Shortened duration of effect due to god’s whim.

• Hunger of the Tide: Grants the ability to breathe underwater for a day, but drinker craves raw fish until the effect fades.
• Saint’s Breath: Heals grievous wounds instantly, but a ghostly voice whispers prayers from the drinker’s mouth for a week.
• Flesh of Clay: Allows reshaping of the body for one scene, but skin retains a faint clay-like texture forever.