These monsters are the worst kind of black magic. The ritual is taboo in the land where it was created. It is known that certain materials collected from corpses and toxic plants are mixed into the mud used to make a pot. It must be big enough to house all the creatures to be enclosed inside. If the pot is broken or opened before the sounds inside stop, everything inside dies and one must restart the process.
The lesser variants happen when a witch puts several venomous creatures inside a jar; The resulting critter combines all the venom inside. The common mixture is to lock an entire vespiary. The result is a grenade, which when thrown releases something described as "wings, stingers and nothing else" by the chronicler Jin Kaiwan.
The more powerful variants become a sort of chimera. The process is unpredictable, the resulting creature unique, always combining the worse traits of what was put inside. The dragon Genxun, member of the Blue Dinasty and governor of the Xu Province, has the Jincan Cauldron. Whoever fails with their duty is thrown inside and devoured by the thing within, similar to a huge starfish made of five fused worms. Local rebels dream of the day that they will release the monster upon the dragon.
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