Terracotta

Terracotta, also called terra-cotta or terra cotta, was a type of clay-based ceramics found throughout the Realms.

Uses
In Zakhara, as well as in Cursrah of the Calim Empire , terra-cotta was used to create intricately-decorated slender urns used to store gold and jewels, and was shaped into painted figurines.

Hin followers of Urogalan and the Church of Urogalan, in the Purple Hills, eastern Amn, the Sunset Vale, and the lower Delimbiyr Vale, created terra cotta burial masks that depicted the faces of deceased frozen in eternal contented expression. The Church of Urogalan believed that these masks aided the dead spirits in their adjustment to afterlife. Some fanciful terra cotta funeral masks were decorated with bronze filigree and decorated with gems in place of eyes.

In the city of Myth Drannor, terra cotta was used to create diminutive magically animated constructs, the clay warriors, who were placed inside crypts of military heroes of the City of Song to represent the troops they commanded in life and to protect their tombs from grave robbers.

Many of the rooftops of Ankhapur in the Lake of Steam region, as well as in the cities of Sembia, were covered in terra-cotta shingles and tiles, protecting the structures from rainfall. The shingles clacked loudly when stepped upon, laking the lives of burglars much harder then in other cities of the realms.

On the Island of Viledel, Korinn Archipelago, the island's ruler owned a lavish terra-cotta bath tub that outlived Viledel and his family.

In Chult, the Tomb of the Nine Gods, was guarded by forty eight magically animated terracotta warriors. These constructs guarded Shagambi's part of the tomb and were activated by loud noise of intruders.

History
In 1369 DR a group of heroes who opposed the Cult of the Dragon occupation of the ruins of Myth Drannor, came across an army of terra cotta constructs, clay warrior, who guarded Lyssic's Crypt in Polyandrium. Evident by some of the statues shattered and several bodies, these contracts were a deadly swarming force.