Supertrope of Bottled Heroic Resolve, Elixir of Life, Healing Potion, Love Potion, and Mana Potion. Other times they will be vile, chunky purees like what you'd expect a newt, weed, and insect soup to look like, sometimes with things like eyes and dead insects still visible inside, to be choked down in a hurry for the sake of their conferred power. Sometimes, they will be brightly-colored, often fizzy, bubbly, or containing various bobbing shapes their taste will either be acceptable or unremarkable. In appearance, potions tend to have one of two looks. In either case, messing up the process, such as by adding the wrong ingredient or the right one at the wrong time, or even just jostling the pot, will result in a useless mass of goop. It's most commonly achieved by stirring everything into a big, bubbling cauldron, mixing and heating everything in a usually very specific sequence some works drop this convention in favor of distilling potions through complex series of alembics, retorts, and that thing you get when you hook a whole bunch of them together. The actual brewing process is sometimes trivially easy, especially in video games, but in other media tends to be long and complex, and usually delicate. Other times there will be more obvious links - for instance frog legs for a potion that makes you a good swimmer or leaper, a love letter for a love potion, and so on. Sometimes no specific link exists, and the potion will be stated to derive its powers from substances and properties that are present in the materials but not visible to the naked eye. The relationship between specific ingredients and the potion's effects varies. Generally speaking, a potion's power tends to relate to the rarity and potency of its ingredients a mix of common bugs and herbs will be effective but not mind-blowing, while the choicest and most powerful potions will require rare and expensive reagents. Many potions have extensive, complicated recipes with long lists of abstruse ingredients, which can range from easily-accessed bits of backyard wildlife and woodland Healing Herbs to a Flower from the Mountaintop or the viscera of rare monsters to abstract Insubstantial Ingredients. They tend to be named very prosaically after their effects, usually as either "X elixir/potion" or "elixir/potion of X".Įye of Newt is often an important ingredient in these brews. Certain potions may be actively harmful, but may still be handy if you can get the other guy to drink them. Also common are potions which make you tougher or faster, or which give resistance to all or certain types of damage. Some of the most common variants are the Healing Potion, which closes wounds and restores lost health, and the Love Potion. Magic potions can have a tremendous number of effects.
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