"Wizards are a mighty lot, you all. Powerful, strong. Capable. It was not wise of me to make you wait for this meeting, but I had no choice. But for the delay I hope to have something wonderous for you." From within the faerie's hood, the lantern glows brighter, beaming. He wraps his spindly scarecrow arms around the massive stone cauldron before him and heaves it onto the docks by his boat, and the dangerous creaking makes it obvious the boat was only held together by dreams under the bulk of the cauldron.
"I acquired this from a Witch who was forced to give up her magic, her ambitions. It can distill fantasies into reality, and though she boiled down rebellious children into magical potions, I am certain you could find a method involving less squealing and sobbing."
A recent acquisition, Akakios is looking to trade away a witch's cauldron. It is a massive stone pot big enough to fit a small child into. He is looking to trade it for a wizard's Ambition. This bargain gives the wizard who agrees to it the flaw Short Attention Span, as they lose the drive necessary to focus on their tasks for extended periods of time. (Depressed or Humble are also good choices, depending on how the character plays out). If the Wizard has the major personality flaw Ambitious, it becomes a minor flaw; If they had the minor flaw Ambitious, it becomes suppressed. The wizard has trouble staying on long-term tasks, and may need to spend Confidence to continue working on projects that stretch multiple seasons. Akakios values this trade at 12 pawns of vis.
Cauldron of Dreams: This is a massive stone cauldron, one that could be used to bathe or boil precocious children. This can easily be installed in a lab as a magical fixture (Covenants p120, "Cauldron") and also includes Faerie Ingredients, as glamour will cling to things prepared in it. Furthermore, the Vis Extraction activity will produce an extra pawn of Faere-tainted vis, of a randomly decided Form.
Also for trade this year are two rusty arrowheads (each Terram vis), a chipped crockery that smells like wine (a pawn of Muto vis) and a blonde-haired braid in elaborate patterns that came from a virginal young woman, worth three pawns of corpus vis.