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Shelves and Sorcery Potions: Bottles, Families and Shelves

Match potion names, bottle shapes and placards, separate similar families and recover missing bottles without relying on color alone.

Updated September 20, 2026

Read this first

Match the complete placard name, not bottle color alone: identify the family first, then the Azure, Verdant, Violet, Arcane or Radiant variant.

Caged Essence and Spiral Essence beside other bottle families
Read the variant names on the placards before adding another bottle. · Image source · Open full-size image ↗

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Choose one family

These selected families let you organize a small area without rebuilding every potion aisle.

FamilyVariants
Caged EssenceClarity; Sorcery
Spiral EssenceAzure; Verdant; Arcane; Radiant
Prism PotionAzure; Verdant; Violet

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Use the labels to separate similar bottles

In the example, Caged Essence bottles are caged containers, while Spiral Essence uses a curved flask. Keep each named variant in its own position.

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Read family and variant together

Two bottles can share a color without sharing a shelf. Read the full placard from family to variant: Violet Prism Potion is not interchangeable with another violet bottle family, and Potion of Verdant Magic is not the same label as Verdant Prism Potion.

Finish one family row before moving sideways. That makes an empty position easier to interpret and reduces the chance that one wrong bottle blocks later auto-shelving.

Grand Athenaeum potion shelves labeled with magic, prism and essence variants
Read the complete gold placard: nearby green, violet and blue bottles belong to several different families. · Image source · Open full-size image ↗

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Find an existing position

Hold the bottle and use Arcane Sight to reveal shelves where that same item has already been placed. Confirm the placard after following the highlight; the spell helps locate a match but does not replace the name check.

If the bottle is invisible, unreachable or still absent after a normal sweep, use Recover Lost Items from Pause, then search the returned pile by family and full variant name.

Use a three-part note for stubborn shelves: family, exact variant and shop. That is more reliable than remembering only color, and it gives you a precise target for Arcane Sight or the community lookup when the visual silhouette is shared.

Library references

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August 24 update →

Potion sorting playthrough — Grillmastah →