Player progeny

Greetings - when a player casts say a mortar, what abilities, shields, life, whatever get transmitted from the player (me) to my mortar. See, I noticed that my mortar seems to inherit one or more of my auras. Also, some threads on the forum talked about casting the mortar to “proc” a certain effect, ability, etc. What is “proc” used to mean in this context?

Or, perhaps, an object like a mortar takes on certain things or attributes from the player that “raising” something like a demon doesn’t. Are the all different?

Thanks