Alchemy

Alchemy is a field of Practice, focused on the production of potions and similar consumable items. Those who primarily utilize Alchemy are known as Alchemists.<ref name=":0" />

Methodology

Alchemy is a school based on the lore of the material, and delves deeper into the nature of things than most magic, at the cost of requiring a lot of expensive matierals and pre-existing research. It grants it's practitioners great versatility, giving them access to things at the limit of many other fields of magic; including the creation of life and the destruction of the otherwise indestructible.<ref name=":0">Lore Schools

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Material: Alchemy

Produces draughts and potions, among other (generally temporary/consumable) items. Alchemists have incredible versatility, with the ability to create life (homonculi), alter it, heal, destroy even things that cannot typically be destroyed, and otherwise do things at the extreme reach of other schools and practices. The catch is that alchemy, which delves deeper into the search for answers than nearly any other practice, oft sets a high bar for the pre-existing researches already done and for materials used. - Pact Dice: The Practice - Wbow Version </ref>

Notable Users

• Thorburn Family was known to have a few texts, such as an alchemical glossary.<ref>Ty reached around, grabbing a book, and placed it so it sat open,

standing up, blocking his view of Evan’s cards.  He did the same for me,

dealing the two cards face up, behind the books.  It looked like he’d 

done it before.

Nothing interesting in the book.  A glossary of alchemical symbols, it looked like.

He doled out what looked like copper coins from another nationality.

- excerpt from Malfeasance 11.1 </ref><ref>Twenty large, fat coins.  I couldn’t make head or tails of the language on the coin’s faces.  I was careful as I moved them aside, wary

of the guard I couldn’t see or hear.

Two books.  One on alchemy, more like a dictionary than any kind of spellbook, filled with tables and measurements and Latin words.  Aqua Regia, Aurum Regia, Aqua Justatium, Lapis Philosophorum, and so on.  Each chapter was prefaced with the sort of stuff that started with ‘Evidenced herein’ and spent more time referring

to other parts of the text than it did actually saying anything. - excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2

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• One of the Duchamp husbands<ref>“Homonculi

from Sandra’s extended circle.  Anyone who loses a fight to one deserves to die.”

Homonculi.  Right.

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• Briar Girl (possibly)<ref>“Briar-”

A bird landed in front of me, a storm of wings and feathers.

Black and white, instead of a beak, it had a very human face on a tall head, pale, with features reminiscent of one of the statues on Easter Island.  Exaggerated, stern, any eyes hidden beneath the shadows of a heavy brow.

“Thank you for answering,” I said.

“What are you doing, calling me?” the thing asked, speaking in her voice.

“I want to deal,” I said.  “I know what you want, you know what I want.  We’re going to talk sooner or later, so let’s talk.”

“Follow the homunculus,” she replied.  The bird-thing turned to prepare to fly away.

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I trudged through the snow, while the homunculus-bird circled back to keep me in sight, allowing me to follow.  The

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Rose continued, “The homunculus, I recognize that word.  Manufactured life.  You made it.  A lot of these Others are tools, aren’t they?  Hand

crafted Others?  They’re weapons as much as that hatchet is.” - excerpt from Breach 3.1

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