Bjorn
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 | | Subject: Alchemy Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:28 am | |
| Alchemy
Alchemy is the practice of trying to find profound powers, such as transmuting industrial metals into precious metals. Alchemy is also intertwined with herbalism, as it deals heavily with plants and their properties for practical applications, mostly medicinal. In a very basic sense, alchemy is early chemistry and medicine. - Application:
- Balm/Liniment: A balm/liniment is a topical application. They're applied to the affected area, and are rubbed in with friction.
- Drink/Foodstuff: A drink/foodstuff is an edible product. They're either drunk or eaten, as the name says.
- Ointment/Salve: An ointment/salve is a topical application. They're applied to the affected area, rubbed onto the skin, but not into the skin.
- Preparation:
In order to make an alchemical concoction, you need a mortar & pestle. With it you grind the ingredient(s) into a paste or liquid, unless it's eaten as a foodstuff. It is highly recommended by any renowned alchemist to know the property of the ingredients before making the concoction. Many would-be alchemists die from a fatal poison they believed to be a healing salve. A concoction with weak effects can be made with a single ingredient, but finding multiple ingredients with the same effect amplifies it.
- Balm/Liniment: Resist Magic
- Drink/Foodstuff: Paralysis (Liquid), Cure Blight Disease, Resist Common Disease (Liquid), Stamina Drain (Liquid)
- Ointment/Salve: Water Walking (Apply to bottom of feet)
- Alchemical Concoctions:
Alchemical Concoctions are the results of alchemical endeavors, highly valued even by peasants. They range from miraculous healing salves to dastardly poisons. Most concoctions are made with organic ingredients, giving them a shelf-life of about a month. However if you have one made out of non-organic matter, it's shelf-life is theoretically infinite. Also, a magically enchanted concoction, although powerful, is very unstable and has a shelf-life of a week, maybe even less.
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