Hermeticist

Hermetic mages, or Hermeticists, are practitioners of the arts of alchemy, transmutation and astrology. Reading the stars, creating potions of healing and Alchemist's Fire, and even building wondrous creations like a philosopher's stone or a homunculus. Hermeticists are few and far between, and all are valued within ORPHEUS.
==Mechanic: Quintessence==
Hermetic abilities conditionally generate Quintessence, the mythic fifth alchemical element. A Hermeticist can manipulate Quintessence to greatly empower their abilities. However, the fleeting nature of Quintessence makes it difficult to handle.
==Abilities==
=== Alchemist's Fire ===
The Hermeticist crafts a powerful magickal accelerant that violently explodes on contact with the air, dousing the area in eldritch flames.
=== Astrology ===
The Hermeticist reads patterns and portents in the stars, granting preternatural insight into the future, and with sufficient wisdom and discipline, the ability to influence fate.
=== Homunculus ===
The Hermeticist crafts a semi-sentient alchemical construct in the form of a synthetic animal or humanoid. Homunculi serve their creators unconditionally, and are intelligent but have no speech, and may communicate in writing or gesture.
=== Panacea ===
The Hermeticist crafts a potent alchemical healing elixir, capable of miraculous restoration of health and mending of injury.
=== Theurgy ===
The Hermeticist leverages the utmost mystic erudition to contact intelligences from beyond our reality, immediately gaining knowledge as though they’d been studying and practicing the subject of their inquiry for years.
=== Philosopher's Stone ===
Like Hermes Trismegistus before them, the Hermeticist masters the secrets of the prima materia and completes the magnum opus, obtaining the physical essence of enlightenment, the philosopher’s stone.
==Notable Hermeticists==
*Freya Benton
Category:Archetypes