The Alchemist

Shrouding the battlefield with toxic mists, Venomess is a Wayfinder hailing from The Maze. With her chemical concoctions, she can apply vicious venom to simultaneously cripple foes and revitalize allies. Venomess is the 6th Wayfinder, released with the Gloom Break Reward Tower in Founders Season 1 of the game.

## Statistics

All Stats are for level 30 and with 0% Affinity

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## Signature Weapon

No signature weapons have been revealed yet

## Backstory

No backstory has been revealed yet.

**Speculative!**
NOTICE: The following content is speculative in nature, with no claims to its veracity unless an official Wayfinder/Airship Syndicate source confirms it! Take all content following with a grain of salt.

## Speculation

The Alchemist (or someone that appears to look like the Alchemist, has appeared many times in cameos and gameplay clips since the game was first teased back in July 2022. Since then she has continued to make appearances and cameos, up until the official reveal trailer for Wayfinder in December 2022, with her being published on the official website as [REDACTED]. Since then Airship Syndicate have made an Instagram post revealing minor details, including her title, the fact that her name beings with a V, and some unredacted tidbits about her character synopsis.

### Instagram Post

While the Instagram post giving minor details on the Alchemist was heavily redacted, Airship Syndicate's own Sir\_Snarf has attested to the fact that the redacted words are character replaced by blocks, meaning the original words have the same number of characters as there are blocks in the redacted word. This has led some to begin trying word replacement for best-fit substitutes.

The original text as follows:

> V██████ - The Alchemist; You’ve been ████████████ altered and use █ █████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ██████████ and ████████. You’re █████ ███ ██████, and can slowly kill with your ███████ or ████ █ ████ ████ ████ ████████████ ██████.
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Some substitutions from user Ganek#2370 on the official Wayfinder Discord and others:

> V██████ - The Alchemist; You’ve been biologically altered and use a rifle to spread corrupting contagions and diseases. You’re alive but rotten, and can slowly kill with your disease or turn a foes team upon themselves███ ██████.
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> V██████ - The Alchemist; You’ve been biologically altered and use a spray to spread corrupting contagions and diseases. You’re alive but rotten, and can slowly kill with your disease or turn a foes fear into nightmarish█ poison.
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> V██████ - The Alchemist; You’ve been biologically altered and use a flask to spread corrupting contagions and diseases. You’re █████ ███ ██████, and can slowly kill with your disease or ████ █ ████ ████ ████ mindlessness ██████.
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> V██████ - The Alchemist; You’ve been biologically altered and use a flask to spread corrupting contagions and diseases. You’re █████ ███ ██████, and can slowly kill with your disease or ████ █ ████ ████ ████ debilitating poison.
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> V██████ - The Alchemist; You’ve been biologically altered and use a flask to spread corrupting contagions and diseases. You’re quick but deadly, and can slowly kill with your disease or ████ a ████ with your debilitating poison
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Later, Sir\_Snarf would confirm that the first word is in-fact not 'biologically'.

### Existing Clips

Some clips of The Alchemist in action do exist, here are the two we have so far.

#### Wayfinder Official Reveal Trailer Clip

This one jumps around a lot, and is rather loud. You may need to pause to accurately see everything.

* To start, the Alchemist is standing next to Wingrave, and is shooting what appears to be the Longshot,
* It then cuts to an action scene with seemingly no sight of the Alchemist, though there do appear to be poison effects on both Kyros and his enemies, with what looks like a mushroom growing up out of the ground and exploding into noxious fumes in the background.
* After a brief interlude it cuts to the Alchemist's next cameo, dodging forward next to Kyros in a dark room lit up by green lights. Behind her are some purple smoke fumes, which may be indicative of some kind of ability or something that has her dodging forward.
* It then immediately jump cuts to what appears to be the Alchemist using her abilities on some worm-like monster. We can tell that it's the Alchemist because of the purple smoke-and-skull effect, which is used later in a different clip by the Alchemist, likely her ultimate ability (or just a really wide AoE ability in general). The Alchemist can even be seen doing a somersault backwards at the very beginning of this action shot on the left side of the screen, potentially dodging backwards or using an ability that throws her backwards.

#### Niss Crossbow Clip

* While this clip mostly focuses on Niss and the Crossbow, The Alchemist can be seen in the back fighting the large monster Niss is shooting at.
* The video opens up with a large pool of poison on the floor, emitting fumes, possibly similar to the way Silo's Oil Bomb puts oil on the floor to control enemies.
* Enemies who interact with the poison pool seem to be inflicted with poison with a small purple bubble particle effect surrounding them, likely a damage-over-time effect.
* After a moment, a missile like object from the sky comes crashing down, creating a massive explosion, dealing damage and killing the enemy next to Niss immediately, and throwing purple smoke everywhere with a dark skull-and-crossbones rising up in dark fumes. This may be an ultimate ability given its large area, seemingly high damage, and general flashiness.
* As the poison bomb hits, very briefly, a purple skull-and-crossbones mark appears on the large enemy that didn't immediately die to the damage. This could be some kind of mark that's applied to enemies that are hit by the attack similar to Wingrave's Judgement, or this could simply be a visual indicator that poison was applied to the enemy.

### Other

All Wayfinder's so far have been associated with some form of in-game civilization or group, such as Silo with the Shrike Syndicate, or with Wingrave with the Avar Imperium. While none of the information thus far has given any hints as to who the Alchemist may be associated with, it appears that the much of the game's steampunk aesthetic can be found in the her designs, with the flasks and tankards full of bright poisons. Much of this steampunk/poison aesthetic is associated with bandits, brigands, and Shrikes, which could imply her involvement with those groups before she would be taken by the Gloom and become an Echo as with the other Wayfinders.

As for her Archetype, the Alchemist is most likely in the Survivalist Archetype given the information we can know about her. Survivalists are supposed to be tricky characters that deal with crowd control and use their abilities to their advantage. Everything we know about the Alchemist seems to fit the description, as most of her abilities will likely be AoE with the poison pool and AoE poison bomb, and can inflict status effects on multiple enemies.