Alchemy

Alchemy is an ancient art that practices the manipulation of altering matter by using natural energy. It is not magic, but is its own magic! There are also parts of alchemy that can be seen used in magic/summons/etc, such as the circles drawn for example. There are three fundamentals to the study, and is sequenced as: Comprehension, Reconstruction and Deconstruction.

Comprehension pertains to the student’s grasp of their transmutation; the start, process and result should be as expected ONLY if they expect it.

Reconstruction refers to transmutation rebuilding subjects that have already fallen or broken down. This fundamental is strictly prohibited for use as well as for study due to an attempt that ended in a large tragedy centuries ago.

Deconstruction indicates the breaking down of subjects or picking-apart, as if fruits to a tree. This can either break something down piece by piece, reduce it back to its old original materials when it was made, or reduce it to messy cracked bits, destroyed.

There are ways one can do alchemy:

* circles (mainly)
* specific symbols, or;
* other shapes

It is a lot more tied down to the planet that the Artesans walk on. It needs a transmutation symbol drawn by chalk. The reason why one uses chalk to draw these circles would be due to an ideal that all humans are made from chalk, and shall return to chalk. There are also schools that draw using special ink extracted from a specific tree, but that would be alchemy that is more focused on "magics" such as summoning and magic itself.

Schools teach alchemists how to draw these circles and their grading system heavily relies on hands-on demonstration exams. Sometimes they even hold tournaments on whoever constructs using perfectly drawn circles and creates unique and never-before seen fusions.

Alchemy is known to be quite flexible, as one can manipulate specific minerals of the planet; it is not tied down to only The Eight, but the main elements are what is commonly studied throughout.

Somewhere in Epulum lies all Eight Astro-Alchemists, also known as the 8 Celestials, who bear Rank Elite specificities and knowledge for their specific element.

## Laws to Alchemy

* **EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE**

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." - Isak Oldpound

There is always an exchange for every transmutation one acts on; if you want to give life, you must give something as grand in return. Though what He wants in return, nobody will ever be able to measure and expect. If you were to transmute an ingredient with a small but obvious infection and you were to en;arge it through alchemy, you’d get a bigger ingredient and the infection scaling with the size.

* **INTENT** “Intention is one with cause and effect. Intention determines outcome. And if you’re stuck and not moving forward, you have to check the thought and the action that created the circumstance.” - Opera Giee-Epsck

Good karma and bad karma are important in alchemy, whether your intent is good or not. If you do not appease Him, then he, too, will not appease your wants as you’d like it to come out. This also goes for alchemy pertaining to healing others.

* **COURAGE**

“Truth asks no questions of the heart.” - Richel Goodwind

The more you’re unsure of what you’re transmuting, the more you’re troubling the process. You should not be doubling over yourself when you are transmuting- that is only furthering failure if you will.