The studies of Alchemy is a combinative curriculum of mysticism, hermeneutics, chemistry, physics and basis learnings of other spheres, Medieval Alchemy is often practised in the laboratories of rulers and people of high noble status, usually in the mansions of noblemen and in cities. Fundamentally, Alchemy was valuable and expensive and so the support of patrons was necessary in this particular case if anything were to be provided and achieved. The most popular aspirations and ambitions of most alchemists in the times of the Medieval Ages were to find the mystical ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ and to convert base metals into gold.
Alchemy is used to reconstruct and brew herbs and other ingredients into medicine and other remedies, in order to construct the potion it is required to be familiar to the prerequisite recipe, the vital remedy and a guide to your first or unexplored antidote. With the acquired formula you may begin brewing and mixing the elements in the attempt of making a newly composed elixir. The important steps are listed in the books and must be adhered to precisely, if deviated or strayed away from, the potion will most likely fail, your Potion ingredients will be lost and the brewing process will have to be repeated with freshly bought and new expensive components.
The measured difficulty of each brewed elixir are differentiated on each recipe and all require a variable number of steps, with each recipe you are more familiar with and knowledgeable of, the more you are likely to succeed. The first step is almost always to pour the potion base into a cauldron where you able to add Potion ingredients and brew the mixture on the prescribed flame. You should always mind how long you brew your cauldron according to the demands of the recipes you follow. It is wise to be thorough and attentive to your work, especially when grinding the ingridients with the mortar and the pestle.
The danger of Alchemy comes with a great cost, those who are found guilty of the evil foundations of Alchemy are sentenced to death, or turned into a slave depending on who catches you. Misinterpretations however, are bound to happen by any point of one's Alchemy course, whether you are not bound by evil, death sentences are still given out regardless just by the sheer fact of the great hazards included in the field of work if the person responsible is not licensed by the military or the ruler. Alchemy is used for a variety of good if correctly used, for the most part it is publicly used to cure wounds and has an effect on the mind, it is also used to moderate internal health and purge diseases.
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