Alchemy

It is noted that alchemy is very free form within the confines of Galudon, plenty of smaller alchemy items are free to be made and sold without following the complex alchemy recipes here. However, that is only for everyday items that don’t offer major boons or fixes. As an example of such, think cleaning solutions, fancy mixes for drinks, even silly things like color changing someone's tongue for a brief second. Nothing that offers major things like healing injuries, or keeping warm in the dead of winter.

For any combat-related alchemy AND tier three alchemy, you MUST go through in-character alchemists and take a screenshot over purchasing it from an alchemist in game.

Academic Structure

The mystiscience of Alchemy is the study of turning different agents, oils, and substances to materials that can heal or enhance life for those in Galudon. What began as herbal remedies from different cultures soon coalesced into a formalized school of study at all leading universities. The University of Ironhurst recognizes three levels of alchemic mastery:

• Tier One - Alchemist Apprentice - Typically found to be those just learning and are starting out with the basics of alchemy by some sort of tutor outside of formal schooling. While not cleared to work inside specified labs, they have access to basic alchemy labs and ingredients under the supervision of an alchemy tutor.

• Tier Two - Alchemist Adjunct - Has been enrolled into a formal school and is currently studying alchemy. Has been given clearance to work inside of specified labs and with ingredients under the supervision of master alchemists.

• Tier Three - Alchemist Adept - Has earned a degree from a university or other school of recognized study and certified by officials as a master alchemist. Generally seen as top of their craft, they find themselves with much more ease of creating various alchemical concoctions. They are masters of their craft but still must follow procedures to be legally selling alchemy wherever they reside.

History

Alchemy in the modern tradition originated, ironically enough, in Galudon, formed by the tenacious people of the land during the era of the four Kingdoms. It initially started as a means of curing simple ailments using the natural resources of the world at large while natural medicine was still vastly being advanced. Some have said that the Humans were taught such a thing by a Forest Nymph, or at least someone who had traveled away from Ellawren or beyond, but that remains widely considered as apocrypha in the officially recorded history of the creation of Alchemy. The initial creator of Alchemy is a man known as Rivain Luoch; often referred to as the father of alchemy itself, he began the initial creation process that was later refined by those that came after him, having been the first recorded individual to discover the process of using heated glass vials to refine and make extracts to boil down into elixirs.

While First Alchemist Rivain Luoch initiated the practice, it was further enhanced by his understudy Verona Coalswinter who managed to find a way to make salts and vapours,vastly expanding the alchemist’s repertoire. While Luoch focused further on elixirs and poultices, his understudy found that such salts and vapours could achieve feats outside the reach of her mentor’s techniques. Over the centuries that followed, many of the alchemy concoctions of the modern day were refined and formalised through the work of countless alchemists editing and refining various items. However, there is still room for individuals to be able to make smaller, less well known mixtures or even everyday items, whether from scarcer recipes or concocted with their own abilities. Some make alchemy that affects how people feel when eating food, or even clever creation of drinks, and even now individuals work on improving age-old alchemy recipes and exploring new ones alike.

The Ironhurst University is one of the largest institutions teaching alchemy, alongside a multitude of other topics, but is also involved in the process of approving flora and fauna for use therein. This continues to have a ripple effect throughout Galudon and beyond, with many other countries having taken to keeping a keen eye on the university, keen to adopt the latest discoveries. It is widely regarded as a crucial means of healing individuals, as well as being quite helpful for medical work, with many doctors finding themselves doubling as trained alchemists because of it.

Surprisingly, in recent years, the Eiruks have become quite instrumental in the creation of alchemy. The integration of steamtech into alchemy labs has become commonplace, enabling the mass production of healing poultices and elixirs for common use.

While many cultures near and far have their own alchemical traditions to varying degrees, these rarely align with the rigorously outlined, strictly defined practices of Galudon’s institutions. As such they have found little traction in the region, with practitioners of traditional alchemy from far afield frequently chafing against the regimented Galudonian school when working toward a license.

Creation Process

Alchemy consists of five separate steps that are part of the creation process which is the followed steps;

Distillation

Purifying liquid by evaporating and collecting vapor.

Reduction

Concentrating liquid through repeated distillation.

Sublimation

Forcing a solid to transition directly into gas, usually with heat or chemical additives.

Blasify

Grinding solids into fine powders.

Chrysate

Using heat to slowly evaporate a solution and crystallize its solutes.

Forms

Alchemy typically appears in one of four forms:

Elixir

Liquid, ingested or applied.

Salt

Solid crystals or granules.

Vapor

Gaseous, inhaled or dispersed.

Poultice

Gelatinous solid applied to the skin.

Alchemical Categories

When it comes down to alchemy in use, rather than being categorised by what form they are like elixir or salt, they are grouped instead by function. Currently, all alchemies fall into one of four categories:;

Recreational

Alchemy with entertaining or sensory-altering effects.

Healing

Restorative and therapeutic alchemical products.

Contraband

Alchemy with dangerous, addictive, or restricted effects.

Aesthetic

Alchemy that alters appearance or perception.

The tiers of alchemy correspond to levels of investment in the Medicine/Alchemy talent, so e.g. Sagacitas as a Tier Two Alchemy requires 2 points in Medicine/Alchemy to create.

Tier 1 Alchemy

Name	Type	Description	Recipe
Birchbalm	Healing	An elixir used to treat light pain and reduce fevers.	White birch bark, inner scrapings Bleeding parsley stems Fresh Whisperwedge bulb Crush all in equal parts, heat on low for 5 minutes until combined.
Peragrare	Healing	A poultice used to disinfect and clean wounds.	Aqua Regia Distilled wheat product White birch bark (double amount) Mix all together into a paste. Spread on waxed paper and cover until use.
Frostbalm	Healing	A cooling poultice used to treat heatstroke. An alternate to Honeyhurt.	Kerilyk Dream Mint Ice (3 cubes) Tallow Dilute Kerilyk and Dream Mint. Add ice and mix into blank tallow mold. Store sealed to retain gel.
Jester's Liquid	Recreational	Causes uncontrollable laughter for 3 minutes. Overuse may cause rib pain.	Dream Mint Vodka (½ shot) Opavera Somnium Honey Extract essences, combine with vodka and diluted honey. Creates a sweet purple shot.
Dream Mist	Aesthetic	Releases a shimmering 5x5 block mist. Overuse causes skin to shimmer unnaturally.	Dream Mint Water Shimmerleaf Extract Dream Mint essence, boil into vapor with water and finely crushed Shimmerleaf.
Stucktack	Recreational	A sticky poultice used for pranks or small repairs. Adheres objects to skin or surfaces for 10 minutes.	Vylien Horse Hoof Shavings Erhen Cactus Sap Grind hoof shavings, combine with cactus sap, boil into thick adhesive elixir.
Dazzlers	Recreational	A vapor of bright lights in various shapes and colors. Must be lit before use.	Veritis Powder Coal Various flora (based on color) Patternwhick Crush coal and Veritis into powder, sublimate with boiled flora and Patternwhick.

Tier 2 Alchemy

Name	Type	Description	Recipe
Sagacitas	Recreational	An elixir that accelerates nerve endings, heightening all sensory input. Lasts two hours with twelve-hour rest period advised. Prolonged use may result in permanent sensitivity.	Reduction of Feverswell oil (3 parts) Dried Whisperwedge, crushed (1 part) Distillation of Spruce Needles (1 part) Essence of Night Mint, reduced once (1 part) Blend and heat, thin with Aqua Regia. Add one crushed Deliquirium. Pour in regulation drams.
Praesallis	Recreational	Grants one week of procreative protection. Side effects include increased bodily fluid production.	Pink Colwort root, crushed Salyfas bird egg yolks (2) Ukire tree bark (1 oz) Essence of Bleeding Parsley (1 part) Powder colwort and bark, mix with parsley essence, then cut with yolks. Drink fresh.
Patet	Healing	A minty poultice used for headaches and clarity. May cause tingling or burning on skin.	Ghost Ginger inner core (1 part) Night Mint, fresh essence (3 parts) Nettle oil (2 parts) Grukbaum sap (1 cup) Work together and heat until sap is subdued. Mix to a paste with ginger core.
Scorchsalt	Healing	A salt that energizes for 2 hours. Reduces swelling and bloat.	Ghost Ginger root Thought Thorn (1 spike) Corpice (1 dram) Cassel Yellow (1 tsp) Grate ginger, grind corpice into it, add cassel yellow and thorn. Dry fully, then grind until granular.
Powell's Relief	Healing / Contraband	Loosens muscles and mind; user becomes unable to move or speak. Sight and hearing are muffled. Effects last 3 hours. Used in treating shock.	Zaffre, ground (1 cup) Drowsydew (7 drops) Grukbaum sap (1 cup) Horn Quicksilver (1 oz) Add drowsydew to zaffre, fold in sap, press fluids out, then cut with quicksilver until sandy.
Adreno	Recreational	Overdrives the body for 1–5 minutes for peak performance. Side effects include arrhythmia and shortness of breath. Overuse risks cardiac arrest.	Essence of Whisperwedge Essence of Dream Mint (3 drops) Sugar Boil both essences with sugar until Adreno is formed.
Vigora	Recreational	Enhances vigor for up to an hour. Excess use may cause discomfort. Effects lasting 4+ hours require medical help.	Whisperwedge Feverswell Ice Songbird’s Egg Whites Powder whisperwedge and feverswell, mix with ice, blend with egg whites. Drink fresh.
Honeyhurt	Healing	A poultice that cleans and treats skin burns.	Honeycomb (1 lb) Aqua Falma (4 flowers) Birch bark scrapings (2 cups) Ivy leaves (14) Aqua Regia Crush and heat all ingredients to bubbling, spread on wax paper, sprinkle with Aqua Regia.

Tier 3 Alchemy

Name	Type	Description	Recipe
Etherium	Healing / Contraband	A vapor inducing unconsciousness for 10 minutes per dose. Waking causes headaches and confusion. Abuse leads to addiction and mania.	Drowsydew (50 drops, reduced twice until deep blue) Dreamberry juice (20 oz) Thought Thorns (4 spikes) Deliquirium (1 piece) Infuse dreamberry juice with reduced drowsydew over low heat. Add deliquirium and vent. Place breath bowl over vent, drop in thorns, collect vapor.
Rapture	Contraband	Induces euphoria and removes free will for 30 mins. Used to treat hysteria and PTSD. Highly addictive with prolonged use.	Deliquirium (1 piece) Thought Thorns (24) Dreamberry juice (16 oz) Feverswell essence (min. 3 drams) Cinnabar (2 oz) Spard (6 fresh inner leaves) Stew thorns in juice for 12 hours. Add feverswell, cinnabar, and spard. Boil until vapor turns purple-white. Collect in breath bowls.
Vertere Crystal	Aesthetic	Alters bodily features for 1–24 hrs. Must resemble real cultures/races. Blocks magic use temporarily. Cursed abilities unaffected.	Antimony Flowers (3) Corpice Lapis Soleris Thought Thorn (1 spike) Symrinite Dust (1 pinch) Heat mercury to form antimony. Grind lapis soleris and corpice. Add symrinite dust until mixture reddens. Optional Additives – * Drowsydew + dye = Hair * Pink Colwort = Face * Ghost Ginger*
Maw’s Cough	Contraband	An explosive vapor that spreads a 2x2 smoke cloud. After 30 seconds, causes coughing, vision blurring, and shortness of breath. Smoke may be dyed with Mawshrooms.	Mawshrooms (various colors) Opavera Smokesick Powder Coal Dilute Mawshrooms into essence. Combine with Opavera and crushed Smokesick powder. Add coal during sublimation. Store in thin, sealed black vials.
Opstupefio	Healing	A paralytic elixir injected to completely numb the body. Used during surgery to eliminate pain.	Kerilyk Essence Fogwort Inlorf Leaves Boil Kerilyk into essence. Mix with crushed Fogwort. Add diluted, crushed Inlorf to complete.
Anima Shard	Aesthetic	A capsule that temporarily adds animalistic features (e.g. ears, tail, paws) for 1–24 hours. Aesthetic only; no mechanical abilities.	Antimony Flowers Corpice Lapis Soleris Thought Thorn (1) Odiveris Dust Same process as Vertere Crystal, replacing Symrinite Dust with Odiveris Dust.
Praetereo	Contraband	Causes loss of the last 24 hours of memory. Overuse may result in permanent memory loss and dissociation.	Opavera Fogwort Dreamberry Veris Dust Crush Fogwort and Veris into powder. Mix with Opavera and Dreamberry essence. Sublimate into vapor to be inhaled.

Alchemy Blueprint Table

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Writers Meestro, Vegemiite Processors Ashurism, Bimberi	Last Editor UmbraNight on 05/12/2025.

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