World

1. []{#places-of-interest}Places of Interest {#places-of-interest-1}

2. []{#alchemy}Alchemy {#alchemy-1}

• Bending the natural world to your will through a series of specific processes

  • “Nothing is impossible, we just need to find the right ingredients and the right processes to make it possible.”

• Ether is almost always used as a base element

  • Extracted from gold

• Started as three basic goals:

  • Immortality
  • Create gold from lame metals
  • Universal cure for diseases
  • None of these were achieved, but the persuits paved the way for further improvements

1. 1. []{#recipes}Recipes {#recipes-3}

• The more dramatic the change, the harder to create

• Anti-depressants

• Health

• Explosives

• Shake for light

• Fire starting

• Growing plants

  • Although this one might just be water

• Noticeability

  • More or less

1. 1. []{#schools-of-alchemy}Schools of alchemy {#schools-of-alchemy-3}

• Healing

• Warfare

• Herbalism

  • The raw ingredients of recipes for potions and food and the like
  • How to grow them (not just to be bigger but to be best for their specific recipes)

• Metallurgy

1. 1. []{#ingredients}Ingredients {#ingredients-3}

• Pot leaf

  • Known for being extremely flammable and able to be kept alight for some time
  • Very little knowledge required to be created, simply dry and cure the plant with mountain salt
  • Can get set on fire in the wild under the right conditions, some have reported pot leaf fires going for decades

• Wormwood

• Dragonswort

  • One of very few ingredients that can neutralise snake venom

1. []{#livery-companies}Livery companies {#livery-companies-1}

• The prestigious and oft sought after guilds contain and represent the members of different disciplines

• Not necessarily alchemy related, but that’s the bulk of them

• Usually have several wings

  • Administrative wing

    • Including the legal department

  • Educational wing

  • Research wing

  • Charity

• Often interact with each other depending on how closely linked their trades are

1. 1. []{#mar-brewery-livery-company}Mar Brewery Livery Company {#mar-brewery-livery-company-3}

• Focused on the brewing of potions for internal, external, and general uses

• Heavily intertwined with the Synthesis Herbalist Livery Company

  • Very active apprentice swapping scheme

1. []{#cleanup-crew}Cleanup crew {#cleanup-crew-1}

• A crew specially designed for Rembracht, as a hub of alchemaic activity
• Fixes anything from explosions to illnesses
• Ether wash generally cleans away the effects of alchemy

1. []{#nations}Nations {#nations-1}

• The Industrius Anglica

  • “The Jewel of The Isles” as it’s known due to its large pearl-like geographic appearance between the thinner Gallus and Barbaricum

    • Actually populated by loads of waterways and wide rivers

  • Contains The Alchemaic Institute

    • Nobody thinks that Alchemaic is a real word

  • The state government works much like Venice’s, with the Grand Orator of Anglia (doge) elected by the Ducal Council (council of ten, oligarchs and prominent families), deeply rooted in science and technology

  • If you have an apothecary/potion bottlry/etc and are licensed by the government, then you get access to the mains and get a free aqueduct built for your business

• The cultured Gallus

  • Much of their land is uninhabitable swampland
  • Obsessed with prestige and image
  • Fancypants
  • A loose confederation of warlord types

• Hardy Barbaricum

  • A fusion of Germanic and Nordic cultures
  • Strong working class population
  • Marxist themes prevalent throughout
  • Not particularly geared towards alchemy, but strong innovators in industry
  • Truly communist, decentralised communes dominate

1. []{#the-alchemaic-institute}The Alchemaic Institute {#the-alchemaic-institute-1}

• Resides within Rembracht
• Acts semi-autonomously, with its own council to dictate its own rule
• Despite being the crown jewel of Anglica, they are constantly in fights

1. []{#new-light-astrology-society}New Light Astrology Society {#new-light-astrology-society-1}

• At its core is the belief that star signs can predict the future, and that its charismatic leader has mastered this art and can teach people (for a price, of course)

• Gains steam not just because of its spiritual beliefs but also its political aims

  • Shaking up the current government seen as incompetent and elitist
  • Every government fuckup gains the cult more momentum

• Initially they had been generous donors of the Laz project, until that literally flamed out

  • Nobody else will persue immortality