Alchemy

Fictional Permission

When you hold Alchemy in your Grimoire, you have specific fictional positioning.

Alchemy CAN:

• Prepare reagents, distill essences, and stockpile scene-useful compounds between beats.
• Justify gear, antidotes, smoke, solvents, and lab-scale hazards in fiction.
• Feed another school's casting with prepared carriers (oils, powders, inks) when the GM agrees.

Alchemy CANNOT:

• Bypass Shape the Matrix for on-the-spot miracles unless you are also declaring a real school + glyph track.
• Auto-solve investigations or healing without play (pair with Divination / Medical Magic fiction).
• Ignore scarcity: notable brews cost time, materials, and often a clock or complication.

The Core Matrix

Alchemy is currently a support discipline, not a standalone Technique Glyph school.

• It does not grant an independent Technique Glyph progression at this time.
• Use Alchemy as fictional positioning for preparation, reagents, and laboratory procedures.
• For active spell shaping, resolve effects through relevant core-school Technique Glyph tracks.

(For detailed sensory information and theoretical deep-dives, refer to Schools Lore)