Alchemist's Apprentice
Alchemist's Apprentice
Category: Background
Description
Before the Academy, you apprenticed under an alchemist. You know your way around a laboratory, and you can identify most common reagents by smell alone. Your hands are stained with chemical burns, your clothes always smell faintly of sulfur, and you have a healthy respect for volatile reactions. The Academy's theoretical approach to alchemy feels incomplete without the practical wisdom your master drilled into you.
Fictional Permission
You never need to roll to identify common volatile reagents by smell or gauge chemical instability.
Mechanical Benefits
Background Move — Practical Chemistry: When you roll +Mental to Brew Alchemy using scavenged or unstable components, take +1 Forward.
Connection (Anchor)
Alchemist's Guild. You maintain ties with the alchemist's guild in Cyoria. once per quest, you may access guild laboratories, purchase reagents at discount, or consult a senior alchemist about an unusual substance.
Roleplay Hooks
- Your old master has gone missing. The last letter mentioned a 'breakthrough' and a 'buyer.'
- You've noticed that the Academy's alchemy supplies include a reagent that shouldn't be there — it has no legitimate use.
- A fellow student wants you to brew something the Academy would not approve of.
"The professors think alchemy is just chemistry with mana. They've clearly never had a cauldron explode in their face."