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.

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.
Use Brew Alchemy and Crafting for mechanical resolution (hybrid simple/advanced model).
Alchemy uses the same level cap as Core Schools, but levels unlock support crafting scope/reliability instead of Technique Glyph tiers.

(For sensory detail and deeper theory, see Schools Lore.)