I have tried applying refined sulfur from the pools to the following materials: \n\nMercury: produces tremendous heat and a small quantity of black cinnabar \nIron: consumes iron without any application of heat \nGold: no effect \nPlatinum: no effect \nLiquid azoth: need a safer way to attempt this. My eyebrows still haven’t grown back.

Rima's Grimoire

Brimstone Sulfur Experiments

When I was a little girl, my father once showed me a bit of magic. Or so it seemed to my childish eyes. Some dark sands and a single spark came together to produce a fountain of light, more brilliant than all the stars in the sky. \n\nI asked him if it was magic. He answered that it was alchemy, and that anyone with wisdom could use it. \n\nMy mind always wanders back to that moment. What does it mean for alchemy when it exists side-by-side with magic? When each works upon the other in turn?

Rima's Diary

Nostalgia

I hesitate to even write the words, but there’s no denying it: our most revered sages and philosophers were wrong about the alchemical arts. \n\nNothing on this island has behaved as it should. Increasingly, I’ve come to believe that azoth itself is the goal that so many sought; the very essence of power, transmutation, refinement, and immortality.

Against the Sages

Aeternum itself bears witness—humanity’s use of azoth has not led to enlightenment or perfection. Azoth illuminates a false path, and if I hope to achieve anything more than my own destruction, I must find another path to walk. \n\nContrary to the claims of charlatans, the pursuit of alchemy should not be for power, riches, or glory. The truest form of alchemy aims at transmuting the soul, refining ourselves to be better than this crude matter from which we are born. \n\nLofty and unattainable, even with eternal life. But it is not the end result of alchemy that ennobles us; it is the quest itself.

Rima's New Grimoire

A New Path

The sandswept and sunscorched desert in the West, and the last known home of the Ancients

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