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Old 05-22-2012, 07:37 PM   #132 (permalink)
Uncle Moose
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Von Culpepper
Gryffindor
Fifth Year

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Taliesin Dane
Hufflepuff
First Year
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Mom says I have no sense of direction, so I packed my bags and right.

Oakey's mind was all a jumbled mess now. Alkawasits, Azodozies, and Chrysomatopoeia? He rubbed his temple with all this crazy talk going on. Alchemy seemed really fun, until these words popped up out of nowhere. The most he got from it all was you could turn simple metals into noble metals. and that Alchemy can heal things. He quickly put his quill to parchment in hopes that if he wrote down the confusing information and read it over ten times he'd finally understand it. So he wrote down the notes from the blackboard while everyone else answered her questions.

SPOILER!!: Oakey's Notes

The Goals of the Alchemist
--find the panacea
--find the alkahest
--turning things into gold (chrysopoeia) and other noble metals

Definitions
Alkahest - Believed by Paracelsus to be the Philosophers Stone, or an element of its creation. This is a hypothetical universal solvent, having the power to dissolve every other substance, including gold.

Azoth - This serves as the essential agent of alchemical transformation, and embodies the concept of the main goals in Alchemy it is a possible universal medicine, universal solvent, or Elixir of Life. It is a name for Mercury as cardinal principle of Alchemy.

Chrysopoeia - A symbolic representation of the Philosophers Stone, chrysopoeia means transmutation into gold, from the Greek khrusōn, 'gold', and poiēin, 'to make'.

Panacea - also called the pancrest, or Panakeia in Greek, is named for the Greek Goddess of universal remedy, she supposedly had a magical medicinal substance which could cure all ills. It is a remedy that is supposed to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely.

Spagyrics -the production of herbal medicines using alchemical techniques such as fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of a plant.
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