#adriet

Alchemy is the art of harnessing aether and integrating it into conventional sciences; however, even disregarding the scientific factor, understanding how aether and alchemy work requires extensive study and practice. Various materials may contain aether, such as certain alien flora still maintained on Celarys, meteorite ore, and crystals and plants once grown on space stations orbiting the planet in the First Era. Now, with the world in some sort of void, it is becoming harder and harder to obtain these materials... granted, they aren't particularly sought after, given the questionable legal state of alchemy.

Once you've obtained the materials, you have another challenge, though. First and foremost, materials of different types are best used for different purposes. Like others of their kind, quintessant plants have a shelf life once removed from their source of growth. Therefore, they are best used for temporary uses of aether, such as antimagic medicines. Then, we have aether stone, rock, ore, crystal... whatever you want to call it. These can be incorporated for permanent effects. Then, we have the final, most important material for the art - light. The light of stars may be captured, condensed, and subsequently used to engrave intent. For obvious reasons, starlight isn't really a resource you can easily come across on modern Celarys, but, luckily for us, the alchemists of the first era left behind decives able to generate the proper quintessant light, though it may be weaker than true starlight.