Brewing: Where Alchemy Meets the Mundane

"Every village has a brewer. Not every village has one that survives their first explosion."

Brewing is the foundation of potionmaking, a process that involves the careful extraction of an ingredient’s essence through liquid infusion. It is the slow, patient method of drawing out the magick within a material, allowing it to steep, dissolve, or saturate a solution. Unlike poisons or distillates, brews are often milder, their effects taking time to settle into the drinker’s system. This makes them ideal for tonics, stamina draughts, and other slow-acting mixtures. The best brews require controlled temperatures, the right choice of liquid base, and most importantly, time. The impatient often end up drinking nothing but flavored water, or worse, an unstable sludge that eats through their insides. Brewers rely on fermentation, herbal mixtures, and sometimes even moon cycles to ensure their draughts carry the intended potency. While not as volatile as distilling or poisonmaking, brewing is not without its risks. A misstep in the process can turn a healing tea into a lethal tonic, or make a calming elixir into a sleeping draught one never wakes from.