Alchemy

Alchemy, aka chemistry, is the manipulation of chemicals. This includes but is not limited to: bonding chemicals to make a structure, having chemicals react to generate new chemicals, and on the more difficult side, manipulating the Reln within a chemical to change its properties.

Chemicals

A chemical is any stable structure of multiple reln that is able to repeat in a fractal or tessellation. As the universe is a stained-glass structure of reln that is everything, the bounds of a given chemical are hard to define, especially with the universe having constant flux or change. Generally, the rule is that any structure that does not change and can attach to structures like itself is defined as a chemical. In practice, this creates spaces of chaos where there isn't a given structure of reln within a given area and chemical where there is. These empty spaces are tiny and the universe is approximately filled with the structures of chemicals. For example, a simple chemical of argon consists of mostly kag and mur with typically the reln dictating its state being wox. A chemical's properties can be changed by outside forces, such as iron normally being a solid but with a large enough density of nep in the location it needs to be to be iron, it will melt. This can be done by introducing fire to draw out the mur and jyk from it, offsetting that balance, and having nep fill in. Just submerging iron in a high-nep substance such as water will cause a different kind of reaction where the parts of the iron that are touching the water will be rotated, changing their chemical make-up and becoming rust. This is further explained in Bonding.

Properties

The properties of reln, such as Bil allowing for color or the properties of having a viewable existence or wox allowing for other reln to move through time and space, are represented in a chemical's properties. This is everything about the chemical from how it interacts with other chemicals, how it looks, what state it's in (liquid, solid, gas), and what emotion it provides to a living being when encountered (some like hormones provide more deep or understandable emotions where Kolzire provides emotion more based on what it represents in a cultural context.

A Chemical's physical and spiritual properties are defined by the following aspects of the reln that make up the chemical:

• What reln are present within the chemical.

One reln interacting with another defines further properties. For example, the color/transparency is put into effect by bil. Bil will have the chemical be green due to a high presence of kag (or a specific rotation or proximity/density of it). All the factors  below influence what the outcome of a given reln's expression will be

• Rotation in relation to the reln within a chemical.
• The density of a continuous reln within a chemical. IE: how much reln is located in one spot of space and time

• How the density of one continuous reln within a chemical is dispersed.

Reln do not have a uniformity in how dense each part of the continuous reln is. Think of how a fireplace has a higher density of air towards the ceiling compared to the floor. It's all still air, just one is more packed full of that thing.

• The shape of the relns within a chemical.
• The outcome of all reln having their emotions mixed.
• The velocity of the reln, how it's moving through space and time. Typically, the fact that a chemical is stable means the velocity of the reln are extremely similar. For more reactive chemicals, this is not quite the case.
• How the chemical is perceived. This includes any will of a living being  put into the chemical.

Bonding

Bonding is the action of like reln that were at one point separate in time-space becoming united. Chemicals have to have one or more reln on the outside of the singular "entity". And those chemicals attract the like. When they come in contact with another of the like, this leads to the bonding of the reln. If it is another of the same chemical, the stability of the two leads to a strong bond in a specific orientation. Having many of these same chemicals creates a tessellation.

Tessellation

Chemicals, individually, are in non-reacting states of a conglomeration of reln. The same chemicals will not react with one another; they have a repeating pattern and thus tessellation. The shape an object makes from tessellation is dictated not only by what exposed reln connects, but the state that the chemical is in (like liquid or solid), but also the shape that the chemical is most apt to create. For example, quartz tends to make diamond shapes that are a combination of the shapes for kag & wox with a slight input from bil for the grander structure of many obelisks sprouting from one another. The tessellation of a structure also dictates how strong the material is, how reactive it is, what it's reactive with, the properties of the structure as a whole, its melting/freezing points, how easily it is manipulated by will, its cleave plane, its conductivity, etc.

Un-like Chemical Bonds

Chemicals do not always create bonds with others of the same chemical. If there is some stability between two different chemicals, they may bond as well, creating a new chemical between the two. These bonded chemicals tend to be weaker and more reactive (see below for reactivity). These chemical bonds can also give way to tessellation, increasing the size and strength of the material. An example of this would be alloys where copper and zinc chemicals come together to form brass. On rare occasions, two or more chemicals can bond to create a new stable material with often highly complex properties. For example, an being-made Idha or naturally produced Nightmare Fuel. Many toxins and medicines would be considered bonded chemicals.

Reactivity

Reln attracts the like, the edge of a chemical bonding with other reln. Depending on the density & size of the connected reln, this dictates the bond strength. The universe is chaotic and so no matter how strong a bond is, it can be broken. While like-reln pull together, unlike pull apart, sever, rotate, stretch, and more. Two chemicals connected by a nep reln would be separated if a bit of mur came between them. This separation of chemicals and at the same time introduction of new reln is what reactions are.

Extreme example

When two or more chemicals separate, it is almost never a clean, even cut. This gives way for more reactions as one chemical is more attractive to the surrounding external reln than the other, creating a flux in the stability of the surrounding chemicals. Some chemicals are more reactive with others, for example, an explosive chemical tends to have a lot of mur or wox on the inside of it with a shell not letting the external mur or wox get to it. But if that shell is weakened, the external mur may rush inside, expanding it and creating a heavier pull, causing an explosion.

Common example

For more common reactions, it creates new chemicals. Disarray and the introduction of other chemicals cause the reln to re-adjust to find a new balance between them. Using the example for rust above:  iron, which is predominantly Kag, is very stable in a space with only its edges really allowing for reactions. Oxygen, which is mostly wox, reacts with the outside of the iron, Normally, they would push away from one another, but in water the iron slowly rotates, exposing other reln within the iron and leading to the wox reacting with the edges. This forms a new chemical, iron oxide or rust. This rust, because it is a better balance between wox & kag, limits the reaction to just the outside of the iron object.