Alchemist
Career
Qualifications
Career Progression
Every Alchemist has started out as a novice, or apprenticed under the tutelage of a more senior alchemist. Under proper tutelage, many apprentices stick to their tutors and work as assistant alchemists.
Those who move on to begin their own alchemical journey of discovery will ususally do so by becoming adventurers, salespeople, or even pharmacists.
Rarely, an alchemist's solo success will flourish from an overwhelmingly intricate understanding of alchemy and can create rare types of potions. Most alchemists who achieve this tend to go and learn from the Sophistics.
Payment & Reimbursement
Under most circumstances, the alchemy job market is vast and diverse. Offering opporunities to those who want to carve out their own livable wage. Work evironments include: Military, culinary, research & development, manufacturing, pharmecutical, etc.
Other Benefits
Alchemists tend to get an okay reputation for being a backbone of supply for all sorts of goods. Though like most manufacturing jobs, the work is taken for granted by the common populace.
Perception
Purpose
Production and provision of goods and services.
Social Status
In Icarus, alchemy is seen as the poor man's magic and regarded as lesser than magic or tinkering.
In Zeboli, alchemists are the backbone of the fashion world in terms of producing flesh for Liches to wear.
On May-Soph, it is a given that everyone should know basic alchemy at the very least.
Operations
Tools
Alchemists often rely on their cookbooks in order to keep track of what ingredients are necessary and what steps to follow. There exists standard commercial cookbooks, but personalized ones will vary from alchemist to alchemist.
Any wise alchemist will also carry upon them a handful of mana crystals for stabilizing recipes without needing to channel their own mana into the mixture.
Materials
Mana crystals, water, foils, monster and creature parts (Slime gels are most common).
Generally, common cooking ingredients such as different types of cooking oils, salts, spices, and herbs are also commonly required in certain recipes.
Workplace
An alchemy workshop comes inn all shapes and sizes. But at the end of the day, the magic resides in the container with which you are alchemizing.
Some might be kitchens full of bubbling pots, others may look like chemistry labs with distilleries and pressure chambers!
You won't ever know what Alchemy truly is until you've sat around a campfire, throwing assortments of ingredients into a wok and cooking it down into lotion to keep the mosquitos off you.A common and easily accessible method of the soup mix is the standard cauldron. It became a standard for most alchemists, but the reasoning behind it is unknown.
Provided Services
Alchemists produce certain goods that can be an offer of many great benefits. Be it lotions, foodstuffs, potions, etc.
Dangers & Hazards
Improper usage of alchemical devices can lead to injury, and in rare cases, death.
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Alternative Names
Saucier, Soup Chef
Type
Arcane
Demand
Alchemy is a staple job.
Legality
Majority of Alchemy is legal save for recipes that produce illegal products. Additionally, there are recipes in some countries that are banned in others. Flesh recipes, for instance, are banned in Jeidit, Ahresi, and Veil. But are entirely legal in Zeboli and Jembani.
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