The Alchemist's Society

• Alchemy is not magic; an all powerful art, it is a science. The laws of alchemy are split into two categories: the boundaries of the science and the ethical taboos of man.

  • Equivalent Exchange: matter and energy can not be created or destroyed through alchemy, only transformed. In order to accomplish transmutations, most alchemists use the energy generated by the tectonic movements, which is then dispersed into the transmuted material, and then the air.

  • One is All, All is One: a deeper, perhaps more philosophical law, this law defines all of existence as a single substance or body only split into pieces on a cursory level. All beings, though individual, plays part in the cycle of life and death, all heavenly bodies pull each other with their gravitational fields, and ultimately mass and energy are two expressions of a singular whole.

• Alchemists are also restricted to three societal laws:

  • Do not transmute gold: gold is the foundational currency of all nations, and so in order to keep that currency, and therefore international trade, viable, creating gold from other materials is strictly forbidden. Subverting this law can result in life in prison in some nations, and the removal of one's hands in others.

  • Do not perform human transmutation: the greatest sin in alchemy, the creation of a human being through alchemy is strictly forbidden as quantifying the value of the human soul would have disastrous implications to every aspect of life.

  • Be thou for the people: as people advancing science and working miracles, all alchemists are called to serve those around them, not their own ambition. Subverting this law has created some of the most monstrous creations of man.

- Tenents of the Alchemist's society