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Alchemy was a discipline combining mysticism, hermeticism, chemistry, physics and many other spheres of learning. Medieval alchemists worked in laboratories, often situated at noble mansions or in Royal cities. They found employment in smelters, mints, mines, glass-works and wherever industrial production needed assistance.
The work of alchemists was challenging and costly, so it required the support of patrons. Successful alchemists earned wealth and fame, while the unsuccessful ended up in prison or were sentenced to death. Two fundamental alchemical objectives persisted through the entirety of the Middle Ages: to find the mystical “philosopher’s stone”, and to transmute base metals into gold.
In KCD, we use a genuine preserved alchemical laboratory as our model, though the actual potion brewing has been modified. Instead of processing mercury and sulphur, our alchemists work mainly with herbs, just like herbalists and other folk healers would.
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