Alchemist Ability Ideas

[Kwal]

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Anyway crafting a minion makes sense as an alchemist, since they were often preoccupied with creating 'golems' (and some have written down that they had in fact made them), man-like machines made from raw material.

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Meh I read it in some history books about alchemy, but when using google I can only find game references. I´ll see if I can´t retrace those books and refer them.
Anyway some alchemists, way back when, tried to create 'living' clay and called them golems after the biblical story (they found the whole divination process very inspiring and by duplicating it hoped to make make themselves pure). There have been found some writings about Albertus Magnus (teacher of Thomas Aquinas) who supposedly created such a golem which was later on smashed by Thomas as being unchristian.

E: not machines by the way, scusi