Orc Knight
Auror
This may be covering a rather broad topic, but as I've not really seen any on it, I'm throwing them all into one. If only because in my stories, humans have very few ways of being truly equal to the Fea and Green (elves and trolls, and the others) unless they are truly strong in magic and more then a little wily. And they've gotten pretty damn good at it, fusing everything they know of magic and using golems as support.
And the way they do it is using alchemy, Eld's version of which means getting a hold of essences of creatures or very concepts and bottling them and putting them to use. They can change and morph a person who drinks them, sometimes permanently (Lot's of Jekyll and Hyde sorts). They also augment themselves with magic, using spells inscribed by tattoos or actual metal (silver being the most common) to make them both faster and tougher. The other magical enhancements, sometimes means exactly what you may think it means, or not. These sorts are usually soldiers who will end up on an operating table to have magical skeletal enhancements and internal redundancies, trying to create super soldiers that can take on their other foes. Or sometimes it's not so voluntary and used on the human descent monster races.
So, what of your world and stories? Does alchemy and it's like play a big role in it? Or is it a snake oil salesmen's sort of business? Or just the precursor to actual chemistry? And of augmentation and enhancements? Any magical upgrade sorts?
And the way they do it is using alchemy, Eld's version of which means getting a hold of essences of creatures or very concepts and bottling them and putting them to use. They can change and morph a person who drinks them, sometimes permanently (Lot's of Jekyll and Hyde sorts). They also augment themselves with magic, using spells inscribed by tattoos or actual metal (silver being the most common) to make them both faster and tougher. The other magical enhancements, sometimes means exactly what you may think it means, or not. These sorts are usually soldiers who will end up on an operating table to have magical skeletal enhancements and internal redundancies, trying to create super soldiers that can take on their other foes. Or sometimes it's not so voluntary and used on the human descent monster races.
So, what of your world and stories? Does alchemy and it's like play a big role in it? Or is it a snake oil salesmen's sort of business? Or just the precursor to actual chemistry? And of augmentation and enhancements? Any magical upgrade sorts?
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