Alchemy

Alchemy Mystic Apprentice 600 hours Requires Chemistry Counts as two skills at character creation This is the knowledge of the most basic forms of alchemy. You know proper lab procedures, and proper ways to mix, prepare, distil, and extract. You can combine arcane ingredients in ways impossible to normal chemistry. This skill also allows you to identify unknown substances: bizarre blue metals, acids, potions, poisons, etc. You need a lab to use this skill properly (about 100 Guilder worth of beakers, bottles, burners, and other equipment). Not having an adequate lab makes your job much more difficult—even impossible for some tasks.