The Apothecary
"There are fires that burn. There are fires that destroy. There are fires that illuminate. But there’s one nature of fire that I seek, and that’s the fire that transforms."
Begin as a humble Pharmacist. Create medicines and distribute prescriptions, until one day, a man hurriedly gives you a package. The content of that package will change your life: you will have a path to immortality – and a Society of near-Long hunting you.
Put your skills of working with mortar and pestle and other machines of creation to use asd you pursue the philosopher’s stone and ultimate purity of the soul. Craft and purify potions that could cause your mind to gleam with light, give you strange visions, make you rebirthed, or cause you to be possessed with the ferocity of the Lionsmith. But beware – a there are those that think your ways blasphemous. The Society of the Noble Endeavour will attempt to stop you at every turn. They believe that only Forge-long of the Forge of Days are worthy, and that your path under the Madrugad isn’t worthy of existing.
You will also imbibe potions of visions, and send your Followers to set up an Outpost to collect ingredients of power. Your cultists will have to withstand everything out there, from otherworldly psychological torment to direct assault by the Society or rival occultists – but it will give you the necessary resources for your magnum opus, the Philosopher’s Stone.
