Alchemy was a discipline combining mysticism, hermeneutics, chemistry, physics and many other spheres of learning. Medieval alchemists worked in laboratories, often situated at noblemen’s mansions or in Royal cities. They found application in smelters, mints, mines, glass-works and wherever industrial production needed assistance. The work of alchemists was challenging and costly, and so 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 minigame itself is adapted for practical use. Instead of processing mercury and sulphur, our cauldron cooks up herbal concoctions.
Alchemy was a discipline combining mysticism, hermeneutics, chemistry, physics and many other spheres of learning. Medieval alchemists worked in laboratories, often situated at noblemen’s mansions or in Royal cities. They found application in smelters, mints, mines, glass-works and wherever industrial production needed assistance. The work of alchemists was challenging and costly, and so 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 minigame itself is adapted for practical use. Instead of processing mercury and sulphur, our cauldron cooks up herbal concoctions.