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Seventh Year  x4  x2
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SPOILER!!: let's pretend he's already sitting next to him??? LOL! Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Marilyn 
Turning his attention briefly from the Professor, Dylan glanced around the room. It was pathetic that he didn't recognize many of the faces.
*SIIGH* He really needed to socialize more. No one wanted to be THAT guy...The loner.
Wait! Wasn't that the guy Bee was really good friends with? The older one...that was always posting things about food on that website. What had his name been? James?...
No, no...Jason...Jonathan? Yea, yea... Jonathan. Perhaps he could team up with the older Slytherin a bit later...
Then their answers and questions were being addressed. The Slytherin listened carefully to the Professor's words, hardly taking his eyes from her face. This was why Dylan enjoyed the female teachers more.
They commanded his attention better...and were able to keep it, at that.
Musing his hair a bit, Dylan moved to bring his notebook closer, copying down everything on the blackboard. It was interesting stuff, that much he could say. All this talk about living forever and turning things to gold...It reminded him of something.
*hand-raising in progress* "You know, Professor...I'm oddly reminded of the Hand of Midas." It was basically like this Sorcerer's Stone everyone was talking about. You touched something with it and it immediately turned it to solid gold...
...And Dylan vaguely remembered something about Cardinal Principles... UGH, why couldn't he piece it together? Yet, the Slytherin raised his hand anyway... "When you say Cardinal principles, it makes me think of the Zodiac...and how each sign is classified under one of the four main elements: Water, Fire, Earth, and Air...Although, that probably has nothing to do with what we're talking about." He gave her an apologetic look for his rambling and coughed, attempting to clear his throat. "If I had to guess, I'd say the Principles just define how certain...erm...raw materials? go together when broken down..."
Was he making any sense?
Feeling a tad...embarrassed, dare he think it, Dylan leaned his head down, continuing his notes. SPOILER!!: Dylan's Notebook The Goals of the Alchemist
--find the panacea
--find the alkahest
--turning things into gold ( chrysopoeia) and other noble metals "I think you can all see already that there is much within the pursuit of Alchemy, that even simplified it is complex field. Aside from the detailed symbolic meanings, which must be studied in order to gain an understanding of the processes involved in Alchemy, there are a lot of new words and terms that you'll come across too which have meanings specific to Alchemy. For instance we've already mentioned The Panacea, The Alkahest, and chrysopoeia, the Philosophers Stone and the Elixir of Life, and that is just in response to the simple question of the purpose of Alchemy."
-- Professor Althea Schirmer DefinitionsAlkahest - Believed by Paracelsus to be the Philosophers Stone, or an element of its creation. This is a hypothetical universal solvent, having the power to dissolve every other substance, including gold.
Azoth - This serves as the essential agent of alchemical transformation, and embodies the concept of the main goals in Alchemy it is a possible universal medicine, universal solvent, or Elixir of Life. It is a name for Mercury as cardinal principle of Alchemy.
Chrysopoeia - A symbolic representation of the Philosophers Stone, chrysopoeia means transmutation into gold, from the Greek khrusōn, 'gold', and poiēin, 'to make'.
Panacea - also called the pancrest, or Panakeia in Greek, is named for the Greek Goddess of universal remedy, she supposedly had a magical medicinal substance which could cure all ills. It is a remedy that is supposed to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely.
Spagyrics -the production of herbal medicines using alchemical techniques such as fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of a plant.Cardinal Principles: salt, sulfur, and mercury. "You know," He added, remembering something else. "Fermentation...distillation...It sounds like the process of wine-making." Okay, Dylan...just shut up, now. Jonathan scouted the room as people were still answering the Professor and spotted a familiar guy. Wait! Where has he seen him before, other than the fact that he is a Slytherin. Yes, he has seen him around the common room and the dorm room but he has never spoke to the lower year snake nor have even made eye contact to him. Jonathan starred at him for awhile, still wondering where he has seen....
OH!!!
Jonathan finally got it. A friend of Beezus but the Ravenclaw never talks about him, except for Mordred. Beezus mentioned him once to Jonathan but not this guy. What's his name again??? Uhmmm.... He totally forgot about it too. Jonathan is very bad at memorizing names. Hey, maybe later when they get to have some kind of activity then they could get to know each other. Who knows, they'll be good friends.... but let's save this plan for later. Professor Schirmer is still lecturing and she doesn't like to be bothered when she's lecturing.
He just gave him a friendly smile and then started copying the notes for Alchemy. SPOILER!!: professsooooorrrr Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz Once she'd addressed all the student answers, Althea began to speak, providing more information.
"I think you can all see already that there is much within the pursuit of Alchemy, that even simplified it is complex field. Aside from the detailed symbolic meanings, which must be studied in order to gain an understanding of the processes involved in Alchemy, there are a lot of new words and terms that you'll come across too which have meanings specific to Alchemy. For instance we've already mentioned The Panacea, The Alkahest, and chrysopoeia, the Philosophers Stone and the Elixir of Life, and that is just in response to the simple question of the purpose of Alchemy." As Althea spoke, the charmed blackboard provided a few notes.
SPOILER!!: The blackboard
The Goals of the Alchemist
--find the panacea
--find the alkahest
--turning things into gold (chrysopoeia) and other noble metals
Definitions
Alkahest - Believed by Paracelsus to be the Philosophers Stone, or an element of its creation. This is a hypothetical universal solvent, having the power to dissolve every other substance, including gold.
Azoth - This serves as the essential agent of alchemical transformation, and embodies the concept of the main goals in Alchemy it is a possible universal medicine, universal solvent, or Elixir of Life. It is a name for Mercury as cardinal principle of Alchemy.
Chrysopoeia - A symbolic representation of the Philosophers Stone, chrysopoeia means transmutation into gold, from the Greek khrusōn, 'gold', and poiēin, 'to make'.
Panacea - also called the pancrest, or Panakeia in Greek, is named for the Greek Goddess of universal remedy, she supposedly had a magical medicinal substance which could cure all ills. It is a remedy that is supposed to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely.
Spagyrics -the production of herbal medicines using alchemical techniques such as fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of a plant.
"So, to recap, the goals of the Alchemist are to find the panacea, find the alkahest and to transmute base metals into gold or other noble metals. Philosophical and spiritual concerns are often important to the Alchemist while pursuing these goals." But they weren't actually necessary.
"Another term which you should familiarise yourself is 'Azoth'. The Azoth is another term which combines the Panacea and the Alkahest in that it is a possible universal medicine, universal solvent, or Elixir of Life. It serves as the essential agent of alchemical transformation, and embodies the concept of all of these main goals in Alchemy. It is arguably the quintessence of Alchemy."
"One of the specific subfields of Alchemy is that of Spagyrics, or plant Alchemy. Spagyrics is the production of herbal medicines using alchemical techniques such as fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of a plant. Spagyric remedies rely on the three cardinal principles of Alchemy: salt, sulfur and mercury." Althea paused for people to catch up on notes and glanced towards the door.
"What do you all know about these cardinal principles? What are they? What do they mean?"
OOC: Will continue the class in around 12 hours. Remember if your charrie doesn't know an answer that is just fine, just RP them taking notes and reflecting on the given information - you won't be penalised for that. Questions are welcome TOO. You're all doing so awesome so far! If I've missed you while I was writing this, I'll edit you in soon! edited  0__________________________0
WHAT THE---??? Is this gibberish? Jonathan has no idea what Professor Shirmer was suddenly talking about. At first he can understand but then as she tried to further explain some details to the alchemy stuff, Jonathan just felt and looked lost. He's so lost, it's even written on his face. He tried to catch up with the writing with the notes but looking at them, they just all look a bunch of words that didn't make sense at all.
After copying, Jonathan was still listening to the professor about .... uhmm... ugh.... pffff....??? uggg... Yeah, pretty much what is written on the board. She's explaining more about it but Jonathan is still lost as ever.
Still no answer with the next question. He's still trying to figure out what he was copying.
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