And I did mean anything. Alchemy, in essence, was just a way of exploiting the effects of magic while performing chemical reactions. For me, it was like playing the role of a real chemist, but with tons of handicaps; an easy mode, to put it in game terms. Thanks to my perfect memory and the hundreds of encyclopedic tomes I’d read during my time with the Changelings, I knew all but the most esoteric information there regarding the topic of alchemy.