<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=50995.msg2508800#msg2508800">Quote from: The Great Triangle on 02-12-2009, 20:34:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Another rumor about Tann Rinn relevant to the plot of the game is that gossip says she did indeed invent the lead into gold transmutation, but it turns living subjects into dark ones.  If such a thing were true, the wyvern would probably need to keep it a desperate secret, although if her techniques had anything to do with the hybridization of dragons and dark ones...<br/><br/>At any rate, Rinn's alchemical experiments seem to have severely damaged her mind, and possibly contributed to her inability to breathe fire.  (she's been known, or at least gossiped, to have acidic vomit, but this might just be a courtly insult)  The red sept practices a reasonable degree of alchemy, although Rinn tends to jealously guard the secrets of the lead into silver transmutation.  Although Rinn hasn't personally taught her alchemy to many, she did write five volumes which explain her magical principles, the entire set of which went missing in 1855.    <br/><br/>For more background information, Rinn's alchemical studies started around 1420, and ended in 1799, with the death of Sir Issac Newton.  Newton was under Rinn's protection, and she felt guilty for letting him poison himself.  <br/><br/>Since 1945, Rinn has acquired a slight obsession with nuclear devices, and is rumored to be enriching nuclear materials in Londinum.  These rumors probably have as much accuracy as any other rumor about Rinn, but they are so persistent that some have come to wonder...  Questioning Rinn as her apprentice is a good way to get a nasty, painful, and crippling wound.  For some reason, she almost seems to have no interest in advancing her science of alchemy beyond its current level...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This is just relevant to the game.  But no one but a Demon Lord can turn one being into a Dark One.  The only way for that to be done is when a Demon Lord Damns someone(think<em>the last of the red hot vampires</em>).  So that rumor would be just that, a rumor.<br/><br/><Random info> Dark Ones = Born not made <End Random Info>