Atlantean Trilogy Archive
An alchemist shapes a clay golem beside copper furnaces and a homunculus in a jar, with whales drifting past a sunken city beyond.

Crucible

Alchemy, Alchemical sign

Alchemical shorthand sign standing for crucible; the book offers these as optional flavor or as substitutes for written abbreviations.

From the book

The alchemical sign for a crucible, the melting pot for metals, which sells for about 1 G.P. Transmuting lead with Variable Mercury needs a very large one.

The alchemical signs are included as optional color, and a player or Game Judge may write them in place of ordinary abbreviations whenever he or she likes.

At a glance

Meaning
Crucible
Category
Apparatus
Glyph (described)
'Y'-like glyph with a heavy top stroke

Glyph description is an editorial reading of the printed image; meaning is exact.