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.

Distillation

Alchemy, Alchemical sign

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

From the book

The alchemical sign for distillation, one of the laboratory processes an alchemist records in formulas. Retorts and alembics are the distilling apparatus of the laboratory.

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
Distillation
Category
Process
Glyph (described)
Joined looped glyph with a cross

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