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.

Retort

Alchemy, Alchemical sign

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

From the book

The alchemical sign for a retort. Retorts are open-ended distillation devices that sell for about 1 G.P.

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
Retort
Category
Apparatus
Glyph (described)
'C'-like hook with a curl

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