Rare earths
Ingredient, Element
An alchemical element used for its innate properties: organic and elemental activators.
From the book
Rare earths are the most vital thing an alchemist handles: the material on which Will is fixed during an experiment, and the catalyst that frees the powers of every other ingredient. They are a mix of elemental matter such as antimony, cinnabar, pitchblend, salts and metal oxides, holding traces of every element.
To anyone else they look like fine sand, yet any alchemist can sift a few drams from ordinary soil in an hour and use them through Projection of Will, a draining feat allowed once a day plus once per three levels.
At a glance
- Innate properties
- Organic and elemental activators
- Cost
- 100 G.P. per oz. (8 drs.)
- Note
- Any alchemist can isolate rare earths from common soil or sand; buying them just saves time.
- Used in
- Alchemical dust base (5 drs.); may replace the 7 cts. of gemstones in a potion base (2 drs.); Instant Ice and Trail-Erasure dusts (4 drs.); Water Evaporation dust (2 drs.); prisms and wands of phosphorescence (1 dr.); vitriol (7 drs.); aqua vitae (48 drs.); aludel and athanor; Essential Earths
- Composition
- Elemental substances such as antimony, cinnabar, pitchblend, salts and metal oxides; trace amounts of all elements
- Isolating
- An alchemist can sift 1-4 (d4) drams from ordinary soil in one hour
- Projection of Will
- Usable 1x per day, plus 1x per day per 3 levels of ability