Bio-alchemy is possible, it's just... specialized. And can have some terrible consequences.
[The annoying thing is, when you put it like that, he guesses alchemy could be a kind of magic. It just hurts him to call it that because it's not.
His face is going through a Journey trying to figure out how to explain this. He taps one gloved hand against the tabletop.]
Alchemy has three basic steps: comprehension, destruction, and reconstruction. You understand the material, you break it down into parts, and you rebuild or build something new using those parts. It works on the principle of equivalent exchange - what you make has to be made up of what you broke down. It takes a lot of study and understanding to become good at it.
[A little grumpily:] It's possible that what you call magic isn't that far off from alchemy, by that definition.
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[The annoying thing is, when you put it like that, he guesses alchemy could be a kind of magic. It just hurts him to call it that because it's not.
His face is going through a Journey trying to figure out how to explain this. He taps one gloved hand against the tabletop.]
Alchemy has three basic steps: comprehension, destruction, and reconstruction. You understand the material, you break it down into parts, and you rebuild or build something new using those parts. It works on the principle of equivalent exchange - what you make has to be made up of what you broke down. It takes a lot of study and understanding to become good at it.
[A little grumpily:] It's possible that what you call magic isn't that far off from alchemy, by that definition.