Alchemy seems quite diffused in AO world, almost taking the role that technology has to ours.
One of the main objectives of alchemy in fiction is the manipulation of life, such as its creation, often achieved thorough artificial lifeforms called homunculus, or its extension, such as with the elixir of eternal life.
Even Enizor seems to confirm this through his hints on his goal.
Now, in AO life force seems to be represented by spirit energy, even if it seems to be not exclusive to living beings, being present also in the atmosphere for example.
If life force is spirit energy and one of alchemy’s goals is the manipulation of life force, does it mean that in AO one of the goals of alchemy is the manipulation of spirit energy?
We already know that humans aren’t able to manipulate spirit energy on their own, but we also know a way the able to do so:
by means of a spirit weapon.
Could one of the goals of AO alchemists be the creation of an artificial spirit weapon?
Honestly? No.
I haven’t a really high opinion of AO humanity.
They seems to have gotten quite lazy with research stuff after being given magic.
Moreover I imagine that they wouldn’t see a real reason to even try something like that.
They already got another easier and tested way to achieve immortality, Enizor seems more like the strange one, from the point of view of AO common sense.
Imagine, you wanna achieve immortality.
Which of these options do you wanna bet on?
Number 1: training hard, making preparations to get your hands on a magical artifact that is proved to grant you your goal and of which, even if rare, there exist multiple exemplars of?
Number 2: trying your luck, spending years of your life studying to recreate an ancient lost alchemical product, for which you would have to venture into the most dangerous place in the world, facing eldritch horrors, hoping that the rumors passed down are true and its effects accurate, without talking about the fact that having no living witness isn’t really a nice self-review for an object supposed to grant immortality.