Encyclopedia Alchemical

An ancient and powerful piece of literature describing massive amounts of information that influenced chemistry, medicine and weaponry.

History
Written by Ars Mortica, an Alchemist during the Chronicle of the Blade Masters, it spread slowly through the highest ranks of the Alchemist circles. Sadly, as the Alchemy trade lessened, so did the numbers of those who knew of these tomes. Some of the great masters, like Doctor Rowan Terre and the siege engineer Tomahawk, were found to have a volume of Ars' encyclopedia in their possession.

After the Second Faceless War, it was discovered that ancient and knowledgeable tomes such as the Encyclopedia were missing, stolen en masse by a Faceless Menace.

It would be over two thousand years before another complete set was found in the rarely consulted backrooms of the Karstic University Library. There was one set of volumes found in Nolne Kanaris' library.

Nolne Kanaris, The Atelier Alchemist, wrote an afterward to the collection, the Nolne Afterward. It dealt largely with technologies and materials that had been discovered since Ars Mortica died.