Alchemised

by SenLinYu

but someday, someone would come for her.

vivimancer. Necromancy’s inverse twin, wielded on the living rather than the dead.

I dont hate this concept

the High Reeve’s sent to hunt them down, and they’re always dead by the time he brings them back.

She was in the Alchemy Tower. In the very heart of the Alchemy Institute that the Holdfasts had founded. This was Central.

Or that the guilds had proposed that the Principate’s power be limited to religious affairs, and that they be the ones to run the country.

No longer would religious elites and a warrior class rule Paladia. The city-state would be governed by the newly formed Guild Assembly.

Rather than recruiting heavily from among the Aspirants, when attacked they’d kill the Eternal Flame’s soldiers, and then use reanimation to turn them back on their own compatriots, building an army with the Eternal Flame’s dead.

like Crowther’s body at

I CANT STOP READIMG HIS NAME AS CROWFEATHER `~`

“Because you thought they’d accept what you are if you only reduced yourself enough.”

“Didn’t you know? Your Eternal Flame was quite adept at identifying potential vivimancers not even born. It was, what, thirty years ago that Principate Helios mandated that all pregnancies be managed by the Faith’s hospitals. Devout doctors trained to know what to look for and what solutions to offer. What kind of parents would want to keep a monster once they’re warned of the danger?” Helena’s stomach clenched.

The position of Principate was complex. Being a religious head and ruler was a difficult task, especially during war when he was expected to be fighting and governing. He couldn’t be weighed down by everyone else’s personal decisions.

Helena had loved him for how human he was. He didn’t need to be Principate or favoured by the gods. He’d been

a female womb—the source of all humanity’s flaws.

studying the wings, the spines, the fangs, and the sleek body curving into a circle as it consumed itself.

The Eastern Empire was very secretive of their alchemy,