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basically in the magic system I'm making people can use alchemy as a way to manipulate the world around them, in order to start using it they first need to learn and study everything about the elements they want to manipulate, so if you wanted to manipulate gold for example you would need to know things like their atomic number, valence, so on so forth.

Then, when you have full understanding of the elements you want to manipulate, an alchemist can, with an Alchemy circle, create mixtures using their elements and manipulate them however they choose, for example if an alchemist knows how to control hidrogen, carbon, chlorine and sulfur they can create mustard gas, and manipulate it.

And that's kinda basically it, so far I've only got the foundation and I would love to get some ideas on how to expand this system, mainly so it doesn't end up being a full metal alchemist cheap copy even though I love that show😭