The Great Work
This page is about the book by this name. For a more thorough description of the concept, see the Alchemy page.
This book can be found on a lectern in the Nimahj Alchemy Fortress. It provides some insight as to what the Great Work, the ultimate goal of all alchemists, is. It also states that the Great Work has been completed twice, by the First Necromancer and the "Lord of Dust."
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| -2422 | 86 | 2947 |
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The Great Work is the dream of any Alchemist worth the name, a masterpiece in which they have poured so much of themselves that it is no less than an extension of their existence. To wield Divine Magic with the same ease as Gods and Aspects... It is, in a word, Apotheosis.
Little is known about the Great Work, and there are only two facts upon which most Alchemists agree:
1) As an extension of their being, the Great Work is unique to every alchemist.
2) There are only two known completions of the Great Work, the First Necromancer and the Lord of Dust.All else is Conjecture.
Many have come close to completion of the Work: Klyhf Him'lahk, the Defiler; Jabim, the Broken Thing; Hish of the Rising Smoke. All have failed, for one reason or another. Even the great Avsohmic Empire collapsed with nothing to show of themselves.
To achieve this feat is to carve your name into the world itself, a scar that will forever fester and rot.