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Alchemy is a branch of magic that involves transmutation.

History[]

Alchemy is a branch of magic that was practiced by Gale before she was transformed into a polecat by Hecate. Gale was a powerful alchemist with one of her potions even being used to resurrect the dead.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]

The Sea of Monsters[]

The sorceress Circe tricked Percy by giving him a magic potion disguised as a strawberry milkshake, when Percy drank it he turned into a guinea pig.

The Heroes of Olympus[]

The Lost Hero[]

Medea gives Jason, Piper and Leo a tour of her warehouse which is filled with hundreds of thousands of magical potions, each with a different effect.

The Senior Year Adventures[]

Wrath of the Triple Goddess[]

After escaping from the manse, Gale is captured by four naiad sisters and forced to use her alchemy to create potions with various effects for them. One is used to transform Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood into creatures, or in Grover's case, into a human as Grover was already a satyr. Despite the potion supposedly being incurable, Gale is able to guide Percy through concocting a cure using the ingredients in the naiads' shop, many of which took centuries to grow.

Percy later convinces Hecate to allow Gale to practice her alchemy again and to give her assistants with opposable thumbs.

Known Users[]

Trivia[]

  • The central figure in the mythology of alchemy is Hermes Trismegistus (or Thrice-Great Hermes). His name is derived from the Egyptian god Thoth and his Greek counterpart Hermes.[1] Hermes and his caduceus or serpent-staff, were among alchemy's principal symbols.

References[]

  1. A survey of the literary and archaeological evidence for the background of Hermes Trismegistus in the Greek Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth may be found in Bull, Christian H. 2018. The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom. Leiden: Brill, pp. 33-96.
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