So sick of alchemy based on fire, earth, heart, etc. Let's

slime, candy, ice, fire

>>53755877
Underworld
Green mass
Meats
Change
Sky above

>>53755877
Olive oil
Casseroles
Moss
Left-hand buttons
Rubber bands
Clive
Spray paint can marbles
Those little glue dots that attach new credit cards to the paper they're mailed with
Moss

>>53755877
The best elements for what you say you want are the seven sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and Sloth.

Pride is the magic of command, which enforces contracts and their penalties.

Greed is the magic of alchemy, which turns things into what you desire most.

Lust is the magic of desires, which bends hearts, minds, and objects to your bidding.

Envy is the magic of conjuration, which brings forth effects, items, and novelties.

Gluttony is the magic of consumption, taking the properties of something into yourself.

Wrath is the magic of destruction, rending, tearing, splintering and fragmenting and making what is, into what is not.

Sloth is the cruelest of all magics, the magic of mundanity. It is the end of all spells and the corruption of all actions.

>>53755877
Procrastination. No one has ever fully researched it.

>>53755877
Alchemy isn't based in elements at all, but but in the way various types of magical materials (and when you get more advanced magic itself) interact with each other. The goal of an alchemist is to use these reactions to create usable alchemical objects, usually in the form of potions. In this way the common alchemist sees very little distinction between the different kinds of magic that mages usually use and has little need for such nonsensical categorization and instead organizes their creations by their effects and the potency of their effects.

>>53755951
The most annoying part, the candy element is interesting as hell, and I hate it.

>>53755877
No real way around basing it on this. These are stand in for the four natural states of matter. Solid/earth, liquid/water, gas/air, fire/energy. Alchemy being a system of interactions within the physical world kinda needs these as its basis to have the widest range of effects.

>>53755877
go with the original iteration of alchemy

cuisine
>hot/cold
>sweet/salty
>wet/dry

>>53755877
Fart.

>>53755877
Base your alchemy on the periodic table, or better yet, remember that much of the philosophical stuff was code. Turning lead into gold was never about getting rich, but rather turning base humanity into shining divinity. Alchemists were basically transhumanist fantasy philosophers working on toward a higher soul instead of cybernetics.