The Alchemist

The Alchemist

A Victorian Tale: The scent of scorched copper and bitter herbs clung to the damp air as Tobias Vance ducked into the workshop. The flickering gaslight cast eerie shadows across shelves crammed with vials, tomes, and strange contraptions. At the centre of it all stood Dr. Benedict Locke, a man rumoured to have unlocked the secrets of transmutation.

Tobias had not come for gold, nor for miracles. He needed something far more dangerous—a way to erase a name from existence. The city of Blackthorn was a place where debts were collected in blood, and Tobias's past had finally caught up to him. The Obsidian Circle, a cabal that ruled from the shadows, had marked him for death. His only chance lay in the forbidden science Locke dabbled in: alchemy. But secrets had their own price, and as Tobias soon discovered, the cost of meddling with the laws of nature could be far greater than the cost of a life. With Jack "Cinder" Hale tracking his every move and the city's alchemists disappearing one by one, Tobias found himself tangled in a mystery that reached into the very foundations of Blackthorn itself. Would he uncover the truth before his enemies turned him into their next experiment? Or would he become just another lost soul in the gutters of Blackthorn?