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Nov. 2nd, 2009 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indiana_jVarious notes with scenes on transmutation for my story:
According to Wikipedia, The Great Work for alchemy had designated four colors that had a mystic interpretation (four stages, four colors). Using that as a base for the transmutation powers:
Black (not necessarily death but sometimes; decay; water/liquid; the direction West)
White (creation; purifying; metals; healing; the direction East)
Yellow (nature; wisdom; the direction North; creation - often combined with white in equations)
Red (fusion; destruction; direction South; binding)
Hunkered down outside of the house, Mary and Evelyn crouched well beneath the level of the Eastern facing window. The older woman held up four fingers for the number of people that had entered in through the side door; three fingers and a shake of the head but one finger had a nod. Mary nodded in understanding - three were unknowns but Evelyn had recognized at least one of them.
The younger Alchemist pressed a hand against the side of the building and grimaced. Thick walls and ones that had probably been reinforced either by alchemic or more mundane means. Mary grinned and reached into the inside breast pocket of her jacket - she liked a good challenge.
With Evelyn standing guard, Mary spread out the four colored calligraphy pens on her lap and gave them a quick study. She would need to be rather subtle in the equation she worked. They needed to change the wall enough to allow sound out but not enough to give them away. Black on some of the letters, to weaken the wall, with yellow and red to transform the material into something she needed.
Nodding, she picked up the black first and started to write the kanji that would form her equation, starting with the symbol for wall and ending with the symbol for ... she grinned. Rice paper walls. And the joining equation would mean that the wall wasn't quite the same but not different enough to be noticed.
Perfect.
According to Wikipedia, The Great Work for alchemy had designated four colors that had a mystic interpretation (four stages, four colors). Using that as a base for the transmutation powers:
Black (not necessarily death but sometimes; decay; water/liquid; the direction West)
White (creation; purifying; metals; healing; the direction East)
Yellow (nature; wisdom; the direction North; creation - often combined with white in equations)
Red (fusion; destruction; direction South; binding)
Hunkered down outside of the house, Mary and Evelyn crouched well beneath the level of the Eastern facing window. The older woman held up four fingers for the number of people that had entered in through the side door; three fingers and a shake of the head but one finger had a nod. Mary nodded in understanding - three were unknowns but Evelyn had recognized at least one of them.
The younger Alchemist pressed a hand against the side of the building and grimaced. Thick walls and ones that had probably been reinforced either by alchemic or more mundane means. Mary grinned and reached into the inside breast pocket of her jacket - she liked a good challenge.
With Evelyn standing guard, Mary spread out the four colored calligraphy pens on her lap and gave them a quick study. She would need to be rather subtle in the equation she worked. They needed to change the wall enough to allow sound out but not enough to give them away. Black on some of the letters, to weaken the wall, with yellow and red to transform the material into something she needed.
Nodding, she picked up the black first and started to write the kanji that would form her equation, starting with the symbol for wall and ending with the symbol for ... she grinned. Rice paper walls. And the joining equation would mean that the wall wasn't quite the same but not different enough to be noticed.
Perfect.