Glyph

Glyphs are magical equipment that is used in the alchemy department of the University in Draurough. This type of equipment is made out of Dragon Scales, which is a stone that can be carved and formed similar to wood, but unlike wood is stronger. The Glyphs are there to perform a task that would be useful to the alchemist, to use the Glyphs effectively an alchemist must be aware of The Material Laws and The Proverb Of The Three Tigers.
There are two types of Glyphs one that can be used on its own or, much more popularly, used in conjunction with Programable Alchemical Apparatus. The difference is that the underside has hexagons carved on the underside to be inserted onto the apparatus.
Both types are made up of hexagons that are put together in a particular way that makes the Glyph in question. These numbers of hexagons can either be between two and four. When it is three it is in a triangle and for four it is in a pattern similar to the radiation sign. In which there is a central hexagon with the other three around it with a gap in between them.

Mathematical

Mathematical Glyphs are made up of three hexagons. Each Glyph does each of the Arithmetical operations with some limitations that are concerned with The Material Laws. These are that no elements can be made that are equal to the atomic weight of 43 and 61 nor ones that are above the atomic weight of 83 as they are radioactive.
When one element is contained in a glass bottle and in one of the input slots and the other is also placed in the other input slot, if they add up to a radioactive element nothing happens.

Addition

Putting two elements in the Glyph’s inputs will result in the element’s atomic weight, that is the sum of the two inputs. As the process is happening the inputs are being used to make the outputs. The output will be the dust if the element is a metal or a liquid in the case of mercury.

Subtraction

With the subtraction Glyph, the atomic weights of the inputs are subtracted, and these numbers are put into an absolute function so if the smaller number is in input A and the bigger in Slot B the result will still be an element, not nothing. If the result is zero nothing happens.

Multiplication

With the multiplication Glyph, the result must be a suitable number or nothing will happen.

Division

The result must be in the range of elements, but more importantly, if the result of the Arithmetically is a decimal the answer is rounded down.

Sorting

The Sorting Glyph is made up of four hexagons in which the input is put on the central hexagon and the three outputs are set. Traditionally only two outputs are used as there might be a mixture of elements to be sorted, using the last unset output means that any elements not being sorted, go into the open output.
Each output is set using two brass cubes marked with the element’s atomic weight and the amount that is wanted in batches. When used, batch cubes can be used to automatically stop the sorting of an element when it has reached its batch limit. This is helpful when a certain amount of a certain element is needed for a process. No batch cube can be used, the glyph will instead stop when the glass bottle is full.

Purification

The Purification Glyph has three hexagons, in which the two hexagons for inputs are for what needs to be purified and the other is for Sodium Chloride or table salt. In which when input A is Copper Sulphate and input B is Sodium Chloride, the output will result in a glass bottle of Copper and Magnesium dust, and the Sodium Chloride will be used up in the process.

The Process

The Sodium (11) is added to the Chlorine (17), resulting in the result of 28 which is Nickel. The Nickel (28) is subtracted from the Sulfur (16) resulting in Magnesium (12). The remainder of the mixture is now copper and magnesium dust, which then needs to be sorted using a sorting Glyph.

Transmutation

The Transportation Glyph is another three hexagon Glyph in which when Lead is inserted into input A and Iron into input B the result is Copper dust floating in Mercury.
When transmutations occur as part of The Material Laws, with either direction whether that be up or down the other presents itself in this case since Iron was one of the inputs and lead was inserted in the other, mercury appeared as an output as well as the metal one level up which of course is Copper.
Transmutation Glyphs are used when needing to get to other metals easily.

Identification

The Identification Glyph is the only one in which doesn't have a version for both table tops and Programable Alchemical Apparatus has only a tabletop version and is the only one that is made of two hexagons. The Glyph identifies the most of an element in a mixture so that a mixture of metals such as Copper 78% Aluminium 12% and Cobalt 10%. It will identify the copper because that is the majority of the mixture.

Item type

Magical