Alchemist Oberon of the Wood

All white wizards eventually go mad, the only question is how fast and in which direction.

The universe was formed from a substance which existed before time and space and as a consequence it lacks the property of causality. This is something that the human mind can find it hard to deal with. We intuitively understand that if you drop a cup of tea you expect to see the cup shatter when it hits the floor, we can even consider the possibility that with the application of a sufficiently advanced technology you could reverse that process to return a shattered cup into its original shape. What is hard to imagine is a cup of tea that spontaneously turns into whale, or indeed a psychic rabbit, for no particular reason.

The madness caused by constant exposure to an element that lacks causality results in a high level of wizard turnover but also means that each new Alchemist inherits from their predecessor many interesting avenues for future investigation as well as confirmation of one avenue that doesn’t work. It is reported that Alchemist Oberon has said to the few wizards still willing to visit his laboratory that he thinks he is closer than ever to making a breakthrough due to a small, slightly burnt, handwritten note left by his predecessor.

Additional note from our agent on the Alchemists Archipelago: We copied the piece of paper but were not able to decipher the code used so cannot advise at this time if these experiments need to be put to a more permanent end before he gets any closer. The first characters were: 0-691-08388-6:P97:F63:EC

Entered by: 0xFa43…08e9 and preserved on chain (see transaction)